The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act is a United States federal law that regulates the online collection, use and disclosure of personal information from children under the age of 13. It requires that parents give their consent before personal information is collected online or is publicly disclosed online from or by children under 13 years old. The law also sets out the acceptable ways of determining consent and providing transparency online.

At New Moon we provide parental notice and when necessary seek verifiable parental consent before girls engage with any of our online products, whether the girl is under or over 13. We do this, not only to comply with COPPA's standards, but also to ensure best practices for the safest possible online space, regardless of the girls' ages.

In all of New Moon's online products, we only collect the amount of personal information we deem reasonably necessary for participation in the particular product or online activity the information is being collected for. The personally identifiable information New Moon Girl Media collects online will never be posted, released, sold, or distributed to any third party outside of New Moon Girl Media or our fulfillment partners. Our fulfillment partners are bound by this privacy policy. Our information collection and storage practices are detailed in Sections A thru H.

To sign up for our e-newsletters or sign up for a contest, we ask for the child's first name and email address and the parent's email. We send an email to the parent to notify them that their child has signed up for the e-newsletter or contest and to allow the parent to opt their child out if they so desire. After three days, the child is considered confirmed for the newsletter subscription or contest entry if we have not heard back from the parent. In the event of online contests requiring New Moon Girl Media to directly contact a member, the information we collect will be used to contact or notify the member and will not be stored beyond the time reasonably necessary to carry out the contest and contact contest participants.

Under COPPA, it is necessary to obtain "verifiable parental consent" in order to allow a child to engage in activities where they might share their personal information with others participating in an online activity. COPPA allows a website operator to process a credit card transaction in order to obtain verifiable parental consent. Since membership to New Moon Girls requires a paid subscription, the successful credit-card transaction provides for the verifiable component needed to process parental consent. At New Moon, we understand that we live in a day and age where many young people have access to credit cards, and making an online purchase with a card does not necessarily constitute parental knowledge or consent of the purchase. We also understand that it is possible for a third party to make a credit card purchase for a child without the child's parents' knowledge. That's why we go a step further to ensure parents are aware of their child's online actions, purchases made for a child, and the information we are collecting from that child. This process is detailed below in items 1 thru 3.

Once inside our online products (specifically New Moon Girls), members have the opportunity to post information about themselves, including their age, state, birthday, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and dreams for other members to view. However, no last names, email addresses, or other personally identifiable information is ever permitted within our online products, so the posted information is never connected to members' real identities or contact information. These measures allow girls to participate in our online communities while remaining safe and anonymous.

Members and non-members have the opportunity to submit content, including but not limited to articles, opinions, artwork, fictional writing, videos and podcasts, of their own creation to New Moon Girls. A username, age, state, and the user's email address will be requested any time a member submits material to one of our online products. Parents give consent to this information gathering as part of the membership process detailed in section B above. The username, age, and state will appear with the submission if it is posted on one of our online products.

When non-members submit online to New Moon Girls, they are asked to include only first name, email address, and parents' email address with their submission. If further information collection or storage is deemed necessary by New Moon Girl Media, the parental email address will be used to seek verifiable parental consent. If verifiable parental consent for further information gathering and storage is not obtained, the girl's email address will be used for one-time response to her submission and then deleted.

All submissions to New Moon Girls are reviewed by a New Moon Girl Media staff member to ensure no personally identifiable information is included in the submission. Any personally identifiable information will be deleted from submissions before being posted to New Moon Girls.

All chats in Luna's Chatterbox are moderated by an adult staff member. Chat rooms are only open when a chat is in session and an adult New Moon Girl Media staff member is present. All chat messages by girls are read by the adult staff member before posting for the entire chat audience. Only signed-in members of New Moon Girls have access to Luna's Chatterbox.

New Moon Girl Media offers an instant messaging feature on NewMoon.com called Girl2Girl Talk. Girl2Girl Talk is an unmoderated instant messaging feature that relies on filtering technology to help prevent the sharing of profanity, email addresses, phone numbers, and other unacceptable forms of communications. Members of NewMoon.com must have parental permission to participate in Girl2Girl Talk. Each member can request permission from her parent. When a member requests access to Girl2Girl Talk, an email is generated to the parent email address on record with instructions for creating and activating the Girl2Girl Talk account. Members whose parents have not activated a Girl2Girl Talk account cannot access this instant messaging feature. It is up to parents to ensure their child's use of Girl2Girl Talk appropriately balances safety with fun. New Moon Girl Media, Inc. encourages all parents to maintain close supervision of their child's chat activity.

