Notice to Children Under 13

Thank you for visiting WE!

WE is the home of WE Charity, WE Day and ME to WE. We’re thrilled that you’ve come to our site to learn more, and we can’t wait for you to join us in changing the world. But, before we can get you started, if you are under 13 years old and live in the European Union or United States, we need to take care of a few things.

1. Your Personal Information

Privacy laws control what information we can collect about people like you—amazing world-changers under 13 years old. These privacy laws require that, because you are under 13, we must receive your parent’s consent before you give us this kind of information:

Your first name;
Your last name;
Your online contact information;
Your email address;
Information about your location;
Pictures of you;
Videos of you; and
Any other information that allows people to contact you.

2. Getting Help

Before you can get fully involved at WE, we need the help of your parent or legal guardian. Specifically, we need them to read the letter below and submit a form to us:

Dear: Parent/Legal Guardian of a World Changer:

Your amazing child has visited WE, the home of WE Charity, WE Day and ME to WE. Because of privacy laws that apply in the U.S. and EU, we require your consent before your incredible child can provide us with personal information. Subject to your consent, and depending on how your child wants to get involved with us, we may collect the following information about your child to help them participate in our campaigns, events and initiatives:

first name;
last name;
online contact information;
home address; and
email address.

Your child’s information would only be used internally. Collecting such information helps us understand their needs and aid them in changing the world. This includes using information to:

deliver quality services and features that your child can use on our websites;
keep our services secure and safe;
provide your child with location services;
protect ME to WE’s, WE Charity’s, WE Day’s or others’ rights or property;
conduct internal operations (data analysis, troubleshooting, testing and service improvements);
measure or understand the effectiveness of programming and content delivery;
offer opportunities of interest to your child, like causes to support, events to attend, and special offers;
offer opportunities that we think will be of interest to your child, like causes to support, events to attend and opportunities and products of our sponsors;
facilitate and process purchases or donations;
make suggestions for your child and other users of the Sites; and comply with any legal obligations.

You can learn more about our privacy policy here (U.S.) and here (UK).

To approve your child’s wishes to provide us with personal information, please submit our parental consent form by email to [email protected] or fax to 1-416-925-5894.

If you have any questions or concerns about data collection at WE, please send us an email at [email protected], or call 1-416-925-8242.

3. Get Started!

Once your parent has submitted the form to us, you can get fully involved with WE Charity, WE Day or ME to WE. Until the form is submitted, please do not provide us with any of your personal information, and you may want to disable cookies in your browser and use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics.

Thanks so much for visiting WE, and remember—together WE change the world.