is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you
provide to us when using any of our online services. This Privacy Policy
describes how we treat the information we receive when you transmit data
to any machine owned by CHFCInc.
Web Form Information
When you submit information to CHFCInc. to make a payment or open an
account, we may collect personally identifiable information from you
that may include your name, address, email address, credit card number.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under the
age of eighteen.
Web Site Usage Information
We may automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information
from you when you access any of our online services. This information
helps us evaluate how our visitors and subscribers use and navigate our
Web sites on an aggregate basis, including but not limited to the number
and frequency of visitors and subscribers to each web page, and the
length of their visits.
How We Use Information Collected
We may use information in the following ways:
- For the purposes you specifically provided the information
including, for example, enabling us to process, validate and verify
purchases.
- To register you as a client and establish an account for you.
- To send you email notifications about our new or existing CHFCInc.
products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you.
- To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and
services.
- To provide advertisers and other third parties with aggregate
information about our user base and usage patterns.
- To allow us to personalize the content and advertising that you
and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences.
Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not
share your personally identifiable information outside of CHFCInc.
We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in
special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce our service
agreements or terms of use (for example protect our intellectual
property rights). We may also disclose or use your personal information
when we, in good faith, believe that the law may require us to do so.
Cookies
We define a cookie as any string of data that is automatically stored on
your computer upon access to our online services. CHFCInc. employs
cookies to assign temporary identification numbers to machines that
access our web servers. This information enables us to deliver faster
service to our subscribers, prevent denial of service attacks on our
systems, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions, and assist with
awarding proper sales credit to our partners. All CHFC cookies are
1) of limited duration, 2) less than 5KB in length, 3) only visible to
CHFC web servers, and 4) devoid of any personally identifiable
information.
Security
The personally identifiable information we collect about you is stored
in limited access servers. We maintain safeguards to protect the
security of these servers and your personally identifiable information.
We retain personally identifiable information only as long as necessary
to complete a purchase, thwart fraud, provide customer service, or
maintain your account with us.
Policy Modifications
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any
changes here, so be sure to check back periodically.
Comments and Questions
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy
Policy, you may contact us at Note - Please remove red ( ) from address.
This policy was last updated 31 January 2005.