Privacy policy

ShopColumbia is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. The use of information collected on the site is for the benefit of making shopping at shop.colum.edu as simple as possible and to enhance your overall shopping experience. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others.  We appreciate your business and we will respect your privacy and personal information as if it were our own.

ShopColumbia may use collected contact information, email address or telephone number, to communicate with a customer when necessary to process your order.  For example, ShopColumbia may respond to a request or inquiry, provide customer service, notify a customer if an item is out-of-stock or if current inventory differs significantly from the inventory posted online.  ShopColumbia will also provide the customer confirmation of receiving the order, fulfillment of shipping and tracking information.

ShopColumbia also elects to send promotional emails regarding online or in-store events and promotions.  Customers are able to opt out of future email announcements at any time.

ShopColumbia may aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information for educational case studies but these statistics will not include personally identifying information.  ShopColumbia may release account information when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to comply with local, state or federal law.