Thank you for visiting our web sites located at sesameworkshop.org and sesamestreet.org which we will refer to collectively below as the "Sites." Through the Sites, Sesame Workshop aims to extend our mission to use educational media to help children reach their highest potential. Sesame Workshop has been trusted by parents for decades to provide safe, entertaining and educational content. We take this trust seriously and recognize the importance of privacy concerns especially in the Internet environment. With this in mind, we have adopted this Privacy Policy for the Sites. "Sesame Workshop" also is referred to as "we," "us" or "our" in this Privacy Policy.
Information Submitted by Users
In the areas of the Sites where we collect "personally identifiable information" from users, we may explain within those areas the general purposes for collecting the information and will use the information to carry out such purposes (such as collecting your email address if you request to receive a newsletter) and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. "Personally identifiable information" includes, for example, an individual's name, home address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card information, or any other information that can be used to identify or contact an individual, whether online or offline.
On all areas of the Sites, we seek to collect personally identifiable information only from adults, not from children under 13.
Our Services Providers (as defined below) may have access to your personally identifiable information as necessary to provide their services. They are required to maintain the privacy of all such information in their possession or control and can only use the information for the purpose that we have contracted them, for example processing donations or fulfilling thank you gifts. We do not sell or exchange email addresses with third parties for their own purposes.
In order to process your online donation, we will require certain personally identifiable information, including name, address, email address, credit card number and expiration date. We will indicate which information is required and which is optional. In addition to the uses and disclosures otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we may on occasion share names and postal addresses collected from donors with carefully selected organizations for marketing purposes. If you do not want any such personally identifiable information shared with other organizations for marketing purposes, please send an email to contribute@sesameworkshop.org or call us at 212-875-6119 and we will put you on our do not exchange list.
Please understand that if you choose to not receive promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us. Also, a request to have us stop sharing your personally identifiable information with other entities for marketing purposes will only apply as of the date of your request, and we will not be responsible for any communications that you may receive from entities that received your personally identifiable information prior to such request. In these cases, please contact that entity directly.
You may be able to send information about our products and services to your friends and family members through our Sites such as by clicking on a "Send to a Friend" or similar button. In some of these cases, you may provide the name and e-mail address of your friend or family member to us. Such information will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Information Collected Automatically
We also collect information by various technical means, without your submitting any information, in order to help us understand the usage of the Sites (such as the number of visitors to the Sites and the most popular pages) and to enhance the user experience (such as whether you have a high or low bandwidth connection to the Internet). The information collected in this way generally is not personally identifiable information.
We also collect data automatically through "cookies," "web beacons," and "web logs" which are commonly used on the Internet.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your password.
In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personally identifiable information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. You consent to our use of e-mail as a means of such notification. If you prefer for us to use another method to notify you in this situation, please e-mail us at dotorgmail@sesameworkshop.org with the alternative contact information you wish to be used.
Links From the Sites to Third Party Sites
When you are on our Sites, you may have the opportunity to visit, or link to, other sites, including other Sesame Workshop sites or sites operated by subsidiaries or affiliates of Sesame Workshop or by unaffiliated third parties. When you link to such third party sites, you become subject to their terms of use and privacy policies rather than ours. You should review these third party sites' privacy policies regarding any personally identifiable information that they may collect about you at their sites. Sesame Workshop does not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of third party sites and your use of such sites is at your own risk.
The Sesame Street Store is operated by a third party – Resolution, Inc. – a licensee of ours. Resolution, Inc. has entered into an agreement with us to operate the Sesame Street Store site and to sell and ship products related to Sesame Workshop's educational and entertainment programs. The Sesame Street Store site is a different site than our Sites, and Resolution, Inc. has adopted a separate and distinct privacy policy for the Sesame Street Store site. Any personally identifiable information you provide to the Sesame Street Store site is subject to the privacy policy of the Sesame Street Store site. In the event that, pursuant to the Sesame Street Store site privacy policy, your information is shared with us, we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Children's Areas of the Sesamestreet.org Site
Sesame Workshop does not collect personally identifiable information from users who we know are under 13 on the Sites. However, there are some areas of our Sites that may be attractive to children even though they are intended for parents, such as our newsletter subscriptions and "Send to a Friend" features. Therefore, we take certain precautions to protect the privacy of our child users.
Sesame Workshop will not condition a child's participation in a game, offering of a prize, or any other activity or service on or available through the Children's Areas on the disclosure of more personally identifiable information than is reasonable necessary to participate in an activity.
Any parent of a child under 13 who has provided personally identifiable information to Sesame Workshop may request a description of the personally identifiable information that has been collected from or about that child and either limit or restrict any further maintenance or use of such information from that child and/or direct us to delete it. Also, a parent may decline to allow any future collection of personally identifiable information from that child. Such requests can be made by contacting us at dotorgmail@sesameworkshop.org. We will take reasonable measures to verify that the requestor is, in fact, the parent or guardian of the child in question before providing a child's personally identifiable information.
The statements in this Privacy Policy generally about our collection and use of personally identifiable information also apply to our treatment of the personally identifiable information we may collect on or through the Children's Areas.
Changes to Privacy Policy
Whenever this Privacy Policy for our Sites changes, we will post the changes to the Sites, and such changes will be effective immediately upon posting. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use the Sites. Under certain circumstances, we may also elect to notify you of changes or updates to our Privacy Policy by additional means, such as posting a notice on the front page of our Sites or sending you an e-mail if we have your e-mail address.
Sesame Workshop
The Sites are operated by Sesame Workshop, located at One Lincoln Plaza, New York, New York, 10023, USA, 212-595-3456, dotorgmail@sesameworkshop.org.
Effective date: August 4, 2008.