Privacy Policy

WowTown.com (the “Site”) is the video site just for kids. By providing a safe, moderated community we aim to encourage children to be creative by filming fun videos of them playing with the latest toys and games. These videos can be uploaded to the site and shared with other “Wowzers” throughout the world who can watch, comment and interact in a secure environment.

China Industries Limited (“we, “us” or “our”) take the privacy rights of users of the Site very seriously. We have created this privacy policy to explain to you what information we may collect about you when you visit and/or register to use the Site, how we will store and process this information and what we may do with it.

This privacy policy together with our website terms of use and any other documents we refer to in it sets out the way any personal information or data we collect from you or that you provide to us will be processed by us.

Please read this privacy policy very carefully as by using the Site and the services available on the Site you agree to our use of your personal data in accordance with this policy. Parents and legal guardians, please note that you will need to consent to our website terms and conditions and this policy on behalf of your child or children before they can register to use the Site and its services.

1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU AND YOUR CHILD.

  1. If you would like to use and interact in the WowTown community, we need you to register with us and set up an account. This means that we will collect and process the following information about you:
    • Your name (first name only);
    • Your email address (this is optional – you do not need to provide it to open an account);
    • Your date of birth;
    • Where you first heard about WowTown.com
    • The country and area where you live (this is optional – you do not need to provide it to open an account).
  2. and the following information about your parent or guardian:
    • his or her name and email address.

When you register to use the Site, we will ask you to provide a password and username (or “Wowzer” name). Your username must not be in any way similar to your actual name and you must keep your username and password confidential so that no one else can access the Site pretending to be you.

  1. We may also ask for these details when you enter a competition we have on the Site;
  2. If you are fifteen (15) years old or more then unfortunately you cannot become a registered user of the Site, but you can sign up to receive our newsletters from time to time. If you do sign up for these newsletters we will ask you to provide your first name and email address. We will use that information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy, but we will not transfer that information to any third parties for promotional purposes.
  3. If you contact us for any reason we may keep a record of your email correspondence;
  4. We will collect and store the videos that you submit to us for us to upload and the comments that you post;
  5. We may also collect details of your visits to the Site, the resources that you access on the Site, whether to post or view comments or to upload or view videos;
  6. We may also collect information about your computer including your IP (Internet Protocol) address, operating system and browser type for administration purposes. This information will not identify who you are though and will be used for our statistics only.

2. HOW WE COLLECT THE DATA AND WHEN

  1. We may collect your data as part of the registration process to open an account with us, when you log in to use the account, when you post a comment on a video or upload or view videos or when you subscribe to our newsletter (if you are 15 years old or above). The data that we collect is described in section 1 above.
  2. MONITORING TRAFFIC
    We may monitor the traffic “data” on the website which lets us know which parts of the Site you have looked at to help us improve the Site experience for you.
  3. COOKIES
    For the same reason, we may use “cookies” which are small files of letters and numbers which can be downloaded onto your hard drive or other device when you access the Site.
    You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Bear in mind however if you do block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site.
    The only cookie that the Site currently uses is a session cookie which is essential to allow you to stay logged into the site during your visit.

3. WHERE WE STORE THE DATA

  1. All personal information provided to us is stored on our secure servers which are hosted on our behalf by Gyron Internet Ltd in Gyron’s datacentre in Hemel Hempstead, password protected and hidden behind a firewall from the outside world. Although our servers are based in the United Kingdom, because the Internet is global it is not possible to predict the routes that information sent over the Internet will take sometimes. The information you may provide may be transferred and stored outside of the European Economic Area. When you provide data to us, you consent that this transfer may occur and is beyond our control.
  2. If you upload a video onto the Site, it will be uploaded to YouTube which is hosting the videos for us. YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. We use the YouTube platform to host the videos submitted to the Site using our channel WowTownVideos. By uploading videos you permit us to upload those videos to YouTube. We are bound by YouTube’s terms about using this facility, but the videos which we upload will not be accessible to people searching on YouTube or any other website directly. The videos can only be accessed by using a direct YouTube link or by clicking on the video within wowtown.com.
  3. We will not be making any videos available for download by third parties. However, the Internet is not fully secure and there are software programs that have been developed which enable information to be downloaded from websites, even where downloading is not offered. Because of this we cannot guarantee that any videos submitted by you will not be downloaded by a third party using such software programs and we will not be responsible to you if any videos are downloaded using such software programs.

4. HOW LONG WILL WE STORE THE DATA

  1. We will not store your data including any videos uploaded to the Site or any comments you post on the Site for any longer than we think is reasonably necessary to allow you and other users of the Site to enjoy using the Site and its features.
  2. You can, at any time ask us to delete any of your data from the Site. See how to do this below under “ Your Rights” and we will do this as soon as possible.

5. HOW THE DATA WILL/MAY BE USED

We will use your data to:

  1. process the registration of your account with the Site and keep the account going;
  2. to upload any videos you submit to YouTube in accordance with our terms of use;
  3. to handle any queries or complaints you make about the Site;
  4. to allow you to use the services of the Site when you want to;
  5. to tell you about any changes to the Site which you need to know about;
  6. to provide you with any information about any other products or services where your parent or guardian has given us permission to contact you for this purpose;
  7. to tell you if you have won a prize or to publish a list of prize winners on the Site for any competitions we run;
  8. to provide any other notices or information to you.

6. WHEN WE MAY DISCLOSE INFORMATION TO OTHER PEOPLE

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. to YouTube to upload any videos you submit in accordance with our terms of use;
  2. to other people if we are under a legal duty to do so;
  3. to any other companies within our group or any company owned by the person or persons who own our company in order to run our business and the Site effectively;
  4. in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

7. YOUR RIGHTS

  1. The information or data you provide to us or we collect from you belongs to you. You are able to ask us to stop using your data: processing it, storing it or using it for any other purposes set out in this policy at any time. You can do this by contacting us at Support@WowTown.com.
  2. The Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, affiliates and suppliers (for example YouTube). If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data on these websites.
  3. You can update your personal information at any time by contacting us at Support@WowTown.com and we will make the requested changes as soon as is reasonable possible. You can deactivate your account with the Site at any time by contacting us at Support@WowTown.com. If you choose to deactivate your account, you will not be able to access and use the interactive features of the Site unless you choose to register with us again.
  4. You can otherwise access any information we hold about you at any time. Any request to us for your information may be subject to a nominal fee of £10 GBP to meet our administration costs in providing the details of the information we hold.

8. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

If we make any changes to this privacy policy in the future we will tell your parent (if you are a registered user) by email and your parent will need to tick a box to confirm that they accept the changes we make. If you are not a registered user but you have subscribed for our newsletter we will tell you by email and you will need to tick a box to confirm that they accept the changes we make. If you are not a registered user and you have not subscribed for our newsletter, we expect you to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make.

9. LAWS AND JURISDICTION

This policy is governed by the laws of England and Wales and the jurisdiction of the English courts shall apply in the event of any dispute.

10. CONTACTING US

If you have any questions or comments about the Site or this policy please contact us at Support@WowTown.com.

This privacy policy complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) 2000. This legislation applies to commercial websites in the United States of America. As a UK based website we are not bound by COPPA, however, as we hope to have website users from all around the globe, we have complied with COPPA’s requirements about use of personal data, obtaining parental consent and information to include in our privacy policy.

We are registered as a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”). If you have any further questions about how we have complied with COPPA or the Act please do not hesitate to contact us at Support@WowTown.com.