We regard our clients’ privacy as
one of our most important values. Chinook Webs wants
you to know how we protect client information and what
choices you have about its use. We believe Chinook Webs’
Privacy Policy should give you confidence whenever you
use Chinook Webs or chinookwebs.com—24 hours a day,
seven days a week, 365 days of the year.
Chinook Webs’ PRIVACY COMMITMENT:
THE PRINCIPLES
Chinook Webs is committed to protecting your personal
privacy and confidential information. Our Privacy statement
summarizes and clarifies that commitment: it outlines
how we safeguard your privacy, how we treat personal
(confidential) information, and what choices you have.
We understand that for you to fully enjoy the benefits
of this interactive medium (Internet), we must do everything
we can to ensure that your privacy is secure.
(1) We do not read your private online communications.
Chinook Webs honors the confidentiality of its clients’
private communications in private chat rooms, e-mail
(including downloads). Chinook Webs does not read or
disclose private communications except to comply with
valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena
or court order, to protect the company’s rights and
property, or during emergencies when we believe physical
safety is at risk. Of course, what you write or post
in public or chat rooms and message boards is available
not only to Chinook Webs, but to the public
(2) We do not use any information about where you personally
go on the Web, and we do not give it out to others.
We do not keep track of where you go on the World Wide
Web.
The Web sites you visit may have their own privacy
policies or no policy at all. We encourage you to review
the privacy policies of Web sites before providing them
with any of your personal information.
(3) We do not give out your telephone number, credit
card information or screen names, unless you authorize
us to do so. And we give you the opportunity to correct
your personal contact and billing information at any
time.
When you join Chinook Webs, we ask you for your name,
address, telephone number, and billing information—including
the credit card, checking account, or debit card used
to pay for your account—and the various logon names
you want to use on your account. Here is how we protect
that information:
Chinook Webs will not give out your telephone number
or logon names (e-mail addresses), except where needed
to deliver a product or service you ordered.
We will not give out your credit or debit card number
or checking account information unless you authorize
it, for example, during an online purchase.
We will not give out information that would link your
logon names with your actual name.
We may collect and use other information for internal
purposes. For example, any reported violations of our
Terms of Service that you or someone on your account
may have committed.
We have two exceptions to these policies: We will release
specific information about your account only to comply
with valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena
or court order, or in special cases such as a physical
threat to you or others.
We provide you with the opportunity to update or correct
your contact and billing information that we have on
file. Just as you want to make sure that information
Chinook Webs has about you is accurate, we want to keep
only the most up-to-date information about your account.
Therefore, whenever you believe that your contact or
billing information needs updating, you can email info@chinookwebs.com
(4) We may use information about the kinds of products
you buy from Chinook Webs to make other marketing offers
to you, unless you tell us not to. We do not give out
this purchase data to others.
Your Purchases From Chinook Webs
Chinook Webs offers our clients the opportunity to
buy Chinook Webs store merchandise, such as Internet
Services, computer hardware and software, and products
that carry the Chinook Webs brand. Like other retailers
and direct marketers, we record information about such
purchases. When you buy from us online, our system automatically
gathers purchase data, and we also record information
about purchases made through our other marketing operations.
We use this information in two ways:
1) We review what kinds of products and services appeal
most to our clients as a group. This statistical information
helps us improve our offerings in the same way that
other companies change their catalog based on what sells
best.
2) We use information such as the number of purchases
clients make and the categories of goods and services
they buy to make offers to them we believe will be of
interest. In addition, we use other information such
as when clients joined Chinook Webs, how often they
use the service or their type of computer system to
make such offers. We also use publicly available consumer
data to help us decide which marketing offers to make
and which advertising they see.
You may choose not to receive marketing offers from
Chinook Webs. For more information about your choices,
please see # 5.
We do not give out any information about what you,
as an individual, purchase from Chinook Webs with anyone,
except to complete your transactions, or to comply with
valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena
or court order.
Your Other Online Purchases Through Our Service
For all other online purchases, be sure to review the
merchants’ privacy policies and contact them directly
if you have any questions. They may have privacy terms
that differ from CHINOOK'S privacy policy, and they
may use personal information which you may provide them
differently than our policy permits.
Chinook Webs may be involved in facilitating your purchases
from these other companies, but this individual data
is not used for any other purpose.
(5) We give you choices about how Chinook Webs uses
your personal information.
You have choices about how the information you have
provided may be used by us to make special offers to
you. And you can direct us to remove your name and address
from mailing lists we provide to selected, pre-screened
companies.
To activate any of these marketing preferences, simply
send an email to info@chinookwebs.com
You may choose not to receive marketing offers from
Chinook Webs bymail.
You may choose not to receive marketing offers from
Chinook Webs by telephone.
You may choose not to receive marketing offers from
Chinook Webs by e-mail.
(7) We use secure technology, privacy protection controls
and restrictions on employee access in order to safeguard
your personal information.
We use state-of-the-art technology to keep your personal
information—including your billing and account information—as
secure as possible. We also have put in place privacy
protection control systems designed to ensure that your
personal data remain safe and private.
Each and every Chinook Webs employee must abide by
Chinook Webs’s privacy policy. Only authorized Chinook
Webs employees are permitted to have access to your
personal information and such access is limited by need.
All Chinook Webs employees are required to acknowledge
that they understand and will comply with this privacy
policy. Employees who violate our privacy policies are
subject to disciplinary action, up to and including
termination.
(8) We will keep you informed, clearly and prominently,
about what we do with your personal information, and
we will advise you if we change our policy.
A key part of Chinook Webs’ commitment to protecting
your privacy is explaining to you how we may use your
personal information. This privacy policy serves that
purpose.
Whenever we change our policy, we will give you 30
days’ notice of those changes through prominent disclosures,
including notification on our front screen. If policy
changes are substantial, we will notify each of our
clients individually through pop-up screens or e-mails.
Since pop-ups last only for a limited time, however,
you should sign on to your account regularly for these
and other important announcements.
If you’d like to comment on or have questions about
our privacy policy, or if you have a concern or policy
violation you wish to report, please email us.
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