Nicknz.co.nz and iCarly.com (hereinafter collectively known as Nickelodeon NZ) is created by Nickelodeon New Zealand and is the place in cyberspace where fans of Nickelodeon can come to find out more about their favourite Nick stars, what’s new at Nick, play games and have their opinions heard. Nickelodeon NZ believes in the power of kids and we urge both kids and their parents to use and enjoy our website. Nickelodeon NZ is totally committed to providing a safe and secure environment for kids to interact with us on the Net. We will never give out personal information that is collected on this site to anyone else without your permission and will always store personal data in a safe and secure place Nickelodeon NZ will only use personal information that you provide to us through this site for the purposes you supplied it, for directly related purposes or for other reasons permitted under the Privacy Act 1993
At Nickelodeon, we encourage kids (and their parents or guardians) to get as much out of the website as possible, but want to ensure that all website visitors know as much as they can about protecting their private and personal information.
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Do Not Give Out Your Personal Information to Unknown Sources
Kids! Never give out personal information to people you don’t know. Check with your parents or guardians before giving out anything you think might be personal information on any website. There’s no harm in checking first if you’re not sure!
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Talk to your Parents or Guardians
Talk to them about the release of personal information and make sure you understand what are the reasons for giving it out are. Sometimes you might wish to give out personal information for good reasons. At other times, it might be unnecessary.
What Information Is Collected At the website?
At Nickelodeon NZ, we sometimes collect personal information (e.g. name, age, birthday, gender, email addresses and phone numbers). This information is collected for research purposes so we can continue to build and improve the website. When we collect this information we let kids know the reason for which we are collecting the information and what we will do with it. We do not as a condition to a kid's participation in any of our on-line activity require the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary.
Where we ask kids to provide personally identifiable information we have made this safer and easier for the child to use by establishing a Nick Name and Password facility. This requires the Child to enter in minimal information only once at the time of registration, but after that they are only required to put in their Nick Name and Password. This information is added to the Nickelodeon database and is used for research purposes. In the event there is a contest and we need to inform winners, fulfilling prizes, mailing/emailing newsletters, birthday cards, emailing our newsletters we will ask for additional information such as address and contact numbers. The personal information is not on sold to any third party. It is not displayed anywhere in the website.
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Registration
The main way we collect information is through our registration process. In order to take part in our registered member activities, we ask kids to submit information such as full name, email address, gender, and birthday, optional information such as address and phone number and we ask each kid if they wish to opt-in to receiving emails from us as part of our activities for registered members e.g. our newsletter. We remind them to ask a parent/guardian for permission first. The information is used to allow kids to take part in registered member activities such as message boards, newsletters, any special member competitions and send postcards. Registered kids can unsubscribe at any time.
All such personal information collected during the registration process is used only for the purpose of providing kids with access to our registered member activities. It is not currently our policy to use such information for general marketing purposes or to share such information with third parties (except in relation to competitions as set out below or where we are required to do so by law or in the context of a business transfer). Should our policy on this change, we will let you know and give you the choice to be included.
We do not obtain or require disclosure of sensitive personal data (such as ethnic origin or religion) but if you choose to provide us with such sensitive personal data, we may assume such sensitive personal data is provided with your express consent for processing by us for the purposes for which such personal data was provided by you unless otherwise notified by you to us in writing to talk@nicktv.co.nz.
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Competitions
We offer the opportunity to all kids to enter competitions on-line. In order to run competitions and send out prizes, it is necessary to collect some personally identifiable information from kids. This can include name, address and telephone number. As a matter of policy, we keep such information only for the purposes of administering the competition and do not disclose such information to third parties except where necessary to fulfil the prizes (e.g. it may be shared with fulfilment houses for processing purposes). We may from time to time offer competitions sponsored by third party businesses and may share entrant information with such businesses in order to fulfil the competition only. We will provide potential entrants with the opportunity to opt-in to such third party sponsored competitions. Once a competition is finished, we will delete any personal information collected via on-line entry forms from our systems and it is not kept for any longer than is necessary.
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Nicknz.co.nz E-cards
Nicknz.co.nz E-cards are animated e-postcards that kids can send to friends and family. We do not collect our visitors' full names, but we do collect email addresses during this process in order to inform the user that their postcard has been read. We also ask users to submit their friends' email addresses so we can send them these e-cards. We think it would be disproportionate to inform user’s friend(s) about our privacy policy and how we will be using their personal data beforehand because it would spoil the surprise of receiving the friend’s electronic postcard. However, we can reassure users that this data is not transferred to a third party or used for marketing purposes and it is not kept for any longer than is necessary.
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Nick Forum
The Nick Forum at nicknz.co.nz site is intended for kids and we will not knowingly collect personal information from adults who pose themselves as kids. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child who has become a member of our website, please email us to talk@nicktv.co.nz to notify us of a suspected violation.
The nature of messages in the forum is to reach a public audience. Nickelodeon NZ does monitor and moderate messages sent to our forums but please be aware that any information that you submit to us whether through message boards, picture uploads, blogs, feedback and e-mail, including personal information, may be publicly displayed on nicknz.co.nz, or on websites not within our control. If you don’t want others to see such information, do not submit it.
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Feedback
We provide kids (and their parents and guardians) with the opportunity to email us with their opinions and comments. We request no personally identifiable information unless a kid indicates that he or she wants us to reply. In these circumstances, we ask for a first name and email address. This information is used solely by us in order to give requested feedback and is then deleted from our system periodically
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Security
We have taken steps to ensure that all personally identifiable information that we collect is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers as well as electronic security systems and password protections, which guard against unauthorised access.
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Cookies And Log Data
Cookies are information files which your web browser places on your computer when you visit a website. The website is only able to access the cookies that it sets. It sets these to enable the playing of some of our games and activities by visitors to the website. Without these cookies, some of our games would not be playable. You can of course deliberately disable cookies should you wish by checking the appropriate part of your browser preferences or options menus.
Log data is information collected by the website server, which hosts the website. It exists to tell us things like how many visitors we have, how long they stay for each visit, where they go when they’re at the website and what kind of browser and operating system they have. This information is important because we can continually improve what’s in the website as a result. It’s highly secure and only accessible to Nickelodeon NZ. The information it gives us is only ever used in aggregate form. That is, no personal data is collected or used.
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Access and Removal
At all times you will be able to access any of your personal information collected and stored by Nickelodeon NZ. You can also request that Nickelodeon NZ remove any of your personal information from our databases. To access or remove any of your personal information please email us at talk@nicktv.co.nz.
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Updates
Nickelodeon New Zealand reserves the right to change or update these guidelines. We hope that what we’ve outlined here makes our attitude and approach to privacy and security clear, helping kids and their parents to get the most out of playing in the website. If there’s anything else you would like us to think about, or any comments you would like to make concerning privacy and or security, please email us at talk@nicktv.co.nz