Privacy Policy
CHIDDO is dedicated to the privacy and security of our customers
and visitors. The following discloses our information gathering and
dissemination practices for this website: CHIDDO.com.
Browsing
You may use portions of CHIDDO.com without registering or providing
personal information. In that event, we collect certain information
when you visit CHIDDO.com to improve the quality of your experience.
The information that we collect depends upon where you travel within
our site. Anytime that you visit our site to browse, we collect and
store the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet
(for example, msn.com, aol.com, etc….); the Internet Protocol
(IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you
use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site;
and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly
to our site.
We use this information to measure the number of visitors to areas of
our site, and to help us make our site more useful and interesting to
our visitors. We do not correlate this information with individual users.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on our site to enable you to save your information
and to expedite any future orders. A “cookie” is a small
text file that a website can place on your computer’s hard drive
in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on
the site or to make it possible for you to use an online “shopping
cart” to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The “cookie” transmits
this information back to the website’s computer, which, generally
speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Most consumers do not
know that “cookies” are being placed on their computers when
they visit websites. If you want to know when this occurs, or to prevent
it from occurring, you can set your browser to warn you when a website
attempts to place a “cookie” on your computer. Our site relies
upon the use of “cookies” to enhance your shopping experience,
but our “cookies” do not contain nor track your personally
identifiable information.
Product Purchases
If you choose to purchase a product from us, you will need to provide
and we will collect your personally identifiable information, such
as your name, e-mail address, billing postal address, shipping postal
address, telephone number, credit card number and expiration date (“Purchase
Information”) in order to properly process your order. You may
not modify or remove your Purchase Information – even if you cancel
or return your product order – as it is necessary to maintain
a record of your initial product purchase. We do not, however, share
any personally identifiable information with any third parties, including
advertisers or sponsors, without your consent, except to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety
of our users or the public.
Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental
consent.
Marketing
If you voluntarily supply us with your postal or email address online
or via e-mail, you may receive periodic mailings and e-mails from us
containing information regarding new products and services or upcoming
events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings or e-mails, please
let us know by sending us an e-mail to the Webmaster.
Website Links
You may find links to other websites on CHIDDO.com. CHIDDO is not liable
or responsible in any way for the privacy and security practices or
the content of any other websites. You should only access linked sites
at our own risk.
Applicability
Our Privacy Policy is only applicable to the information collected
on this site: CHIDDO.com. You may not copy, store in electronic form,
modify, transmit, create derivative works from, distribute, display,
frame in another web page, reproduce or in any way exploit the CHIDDO.com
website or any information contained therein, in whole or in part,
without obtaining the permission of CHIDDO,except as permitted under
copyright law.
Security Policy
This site has reasonable security measures in place to protect the
loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our
online shopping cart uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology,
one of the most widely used data encryption coding system for secure
e-commerce transactions, to protect credit card and other personally
identifiable information. Encryption is a process by which a message
or information is scrambled while it is in transit to CHIDDO.com.
It is based on a key that has two different parts, public and private.
The public part of the key is distributed to those with whom you want
to communicate. The private part is for the recipient’s use only.
So long as you use a browser that allows for encryption, when you send
personal information to us, you use a public key to encrypt your personal
information. If your information is intercepted during the transmission,
it is scrambled and very difficult to decrypt. Once we receive your
encrypted personal information, we use the private part of our key
to decode it.
To protect your information once we receive it, we place it on systems
behind industry standard firewalls, which are communication-management
computers designed to keep information safe and inaccessible to other
Internet users. If your browser does not accept the SSL technology,
transactions will not be permitted. Generally, to confirm that your
connection is secure, look for the letters “https” (rather than “http”)
located in the URL address window at the top of your browser. This
indicates that you are using a secure browser.
Emails sent to us are not encrypted. Although email is generally reliable,
email can be transmitted improperly or wrongfully intercepted. We do
not warrant or guarantee that the transmission of email will be uninterrupted
or transmitted without error. We are not responsible for any breach of
security or for the actions of third parties that may improperly obtain
your personal information.
Even though we implement the security measures listed above at CHIDDO.com,
we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third parties
from illegally obtaining your information.
Privacy and Security Policy Changes
CHIDDO, reserves the right, at our discretion, to add, remove, change
or modify any content of the CHIDDO.com website and this Privacy
and Security Policy at any time. By accessing this site, you agree to
be bound by this agreement. We may, in our discretion and at any time,
terminate or suspend your use of or access to the CHIDDO.com site.
The effective date at the bottom of this page will be updated anytime
adjustments are made to this policy. If you are concerned about the possible
changes to this policy, please visit this page periodically.
If you have questions about this agreement or the practice of this site,
please contact us by email at info@CHIDDO.com.
This Privacy and Security Policy is effective as of March 21, 2005.
