Privacy Policy
This site is owned and operated by SquamishClimbing.com. Your privacy on
the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At SquamishClimbing.com,
we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel
you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions
surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy
statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION SQUAMISH.COM GATHERS AND TRACKS
SquamishClimbing.com gathers two types of information about users:
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions.
These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to
participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from
participation in polls and surveys:
Information SquamishClimbing.com gathers through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites.
This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs
and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the
demographics of our audience. Because SquamishClimbing.com derives its
revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such
aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to
users. Under no circumstances does SquamishClimbing.com divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
SquamishClimbing.com Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary
submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. SquamishClimbing.com
gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may
remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in
every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page.
Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately for
these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages,
although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the
user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or
documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user
must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This
information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of
course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is
not used for any other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their
opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important
issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not
identifiable to any particular user. SquamishClimbing.com may use a system
to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a
particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about
individual users.
5. Surveys
SquamishClimbing.com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better
target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated
demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers
and partners. We never share any of this information about specific
individuals with any third party.
6. Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of
1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental
consent.
Usage tracking
SquamishClimbing.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our
sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about
individual users. SquamishClimbing.com does break down overall usage
statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type
by reading this information from the browser string (information contained
in every user's browser).
SquamishClimbing.com sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that
users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated
with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which
areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those
areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well
each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better
service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your
computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although
it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you
have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal
information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A
cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by
other sites. SquamishClimbing.com uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time
cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set
your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the
warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned
on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively
in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Privacy Policy Use
How the information you gather is used if relevant.
USE OF INFORMATION
SquamishClimbing.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users
to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide
interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare
future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in
order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to
participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out
newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the
newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think
subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing.
SquamishClimbing.com never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third
parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites
users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We
track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of
what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user
enters.
SquamishClimbing.com creates aggregate reports on user demographics and
traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our
advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive
advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track
the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will
never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any
information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law
or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or
the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
SquamishClimbing.com uses the above-described information to tailor our
content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our
audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We
will not share information about individual users with any third party,
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect
the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
SquamishClimbing.com operates secure data networks protected by industry
standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and
privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and
only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our
customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices
include:
Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely
alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from
our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this
information by SquamishClimbing.com. If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes here.
If you require more information please contact us via email
at:
meingh(at)gmail.com
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