Children 12 and Younger               Information for Parents

The Home Library Website (the Site) is committed to protecting your privacy and safety online. We have created this Privacy Statement to explain why we ask you for information when you send in entries to competitions or participate in some of the activities of this site. Read this Privacy Statement carefully so that you will know in advance the types of information we gather, how we use and safeguard your information and how you or your parents can ask us to change or delete information at any time.

Email privacy: Adults should be reassured that we only keep an emailing list of adult supporters of Home Library. We will occasionally mail supporters to update them on forthcoming events and activities. However, supporters must ask us to join the mailing list. Please be assured that we do not sell, rent, loan, trade or lease email addresses on our list to anyone.

Cookies: We do not use cookies on the Home Library website, except for the proforma in the Braille section, which is a standard cgi-script.

Browser information: Like all websites, Home Library analyses its website logs in order to understand the extent of the interest in the site and to review ways in which it can be improved. Please rest assured that the Home Library website logs are not personally identifiable and we do not try to link them with the people who may browse the site.

Children 12 and younger
The Home Library Website includes lots of features that can be enjoyed without submitting any information at all. But if you’re under the age of 13, and you think you will want to submit some information to us, then we need to get permission from one of your parents or your legal guardian beforehand.

If you submit a book review or competition entry and we decide to post it on the Home Library website, we will only include your first name and your age.

Parents, please see section ‘For Parents’ below and follow this to send us your consent.

For Parents
There are many activities on the site that your child can participate in and enjoy without having to share personally identifiable information. We never impose conditions on a child’s participation in any activity, nor require the child to provide more information than is reasonably necessary for us to administer the activity. You may ask us to delete the information your child has submitted to us by sending us a message entitled ‘Delete Personal Information’ to .