COPPA Privacy Disclosures

[James S. Huggins (dot com)]

On my personal/hobby website I have an extensive COPPA (Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act) compliance statement. You can see it at

    http://www.JamesSHuggins.com/h/bas1/coppa_cabana.htm 

As part of a discussion with another person, I realized that I might
have overlooked a requirement (GAD!).

COPPA requires, in part, that I link to a notice of the information
practices with regard to children at each area on the website where
personal information is collected from children. 

I have such disclosures and links on my Snippets (newsletter) page,
Guestbook, Email contact and RingSurf data collection pages.

See, as examples:


    http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/sni1/snippets.htm

    http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/guestbook.htm

    http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/email_me.htm

    http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/cha1/chaos_addform.htm


For WebGuard, however, I do not have such a link.

I do have a disclosure link at
    http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/wbg1/web_guard.htm

But I do not have a disclosure link at
    http://ringdeli.com/newsite.pl?ringid=webguard

AND, I do not ask for age of the registrant.

I am now exploring the best way to add such a disclosure link and to ask
for the age in order to comply with COPPA.

Question: would it be useful to do it in such a way that others could
use it also? That is, should I address this as a peculiar need of my
site? Or should I try to "enhance" Ringlink?


James S. Huggins



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