Privacy Policy

Chums.com respects your privacy. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We use your information to enhance our relationship and communication only with you . At any time you may contact Chums.com with any questions or concerns that you have about this policy. Please direct any Privacy Policy-related communication to privacy@Chums.com

Personal Information

Chums.com will not sell or rent your personal information to a third party. All data that we keep on you is kept strictly for Chums.com business use to assist you in your current or future purchases.

Cookies and IP Numbers

Chums.com's privacy policy shows our firm commitment to customer privacy. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information. Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart.

We may use cookies for other purposes such as site personalization. You can reject cookies and still use the Chums.com site, however, it will disable the ability for the site to recognize your cart, your account and any personalization efforts.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. Chums.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.

Address Information

Our site uses an order form for customers to purchase products and services. We collect visitor's contact information including but not limited to addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and financial information (account or credit card numbers). Contact information from the order form is used to send orders and information about our company. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings. Information is gathered by Chums.com for the sole benefit of Chums.com. Financial information that is collected by Chums.com is used to bill the user for products and services ordered.

Contests

We may run contests on our site in which we ask visitors for contact information (email address, etc.) We use contact data from our contests to send users promotional material from Chums.com. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary (like when you win a contest.) Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings at any time.

User Content

Any comments, posts, feedback, questions, answers, notes, messages, images, video, audio, materials, ideas, suggestions or other communications you submit on Chums.com are not private or proprietary. By submitting User Content on or through the Chums.com, you grant Chums.com an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual right and license to use, copy, modify, display, archive, store, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works based upon such User Content, in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future.

Security & Me?

We do our best to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Please sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Our servers use an updated and patched version of OpenSSL that is not vulnerable to the 'heartbeat' vulnerability, and we have re-keyed our SSL certificates since the vulnerability has been known to the public

Google Data Policy

Chums offer login via Google, and, if granted, has access to basic user data. All data collected via the Google APIs is kept strictly confidential and is only used to verify your identity.

Some intranet pages have interactive Google Maps and may send your location to aid in retrieving data relevant to your location. Likewise, this data is strictly confidential.

Information Sharing

Chums.com will not sell or rent your personal information to a third party. We sometimes employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. For example, hosting our website, providing marketing assistance, etc. These third parties have access only to personal information needed to perform these functions, but may not use it for other purposes and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Opting Out

You may elect not to receive email communication from us at any time. To stop receiving Chums email, click here to unsubscribe.