PRIVACY POLICY
How we handle the information of our young customers, their parents, and the occasional mailman.
The authoritative privacy policy for all Specific Industries properties is maintained at specificindustries.com. That document governs all data handling practices across the Specific Industries portfolio, including this site. See also: Terms of Use.
Last updated: The spring of 1961. Revised annually whether needed or not. Current revision: 61.
1. What We Collect
When a Boom-Fun! Club membership form is returned to our Toledo facility, we collect your child's name, age, mailing address, and three Boom-Fun! product stock numbers. We also collect anything you voluntarily include — artwork, poems, requests, and, in one memorable case, a small dried salamander. We keep all of these forever in a wooden filing cabinet on the third floor.
2. How We Use Your Information
Membership information is used to mail the “The Fuse” newsletter every two months and to compile the Annual Year-End Member Directory, which is distributed to every other member. Addresses are not sold to outside concerns. They are not sold because nobody has offered to buy them. If somebody were to offer, our position would reconsider itself.
3. The Mailing List
Upon joining the Boom-Fun! Club, your child will receive “The Fuse” bi-monthly until 1971. After 1971, continued delivery depends on whether Harland remembers to renew the subscription list. He has so far remembered every year. We expect this pattern to continue.
4. Cookies and Tracking
Boom-Fun! does not use cookies (the electronic kind). Boom-Fun! does, however, occasionally send the edible kind to long-standing Club members on their birthdays. Please update your address if you have moved since 1962. We have lost track of many members this way.
5. Your Rights
You have the right to request that we remove you from the mailing list at any time. Please write to us at our Toledo address. We will remove you by the next catalog cycle, or possibly the one after, depending on how far into the printing process we are when your letter arrives.
6. Children's Privacy
Most of our customers are children. This is the entire business. If you are a child, please ask an adult to read this privacy policy to you. Any adult will do. The mailman is an adult.
7. Data Security
Club records are stored in a locked wooden filing cabinet on the third floor of the Toledo facility. The key is kept in Harland's desk drawer, which is also locked. The desk drawer key is kept in a mason jar of paper clips. We consider this more than adequate.
8. Changes to This Policy
We revise this policy annually. If the revisions are minor, we do not mention it. If they are major, we print the new policy on the back cover of the fall catalog. Previous versions are available for review by written request.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy should be directed to the Customer Correspondence Department at our Toledo address. Please mark the envelope “PRIVACY” in the upper-left corner so we can route it correctly.