The SillyBillies.com.au are committed to providing the best online family entertainment within a safe, trusted environment. Privacy and safety issues are important to us.

The Internet contains a wealth of information; unfortunately, it may also contain personal details about you that you don't want everyone to know. For example, your real name (lots of people on the Internet use aliases, alter egos, or nicknames), street address, phone number, or e-mail address. When you go online, sites you visit maybe gathering information about you without your knowledge. At The Silly Billies Online we strive to help our customers protect their privacy while using our services.

Silly Billies Online may share aggregate information about our users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. For example, we will say Silly Billies Online's audience is x percent female and y percent male. This data is used to customize Silly Billies Online content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our users.

There are cases where Silly Billies Online may ask you for personal information such as your name, e-mail address, and birth date. For example, we request personal information when you register for a Silly Billies Online Account, for online shopping or transactions, or for services that may require registration or subscription (for example Silly Billies's Kids Club). Silly Billies Online needs to collect this information for fulfilling prizes, tracking/verifying compliance with Silly Billies Online policies as well as federal, state, and local laws, and/or for editorial and feedback solicitation purposes.

In case you change your mind or some personal information changes (such as your POST or ZIP code), we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update, or remove the personal data you give us. You can do this at the member information page or by contacting our Customer Support organization at info@sillybillies.com.au

Information provided when purchasing products from any of our online stores may be used for marketing and promotional purposes and is subject to the opt-out processes described on, or linked to, each order form.

Silly Billies Online encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the activities offered on the sites. No information should be submitted to or posted at Silly Billies Online by Guests under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.

Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, Silly Billies Online do not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever from our Guests under 13 years of age. All registrants receive an e-mail confirming their Registration. In addition, when a Guest under 13 registers, he/she is required to provide the e-mail address of his/her parent or guardian and that parent or guardian receives an e-mail alerting them to that Registration. Since all of Silly Billies Online's free interactive activities are monitored by community policy experts, registered Guests under 13 years of age may participate in such activities upon Registration, unless their parent or guardian asks that their registration be invalidated. In order for the potential Member to use the interactive services, the parent or guardian must validate the account, as described in the e-mail. No information collected from Guests under 13 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside Silly Billies Online except as explicitly stated during registration for contests or promotions (and in that case, the information collected is used only for the specific contest or promotion).

Although Guests under 13 years of age may be allowed to participate in some contests and promotions, if such a Guest wins, notification and prizes are sent to the parent or guardian identified in the initial registration process. Publication of names, ages, or images for contest winners under 13 require parental or guardian consent.

We do not allow Guests under 13 years of age to be listed in our Member directory or to receive direct marketing communications from Silly Billies Online or to be sent third-party offers.

An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Web. Web servers -- the big computers that "serve up" Web pages -- automatically identify your computer by its IP address.

Silly Billies Online may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When Guests request pages from Silly Billies Online sites, our servers log the Guests' IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user's session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our house rules or terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers, or others.

Some services within Silly Billies Online, such as certain message boards, may display IP addresses along with the message poster's name and message. Please review each service prior to use and only use those that disclose information you are comfortable with sharing.

Users should be aware that when they are on Silly Billies Online they could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from Silly Billies Online pages that take you outside our service. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or a Silly Billies Online search result, the "click" takes you off the Silly Billies Online site. This includes links from advertisers, Center sponsors, and partners that may use Silly Billies Online logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.

Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online --- for example, via message boards or chat --- that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While Silly Billies Online strive to protect their users' personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.

Silly Billies Online policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond Silly Billies Online control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.

The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our Guests is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Silly Billies Online can't ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

Your Silly Billies Online Account is password-protected so that only you can access it and view the member information relevant to the account. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Silly Billies Online will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or e-mail. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.

Remember to sign out of your Silly Billies Online Account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if your computer is accessible to others or if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafŽ.

By using this site, you signify your assent to the Silly Billies Online Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued use of the Silly Billies Online sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

1. Keep your passwords private, even from your best friend! Your online service will never ask for them, so neither should anyone else.

2. Use only your member name and/or e-mail address when chatting or sending e-mail.

3. Never give out personal information like your name, address, or phone number.

4. Don't share photos of yourself, your family, or your home with people you meet online.

5. Always delete unknown e-mail attachments without opening them. They can contain destructive viruses.

6. If a person writes something that is mean or makes you feel uncomfortable, don't respond. Just log off and tell your parents, who can report it to your online service provider.

7. Remember that nothing you write on the Web is completely private -- including e-mail. Be careful and think about what you type and who you tell.

8. Not everyone is as nice, cute, and funny as they may sound online. Never make plans to meet an online "friend" in person.

9. WHEN IN DOUBT -- always ask your parents for help -- and just LOG OFF if you're not sure! You can always go back online later.