Who Is Chic Harley? Additional Information

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 4/1/2009

We at ChicHarley.com and its related domains (WhoIsChicHarley.com and ChicHarley.org) recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use ChicHarley.com and its related domains, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
ChicHarley.com and its related domains strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers', consumers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, leave a comment or fill out a form.
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter personally identifiable information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

Personal Information
ChicHarley.com and its related domains collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal address, email address, credit card and telephone number and occassionally other information.
Such information is collected (and usually only some of it is) when you request information from us, make a contribution to the site, place an order, subscribe to or request some other service or information from us. The information collected is used only to communicate with you or - in the case of you posting information to the site - to identify your general location to visitors. (City, state, country - all optional. Visitors are also permitted to post anonymously.)
Once information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by updating this page.

Non-Personal Information
In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual visitors, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track visitors' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Information Use
Individual information is used to deliver requested newsletters, products, notices or services, or to administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature. Aggregate information (in the form of statistics) is used as input in developing new products and services; to improve upon existing products and services; to decide upon marketing activities; and to generally describe our site visitors and customer base.
Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise share personally identifiable information for any reason whatsoever, other than with trusted third parties who assist us in the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested, or operating our website, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
We may send email to you for products, services or events we think you might find interesting.
If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events.
The email or postal address you provide for order processing, will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding requests or orders they have placed on-line.
If you do not wish to receive such mail or email, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above, e-mailing us at the address below, writing to us at the address below, or visiting us at www.chicharley.com/contactus. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is removed from the list we use.

Registration
During use of this Website, a visitor may complete a registration, order or subscription form. During the registration/order/subscription a visitor gives contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact the visitor about newsletter, products, or services on our site for which he has expressed interest. In some instances, products or services are supplied by other sites. These sites may not use visitors’ personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Log Files
Like most standard Websites, we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Cookies and other Web tokens
ChicHarley.com and its related domains uses cookies and/or other Web tokens to avoid repeating some advertising messages to returning visitors. We do not use cookies and/or other Web tokens to develop individual profiles.
You are not required to accept cookies when viewing ChicHarley.com and its related domains. If you are concerned about cookies, you have the option of setting your browser to block or prompt for cookies. Like most websites, if you block or turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone or by contacting customer service.

Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, our website may include or offer third party content, links, or advertising which may use cookies and/or other Web tokens, typically for fulfilling a request or for tracking purposes. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Ad Servers
We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

Security
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order.
When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial/credit card information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your private information (such as financial/credit card information) will not be stored on our servers.

Communications from us

Newsletter
One means of communication from the site is via the newsletter. When a visitor wishes to subscribe to the newsletter we ask for contact information such as email address. We send all new subscribers a welcoming email that includes unsubscribe instructions.
Visitors who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and service announcements may opt-out of receiving these communications by sending an email to unsubscribe@ChicHarley.com and its related domains with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. The subscriber may also contact us via postal mail at the addresses below.

Special Offers and Updates
Information on products, services and/or special deals is included in the body of each newsletter. Unsubscribe instructions are included in each newsletter.

Surveys
From time-to-time we may request information from visitors via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the visitor therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically may include contact information (to notify winners in the case of surveys with monetary awards), demographic, and other information. Anonymous survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys, they may not use visitors’ personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Our Blogs and RSS feeds
Our blogs allow you to post comments to each article. All comments are moderated and may editted or deleted for appropriateness of content at the discretion of blog author(s). We do not require you to enter your real name or an email address to post a comment, and if you do enter your email address we will not post your email address on the blog. But, if you ask a question and would like us to respond, you will need to give us your email address. We will use your email address to respond to the question or feedback that you sent to us. Feedback is also available at www.chicharley.com/contact_us.html

Our Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media sites
Our social media sites are subject to the terms and limitations of those third party providers and we conform to the privacy standards of those third parties. Within the terms and limitations of those third party providers, we may use personal information you provided to initiate communication with you.

Links
This Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we at ChicHarley.com and related domains are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our visitors to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.

Service Announcements
On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our site is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send visitors an email. These communications are not promotional in nature. Generally, visitors may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their subscription.

Copyrights, Trademarks, Business Practices and other Terms of Use
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at http://www.chicharley.com/terms_of_use.html

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Though this site is ABOUT children's books, it is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.

Business Transitions
In the event ChicHarley.com and its related domains goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another organization, or transferring a portion of its assets, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please click on this link and/or use our Contact Us page.

Updates and Effective Date
ChicHarley.com and its related domains reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will update this online page. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to ChicHarley.com and its related domains's Online Privacy Policy as posted here on this website, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site. Your use of this site and contents indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.

Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve visitor privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Website.
We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

Contact Information
If visitors have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Email: web1919@chicharley.com
Postal Mail: Todd Wessell / Author, 1153 S. Lee Street, Suite #156, Des Plaines, IL. 60016
Website: www.chicharley.com/contact_us.html
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number, The Federal Trade Commission by phone at 202.FTC-HELP (202.382.4357) or electronically at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm.