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• help diagnose problems with our server 
• to administer our Web site. 

Our site may use cookies to:

• deliver content specific to your interests
• for statistic purposes
• to save your password for our message boards so that you don't have to reenter it each time you visit our site. 
• To keep our polls accurate by ensuring that each vote is counted once.
  

Advertisers

We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may 
contain cookies. We do not have access to this information.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. Youth Tech Community is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums and message boards available to its 
users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding
to disclose information.  Teens should ask their parents before disclosing any
type of information. 

Our Email Service

Youth Tech uses Everyone.net to provide our email service. You can review their 
privacy policy at http://www.everyone.net/main/html/p_policy.html  The only 
information Youth Tech has access to that you provide them is your name and
email log in name. We do not have access to your password or other information.
Youth Tech only uses this information for administration purposes. You must be 
at least 13 years of age to sign up for this service.

Personal Identifying information

Youth Tech has a firm policy regarding personal Identifying Information.
(your last name, your address, your phone number,) We do not collect this 
information period. And discourage our members from disclosing this
information at all times. 

Some of our content forms require a first name and email address. This
will only be used to contact the user if necessary to respond to a question
or to send our newsletter or password for our message boards, when 
requested. 

Ours Clubs area does require your email address when submitting a club. This will be posted along with your club information on our site. You should ask you parents permission before participating in our clubs area.  

We will never send unsolicited email advertisement, to our users. Your information is never rented/sold or shared with any third party.  

Children's Privacy 

Youth Tech Recognizes that children have special privacy protection needs. We urge all parents to participate in their children's use of the Internet and any online services, and to teach their children about protecting their personal information while online. Parents should have clear rules about what is and isn't ok to disclose online.

• We require children under the age of 13 to obtain verifiable parental consent before they can participate in our Message boards or any other area where we require personal information. 
  
• We will only obtain an email address from a child under the age of 13 to:
    A) respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis. Their
         information will be deleted from our files and not be kept.
    B) Request the name or online contact information of a parent for the
         purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing parental
         notification.
    C) Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a child 
         (such as in the case where a child requests a newsletter subscription.)
         and not be used to contact the child for other purposes. We will use our 
         best effort to provide parental notification, which will include the nature
         and intended use as well as an opportunity for the parent to prevent the 
         use and information and participation in the activity.
  
• We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information collected from their child.
  
• We will provide notice to children in age appropriate terms of what constitutes personal identifying information and discourage them from disclosing this.  
  
• We will NOT provide any links to Web sites that are unsuitable for children.
  
• We will NOT entice the child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
  
• We will encourage all of our members to get their parent's permission
   before sharing personal information online.
  
• Our public forums  will be monitored at least on a floating basis, daily to ensure that personal Identifying information will not remain posted. We remove any content containing last name, address or phone numbers.
  
• We encourage our members to tell their parents if they feel uncomfortable about any information asked from them online. 

Choice/opt-out

To unsubscribe from our newsletter send an email to YTCCNews@aol.com. 

To have any other information removed or modified send a request to YTGeneral@youthtech.com  

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site,
or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Youth Tech
Becky Sill 
2110 Artesia Blvd. #B351
Redondo Beach, CA, 90278-3069
Fax: 310-978-0401
Email:   BeckyYT@youthtech.com 

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