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Hope Mills Area Chamber Privacy Policy

The Hope Mills Area Chamber of Commerce values and respects the privacy of our members. It is our policy to protect the information you provide. The following paragraphs describe what information the Hope Mills Area Chamber collects, why we collect it, and how it is treated.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call us at 910.423.4314.

What information does the Hope Mills Area Chamber collect?

    When you register for an event:
  • Your name
  • Your e-mail address
  • Your company name
  • Your contact information, such as phone number, fax number and address
  • Your state and county
  • Your credit card information, such as card number, type and expiration date

What does the Hope Mills Area Chamber do with your information?

Internally, any financial information you provide via the event registration section of our web site is only used for billing purposes related to the event for which you've registered.

Periodically throughout the year we update our members via email newsletters. If at any time you want to opt out of receiving our email newsletter, each newsletter includes instructions for doing so.

Does the Hope Mills Area Chamber use cookies?

A cookie is a tiny file of data that remains on your hard drive. The Hope Mills Area Chamber only uses cookies on our web site to validate your login credentials and in our surveys in order to ensure that our sample is valid and that the same member does not submit multiple responses.

We may collect your IP address, which is a unique number assigned to your machine by your Internet Service Provider each time you connect to the Internet. We will use this information (e.g., user traffic patterns, page views on the web site, click-through rates, search terms that users enter into our search utility) to monitor the flow of traffic and make improvements to the site's content.

What about site security?

The Hope Mills Area Chamber uses industry-standard security practices in the management and maintenance of this site and others associated with the Chamber.  None of your personal financial data is stored on ANY of our servers.  All financial transactions are handled securely through 3rd party processors using encryption.

Our site does link to third party sites, and the Hope Mills Area Chamber claims no responsibility for the privacy and data usage on any third party site.

What about children using this site?

While there is no content at www.hopemillschamber.org that is unsuitable for children, we do however process monetary transactions.

Notification of Changes.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that users are always aware of how we use your information and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any time we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in this policy, we will notify our users by email or a posted change to this policy at such time. We reserve the right to amend or change this policy at any time.

Contacting the website.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with this web site, you can contact the Hope Mills Area Chamber of Commerce at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Legal Disclaimer.

This site may provide information designed to help users with their own legal, business, financial, and other needs. This information is not the same as retaining experts in those fields for advice. Although we go to great lengths to ensure the information is accurate, we strongly recommend you consult an expert, including but not limited to a lawyer, accountant, financial services consultant, or other professional as appropriate. Nothing contained in this web site is to be considered as the rendering of legal, financial, professional or other advice for specific cases, and users are responsible for obtaining such advice from their own legal, financial or other counsel. The information contained on this site is intended for educational, background and informational purposes only.