Privacy Notice / Disclaimer / Terms of Use

Toy Industry Association, Inc. (TIA™) is committed to providing a safe Cyber environment for parents, children and people who are interested in the U. S. toy industry. We respect your privacy, and would like you to know what is done with any information that we collect through our web site:

Browsing the TIA / T.O.T.Y. Awards Web Sites - Our site logs certain activity of visitors (i.e. how many total visitors we have, what the most popular pages are, etc). However, that tracking is NOT done on a personal basis. There is one exception: In order to conduct the nomination and voting for T.O.T.Y. Awards, we may use personal "cookies" to identify and monitor individuals and their activities.

Information You Give Us - All personal information collected by TIA™ is securely stored, and will be used solely for identification and/or purposes stated when the information is requested. TIA™ will not sell, distribute or otherwise make available to third parties any information we collect on this site. Children, as always, are encouraged to check with their parents before providing any information on any web site they visit.

TIA™ aggregates information from all of its visitors into log files in order to measure the total number of visitors to the website and how many visit each area within it. This helps TIA™ to learn about which areas are most popular and should be expanded and which are least popular and should be reduced or eliminated. TIA™ does not belong to banner ad networks and does not access or allow access by other organizations. Currently TIA™ uses WebTrends software to collect information about visits to our website.  Here is specific information about WebTrends:

Privacy Principles
Because your privacy is important to us, WebTrends conducts its business under the following principles:

• Principle 1 - No Collection of Personal Information
  WebTrends does not collect personal information such as name, age, phone number and mailing address from visitors to our customer's web sites.
• Principle 2 - No Combination of Browsing and Web Traffic Information with Personal Information
  Since WebTrends does not collect any personal information, we do not combine traffic analysis information with personal information such as name, age, phone number and mailing address.
• Principle 3 - No Aggregation of Individual Visitor Traffic Patterns across Multiple Sites
  WebTrends does not collect individual profile information for visitors across multiple sites and does not aggregate information from any other sources about browsing patterns of individual visitors across multiple sites.
• Principle 4 - Use of Anonymous IP Address
  IP addresses are recorded by every site on the Internet. WebTrends collects this information as well, but does so exclusively for the following uses: (1) anonymous statistical purposes; or (2) administration of our web site and servers, and to improve our services.
• Principle 5 - Anonymous Use of Cookies
  It is WebTrends' policy to use cookies only for more accurate anonymous traffic analysis. The cookie information does NOT include personal data such as name, age, phone number, e-mail address or mailing address. In addition, WebTrends does NOT link cookies to personal data such as name, age, phone number, e-mail address and mailing address. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to reject cookies.
• Principle 6 - No Individual Profiling
  WebTrends does not create individual profiles for visitors. Unlike other tracking services we do not have a database of individual profiles for each visitor. WebTrends collects data in aggregate form and data is not recorded or stored for individual visitors.
• Principle 7 - Limited Use of Cookies
  WebTrends uses cookies to track such as the time/date of the visit, the time/date of last visit, the page viewed, the referrer, transaction information for eCommerce pages, and other data. The cookies never include personal information such as name, mailing address and phone number. We do not collect such information and visitors that we track cannot provide us with personal information through normal movement across a web site. As we do not build a database of individual visitors, the data that we do collect is never stored in any individual user profile; the data collected serves only to update aggregate counts allowing our customers to monitor traffic on their site. Visitors can also reject cookies.

Terms of Use
By entering and using this Website you are deemed to have read and accepted these Terms of Use. If you do not accept these Terms of Use or any part of them, you should not use the Website.

TIA™ may modify these Terms of Use from time to time. Your continued use of this website (or any of TIA™’s other websites) following such change demonstrates your agreement to be bound by the modified Terms of Use.

We will highlight any changes we make to the Terms of Use but we advise you to check the Terms of Use often. If you do not agree to any change to the Terms of Use, then you must immediately stop using the TIA™ websites.

These terms of use apply exclusively to the Website and TIA™ accepts no responsibility for how your personal information is treated once you leave it.

1. Accuracy of Content
   
   TIA™ makes every effort to ensure that the content of the Website is accurate and up-to-date, but TIA™ does not offer any warranties (whether express implied or otherwise) as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information appearing on the Website.
   
   TIA™ may remove material from the Website at its own discretion and without giving any notice.
   
   
2. Intellectual Property
   
   You acknowledge and agree that all copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in the Website content, software and all HTML and other code contained in this Website, shall remain at all times vested in TIA™ and/or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws and international treaty provisions.
   
   Users may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, redistribute, reproduce, publish, license, commercially exploit, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any material which may be displayed on the Website from time to time without first obtaining permission to do so from TIA™ in writing.
   
   The Website and its contents are copyright material and the copyright is owned by TIA™ unless stated otherwise. Without limiting the foregoing, copying the above listed materials to any other server or location for publication, reproduction or distribution is expressly prohibited.
   
   All trademarks appearing on the Website are either owned by TIA™ or TIA™has obtained permission from the trademark owner to use the trademark on the Website.
   
   If you wish to obtain permission to make use of any of the trademarks or other material that may be displayed on the Website from time to time please contact info@toyassociation.org. 
   
   
3. Prohibition on Commercial Use of Website Content
   
   You are permitted to use the material that is displayed on the Website from time to time only as expressly authorized by TIA™ or its licensors.
   
   This Website is intended to provide information relating to TIA™ concerns and the Website is designed for personal, non-commercial use only.
   
   Users may not use this Website, or any of the material appearing on the Website from time to time to further any commercial purpose, including (but not limited to) advertising or to promote or generate activity on any other website.
   
   
4. Linking
   
   TIA™ may from time to time include links on this Website to other websites or resources operated by parties other than TIA™. These links are provided for the convenience of users and TIA™ is not responsible for the availability of such external websites or resources, does not endorse or accept responsibility for the content of such external websites or resources and has no responsibility for or control over the privacy policy (if any) of the operators of the external websites.
   
   You are advised to check the terms and conditions of use and the privacy policies of these external websites before entering or making use of them.
   
   If you wish to create a hyperlink to this Website or to any other website operated or maintained by TIA™ please contact info@toyassociation.org. TIA™ generally welcomes links to its websites. However by so linking, you agree that TIA™ may require the link to be removed if, in TIA™s sole opinion, any aspect of the linking website, its content or any other matter relating to the link is objectionable to TIA™.
   
   
5. Limitation of Liability
   
   The Internet is by its nature an unreliable medium. Consequently, you accept that this Website is offered on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
   
   TIA™ takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the Website is properly functioning at all times but TIA™does not warrant that this Website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this Website or the server that makes it available are free of software viruses or bugs or other defects.
   
   By accepting these Terms of Use, you accept that TIA™ cannot be liable to you for any loss or damage you suffer as a result of visiting this Website or making use of the information available on the Website. You must take your own precautions (including but not limited to installing adequate protective measures to guard against software viruses and ensuring that you retain up-to-date copies of all data) to protect yourself against loss or damage.
   
   TIA™ is an association of member companies.  However, TIA™ is not liable for the actions of any individual member company, nor is any individual member company liable for the actions of TIA™.

Changes to our Policy Notice / Disclaimer / Terms of Use

This Policy Notice / Disclaimer / Terms of Use document may be modified as time goes on so please check back! If you have any questions or comments, please direct them to info@toyassociation.org.