CampingHiking.net is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the CampingHiking.net web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
The CampingHiking.net Site may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address and name (e.g. if you signup for an email newsletter).
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by CampingHiking.net. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring web site addresses. This information is used by CampingHiking.net for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the site.
CampingHiking.net encourages you to review the privacy statements of web sites you choose to link to from CampingHiking.net so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information. CampingHiking.net is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on web sites outside of CampingHiking.net.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Use of your Personal Information
The CampingHiking.net Site collects and uses your personal information to operate the CampingHiking.net web site and deliver the services you have requested. CampingHiking.net may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from CampingHiking.net and its affiliates. CampingHiking.net may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
CampingHiking.net does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. CampingHiking.net may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name) is not transferred to the third party. If you ever want your personal information modified or deleted from our database, or if you want to opt out of any communications from us, please contact us and we will modify or remove any personal information we have about you from our database as per your instructions.
The CampingHiking.net Site keeps track of the web sites and pages our customers visit within CampingHiking.net, in order to determine what CampingHiking.net services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within CampingHiking.net to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
CampingHiking.net web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on CampingHiking.net or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CampingHiking.net; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of CampingHiking.net, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The CampingHiking.net web site may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the CampingHiking.net services or web sites you visit.
Google Adsense
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. More specifically, third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browser, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on campinghiking.net (this website).
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Google uses cookies to help serve the ads that it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
Google Adsense may also serve third party ads via their network. You can see a list of these networks here:
https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/94149
Use the links there to locate the exact 3rd party advertisers Google works with, plus links to the 3rd party websites in order to opt out of their cookies, if you want to do that.
Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Learn How Google uses data when you use sites like this one (campinghiking.net).
More Cookies – Remarketing and Conversion Tracking
CampingHiking.net works with 3rd party advertising agencies such as Twitter and Facebook, and will allow the 3rd party agencies access to details of which webpages you visit on our site for purposes of conversion tracking and remarketing. For conversion tracking the 3rd party agencies will have access to pages visited on our website for the purpose of confirming that an advertising objective such as newsletter signups has been achieved as the result of a particular ad. CampingHiking.net may also use 3rd party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet. As always we respect your privacy and are not collecting any identifiable information through the use of any 3rd party remarketing system. The third-party vendors, whose services we use – will place cookies on web browsers in order to serve ads based on past visits to our website. Third party vendors use these cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. This allows us to make special offers and continue to market our services to those who have shown interest in our service.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. You can also activate the Do Not Track (DNT) feature in your browser.
Changes to this Statement
CampingHiking.net will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. CampingHiking.net encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how CampingHiking.net is protecting your information.
Contact Information
CampingHiking.net welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that CampingHiking.net has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us.
Webmaster Contact: charlie.hayes@campinghiking.net