New Moon Girl Media operates a number of public blogs. The maximum level of information that may be collected from individuals posting to any of New Moon Girl Media's blogs is name, age, gender, state and email address. The blogs are fully moderated. No comments are posted until they have been read by adult staff members for appropriateness and to make sure no personally identifiable information is contained in the post. If anything is deemed inappropriate, it will not be posted for public viewing. On New Moon Girl Media's blogs, where email address is requested, the user's email address is used only for the internal purpose of sign in to control spam on blog comments. This email address is never made public, shared, or sold.

All of New Moon Girl Media's products are developed, maintained, and improved through the input of Girl Boards. Girls Boards are groups of girls, chosen through an application process, of the product's target age range. Users of New Moon Girls, and New Moon magazine, have the opportunity to apply for Girl Board membership. To apply for Girl Board membership, users can opt to download a printable application and consent form for their parents to sign allowing them to disclose their application information and have it stored by New Moon Girl Media. They must print, fill out, and mail these forms back to our offices. If chosen for one of our Girl Boards, additional parental consent will be sought for participation in Girl Board activities online and storage of the girl's personal information.

You must be 18 years of age or older to make an online purchase for our print publication, New Moon Girls. Adults will be connected directly to an online order form and copy of this Privacy Policy. When an individual performs an online purchase of a magazine subscription, we ask directly for the first and last name, credit card information, birth date, phone number, billing address, and email address of the credit-card holder. We also ask for the name and shipping address of the intended magazine recipient. We use this information to create the subscription and we store this information securely. If a girl under the age of 18 wishes to initiate an online purchase, she may submit her first name and parents' email address. An automatic email is then generated to that address to begin the subscription process.

On all websites operated by New Moon Girl Media, individuals have the option to send a notice to a friend informing the friend about New Moon Girl Media and our products. In this process, New Moon Girl Media collects the sender's first name and the recipient's email address. No personally identifiable information is collected from the sender. The recipient email address is used for a one-time email communication and is then deleted.

New Moon's web sites use "cookie" technology (where our servers deposit special codes on a visitor's computer) to track non-personal information, such as the number of visitors who use each page of the website each day, what browser they use, and what part of the Internet they come to our site from. This information helps us improve our sites and does not include any specific information about individual visitors that would allow us to identify them.

Parents are always welcome and encouraged to review the information their child is sharing online, and are encouraged to be active participants in all of their child's activities. At New Moon, we see parent involvement as a vital part of maintaining a safe and healthy online environment. If you wish to review your child's information, you can mail, fax, or phone a request to our offices.

If you do not want your child's personal information collected or stored by New Moon, you can let us know with a signed letter, fax, or phone call to our offices. Upon request, we will remove a child's stored information from our databases within a reasonable amount of time, defined as the number of working hours or days needed to access and delete the targeted information and cancel the child's membership or participation in other online activities.

New Moon Girl Media reserves the right to transfer personally identifiable information in the event of a change of ownership of New Moon Girl Media to another organization that would continue to run the website in the same manner. Such transfer of data would be necessary to enable the new owner of New Moon Girl Media to facilitate log-on for existing New Moon members and to fulfill membership benefits.

New Moon is a participant in Privo's Privacy Assurance Program. As part of participating in the Privacy Assurance Program, New Moon adheres to strict information collection, use and disclosure requirements. Privo is an independent, third party organization committed to safeguarding children's personal information collected online, and to helping parents and their children exercise control over personal information while exploring the Internet. The seal at the top of this page indicates that New Moon has established privacy practices and has agreed to submit to Privo's oversight and consumer dispute resolution process. If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact us at 218.206.2126 or help@newmoon.com. If you have further concerns after you have contacted New Moon, you can contact Privo directly at privacy@privo.com.

Please contact New Moon Girl Media at:

Phone: 218.728.5507
Toll Free: 800.381.4743

Mailing Address:
NMGM
PO Box 161287
Duluth, MN 55816
Email: help@newmoon.com