Privacy Policy

Chicago.com, Inc. ("Chicago.com") has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for Chicago.com. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information.

Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. We use cookies to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.

Chicago.com may require users to give us contact information such as their name and email address. We use customer contact information from various website functions and affiliates and partners to send the user information about our company and promotional material from Chicago.com as well as some of our partners. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary and shared with other companies who may want to contact our visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data for other purposes. We use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences as well as being able to contact the visitor or user for various reasons. This information may be shared with advertisers on an individual or aggregate basis.

This site contains links to other sites. Chicago.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Our site uses various forms and methodologies for users to request information, products, and services. We collect our users and visitor's contact information, such as their email address, phone number, financial information (like their account or credit card numbers), and demographic information such as their zip code, age, or income level. Contact information that Chicago.com gathers is used to send orders, information about, and promotional material from some of our partners and affiliates to our users. The customer's or visitor's or user's contact information is also used to get in touch with such entity when necessary and shared with other companies who may want to contact our visitors, users, customers or other entities connected to our website and and affiliated websites. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our the experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information may be shared with advertisers on an indivual and aggregate basis.

Our online surveys may ask users, visitors, customers or other entities affiliated with Chicago.com for contact information such as their email address and phone number and demographicinformation such their zip code, age, or income level. We use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about our company and promotional material from Chicago.com and some of our partners. The user, visitor or customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor at the sole discretion of Chicago.com and may be shared with other companies or affiilates who may want to contact our visitors, users or customers. Visitors, users, or customers may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information may be shared with advertisers or affiliates on an individual or aggregate basis.

We run contests on our site in which we ask visitors, users and customers for contact information such as their email address and phone number and demographic information such as their zip code, age, or income level. We use contact data from our contests and other sources to send users, visitors and customers information about our company and promotional material from Chicago.com, our partners or affiliates. The visitor's, user's and customer's contact information may also be used to contact the visitor, user or customer when necessary and shared with other companies or affiliates who may want to contact such entities. Visitors, users and customers may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our user, customer and visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to Chicago.com preferences. This information may be shared with affilates, advertisers and third parties on an individual or aggregate basis.

We may use a third party to display ads or other information on our site. These ads and information may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our site, cookies received with banner ads may be collected by third parties, and Chicago.com may not have access to this information. Some visitor, user andcustomer data may be shared with various third parties.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. These companies may use information about your visits or usage to Chicago.com and other sites affiliate with Chicago.com in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Public Forums:

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users, visitors and customers. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. NO ONE UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN IS ALLOWED TO POST ANYTHING TO ANY OF THESE FEATURES OR ACCESS CHICAGO.COM WHATSOEVER.

Children's Guidelines:

NO ONE UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTEEN IS ALLOWED TO REGISTER, POST OR VIEW ANY INFORMATION ON CHICAGO.COM

Users that are over the age of 13 but are under the age of 18 are permitted to register and participate, however publication of contest winner information will require parental or legal guardian consent. If consent is not given, the contract will be deemed voided and a new winner will be selected. We at Chicago.com caution anyone under the age of 18 to be very careful to not submit personal information that you do not want the general public to view

Choice/Opt-Out:

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at any time by contacting us via email at legal@chicago.com, post at Chicago.com, Inc., 40 E. Chicago #165, Chicago, IL 60611, or faxing us at +1 3128961459. This site gives users many options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.

Correct/Update:

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

Contacting the Web Site:

at any time if you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with Chicago.com, you can contact us via email at legal@chicago.com, post at Chicago.com, Inc., 40 E. Chicago #165, Chicago, IL 60611, or faxing us at +1 3128961459