Cynthea Liu’s policy is to respect and protect the safety and privacy of visitors to CyntheaLiu.com. Cynthea strongly recommends that children check with their parents or legal guardians first before giving out any information on any website, including CyntheaLiu.com.

CyntheaLiu.com does not share personal information to third parties.

Cynthea Liu would like parents and children to know that no personal information from the CyntheaLiu.com site is sold or otherwise provided to anyone else unless it is required by law.

What information does CyntheaLiu.com collect?

In some instances, Cynthea Liu may collect personally identifiable information such as

• First and Last Name
• Mailing Address
• Email Address

in order to send requested bookplates to the recipient, contest information, post a comment on Cynthea Liu’s guestbook, and communicate with readers who wish to communicate with Cynthea Liu. CyntheaLiu.com does not require a user submit any information that is unnecessary to complete the requested transaction.

All other fields and additional comments are optional. In some cases, Cynthea Liu may post wonderful comments received from children on CyntheaLiu.com. However, any personally identifiable information is edited out before the comment is shared.

All servers on the Internet, including CyntheaLiu.com, receive information about visitors.  Specifically, server log files contain the following fields: Host (visitors’ IP address), Identification (normally a hyphen), Authentication (again, normally a hyphen), Time Stamp (when a file was accessed), HTTP Request (name of the file requested), Status Code (whether the file was transferred correctly), Transfer Volume (number of data bytes actually transferred), Referrer (page from which the user clicked), and Agent (name and version of the visitor’s browser).  Cynthea Liu and her website operators may use this software to aggregate and analyze this information to maintain and improve the CyntheaLiu.com site.  However, no personal information is used in this process.

CyntheaLiu.com may also collect information from you passively through the use of cookies to make your visits to the website more enjoyable. These cookies are not associated with any personally identifiable information. You may also request your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely, without significantly impacting the use of CyntheaLiu.com.

Your parental rights

The U.S. Government’s “Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act” (COPPA) requires “That the parent can review the child’s personal information, ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the child’s information.”

Please send an email to privacy@cynthealiu.com for assistance in this regard, or you may write

Cynthea Liu
Cynthealiu.com Privacy Policy
P.O. Box 577552
Chicago, IL 60613
312-907-8929