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# columbia.com

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## Website

columbia.com

Outerwear, Sportswear & Footwear | Columbia Sportswear Columbia's innovative outdoor clothing, footwear, and gear is built to fight back against nature's tantrums.

columbia.com

One of the first images collected of this website on 31 Oct 1996

youtube.com

[Amaze Puff. Like a hug with a zipper.](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hkDTB_rzzQ4)

Amaze Puff. Like a hug with a zipper. The latest video on its YouTube channel

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:56 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 84 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied

84 / 100

High truth signals

## Business details

Category: Sportswear

Founded: 1938

Sells: Physical goods

Sells to: The public

Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 33 years

Address: [14375 NW Science Park Dr, Portland, OR, 97229, USA](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=14375%20NW%20Science%20Park%20Dr%2C%20Portland%2C%20OR%2C%2097229%2C%20USA)

Email address: Not found

Phone number: [+1 800-622-6953](tel:+1%20800-622-6953)

Contact page: [help.columbia.com/s/](https://help.columbia.com/s/) Linked from the site's own pages. We could not open it.

Website: [columbia.com](https://columbia.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ColumbiaSportswear) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/columbia1938) [X.com](https://twitter.com/Columbia1938) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/columbia-sportswear) [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@columbia1938) [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/ColumbiaSportswear)

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

Site Reviews Rating

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/columbia.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 104 reviews · 2.2 out of 5 stars

Total 104 2.3 out of 5 stars

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.columbia.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

[Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/or/portland/profile/retail-sportswear/columbia-sportswear-company-1296-69001089)

Customer satisfaction Mostly dissatisfied · Medium confidence · From 104 reviews on 1 independent review site

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is columbia.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 84 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, medium confidence.

columbia.com publishes a contact phone number. Its website address was registered 33 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has a review page on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 104 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.2 stars out of 5. We could not find an email address.

### Positives

- Company contact phone number is available.
- Its website address was registered 33 years ago.
- It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.columbia.com).
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Be cautious

- A substantial number of independent reviews (104 on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/columbia.com) ), but it falls short with only 2.2 stars out of 5.

### Not found

- Email address information was not found from our checks.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### What they offer

Columbia's innovative outdoor clothing, footwear, and gear is built to fight back against nature's tantrums.

— Columbia Sportswear, in their own words

What they sell

Promises: [Warranty](https://columbia.com/warranty/)

Sources [Its homepage](https://columbia.com/)

### Latest YouTube video

[Amaze Puff. Like a hug with a zipper.](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hkDTB_rzzQ4)

Correct as of 12 Nov 2026, 21:56

### How to check if columbia.com is legit

To check if columbia.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about columbia.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details Based in the US; serves the US; founded in 1938 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: US

Why we believe that: its phone number starts +1, OpenData.org's record puts its head office in 14375 NW Science Park Dr, Portland, OR, 97229, USA, its Better Business Bureau profile is a US listing

Which countries the company serves: US

Why we believe that: $ prices on its homepage, its structured data names the area it serves

Registration

SEC registration (CIK): 0001050797

From Wikipedia

Industry: textile industry

Founded: 1938

From OpenData.org

Listed name: COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO

Trading names: COLUMBIA FACTORY STORE, COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR, COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY EMPLOYEE STORE

Locations

Head office (OpenData.org): 14375 NW Science Park Dr, Portland, OR, 97229, USA

Number of locations: 43

Business databases

Crunchbase: [https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/columbia-sportswear](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/columbia-sportswear)

Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Sportswear)

Domain registration Its website address was registered 33 years ago

- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 33 years

Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=columbia.com)

Website details Found: https enabled, contact phone number found, terms page linked, contact page linked and 3 more

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: [+1 800-622-6953](tel:+18006226953)

Contact page linked: Yes

Hosting company: Cloudflare, Inc.

Sources [Homepage](https://columbia.com/)

Search engines and AI Blocks automated visitors: its bot protection turned us away

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All blocked

Google Search: Blocked by its bot protection Googlebot

Bing: Blocked by its bot protection Bingbot

AI training

All blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its bot protection GPTBot

Anthropic: Blocked by its bot protection ClaudeBot

Google AI: Blocked by its bot protection Google-Extended

Apple AI: Blocked by its bot protection Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Blocked by its bot protection CCBot

Meta: Blocked by its bot protection meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its bot protection Bytespider

AI answers

All blocked

ChatGPT search: Blocked by its bot protection OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Blocked by its bot protection ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-User

