Introduction
4smarteenagers.com is happy to provide you with the resources on this site for your personal education and entertainment. Our goal is to give you information, about sex, relationships and other issues that affect you now and may affect your future, either through this site or through the resources and links that we post. Nothing on this site constitutes a recommendation for medical care or advice or any kind, nor do we make a warranty of any kind about their appropriateness for individual online users. This site is intended for users aged 13 years and older.
- Please read the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement below. By using this site you are agreeing to abide by our Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. Check again from time to time for updates.
- Be careful when you send us stuff to post on the site. We want to post your writing in your own words, so express yourself, but keep it clean. We want to protect your anonymity, so please keep identifying details in your story to a minimum.
- We will not sell or distribute your e-mail address to anyone else. We have done our best to build a website that preserves your anonymity. We will use the information you provide us responsibly.
- You might disagree with the stories or posts by others, but remember that we all have a right to our own opinion. They will probably disagree with you, too. We will not post complaints, nor are we able to respond to complaints.
- This site is not a ‘Dear Abby’ or a counseling service. We are unable to respond to individual requests. Please consult the Resources page for several organizations whose primary purpose is to offer counseling or advice.
- Remember, this site is no substitute for in-person medical care. If you think you might have a health problem—medical or emotional—please take care of yourself by visiting a health care professional or counselor. Be sure to ask your parents, guardians or other adult for help.
- We reserve the right to share information you provide (including any identifying information you provide) with legal authorities if it is, in our sole opinion, necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected fraud, situation involving threats or potential harm to the physical safety of any person, or if required by law (such as if required by a subpoena, court orders or other legal means).
Here’s the rest of the legal stuff we have to do... This affects you, so please read it!
Terms of Use and Privacy Statement
Use of this site implies that you agree with and will comply with the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. If you use the site, we will assume that you have read these rules and agree to follow them.
4smarteenagers.com is committed to protecting your privacy. All information gathered on this site is confidential. We do not sell or rent this information for any purposes. The information we gather is used for the purposes of this website, and to better serve your interests relating to our product.
You can help to protect your own privacy! When you send us a submission to publish on the site, do not tell us your real name, or of your friends. In fact, try to keep out any information that you think may identify you or others.
This website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that 4smarteenagers.com and What Smart Teenagers Know® is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. Although we do our best to protect your privacy on this site, we cannot protect you once you leave our site. So when you visit other websites, check each one’s privacy policy yourself, and be careful about the information you offer up. In fact, if another site is collecting certain information that can identify you and you are under 13 years old, the law may require that your parent(s) provide written consent.
4smarteenagers.com may share non-personal, aggregate, or summary, information regarding our users with other third parties not mentioned in this policy. This kind of information does not identify you individually.
Submission of Materials by Users
When you submit a question, story or other material to 4smarteenagers.com through this website, you are authorizing 4smarteenagers.com and their assignees to read it, edit it, and publish it on the website or any of our future publications. This means your submission can be read all over the world, downloaded and copied, as well as in other online or offline forms. If you don’t want your story, question or other materials to be posted and read by others, do not submit it.
Before posting a submission on the site, 4smarteenagers.com will edit it—lightly or heavily—in order to make it clear and to preserve your anonymity. You can do your part by editing it yourself first to eliminate anything that might identify you or other people mentioned in your submission. 4smarteenagers.com is not obligated to and makes no representation that it will publish any particular submission. Once a submission is published on the website, 4smarteenagers.com may take it down for any or no reason.
Furthermore, all of the material you submit must be your own creation—not copied from someone or something else. Users promise to submit only original stories. Users may not submit or transmit any message that is libelous or defamatory, or violates any other person’s copyrights, privacy or publicity rights, trademarks, trade secrets, or rights in other confidential information. The User indemnifies 4smarteenagers.com (that means the User is financially responsible to 4smarteenagers.com) for any and all damages suffered by third parties as a result of the User’s violation of this paragraph.
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Waiver of Responsibility for Defective or Contaminated Materials
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Arbitration
In the event of any dispute arising between you and 4smarteenagers.com, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents relating to this Agreement, the matter shall be submitted to and resolved by final and binding arbitration as provided for by the California Arbitration Act, California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1280.
For the Parents
4smarteenagers.com created this website to provide a private and safe site where teens can learn by reading reliable text resources as well as material submitted by their peers (and reviewed by us). Teens are encouraged to contribute their opinions and ideas in certain areas of the site.
The information and activities on this site are constructed and presented to encourage a diverse population of teens to learn as much as possible about issues they face every day. Some of these issues include their changing bodies, choosing whether or not to have sex, protecting themselves from sexually transmitted infections, preventing pregnancy, and establishing relationships.
If you would like to share your thoughts and comments about the site with us, please send them to info@4smarteenagers.com.
