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Privacy Policy
Power of Putnam (POP) was created by a coalition of educators and other community leaders who were concerned about substance abuse in Putnam County, Tenn. The www.BeAKnowBody.com Web site was created to specifically address the issue of underage drinking. It seeks to provide teens and children with information about the detrimental affects of drinking and to instill in them the power to say “no” to alcohol.

COPPA
We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13, in compliance with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998.

Information You Submit
The information we receive depends on what you do when visiting this site. If you want to submit a story or comment, you will be asked to enter a nickname or handle. Do not use your real name and do not use your e-mail screen name.

If you choose to submit a request to the "Contact Us" page, we will request your e-mail address only for the purpose of responding to you. If you do not submit your e-mail address, we will make no attempt to collect the address without your knowledge.

E-mail addresses that are submitted to us are not collected, shared, sold or used for other purposes that are not stated within this privacy policy, and we do not require that you enter an e-mail address.

If you choose to submit your story on our "Speak" page, we will collect the following information and adhere to the following guidelines:

Nickname or Handle
1. DO NOT use your legal name, e-mail address name or screen name, or any other identifiable name.
2. If you are an AOL user, please be sure to alter the name you submit to us, because AOL screen names also function as e-mail addresses.

We will use your nickname or handle to issue a confirmation code (KNOW Code). If we use your story on this Web site, we will send an e-mail to the Lifetime Wellness Teacher (LWT) at your school with your confirmation number (KNOW Code). Your LWT will use the confirmation number (KNOW Code) to issue your free backpack.

We will not send your nickname or story to the LWT or share, sell or use it in any way not identified within this policy, and we will purge the information after we have sent the confirmation number to the LWT.

None of the information we require is personally identifiable information.

If your story has personal identifiable information, it will not be considered for online posting. Additionally, we may require a parental release to be signed.

Any company that helps us run this Web site, and any one associated with ongoing maintenance, hosting or marketing of the Web site has signed an agreement indicating that they will only use the anonymous information collected in aggregate for the purposes for which they were hired.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
We do not use permanent cookies on the www.BeAKnowBody.com Web site. (A "cookie" is a text file placed on your hard drive by a Web site that allows it to monitor your use of the site, usually without your knowledge.

If you do nothing during your visit except browse through the Web site, read pages or print pages, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

  • The Internet domain (for example, “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which your access our Web site;
  • The type of browser and operating system used to access our Web site;
  • The date and time you accessed our site;
  • The pages you visit; and
  • If you linked to www.BeAKnowBody.com from another Web site, the address of that Web site.


We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors – to learn about the number of visits to our site and the content accessed most frequently on the Web site.

On certain Web pages, we may use a certain type of "cookie" - what is known as a "session" cookie - to help you use our Web site interactively. Cookies are data a Web site can send to your browser. Session cookies (also known as session variables) are kept in your browser's memory and are purged after your browser session is ended. Session cookies are used to keep track of passwords, preferences, orders, and various other aspects of a user's "session" within a Web site. We may use session cookies to improve your interaction with selected pages on the site. We do not use session cookies to track or personally identify users. Further, we do not make use of "persistent cookies" – another type of cookie that, when used, are stored on your hard drive and can be used to track Web users over time and across Web sites.

To protect your privacy, be sure to close your browser completely after you have finished conducting business with a Web site that uses cookies. If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let you identify and/or reject cookies. These settings are usually located under "Tools" on your browser toolbar.

How to Change or Modify Your Permission at Any Time
If you wish to remove your online submission from our Web site, you may:

1. E-mail us at contact@BeAKnowBody.com, or
2. Write to BeAKnowBody Coordinator
P.O. Box 49371
Cookeville, TN 38501.

Be sure to clearly indicate your nickname, and a brief description of your submission. We will retain your e-mail address and any other information you provide only until we have removed your submission and notified you that it has been removed. If we have questions about your correspondence to our "remove submissions" mailbox, we may write back to you one time for further clarification.

Links
Other Web sites that can be accessed from links that are available on this Web site are beyond our control. Those links are marked with an arrow like this This link will take you off-site. We are not responsible for, nor have we reviewed all of the content of these sites. These other sites may collect data or solicit personal information. Always be aware of where you are connected when accessing links on the Web.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

Contact Information
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy or are interested in sending us your suggestions, comments or concerns, please contact us at contact@BeAKnowBody.com.

For more information about online privacy, please review the tips provided on the Federal Trade Commission's Kidz Privacy page at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy This link will take you off-site..

Security for Your Personal Information
We respect your privacy and we will ensure that information you provide to us will remain protected.

Power of Putnam (POP) has applied for a Trademark for the use of the following phrases:
BeAKnowBody
KnowPower
Mr. Know-It-All (Mr. KIA)
ClubKnow
POP reserves all right, title and interest in "www.BeAKnowBody.com" and all derivative works thereof, including but not limited to, all federal and common law rights therein.

This privacy policy also pertains to the PowerofPutnam.org URL.

Power of Putnam
P.O. Box 49371
Cookeville, TN 38501 USA
www.powerofputnam.org
931-520-7531