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This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") contains 9 sections. You can view each section by selecting the links below:
* Introduction
* Changes to Our Privacy Policy
* The Information We Collect and How We Use It
* How Else May We Use Your Personal Information?
* Information Sharing and Disclosure
* Cookies
* Accessing and Updating Personal Information
* Transfer of Information Outside the EEA
* About Us
1Introduction
1. 1.1 Welcome to Pottermore (“Pottermore”), the digital home of the Harry Potter books! Pottermore is owned by Pottermore Limited (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” as appropriate, a company established in England and Wales). Pottermore is currently available through the website at http://www.pottermore.com. We may also make Pottermore or other versions of it available through a number of digital channels or devices.
2. 1.2 For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Pottermore Limited. Please see our Terms & Conditions ("Terms") and our About Pottermore section in our Help pages for more information about Pottermore Limited.
3. 1.3 Please read the following Privacy Policy to understand how the information you provide to us is used and protected. If you have any queries or concerns regarding these practices, please refer to our Help pages in the first instance.
4. 1.4Please note that by visiting and using Pottermore or consenting for your child to do the same, you are agreeing to the use of your or your child’s personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. We take your child’s safety and the safe-keeping of their personal information very seriously. If you have any queries about how we use your child’s personal information, please contact our parental enquiries phone line:
+1 877 803 5583 (Toll free in the United States. Calls made from outside the United States will be charged at standard international rates).
2Changes to Our Privacy Policy
1. 2.1 We may make any change to this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes we will notify you by sending you an email to the last email address that you provided to us and/or by posting a copy of the changes on Pottermore. Subject to paragraph 2.2, any changes will take effect seven (7) days after the date of our email or the date we post the modified terms on Pottermore, whichever is earlier. Your continued use of Pottermore after that period expires means that you agree to be bound by the modified terms. If the email address to which we send notification to you under this clause is no longer valid, the sending of our email (notifying you of any changes to the Terms) will be deemed, nonetheless, to be effective notice of the modified terms.
2. 2.2 If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use and/or share personal information, we will give you prominent notice of these changes and offer you a choice about whether the changes should apply to any personal information that we previously collected from you.
3The Information We Collect and How We Use It
1. 3.1 We only collect your email address (or your parent or guardian’s email address if you are under 13 years of age).
2. 3.2 We only use your email address once in order to notify you when the Pottermore experience is open for registration and to reply to any correspondence you may send us. We will delete your email address after we have sent you our notification email.
4How Else May We Use Your Personal Information?
1. 4.1 We may use your personal information to investigate a complaint made by another user, a breach of Pottermore’s Terms and to prevent and detect criminal activity, fraud and misuse of, or damage to, Pottermore or the service made available through it and to take appropriate legal action against those responsible.
5Information Sharing and Disclosure
1. 5.1 We do not sell or rent your personal information.
2. 5.2 We only share your email address with our employees, agents and/or authorised third parties for the purpose of operating, managing and administering Pottermore. Such third parties include hosting and support service providers.
3. 5.3 We may, however, disclose personal information about you to the following, for the express purposes set out below:
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Transfer of business:
5. if there is a change (or prospective change) in the ownership of Pottermore Limited or any of its assets, we may have to disclose personal information to the new (or prospective) owner. If we do so, we will require them to keep it confidential and use it in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy.
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Legal requests:
7. Apart from the use and sharing of your personal information in the limited circumstances already described, the only ways we may share your information are if we need to disclose personal information to protect our and our licensors’ rights and property or to comply with any applicable law or valid legal process.
6Cookies
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Cookies and log files
2. 6.1 While on Pottermore, certain information is automatically logged about how you are using Pottermore to analyse performance and usage of Pottermore. This information may include the URL of the website which linked you to Pottermore, your IP address and the pages you visit while on Pottermore. The IP address indicates the location of your computer on the internet.
3. 6.2 Like many online services we may use a feature called a cookie. A cookie is a small data file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. It allows us to recognise you as a user when you return to Pottermore using the same device and web browser. We use the cookies (including some provided to us through online analytics services such as Google Analytics) and other automatically tracked information to track visitors to Pottermore to analyse performance and usage of Pottermore, in order to develop Pottermore in accordance with visitors’ requirements.
4. 6.3You can delete cookies from your hard drive at any time. You can set your internet browser so that it will not allow cookies to be stored on your device. Further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your device can be found on http://www.allaboutcookies.org under the 'manage cookies' section. Alternatively, you can access further information by going to the help menu within your internet browser. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
7Accessing and Updating Personal Information
1. 7.1 Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to see the personal information that we hold about you, whether collected through your use of Pottermore or through any communications that you have had with us. You will need to provide us with a written request and pay a small fee. If you have any queries about your right or wish to make such a request please refer to our Help pages to find out how you can contact our Data Protection Officer.
8Transfer of Information Outside the EEA
1. 8.1 We share your personal information with authorised third party service providers for the purpose of operating, managing and administering Pottermore.
2. 8.2 These services are hosted and managed in the United Kingdom.
3. 8.3 Your personal information may be transferred to, stored at, or processed at other destinations outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services.
4. 8.4 By submitting your personal data to Pottermore, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These steps include our use of model clauses issued by the European Commission to cover transfers of personal data outside of the EEA, or, in the case of the USA, using third parties which have notified the US Department of Commerce that they adhere to the Safe Harbor framework.
5. 8.5 You should be aware that the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory authorities of countries outside the EEA, in addition to those within the EEA, may be able to obtain access to or disclosure of your personal information through the laws of their respective countries.
6. 8.6 Should you wish to access written information about our policies and practices regarding any of our authorised third party service providers, please contact the Data Protection Officer whose details are set out in our Help pages.
9About Us
1. 9.1 Pottermore is owned by Pottermore Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales, whose company details are as follows:
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Company Name/Editor:
Pottermore Limited
Registered Office:
Devonshire House, 1 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5DR
Company Registration Number:
06979090
VAT Registration Number:
980826881
ICO Registration Number:
Z2535777
3. This is not an address to which you should send enquiries or complaints about Pottermore. If you have an enquiry or complaint, please refer to our Help pages in the first instance.
Last updated 13 June 2011
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