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THE QUAKER OATS COMPANY PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: July 1, 2004
This web site is operated
by The Quaker Oats Company. We recognize that many visitors to our
site are concerned about the information they provide to us, and
how we treat that information. Our goal at Quaker is to provide
safe entertainment and education for you and your kids. Please read
on to learn about our Privacy Policy.
Gathering and Use of Information
Any personal information collected by Quaker on any of its sites
will be used only for internal Quaker use and will not be sold or
provided to third parties. Some Quaker sites may collect non-personal
information (in the form of aggregated statistics) from you by using
"cookie" technology. This information is used internally to better
provide services to our consumers. As with the personal information,
we do not provide or sell any of these aggregated statistics to
any third parties. We will not send you any e-mail unless you ask
to be added to our update lists or ask for information from us.
If you want to remove your or your child's e-mail address from our
files, please let us know. Since the information you submit to us
may not be encrypted, we cannot guarantee the absolute privacy of
that information..
Kids and Parents
Kids:
If you are 18 years of age or younger, please be sure to ask your
parents for permission before providing any information to us.
Parents:
We hope that you and your kids enjoy our web site. In communicating
directly with minors over the Internet, we recognize the unique
issues raised regarding the protection of your kids’ privacy. The
Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU), a section of The Better
Business Bureau, has issued guidelines for web sites gathering information
from minors. Quaker intends to comply with the CARU guidelines in
order to protect your kids and their privacy. On Quaker sites which
communicate with kids, we include several notices asking kids to
get parental permission before providing any personal information.
Links
Quaker’s site may contain "links" to other sites, and we make every
effort to only link to sites that share our high standards of decency,
fairness, and integrity. We try our best to ensure that these links
are safe for kids. However, since we cannot guarantee the content
of every site to which we are linked, kids should always check with
an adult before linking to any new sites.
Your Ideas
We encourage you to share your comments and questions with us. We
promise to read all the mail you send to us, but we may not be able
to respond to all of it. However, please note that we assume no
responsibility for reviewing unsolicited ideas for our business
(like product or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability
as a result of any similarities between your ideas and future Quaker
products or programs. This means that we have no obligation to treat
your idea submissions confidentially and that we can use them without
paying you for them. Any and all idea submissions will be owned
by Quaker exclusively and may be used by Quaker for any purpose,
now or in the future.
Use of Materials on this Web Site
Please remember that the trademarks, service marks, graphics, text,
music and other properties appearing within this web site are protected
intellectual properties used by Quaker and/or its related companies.
These properties may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded,
posted, transmitted or distributed in any way, except that you may,
for personal and noncommercial use only, download one copy onto
your personal computer. In order to protect these valuable assets,
Quaker must prohibit other uses without its prior written consent.
Except as expressly provided above, nothing contained herein shall
be construed as conferring any license or right under any copyright
or other intellectual property right.
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