Hippo Works, home of the cartoonlet "It's A Jungle Out There!"

At Hippo Works, your privacy is of the greatest importance to us and any information collected from you will never be sold to a third party. Any information you share with us serves only that we may provide you with the best and most enjoyable experience at both our site and store.

Your Private Information

Hippoworks.com collects personal information when you sign up for Hippo Works services such as the cartoonlets, when you make purchases from the Hippoworks.com-controlled online store, or if you enter any special promotions or contests provided by Hippoworks.com. At such times, we may ask for your name, e-mail address, age, gender, zip code, occupation, and interests to assist us in making your experience here the best it can be.

Hippo Works may use user data in an aggregate form (never including personally identifiable information) for marketing and advertising purposes and may share this aggregate information to responsible third parties using the information only for legitimate purposes, such as to inform third parties of our audience’s general demographics. Other uses of this aggregate information are: to allow for customization of content and advertising/ marketing information at our site; to allow us to respond to your requests for products or services; to contact you about new products, changes to existing products and services provided by us; and to communicate with you about other Hippo Works-related topics.

Hippo Works shares your personal and not aggregate information to third parties only in the following conditions: at your specific instructions; for instance, when you place an order and have an item shipped to your address; or when we are required to by law, in the event that we are required to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, to cooperate with a legitimate law enforcement investigation or to investigate a threat to our network or services; or if we are investigating actions by users whose actions violate our terms of use or any other guideline or rule we have established that controls the use of our services or products.

Children Under 13

Hippoworks.com is a general entertainment website for all ages that provides content that may be enjoyed by children under 13 years of age. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 is an Act that requires that any user under the age of 13 who attempts to register at a site enjoyable to children, such as Hippoworks.com, will not be accepted until the consent of the child's parent or guardian is secured.

If a user under the age of 13 attempts to sign up for the cartoonlets, for instance, that user must provide the e-mail address of the child's parent/guardian to allow Hippo Works to secure his or her permission for the child to utilize our products and services.

As with other users, Hippo Works may require that children under the age of 13 provide the same information required of all other users to establish a subscription, including first and last name, e-mail address, and age. Hippo Works uses this information to personalize and improve the user experience. Hippo Works will NEVER require that a child under 13 years of age, as a condition of participation in an activity or to utilize our products or services, provide more information than is reasonably necessary. This is a requirement of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Hippo Works strictly abides by this requirement.

Disclosure of Information to Others

Hippo Works will not: sell the personally identifiable information about children under 13 years of age to anyone; contact children under 13 about products, services or for marketing purposes without the express consent of the child's parent/guardian; share the personally identifiable information about a child under 13 years of age with other parties, companies and people except when: required by law or required to do so to comply with a subpoena, court order or legal process or if explicit permission has been granted by a child's parent or legal guardian.

Computer-Generated Information

Hippo Works may utilize "cookie" technology by sending and/or receiving information from our computers to your browser and computer.
This serves to create server logs to track your movement through our web site so that we may customize the user experience in the best way possible.
Other companies over whom Hippo Works has no control that serve advertisements on our web site may also utilize "cookie" technology to send and/or receive information from their computers to your browser and computer. We may also use other technologies to verify and track your use of certain services, confirm receipt of certain e-mailed products or to test the integrity of our systems, products and services.

Third Party Advertising

Any ads appearing on this website are delivered to you by our web advertising partners. Information about your visit to this site, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on this site.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Please check this policy periodically as from time to time Hippo Works may change or alter this policy. At the top of this policy we will indicate the date of the last update. All such changes or alterations will be effective as of the date they are posted on our website.

Disclaimer

Certain links within this site will take you into other Web sites for which Hippo Works takes no responsibility.