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Internet Safety

At ShoujoToys.com, we are concerned with the safety of our members. We want to provide a community that is free from behaviors that would be inappropriate for someone under 18, while still providing a place that is welcoming for all ages.

While we work hard to monitor the website and give users options to help their personal information to remain as such, there are things we cannot control. We want ShoujoToys.com to remain a kid-friendly website; you can help do your part by following a few simple guidelines:

Most of these were provided by the FBI Educational Web Publications at http://www.smartparent.com/familyheart.htm

IF YOU ARE UNDER 18:

• Never give out identifying information (name, home address, school name, or telephone number) in a public message without permission from your parent or guardian. This includes chat rooms, surfing the web, message boards or other online activities like entering contests or registering for clubs that may seem harmless.
  
  
• Never send a person a picture of you without first checking with your parent or guardian.
  
  
• Be sure that you are dealing with someone that you and your parents know and trust before giving out any personal information about yourself.
  
  
• Never respond to messages or bulletin board items that are:
  • Suggestive
  • Obscene
  • Belligerent
  • Threatening
  • Making You Feel Uncomfortable
    
    
• Be careful when someone offers you something for nothing, such as gifts and money.
  
  
• Be very careful about any offers that involve your coming to a meeting or having someone visit your house.
  
  
• Tell your parent or guardian right away if you come across any information that makes you feel uncomfortable. Also, let someone on ShoujoToys.com's staff know.
  
  
• Never give out your password to anyone, not even your best friend. This includes passwords for:
  • ShoujoToys.com
  • your ISP or AOL account
  • your email
  • your website
    
    
• Never open or accept e-mails, files, links, URLs or other things online from people that you don't really know or trust.
  
  
• Never arrange a face to face meeting without telling your parent or guardian. If your parent or guardian agree to the meeting, make sure that you meet in a public place and have a parent or guardian with you. Never go alone.
  
  
• Remember that people online may not be who they seem. Because you can't see or even hear the person, it would be easy for someone to misrepresent him- or herself. Thus, someone indicating that "she" is a "12-year-old-girl" could in reality be an older man. In return, you should never misrepresent yourself to be older or younger than you are.
  
  
• Get to know your "online friends" just as you get to know all of your other friends - a little at a time.

IF YOU ARE OVER 18:

• Never give out identifying information (name, home address, school name, or telephone number) in a public message unless you are completely comfortable with the fact that this information could become available to people other than those you explicitly intended it for. This includes chat rooms, surfing the web, message boards or other online activities like entering contests or registering for clubs that may seem harmless.
  
  
• Never send a user a picture of you unless you are comfortable with that person's legitimacy. Also, keep in mind that proving a web link to your photo in a public message board will make it available to any person who has access to that board.
  
  
• Be sure that you are dealing with someone that you know and trust before giving out any personal information about yourself.
  
  
• Respect other users' privacy. Never badger another user for their personal information or a personal photograph. Doing such will be viewed as harassment.
  
  
• Never respond to messages or bulletin board items that are:
  • Suggestive
  • Obscene
  • Belligerent
  • Threatening
  • Making You Feel Uncomfortable
    
    
• Be careful when someone offers you something for nothing, such as gifts and money.
  
  
• Be very careful about any offers that involve your coming to a meeting or having someone visit your house.
  
  
• Tell someone right away if you come across any information that makes you feel uncomfortable. Also, let someone on ShoujoToys.com's staff know.
  
  
• Never give out your password to anyone, not even your best friend. This includes passwords for:
  • ShoujoToys.com
  • your ISP or AOL account
  • your email
  • your website
    
    
• Never open or accept e-mails, files, links, URLs or other things online from people that you don't really know or trust.
  
  
• Never arrange a face to face meeting without telling someone who is close to you. If it's possible, invite someone you know to go with you. Make sure that you meet in a public place. Never meet someone in a secluded area.
  
  
• Remember that people online may not be who they seem. Because you can't see or even hear the person, it would be easy for someone to misrepresent him- or herself. Thus, someone indicating that "she" is a "12-year-old-girl" could in reality be an older man. In return, you should never misrepresent yourself to be older or younger than you are.
  
  
• Get to know your "online friends" just as you get to know all of your other friends - a little at a time.
  

CODA:

No member of ShoujoToys.com's staff will EVER ask you for any of your passwords. If someone claims to be a member of ShoujoToys.com's staff and is requesting that you give them your password, notify a staff member immediately. We take the impersonation of our staff members extremely seriously.

ShoujoToys.com respects members' right to keep their information private:

• Your real name will never be accessible to non-staff members.
• You have the ability to set a gender on your account, but by default all user genders are "unset."
• Your email address will never be made available to non-staff members, unless you specifically set it as viewable.
• Your birthdate information is not available to non-staff members

Read ShoujoToys.com's Privacy Policy.