Who we are
Our website address is: https://allthingsbeardimension.com. The Bear Dimension is created and inhabited by Liz Lowson and Daniel Saunders, who are responsible for all the content on this website. Bear of the Month photos are the property of their photographers.
A Note For and About Children
This website is intended for children and families. Children should ask a parent or guardian before submitting questions, photographs, competition entries, or other content.
If you are under the age of 18, please discuss your use of this Website and our Privacy Policy with your parent or guardian.
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13, except in limited circumstances that are allowed under the Children’s Code provisions in the Data Protection Act 2018 (UK) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (US). For example, if a child wishes to sign up for our email newsletter, the child must provide the email address of his/her parent or guardian so that we can notify the parent/guardian of the child’s request. We will ensure that all other features of our Website complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by, for example, obtaining the appropriate parental consent when necessary, not asking for more personal information than is necessary for a child to participate in an activity, and taking steps to prevent children from posting or publicly disclosing personal contact information on our Website. In the event a child under the age of 13 contacts us directly and identifies him or herself as being under the age of 13, we will retain the child’s information only as long as is necessary to respond to his or her specific request and then will delete all such information.
Submission rules
If you are under age 13, please get the permission of a parent or guardian if you want to submit a photo. Photographs should be of bears/stuffies only and should not include any people, or any identifying information. If a photograph contravenes these guidelines then it will be disqualified and deleted immediately.
Please do not submit names, addresses, schools, telephone numbers, email addresses, or other personal information in questions or competition entries.
It also suggested a ‘submission rules’ page along with a privacy policy tailored to the above so that we set expectations before anyone sends anything! Shall I write those or do you have a standard privacy policy page that you always put on a website? (sorry for ignorance!) Looking at your link we’ll need a data retention policy in with the privacy policy, to state that we won’t be keeping any personal information – should there be any. Obviously we’ll delete anything personal if mistakes happen and people send it in.
I can put a submission rules piece together today which should cover us pretty well, especially as we’re very low risk with what we collect and display.
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Who we share your data with
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