A Special
Thanks We'd like to give a special
thanks to Americans Communicating
Electronically (ACE) who had the foresight to reserve the www.kids.gov
website address. When these great folks heard about the portal we were
developing for kids' websites, they let us have the www.kids.gov website
address.
How Our Site is
Organized We have divided the site
into educational subjects that you might have in your school. Within each
subject, we have also divided the sites into these categories: Government,
Organizations, Education, and Commercial. The Government sites could be
Federal, State, or Military sites. Government sites generally do not sell
anything. They are simply sharing information with visitors. Organization sites
are developed by groups that have an interest in a special topic and they want
to share their information. Sometimes these sites do sell products. Education
sites are developed by schools. They can be developed by colleges/universities
or high, middle, or elementary schools. These sites usually do not have
products to sell. Commercial sites are developed by businesses. Commercial
sites share information, but they also have products to sell.
Disclaimer FirstGov for Kids is a gateway to other information resources. That
means that when you click on our list of links, you will be leaving our site.
The sites we link to may be selling services or products. By linking to these
sites, FirstGov for Kids is not endorsing these services or products. As a
gateway, we are not responsible for writing or maintaining the information on
the sites that we link to. If you have questions or comments about the
information, you should use the e-mail links or forms that site has provided.
Kids, remember to show your parents or some other responsible adult what you
are doing before you send any personal information.
Kids' Privacy on our site
FirstGov for Kids does not ask for or collect
personal, individually-identifiable information from kids. We do
use computer logfiles so we can see how many visitors we have, but
we can't tell personal information from them. If any visitor to
the site chooses to provide us with personal information, as in
an email
inquiry, that information is not required; it will
be required only if you want a response to your message. The information
will not be used for any purpose other than to respond to the inquiry.
We do not create individual profiles from the information provided
or distribute the information to other organizations.
Message to Children -
Be careful on the web FirstGov for
Kids is a gateway. That means that when you click on a link, you will be
leaving our site. Most of the sites we link to are the kid's sites of
government agencies, but we do include other sites, as well. Government sites
have to follow special rules for their kid's sites, but non-government sites do
not have to follow the same rules. You may click to a site that will ask you
for personal information, like your name, address, telephone number, or email
address. Before you provide any information, show your parent or some other
responsible adult what you are doing. Be safety smart!
Message to Parents and
Guardians FirstGov for Kids is a
gateway that will take your children to other sites. A majority of the links we
provide will take your children to other government sites, but we do link to
commercial and other non-government sites. Although many of the sites we link
to must adhere to federal rules established to protect children's privacy,
please understand that not all sites have to comply with these rules. While we
have selected sites that we feel offer good, reliable information, we are not
responsible for the content provided on these sites. Nor are we responsible for
their adherence to federal rules to protect children's privacy. It is important
that you monitor your children's communication on-line to insure that they do
not provide personally identifiable information to websites that you feel are
unacceptable. Tell your children to ask you or another adult to look at what
they are doing first if they wish to provide their name, address, telephone
number, or email address to a website.
Security
Notice For site security purposes
and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, GSA webservers
employ industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify
unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause
damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on
GSA servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act. In the specific context of this security
monitoring, there is no expectation of privacy. However, only in the case of
actual law enforcement investigations, will we attempt to identify individual
users or their usage habits. |