No changes in policy have occured since the previous update of May 30, 2022. This current update is to reorganize the information slightly to emphasize relevant points, and make it easier to identify when we do make changes to improve our services later this year.

Privacy. We do not ask readers of this site for any personal information in order to read our pages, nor do we store any information from or about individual users on our Web server. We do not collect, share, exchange, or sell email addresses on behalf of any third parties.

Security. Because we keep no private information of any kind on our server, we do not operate the host in encrypted mode, and therefore have no need for a security certificate.

Unfortunately, this causes modern browsers to kick up scary messages implying that evil spirits will jump into your computer somehow if you visit our site. Bull! Simple truth: End-to-end encryption is utterly essential when you're filling out forms online or receiving personalized information from a site. But that's all it does. It makes no difference at all for plain public pages like we have. Nor does encryption mean you are one whit safer from hackers or malware attacks! An SSL certificate is like having a security desk visible in a jewelry store; the customer may feel safer while walking through the front door, but it won't stop bad guys who tunnel into the vault.

Cookies. The chesnuttauctioneers.com Web site currently does not place "cookies" on your computer. None of any kind, whatsoever! Most third-party sites do so, however, in order to provide their services when you click on certain links from some of our pages. See "Other Sites" section, below.

Other Sites. Some of our pages contain links that take you to other sites that are not hosted by us, and are not subject to our privacy policies (for example: Google searches, news and weather pages, road information, etc). Those sites have cookie and privacy policies of their own, which you should review before continuing to use their services.

One of the third-party sites that uses cookies, for example, is AuctionZip. When you click to view a sale listing from our Auctions page, that listing appears in our window but is actually served by AuctionZip. After a certain number of visits, Firefox and other newer browsers may become suspicious of these cookies and block them, with or without your permission. We believe these cookies to be important to the proper functioning of AuctionZip's service to our users, but the choice is yours.

Modification. We reserve the right to amend this policy at any time. It is possible in future that we might implement services which would require user registration and/or cookies in order to work, such as online bidding. If we ever make such a change, this page will be updated to reflect appropriate new policies for your protection. You will be made aware of any such changes in two ways:

• Notices placed on each affected page.
• The presence of a secure-site lock icon in the URL bar of your browser.

Thanks for reading our pages. We hope these visits are enjoyable for you.