This is the H.I.V.E. website. The website is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and operated by Galactus.
If you have any questions about this web site or our privacy policy, please contact us by writing to: Online Marketing Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 36 Soho Square London W1D 3QY Or by telephoning: 020 7494 2111
We want children who visit our website to be able to take part fully in the activities and offers we provide. We also want to make sure that when we collect information from children we do so in a way that does not infringe their right to privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to give you useful information about your child's rights and the way we collect and use personal information. We do not ask children to disclose any more information than is reasonably necessary to enable them to participate in an activity on our website [AND to improve the website]. We will not disclose personal information we have collected from children through this website to third parties. Besides what we describe in this Privacy Policy, we do not maintain any personal information obtained from children through this website in a retrievable form.
When children want to participate in activities on our website, this is the sort of information we ask for and how we use it: When you enter competitions, we ask you for your name, email and residential address. If you win, we can let you know if you have won anything, send you your prize and let other people (such as other users of our website, the public and our own employees) know about our competitions and their winners. When children send ecards, we will ask them for their names and email addresses. This is so we can let whoever receives the postcard know who sent it and so we can make sure the child who sent it gets a copy (by email) too. When children send in reviews of our books or jokes/poems/stories, we will ask them for their names and email addresses. This is so that, if we want to post their reviews on our website, we can give them credit for what they have written. When a child signs up to a newsletter option we will variously ask for their names, email addresses, postal addresses depending on the newsletter. We only keep the personal information children submit for these purposes until we have made use of it in these ways.
We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the activities offered on this site. If your child is younger than 13, we ask you to play an active role in safeguarding his or her privacy when using our site.
We make it a condition of using this site that no information is submitted to or posted at the site by children under 13 unless we have the consent of their parent or guardian. When your child registers to use the site we will ask for your consent. If you have children who are under 13, we ask you to complete their entry forms for competitions/prize draws/ecards/reviews etc. run on this site. We will notify you if your child wins a competition/prize draw and send any prize to you. We will also obtain your prior consent before publishing the name, age and photograph of your child if he or she wins a competition.
If your child is older than 13, we will ask him or her to give consent personally if we plan to keep or use his or her information for anything (we will also say what we plan to do with it). Please help your children with this.
We use cookies on this web site. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser. They enable us to recognize your web browser. In effect, cookies tell us when you have visited our site and where you have been, but they do not identify you personally - just the presence of your browser. We use cookies to see how often people visit our site and what they look at. This helps us to know what parts of the site are popular - what people are interested in - so we can make sure we have more interesting material on the site in future. If you don't want us to be able to do this, your browser's help section should be able to tell you how you can disable or filter cookies and how to arrange for your browser to tell you when you've been sent a new cookie.