| The American Chestnut Foundation is committed to protecting the privacy and security
of visitors to our website. Outlined below is our online privacy policy for information collected through our website and e-mail lists.
If you have questions about these policies, we encourage
you to contact us: website@acf.org
Privacy Information:
The American Chestnut Foundation does not sell or trade any customer information. Any information you provide The American Chestnut Foundation is only used for processing and shipping purposes. For your convenience, customer information is kept in a secure database for returning customers. However, if you do not want your information stored, please let us know. We will remove it from our database once your order has been shipped.
Resale or disclosure of information to third parties:
We do not share or otherwise disclose any personal information, including your name, address, or e-mail with other organizations. TACF staff and our authorized agents have access to personally identifiable information provided by visitors to our site.
Browser information collected on our website:
As with any website operator, TACF analyzes our website logs to constantly improve the value of our website. We use an external service to provide real-time reporting to us of browser accesses to our site. This reporting includes page views, unique views, unique visitors, repeat visitors, frequency of visits, and peak-volume traffic periods. We do not use this service to gather, request, record, require, collect or track any Internet users' personally identifiable information.
Cookies:
Your shopping basket contents are stored in a temporary session that is destroyed once you close your browser window. If you close your browser window before checking out, your basket will be emptied.
At www.acf.org we use two cookies. One stores only your zip code and one stores your shipping method. No other information is stored in cookies by our visitors. Please do not tamper with these cookies as it will cause your order to be processed incorrectly. We will try to contact you if your order is processed incorrectly but we cannot guarantee that you will be contacted. In the event that we are unable to contact you, we will delete all of your information from our system and your credit card will not be billed.
The American Chestnut Foundation will not be held responsible
for orders that are not processed correctly.
Privacy of our e-mail lists:
TACF maintain several e-mail lists to keep our supporters, the press and policy makers informed about news and events. Individuals who provide optional information may also receive materials in the U.S. mail and/or be contacted by telephone by TACF. In addition, we do not share the e-mail addresses on our lists with staff outside of TACF. We configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the e-mail addresses of our list subscribers to anyone but authorized TACF staff and agents. Only TACF staff and our authorized agents have access to personally identifiable information provided by visitors to our site.
To unsubscribe from TACF's email list click here.
Security:
We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving financial data from our site. In addition, we have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss or misuse of information at our site that we have collected from you.
The only time your personal information is transmitted during your visit is when you 1) Register as a new customer, 2) Log-in as an existing customer 3) Update your existing customer information. At this point, you will have entered our Secure Checkout Area. Look at the bottom of your browser window for the closed lock icon. When you search our productS or add items to your shopping basket, no personal information is being transmitted.
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