Perplexity: Blocked by its bot protection PerplexityBot

Sources [robots.txt](https://columbia.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints Rated 2.2 stars out of 5 from 104 reviews on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/columbia.com)

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.columbia.com) · Unknown · Unknown

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/columbia.com) · 2.2 out of 5 stars · 104

Total · 2.3 out of 5 stars · 104

[Better Business Bureau](https://www.bbb.org/us/or/portland/profile/retail-sportswear/columbia-sportswear-company-1296-69001089)

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 50,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 50,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: none

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 50,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up columbia.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 United States 50.7%
- 2 Singapore 22.6%
- 3 Germany 3.5%
- 4 United Kingdom 2.6%
- 5 Brazil 2.3%
- 6 France 1.9%
- 7 Netherlands 1.6%
- 8 Poland 1.4%
- 9 Hong Kong 1.2%
- 10 Canada 0.9%

Top 10 of 45 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/columbia.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 30 years ago

Website archive history: 30 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19961031/columbia.com)

Social presence It is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 2,794,928 followers on Facebook

Found · Platform · Audience

Found by Truth Signal · [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/ColumbiaSportswear) · 2,794,928 followers

Found by Truth Signal · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/columbia1938) · 736,000 followers

Found by Truth Signal · [X.com](https://twitter.com/Columbia1938) · Unknown

Found by Truth Signal · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/columbia-sportswear) · Unknown

Found by Truth Signal · [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/ColumbiaSportswear) · 163,000 subscribers

Found by Truth Signal · [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@columbia1938) · 291,400 followers

· · 3,985,328 followers total

YouTube channel: 1,164 videos, 163,000 subscribers, last upload 12 Nov 2026

YouTube Data 75,412 views a video, 13,322 views a day and a new video every 5.7 days

[Columbia Sportswear](https://www.youtube.com/@columbiasportswear) @columbiasportswear

Views per video 87,779,164 views ÷ 1,164 videos: 75,412

Views a day 87,779,164 views ÷ 6,589 days: 13,322

Views per subscriber 87,779,164 views ÷ 163,000 subscribers: 539

New subscribers a day 163,000 subscribers ÷ 6,589 days: 25

Subscribers per 1,000 views 163,000 subscribers ÷ 87,779,164 views × 1,000: 1.9

Subscribers per video 163,000 subscribers ÷ 1,164 videos: 140

Days between videos 6,589 days ÷ 1,164 videos: 5.7

Channel age 28 October 2008 to 12 November 2026: 18 years 0 months

Subscribers: 163,000

Views: 87,779,164

Videos: 1,164

Started: 28 October 2008

Country: United States

Language: Not stated

Topics: Fashion, Hobby, Lifestyle

Made for children: No

Website in its description: Not stated

Trailer: Yes

Sources [Its YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@columbiasportswear) [YouTube Terms of Service](https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) Read 12 November 2026

### What data this site collects about you

Tracking tools on its homepage Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, Microsoft Advertising, Criteo and Hotjar

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Analytics: Counts your visits and what you look at.

Google Ads: Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.

Meta Pixel: Tells Facebook and Instagram what you do on its site, for adverts.

TikTok Pixel: Tells TikTok what you do on its site, for adverts.

Microsoft Advertising: Tells Microsoft what you do on its site, for Bing adverts.

Criteo: Follows you to show you this site's products on other sites.

Hotjar: Records how you move, scroll and click on the page.

Uses OneTrust to ask which cookies you allow.

Source [Its homepage](https://columbia.com/)

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DKIM key: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: reject

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: DigiCert Inc

Certificate type: OV

Certificate expires: 18 Mar 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: pdns1.ultradns.net
pdns2.ultradns.net
pdns3.ultradns.org
pdns4.ultradns.org
pdns5.ultradns.info
pdns6.ultradns.co.uk

Address: 104.18.6.34
104.18.7.34

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=columbia.com&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source columbia.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

Run columbia.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/columbia.com)

Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source columbia.com/robots.txt

Run columbia.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/columbia.com)

Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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### Change over time

- Truth score
- Social Followers
- Data points

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 84, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/columbia.com/report/2026-11.md

## How the customers' Total rating is worked out

Bayesian average: 7 reviews at 3.5 stars added, so a few reviews move it less. The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures:

(7 × 3.5 + 2.2 × 104 (SmartCustomer)) ÷ (7 + 104) = 2.3, to one decimal place

## Cite

Truth Signal, Columbia Sportswear: truth score 84 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/columbia.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/columbia.com.json
