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Hello - and welcome to Pastiche Family Portal, the Family Friendly E-Magazine online since 1998. My name is Lee Hansen - I am the publisher and editor of Pastiche Family Portal and the artist/owner of Clip Art and Crafts plus Lee Hansen Graphics.

I created my first family-oriented web site in 1996, then started expanding the family and parenting content sections of this web site in 2001 when I was "downsized" by the marketing firm where I was employed as webmaster and digital media manager. The parent site bears my name (www.leehansen.com) and connects to all my web sites and many of my blogs.

I selected the name Pastiche ( loosely translated as "a collection of incongruous parts, or a hodgepodge, a collage ") because this site is an eclectic collection of family-friendly features gathered together from many different sources. Those sources include my own artwork, original crafts, family recipes and articles, plus parenting tips, business stories and family articles contributed by other authors, parents and kids from around the world.

Some features on this web site are contributed by writers who are independent content producers. Some are professional counselors, educators or subject matter experts. Many are WAH parents and grandparents who enjoy writing family-friendly articles or designing arts and crafts for kids and adults. I feel fortunate to be associated with so many talented and generous contributors who have like-minded ideas about the Internet and the Web, and about sharing their work with others.

Pastiche sponsors the Code Amber Alert program and the national security level code system banner network as a service to our visitors.

We comply with and support FTC rules about Internet safety, especially when it comes to kids, and we are strong proponents of online privacy for everyone.

To send us e-mail, you can use the contact form. If you have concerns or questions about privacy or about any content on this web site please feel free contact me personally by telephone at 610-921-2086 Monday through Friday, easter USA, 10am to 4pm. I read all my e-mail personally, and I respond appropriately as needed. If you are interested in exchanging family-friendly links, click here. We require sites that link with us to have family-friendly content that relates to our site. Not all links will be appropriate; not all links will be accepted.

Just a Tip: If you receive spam or UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) and the sender won't respect your request to stop, forward the offending e-mail message to UCE@ftc.gov with all its message headers displayed. The US Federal Trade Commission monitors complaints sent to that address to help stop spam and fraud. You can also visit the US Federal Trade Commission web site at ftc.gov for more information.

Best wishes to you and your family, from me and mine.

Lee

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Lee Hansen
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Pastiche Family Portal Privacy Policy

Pastiche Family Portal collects general information about visitors to this site through its web site traffic log files, data that all web servers supply to web site owners. The log files record unique IP addresses and provide general server traffic information about movement to and from the pages located on our web site, downloads, and time spent on each page.

We use this generalized information to analyze interest areas and to identify web site usability or performance issues. We do not use this information for inappropriate purposes, nor do we embed spyware or other software on our pages. We do not collect information without your consent or awareness, and at all times the information we may collect is voluntary - you fill out a form.

We use the generalized aggregate traffic information solely for improving the site content and for general market analysis. We gather only voluntary feedback and limited personal information from our site visitors who initiate contact with us through our contact forms.

We do not gather personal information without your knowledge. We run ads managed by third parties who may set cookies when you browse the site; our affiliate ads may set cookies to record your click from our site to theirs so that we receive credit for your purchases from them if you become a customer. If you wish to prevent ads or site from setting cookies, you can do so with controls in your browser.

Some games require Java or JavaScript to run on your computer. We partner with responsible content brokers and affiliates that do not set malicious cookies or otherwise compromise personal information.

Finally, we do not capture keystrokes or personal data from site visitors or newsletter subscribers. If we ask you to fill out a form, we will not share the information with others. We do not solicit products to children, nor do we ask for any personal information from children. We respect your privacy. Your name and information you enter into our contact forms will never be shared, traded, sold. Period. We will not send you unsolicited email.

We partner as affiliate publishers with reputable merchants and service providers such as ShareASale, Google Adsense, ClickBank, Commission Junction, Kolimbo and the LinkShare network. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

If you would like more information about this third party advertising practice and to know your choices about controlling cookies, click here.

We never request personal information about or from site visitors. We publish special child-oriented content for parents, teachers and caregivers to share with children, including clip art, coloring pages, games, crafts, printables and puzzles. We publish a special section on this web site that offers kids carefully screened links and projects (Kids Stuff). Some of the content in the Kids Stuff section we create ourselves, some is developed by others or is hosted on other web sites. We visit all sites linked from the Kids Stuff page personally before adding content or links to the page.

About Kids Stuff

Kids Stuff presents content that's intended for use by kids. Before we add a link, we visit the site to screen it and be sure it's safe for children. Kids Stuff contains links and content for children to enjoy independently, online and off-line. All of the content is reviewed and cleared before we add it or a link to it on this web site - however we have no control over its creation or development, so we cannot guarantee it will remain that way. If notified or made aware that content is not appropriate from any link on our site, we will remove it immediately. We, too, are parents and grandparents - and we fully believe in keeping kids safe online!

Kids Stuff may contain seasonal activities and crafts, interactive games, funny photos, clip art, cartoons, music, jokes, stories, puzzles, or coloring pages suitable for youngsters.

The limited sponsor messages that appear within the pages for children have been carefully screened. Again, we link some KidsStuff items to pages off our site, but only to pages that contain artwork or projects created by and for kids, or to sites we have visited personally to check out.

We do not knowingly post links to sites that do not conform to Safe Surf, ICRA and Family-Friendly content policies. Our links page is hand-edited and hand-screened. We do not accept links from sites that do not conform to the same family-friendly policies as this site, or from sites that do not offer content for families or related to parenting.

Finally, we may periodically offer contests or giveaways that request an e-mail address or completion of a registration form as a requirement to enter. If so, the contest will clearly indicate the prizes and rules, and any form that a child completes will require a parent's or other caregiver's e-mail address and approval. It will require that an adult certify that the child is of legal age to participate or has permission to provide his or her name and email information. We will NEVER knowingly use any e-mail address for marketing or any other purpose without permission, nor will we knowingly share personal data for any purpose.

Pastiche Family Portal is a member site of the Bluestone Network : LeeHansen.com, Clip Art n Crafts, Image Factory Graphics and Bluestone Studios.