Privacy and Security Policy

Irwin Toy and its holding company itoys inc., understands and endorses the concerns of today's parents and families regarding issues of personal privacy and security when visiting internet websites. Be assured that every effort has been made to protect and ensure your privacy and that the Irwin Toy website is bound by all current industry standards for family and children-oriented websites such as guidelines laid down for child-oriented internet sites by the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU). It is our goal to provide a safe and pleasurable experience to our visitors, and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in monitoring internet-use by children.

We do not keep any personal information online, unless such information is volunteered and you are at least 13 years of age. No information is kept by this website under any conditions if the visitor is under 13 years of age without prior, verifiable authorisation by that child's parent or guardian. If you are under 18 years of age, we encourage you to review all of the information contained in this section with your parent or guardian, and to ask questions if there is any information which you do not understand.

Collecting Personal Information

In general use, Irwin Toy does not collect any personal information from any visitor to this site. In most cases there is no need to register any information of a personal nature in order to use this site. There may, however, from time to time, be features on this site which require a voluntary transfer of personal information if you are 13 years of age or older, or we have received verifiable permission from a parent or guardian that a child under 13 years of age is registering information of a personal nature. Examples of such features would be special clubs, contests or privileged access to certain areas of this website. In such cases, you would generally be asked for your first and last name, your mailing address, telephone number and email address. This information would be securely stored by us and only for the specific purpose for which such personal information was registered - ie: a contest. In other circumstances where we may offer an interactive game or special club where members may interact with one another, we will encourage the user to use a nick-name or 'handle' such as 'Dragon ' or 'Wizard' to obscure the on-line user's identity.

Under no circumstances do we give or sell this personal information to a third party, but we may share this information with certain third party suppliers who may be employed by Irwin Toy and/or its holding company for the purposes of contests etc. Such suppliers must abide by the same code of ethics and security and sign confidentiality agreements with Irwin Toy, promising that any personal information to which they have access cannot be given or sold by them to another party. Any and all personal information which is collected is done so with the voluntary permission of the user of 13 years of age or older, or by verifiable permission by a parent or guardian of anyone under the age of 13 years. Under no circumstances will the company keep personal information from a child under 13 years of age, without verifiable, parent or guardian permission.

Personal information as described above is only stored by us for the special feature or contest to which the visitor has subscribed and is completely deleted from our files, once that feature or contest has been terminated. At any time, a visitor who has given us personal information may request that their information be permanently deleted from our files by contacting us at the email address for the feature or contest for which they have previously subscribed. Such email addresses will be prominently displayed on special feature and contest pages within our website. We will immediately delete such personal information from our files.

The Use of Cookies on the Irwin Toy Website

A 'Cookie' is a small file which is automatically saved to your computer's hard drive which does not contain any personal information. These 'cookies' provide the visitor with quicker access and navigation of pages within our site and to customise our offerings or to make available special features or games which you may chose to play. Under no circumstances will Irwin Toy use 'cookies' to passively collect information about you of a personal nature. Cookies are also used to generically monitor 'hits' or number of times our website, or pages within our website, are visited, but no personal information about the user is collected. This monitoring helps us to gather generic data which can be used to determine whether a feature or page is a 'success' or whether we should consider offering a different feature or page which you would enjoy more.

If for any reason Irwin Toy finds that the behaviour of a user is inappropriate, or in any way threatens the security of the site, or damages the reputation of the company, or may cause harm to the well-being of any other visitor to the site, the company reserves the right to disclose any relevant personal information it may have in order to prevent such potential harm.

But most importantly!

Every effort has been made by Irwin Toy to ensure you, your family, and all children a safe, enjoyable and rewarding experience when visiting our site. Your security and privacy are our greatest concern. Have fun, and enjoy the growing website, products and services of Today's Irwin Toy!

Any Questions?

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy and Security policies of the Irwin Toy website, we invite you to please contact us.