World Almanac Education is committed to protecting the privacy of its online users and providing them with a powerful and safe online experience. This privacy statement applies to the World Almanac Education website only and explains how we collect and use your information. By using the World Almanac Education website, you consent to the data practices described in this privacy statement.

Collection and Use of your personal information

World Almanac Education collects personally identifiable information such as your email address, name, home or work address, and telephone number. We use this contact information in order to provide you with materials that you request from the World Almanac Education website. We may also use this information to contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by World Almanac Education. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by World Almanac Education for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the World Almanac Education website.

World Almanac Education does not sell, rent or lease its customer information collected on the website to third parties. World Almanac Education may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to World Almanac Education, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

World Almanac Education website will disclose your personal information without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on World Almanac Education or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of World Almanac Education; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of World Almanac Education, or

the public.

Use of Cookies

World Almanac Education’s website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your computer by the World Almanac Education website. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you by the World Almanac Education website.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the World Almanac Education website that you have returned to a specific page.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use the full functionality of the interactive features of the World Almanac Education website.

Security of your personal information

World Almanac Education secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. World Almanac Education has put in place commercially reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect through the World Almanac Education website.

Changes to this policy

World Almanac Education may change this privacy policy to reflect company and customer feedback. World Almanac Education encourages you to periodically review this policy to be informed of how World Almanac Education is protecting your information.

Contact information

You may access the data collected by World Almanac Education about you by sending a request to the address listed below. If you believe that an error has been made in the accuracy of the data collected from you, World Almanac Education will correct such error upon adequate verification of the error and the identity of the person seeking the correction.

If you wish to access, remove or correct any personally identifying data you have supplied to World Almanac Education you may do so by:

a.       sending an email request to customerservice@waebooks.com

b.       sending a fax to 1-800-321-1149

c.       sending a letter via the U.S. mail to:

Manager of Website Development

World Almanac Education

23221 Morgan Court

Strongsville, OH 44149

All requests need to be in writing, however, if you have any general questions or concerns, you may speak with a customer service rep at 1-800-321-1147.

Please understand that in order to protect your privacy and security, we may also need to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making changes

World Almanac Education welcomes your comments regarding this privacy policy. If you believe that World Almanac Education has not adhered to its privacy policy, please contact World Almanac Education by either of the methods provided above. We will do our best to respond to your concerns and, when appropriate, take steps to correct any problems.

Last Revised: 3/10/2006