It is Hiking Thru Life’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website: https://hikingthrulife.net (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, “Website”, or “https://hikingthrulife.net”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Who we are
We are Hiking Thru Life LLC (“Hiking Thru Life”) and our website address is: https://hikingthrulife.net.
Like most website operators, Hiking Thru Life collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Hiking Thru Life’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Hiking Thru Life’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Hiking Thru Life may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Hiking Thru Life also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments. Hiking Thru Life only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Certain visitors to Hiking Thru Life’s websites choose to interact with Hiking Thru Life in ways that require Hiking Thru Life to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Hiking Thru Life gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who subscribe to the blog at https://hikingthrulife.net to provide an email address.
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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
You may be asked to provide personally-identifying information when using contact forms on this site. This information is necessary in order for us to get in contact with you and provide the best experience for visitors who contact us through these forms.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Hiking Thru Life uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content and store your preferences on your computer. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Hiking Thru Life uses cookies to help Hiking Thru Life identify and track visitors, their usage of https://hikingthrulife.net, and their website access preferences. Hiking Thru Life visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Hiking Thru Life’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Hiking Thru Life’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Hiking Thru Life’s use of cookies. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
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.
Analytics
Hiking Thru Life may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Hiking Thru Life may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Hiking Thru Life does not disclose your personally-identifying information. This site uses Google Analytics to monitor site usage and collect aggregated data to inform changes to best serve users of Hiking Thru Life.
E-Commerce
Those who engage in transactions with Hiking Thru Life – by purchasing Hiking Thru Life’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Hiking Thru Life collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Hiking Thru Life. Hiking Thru Life uses PayPal to process financial transactions on its website. Visitors may be redirected to PayPal and asked to provide personal and financial information to PayPal to complete a transaction. Any information you submit to PayPal is subject to PayPal’s Privacy Policy. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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.
Links to Third-Party Websites
The Website contains links to third-party websites. Once you have used these links to leave the Site any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third-party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third-party, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Website.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
Additional information
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Hiking Thru Life discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Hiking Thru Life’s behalf or to provide services available at Hiking Thru Life’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Hiking Thru Life’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Hiking Thru Life will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Hiking Thru Life discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Hiking Thru Life believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Hiking Thru Life, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://hikingthrulife.net and have supplied your email address, Hiking Thru Life may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Hiking Thru Life and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. Hiking Thru Life takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hiking Thru Life may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Hiking Thru Life’s sole discretion. Hiking Thru Life encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact hikingthrulife@gmail.com.