Bamboo Bunch

Updated 14 December, 2008

At Benxing Entertainment we respect your privacy and care deeply about the safety and security of your family. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use the Bamboo Bunch service, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

Before diving into the privacy policy, we would like to make three very important points:

(1) Bamboo Bunch accounts may not freely communicate with each other. We do not support the popular notion of "chat." Bamboo Bunch is a safe site for kids ages 4-12, and we believe kids that young should not be socializing online with strangers. We do feature a scripted communication system ("Buddy Gist") that ensures children will always communicate in a safe and socially responsible manner.

(2) Even though an account requires a parent's email address, the person holding that email address cannot communicate with account holders through the Bamboo Bunch service. This means no one can use the Bamboo Bunch site to anonymously contact your children.

(3) We do not allow advertisements inside the Bamboo Bunch service.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The only personally identifiable information we normally collect is a parent's email address. We do not store financial information such as bank account or credit card numbers.

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use the Bamboo Bunch service in order to improve the quality of our services. We also use cookies to determine who referred you to the web site.

Sometimes we will eat cookies in the office. Not the cookies baked by squirrels, though. The squirrels tend to shed in the kitchen... well, let's just leave it at that.

Our servers automatically record information when you visit our website or use some of our products, including the URL, IP address, browser type and language, the date and time of your request, and any other information incidental to the HTTP protocol used by web browsers and web servers.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use a parent's email address (personally identifiable information) for the purposes of:

The email address serves as a point of contact for an account. If we need to contact someone regarding an account, we will send email to the parent's email address.

The email address serves as an administrative contact for all accounts registered to a single household. The person holding the parent's email address can remove accounts from a family subscription, change account passwords, and restrict play time for accounts.

We will never, under any circumstances, share your personal information with talking dolphins, aliens with more than three eyes, or suspicious looking ambulatory trees.

We use other information that does not personally identify a person to improve the quality of our services. We may aggregate this generic information (such as web browser versions or game popularity statistics) and release it to third parties.

We may share information with third parties in limited circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services. In all circumstances, the safety of our customers is our primary concern.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

YOUR REVIEW OF INFORMATION

We make good faith efforts to provide you access to your personal information upon request and to let you correct such data if it is inaccurate, and delete it, when reasonably possible. To contact us regarding your personal information, please send email to feedback@bamboobunch.com, or send postal mail to:

Benxing Entertainment
7120 Minstrel Way, Suite 210
Columbia, MD 21045

EFFECTIVE DATE

The privacy policy set out above is effective as of February 1, 2008, and applies to all information previously obtained by Benxing Entertainment. Benxing Entertainment reserves the right to change its privacy policy at its sole discretion. Bamboo Bunch users will be informed of any such change by Benxing Entertainment posting a new privacy policy on the Bamboo Bunch website. The effective date of any change of privacy policy will be clearly marked.

By writing this policy we have demonstrated the ability to write. By reading this policy you have demonstrated both patience and the ability to read. Please take an active role in sharing the magic of literacy with your children. Make some time for reading to your kids. No matter what their age, they will appreciate hearing a good story.

Everything on the bamboobunch.com web site and in the Bamboo Bunch games is copyright Benxing Entertainment. You may not copy anything from the site or the games without express written permission from Benxing Entertainment. Bamboo Bunch, Candlelit Valley, Bamboo Buddy, and Buddy Gist are trademarks of Benxing Entertainment.

All other fictional character and place names appearing in the Bamboo Bunch games are trademarks of Benxing Entertainment. We have worked hard to build our world. Please do not try to steal it.

Licensing

Benxing Entertainment does offer licenses for its intellectual properties. If your organization would like to make books, movies, toys, or other products derived from the Bamboo Bunch games and stories, please contact Benxing Entertainment at:

		Benxing Entertainment
		7120 Minstrel Way, Suite 210
		Columbia, MD 21045

Fan Fiction

If you would like to write fan fiction (your own stories based on Bamboo Bunch), please let us know. Send us an email at feedback@bamboobunch.com. We encourage children to write and share their own Bamboo Bunch stories, as long as no one tries to make money off of the stories.

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