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Privacy Statement 
The White Swan Award Program does not divulge any information about any of our applicants or viewers to any other person, group or agencies not directly connected to our site or award program. All information received from applicants via e-mail submission, visit counter/tracker and any submission application form will be held strictly private and confidential.
Disclaimer 
By presenting the White Swan Award to a site, we are not endorsing the web site or its content in any way. We are not responsible for the content of any winning site except at the time an award has been presented. At that time, any site awarded is "Family Safe". We are not responsible for any changes of content after a site has been awarded. Linking to this website, websites listed on this site and/or other web sites is at your own risk. We make every effort to check all links, used within this site, periodically to insure that they have suitable content that is "Family Safe".
Any child under the age of 13 will need their parent's consent to apply for the White Swan Exvellence Award. We will not accept any application without complete verification of age. If the applicant is under the age of 13 we will request an e-mail address of an adult guardian and/or parent of the under age applicant to gain consent to comply fully with the C.O.P.P.A. standards.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information from children under age 13. The new rules spell out what a Web Site Operator must include in a privacy policy, when and how to seek verifiable consent from a parent and/or guardian and what responsibilities any operator has to protect children's privacy and safety online.
For More Information
If you have questions about Children's Online Privacy Protection, please visit the FTC site online at http://www.ftc.gov/.
You also may call the FTC's Consumer Response Center toll-free at 1-877-FTC-HELP ( 382-4357 ), or you can write Consumer Response Center, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580.
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