We respect your privacy! Any and all information collected 
                       at this site will be kept strictly confidential and will not be 
                       sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed. Any 
                       information you give to Virtual Hugs and Kisses will be 
                       held with the utmost care, and will not be used in ways that 
                       you have not consented to. A more detailed explanation 
                       about how we safeguard your personal information is 
                       described below. If you have any questions, please don't 
                       hesitate to let us know. 
 
                       On rare occasions, we may send you a Thank You E-mail
                       or a Christmas or Valentine's card. If you do not want to
                       receive any more, simply reply to Mary Ann and Jane and
                       Jane will personally remove you from the confidential list.

                       Resale or disclosure of information to third parties:  

                            Virtual Hugs and Kisses does not sell, rent, loan, 
                            trade, or lease any personal information collected at 
                            our site, including membership forms or email lists. 

                       Browser information collected on the website: 

                            Virtual Hugs and Kisses analyzes our website logs 
                            to constantly improve the value of the materials 
                            available on website. Our website logs are not 
                            personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to 
                            link them with the individuals that actually browse the 
                            site. 

                       Privacy of our email lists:  

                            Virtual Hugs and Kisses maintains several email 
                            lists to keep Virtual Hugs and Kisses members, the 
                            press, and interested members of the general public 
                            informed about breaking events. Individuals must 
                            affirmatively request to join our mailing lists by 
                            signing up through a form on our web site. We do not 
                            sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our list 
                            to anyone. In addition, we configure our list server 
                            software to refuse to divulge the email addresses of 
                            our list subscribers to anyone but authorized Virtual Hugs 
                            and Kisses staff, including other list subscribers. 
 

                            Not collect online contact information from a child 
                            under 13 without prior parental consent or direct 
                            parental notification of the nature and intended use 
                            of this information, which shall include an 
                            opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the 
                            information and participation in the activity. This 
                            online contact information shall only be used to 
                            directly respond to the child's request and shall not 
                            be used to recontact the child for other purposes 
                            without prior parental consent. 

                            Not collect individually identifiable offline contact 
                            information from children under 13 without prior 
                            parental consent. 

                            Not distribute to third parties any individually 
                            identifiable information collected from a child 
                            under 13.