How to Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
FBI-SOS
Privacy Policy
PO Box 290361
Davie, FL 33329
Telephone: 954-262-8553
email: [email protected]
The FBI-SOS (Safe Online Surfing) program is a collaborative effort between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation at Nova Southeastern University. The program is a web-based scavenger hunt and quiz competition administered and maintained by the Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation. Participants learn to recognize potential dangers generally associated with common internet usage.
FBI-SOS.org collects some technical information and holds each registrant's name in temporary memory until the registration process is complete. The sections below explain how FBI-SOS.org collects and handles information when you visit our website.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
When you reach the FBI-SOS.org website, FBI-SOS.org automatically gathers certain technical information about your visit. The information collected about your visit is listed below:
- The Internet domain and IP address from which you access our website
- The type of browser and operating system used to access the site;
- The date and time you access our site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you linked to the FBI-SOS.org website from another website, the address of that website.
Contest Registration
During the school registration process, which is completed by a school administrator or teacher, the school name, mailing address, phone number, administrative contact's name and email address are collected and stored in the FBI-SOS.org database, which is maintained by the Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation.
During student registration:- The registrant enters his/her name into the browser screen where it is temporarily held.
- The registrant selects a state and school from dropdown windows.
- The registrant is assigned a username consisting of randomly generated numbers followed by @fbi-sos.org - this is not a working email account; it is a username to gain access to the FBI-SOS.org pre and post quiz.
- A registration page opens with the registrant's first and last name along with the newly created username and password.
- The sheet is to be printed and given to the teacher.
- The registrant's name is removed from the computer's memory when the browser is closed.
- In order to tally points for the contest, only the unique username, password, school and state is recorded in the FBI-SOS.org database.
- Only the teacher can identify a student using the printed registration page.
- Lost usernames and passwords result in the student having to re-register with FBI-SOS.org.
Use of Information
During the school registration process, which is completed by a school administrator or teacher, the school name, mailing address, phone number, administrative contact's name and email address are collected and stored in the FBI-SOS.org database, which is maintained by the Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation.
During student registration:- FBI-SOS.org temporarily collects registrant information, such as names to register, for the sole purpose of participating in the Safe Online Surfing program.
- No information provided as part of the Safe Online Surfing program is collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- No information is collected by FBI-SOS.org other than that necessary to participate in the Safe Online Surfing program
- No information is disclosed to any 3rd party
- Parents may refuse to have their child participate in the Safe Online Surfing program by:
- Contacting your child's school
- Contact the Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation at the address listed above
- Students are required to register under his or her school.
- Verifiable parental consent for the collection of the above information and program participation is obtained through the participating school.
For Parents' General Information
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act provides for the following on any site that collects information from children under 13 years of age.
- Parents have the option to agree to the collection of their child's personal info and participate in the program without authorizing disclosure to 3rd parties
- Parents may refuse to allow any further collection of their child's information
- Contacting y our child's school
- Contact the Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation at the address listed above
Site Security
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer system employs commercial software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Unauthorized attempts to change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Disclaimer of Endorsement
The information posted on the FBI-SOS.org website includes hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. FBI-SOS.org provides these links and pointers solely for our users' information and convenience. When users select a link to an outside website, they are leaving the FBI-SOS.org site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website.
- FBI-SOS.org does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information contained on a linked website.
- FBI-SOS.org does not and cannot authorize the use of copyrighted materials contained in linked websites. Users must request such authorization from the sponsor of the linked website.
- FBI-SOS.org is not responsible for transmissions users receive from linked websites.
- FBI-SOS.org does not guarantee that outside websites comply with the requirements of Section 508 (Accessibility Requirements) of the Rehabilitation Act.
