Dear Scholastic:

My name is ________________________ [your full name]. I am writing to find out whether you have collected online from my child and are currently holding his/her name and e-mail address or any other personally identifiable information in association with a contest, sweepstakes or other program or activity on Scholastic.com or another Scholastic website indicated below.

In order for you to do a comprehensive check of your records, I understand that I need to provide you with the following information:

My child's name is _________________________ [child's first and last name].

My child's e-mail address is _________________________ [child's e-mail address].

My child's individual user name is _________________________ [child's username].

The Scholastic website is _________________________ [fill in URL or web address].

If you are writing in regards to a specific program or activity, please tell us the name: _________________________ [fill in name of activity].

[Check boxes that are applicable:]

Full website (applicable to ALL activities and programs on the website specified above):

Please tell me whether you have collected online from my child and are currently holding his/her name and e-mail address or any other personally identifiable information (such as but not limited to school name and location) in association with any contest, sweepstakes or other program or activity on the website specified above. If you have collected personally identifiable information from this child on that website, I would like to review this information.

If you have collected online from my child and are holding his/her name and e-mail address or any other personally identifiable information (such as but not limited to school name and location), via the above website, please remove it from your records and do not allow such child to participate in any program or activity on such website.

I refuse to permit any further collection or use of my child's personally identifiable information online by Scholastic on the above website.

Specific program or activity only (applicable ONLY to the activity or program specified above):

Please tell me whether you have collected online from my child and are currently holding his/her name and e-mail address or any other personally identifiable information (such as but not limited to school name and location) in association with the contest, sweepstakes or other program or activity specified above. If you have collected personally identifiable information from this child in connection with such program or activity, I would like to review this information.

If you have collected online from my child and are holding his/her name and e-mail address or any other personally identifiable information (such as but not limited to school name and location), in connection with the program or activity specified above, please remove it from your records and do not allow such child to participate in such program or activity.

I refuse to permit further collection or use of my child's personally identifiable information in connection with the program or activity specified above.

Please use the box below to provide any additional details that may help us process your request:

Please respond to this letter at the following address:

[your mailing address]

By my signature, I affirm that I am a parent or legal guardian the child with the name and e-mail address that I have provided in this letter. I understand that from the information I have provided in this letter, you have no way of knowing whether this child is participating in a contest, sweepstakes or other activity using another name and e-mail address, or whether this child is participating in online classroom activities using a class-wide username and password.

Sincerely,