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1. Decipher Inc. ("Decipher"), is the only operator collecting or maintaining personal information through the fanHQ.com sites (collectively referred to below as "Decipher Websites"). The contact information for Decipher Websites is:
   
   Parental Consent Administrator
   Decipher Inc.
   253 Granby Street
   Norfolk, VA 23510
   (757) 623-3600
   Fax: (757) 624-9253
   webadministrator@LOTRfanclub.com
   
2. Decipher Websites currently actively collect the following types of personal information: first and last name, address, email address, and information volunteered by participants on bulletin boards. In the future, Decipher Websites may actively collect additional personal information and may survey its members on a wide variety of topics such as hobbies, personal interests, and similar topics. Additional information might also be collected by the members use of the site through, for example, participation in a sweepstakes or contest, when making a purchase on Decipher Websites, or when completing a survey. If a member contacts Decipher Websites we may keep a record of that correspondence. In addition, Decipher Websites currently passively collect information related to site usage, such as time spent on site, areas visited, sites linked to and from by member. In the future, Decipher Websites may passively collect additional information on a wide variety of site-related usage topics, including installing "cookies" on members' hard drives.
   
3. Decipher Websites use the personal information collected for recordkeeping, activities and games, the fulfillment of requested transactions, and marketing only to members who have consented to such marketing. In addition, Decipher Websites will allow members to make personal information publicly available on bulletin boards within the website, to the extent the members choose to disclose such information. Members may also have the ability to post pictures in an online gallery.
   
4. Decipher Websites do not disclose personal information collected from members to third parties. Decipher Websites may, in the future, disclose personal information to companies with which it is affiliated by common ownership. Decipher Websites may retain third parties to review certain personal information to advise it on demographic and marketing related issues, typically on an aggregated basis, and only after such third parties have agreed to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of any personal information obtained. You may consent to collection and use of your child's personal information without consenting to the disclosure of that information to third parties.
   
5. Decipher Websites are prohibited from conditioning a member's participation in an activity on the member's disclosing more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in such activity.
   
6. Parents can review and have deleted their child's personal information and/or can refuse to permit further collection or use of their child's personal information, either of which will terminate the child's membership in Decipher Websites. In either case, please send a letter by fax or mail to the address first listed above.

Date:
Parent's Signature: (or Legal Guardian's)
Parent's Name (print):
Child's Name (print):
Child's Date of Birth (print):
Parent's e-mail: