Privacy

Information

This Privacy Policy describes how We Are Chimmi (“we”, “our” or “us”) collects, uses and shares information about you.  This policy applies to information we collect when you use our website or otherwise interact with us.

We Are Chimmi collects important customer information in order to improve and personalize your shopping experience. This information allows us to communicate with our customers about our products, services and promotions.   By visiting and using this website, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Collected Information

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.  When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your IP address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

We collect your email address if you sign up for our email distribution list.  With your permission, we may send you emails about our online store, new products and other updates.  We will not share your information with outside parties who wish to market other products and services to you. 

 

Consent

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, you consent to our collecting your information and using it for that specific reason only.  If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, such as marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to decline.

 

Disclosure

We Are Chimmi will generally not disclose the personally identifiable information that we collect through your use of our website to unaffiliated third parties.  We reserve the right, however, to provide such information to our employees, contractors, agents, and designees to the extent necessary to enable them to perform certain services for us, including distributing advertisements and other marketing materials on our behalf.  We also reserve the right to disclose any personally identifiable information that we collect to any third party if we believe that we are required to do so in order to comply with the law or other government requests, or to protect the security and safety of our website and its users. 

We Are Chimmi will never sell your e-mail address.  We do not share credit card information with third parties except for the purpose of processing your order payment and as required by law. If for any reason you choose to access a third party website linked to our Site, you do so at your own risk. We are not held responsible for how these outside parties collect, use, protect or disclose the information you provide them.

When you click on links in our website, they may direct you away from our site.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any websites that you access through our website.  This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information which we collect through our website.   We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

 

Security

If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, we store your credit card data.  It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).  Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.  After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is immediately deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council.  PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store.   

To protect your personal information, we take precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure your information is not lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.  If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with an AES-256 encryption.  We follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

 

Cookies

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to remove or reject cookies.  Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through that enables the sites or service provider systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.  We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart and enhance your shopping experience. 

 

Age Requirement

We Are Chimmi recognizes the privacy interests of children and encourages parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. The Site is not intended for children under the age of 18. We Are Chimmi does not target its services or the Sites to children under 18. We Are Chimmi does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time.  Please review this Privacy Policy frequently as changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on this website.