Privacy Notice
American Chesterton Society knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. By visiting www.chesterton.org you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What personal information about customers does Chesterton.org gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at chesterton.org. Here are the types of information we gather.
Information You Give Us | We receive and store any information you enter on our web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you.
Automatic Information | We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many web sites, we use “cookies,” and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses chesterton.org. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at chesterton.org if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
E-mail Communications | To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from chesterton.org if your computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to our customers. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please notify us accordingly via e-mail at [email protected].
Information from Other Sources | For reasons such as improving personalization of our service (for example, providing better product recommendations or special offers that we think will interest you), we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. We also sometimes receive updated delivery and address information from our shippers or other sources so that we can correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily.
Does ACS Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only with the companies with whom ACS works or is affiliated, as described below.
Agents | We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, maintaining and/or hosting the chesterton.org web site or our e-mail servers, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
With Your Consent | Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
We transmit your entire credit card number and related credit information to the appropriate credit card processing company on a secure basis during order processing.
The Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own web site (www.ftc.gov).
TERMS OF USE, NOTICES, AND REVISIONS
If you choose to visit the chesterton.org web site, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the State of Minnesota USA. If you have any concern about privacy at chesterton.org, please send us a thorough description to [email protected], and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This Notice and the Terms of Use will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our web site frequently to see recent changes.
Terms of Use
Welcome to chesterton.org. American Chesterton Society (“ACS”) and its affiliates provide their services to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit or shop at chesterton.org, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. In addition, when you use any current or future ACS service or visit or purchase from any business affiliated with ACS, whether or not included in the chesterton.org web site, you will also be subject to the guidelines and conditions applicable to such service or business.
COPYRIGHT
All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of ACS or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of ACS and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of ACS or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws.
LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS
ACS grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of ACS. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of ACS. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of ACS and our affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing ACS’s name or trademarks without the express written consent of ACS. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by ACS. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of chesterton.org so long as the link does not portray ACS, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any ACS logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.
YOUR ACCOUNT
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. The chesterton.org web site does not sell products to children. It sells its products to adults, who can purchase them with a credit card. If you are under 18, you may use chesterton.org only with involvement of a parent or guardian. Chesterton.org and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole discretion.
REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT
Visitors may post comments and other content and communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. ACS reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content.
If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant ACS and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant ACS and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify ACS or its affiliates for all claims resulting from content you supply. ACS has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. ACS takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS
ACS and its affiliates attempt to be as accurate as possible. However, ACS does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product offered by ACS itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it in unused condition.
OTHER BUSINESSES
Parties other than ACS may operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines on this site. In addition, we may provide links to the sites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their web sites. ACS does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third parties. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use. If you connect to or use these sites, you do so at your sole risk.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY ACS ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. ACS MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON, AND/OR ORDERED FROM, THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, ACS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
ACS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM ACS ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ACS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
APPLICABLE LAW
By visiting the chesterton.org web site, you agree that the laws of the State of Minnesota USA, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and ACS or its affiliates.
SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY
Please review our other policies posted on this site. These policies also govern your visit to the chesterton.org web site. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Terms of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.
OUR ADDRESS
American Chesterton Society
4117 Pebblebrook Circle
Minneapolis, MN 55437