Website Policies

Funny-First-Grade-People.com

Your privacy is very important to us. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Funny-First-Grade-People.com. It provides some of the steps we take to safeguard your information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

Funny-First-Grade-People.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness, and integrity in all of our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers, consumers, and online visitors' privacy.

Website Policies - Personal Information

Funny-First-Grade-People.com collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal address, email address, company name, and telephone number.

This information is collected if you participate in a contest or sweepstakes, sign up to join our email list, or request some other service or information from us. The information collected may be internally reviewed, used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.

Once the information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties.

Website Policies - Affiliated Sites, Linked Sites And Advertisements

Funny-First-Grade-People.com expects its partners, advertisers, and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates, and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a Funny-First-Grade-People.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party.

Also, through Funny-First-Grade-People.com you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, websites, features, contests, or sweepstakes offered by other parties. Please note that Funny-First-Grade-People.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

While on our website, our advertisers, promotional partners, or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information. Funny-First-Grade-People.com does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information on message boards or in chat areas or forums, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge or consent and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Funny-First-Grade-People.com and this Privacy Policy.

Website Policies - Use of Cookies and Web Beacons

We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the sites pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables Funny-First-Grade-People.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a Web site.

We may serve third-party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our Web site to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our Web site.

Some third-party advertisements may be provided by Google, which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses the DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Google ad and content network privacy policy. Alternately, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page.

Third-party ad serving by Google: Google serves ads on this site, and certifies vendors for third party ads. You may visit those third-party websites to opt out of cookies (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). You can find a list of these vendors and ad networks here: www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94149

You can opt out of some, but not all, of these cookies in one location at the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out website at: www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn't cause a problem with our site, should you so choose. Some website features, however, may not function properly without the use of cookies.

Website Policies - Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.

Website Policies - Non-Personal Information

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Website Policies - How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please use our “Contact” page.

Website Policies - Updates and Effective Date

Funny-First-Grade-People.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy.

Website Policies - Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy of Funny-First-Grade-People.com, as posted here, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.

Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.

Website Policies - Copyrights

The contents on this site are protected by copyright under international conventions. Thus, the reproduction, distribution, republication, permanent storage, and/or retransmission of the contents of this website are prohibited without the prior written consent of Funny-First-Grade-People.com. You may not modify or create derivative works of, or in any way exploit, in whole or in part, any Proprietary or other Material.

Website Policies - Disclaimer

Funny-First-Grade-People.com provides this website as a service.

All of the short stories and anecdotes found here on our Web site are my recollections of events. I have related them to the best of my knowledge. The identities have been changed AND each character is the composite of MANY people.

The images shown are NOT my students. The images belong to individuals who freely provided them for website use.

The materials contained on this website are provided for general information purposes only, and do not constitute legal or other professional advice on any subject matter. My professional opinion may be stated. Funny-First-Grade-People.com does not accept any responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on information contained on this site.

Some links within this site may lead to other websites, including those operated and maintained by third parties. Funny-First-Grade-People.com includes these links solely as a convenience to you. The presence of such a link does not imply a responsibility for the linked site or an endorsement of the linked site, its operator, or its contents.

While the information contained within the site is periodically updated, no guarantee is given that the information provided in this website is correct, complete, and/or up-to-date.

This website and its contents are provided “AS IS” without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including -- but not limited to -- the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

Disclaimer

While every attempt has been made to ensure that the information provided on this page is accurate, Funny-First-Grade-People.com is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. The information on this page should not be used as a substitute for consultation with a qualified legal adviser.

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