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Privacy Policy
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Updated on 5/04/2006
Outdoorzy does not sell email addresses.
Outdoorzy reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time, please check back often for updates.
Outdoorzy will protect your personal information, but any information placed in a public place is open for anyone to see. Be cautious about where you post information.
Outdoorzy does not send Spam.
If this policy were to ever change it would be noted here in the Privacy Policy for all users to view.
Under-age users and Outdoorzy
Outdoorzy promotes a healthy active lifestyle for all ages, races, ethnicities, or nationalities. Outdoorzy can not restrict any underage users from using our service. We do however feel that any parents with children under the age of 18 should monitor their use of the web. We do our best efforts to continuously monitor user submitted information on our site for any malicious or inappropriate content. However it is not possible for us to find all inappropriate content and implore the users to report misuse of the site and its functionalities. Outdoorzy promotes a healthy active lifestyle for all ages, races, ethnicities, or nationalities. Outdoorzy.com discourages users under the age of 18 to post personal information on our site for fear of misuse by other parties.
About Outdoorzy and the Information We Collect
Outdoorzy is an online networking community that connects people through networks of friends for communicating on various topics, including outdoor activities. Users create their own profiles which are shown to the people in their network. A network consists of a user's friends as well as the extended group of people that a user is connected to through chains of mutual friends. In order to accomplish this, some personal information we ask for is displayed to people within these personal networks. It allows for the network to be useful and for users to find other uses with similar interests and activities.
Information Collected/Tracked by Outdoorzy
Information submitted to Outdoorzy
Outdoorzy collects account information submitted by the users such as name, location, and email address to identify users and send notifications related to the use of the service. Outdoorzy also collects user-submitted profile information such as gender, age, activities, location, etc.
Information not Directly Submitted by Users to Outdoorzy
This is information we collect that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for everyone who uses the site and allows us to bring you a better user experience by customizing the site for your specific technical settings.
Use of Information Obtained by Outdoorzy
Information users submit to Outdoorzy
User Name and photos will be used by Outdoorzy to show new members or examples of members on various pages throughout the site. Profile information as well as first name and photos are displayed to people in a user's network. Email address and full name are used when a user invites a friend to join the service, when a user requests to add another user to their friend list, and when we send notifications to a user related to their use of the service or to new products or functionality. Except when inviting or adding friends, a user's email address is not shared or displayed with people within a user's network. Users within a network communicate on Outdoorzy with each other through our messaging service, without disclosing email addresses. We may also use a user's email address to send periodic newsletters or information about changes or updates to the site, but the user may choose not to receive email of this type by accessing their Account Info.
Outdoorzy will also use some of the information posted on our site for content. When a Trip Report, Gear Review, or Destination Review is posted then that information is public and can be used on other areas of the site. This is how Outdoorzy builds its content and allows other users to learn from the user who posted the information. This is the nature of this site and the business plan that Outdoorzy uses. When a customer searches on a subject that a user has posted a review or trip report on, for instance, that trip report or review will appear as a search result. Outdoorzy does however offer the option to make a posting public or private in some cases, but not all.
Information that users do not submit to us
We use your server, IP address, and browser-type related information in the general administration of our website. We may also set cookies to further customize your experience through advertising and related products.
Sharing of the Information this Site Gathers/Tracks
Unless we inform you otherwise, we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information unless required by law or for the protection of your membership. However, Outdoorzy may share profile information and aggregate usage information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties in order to present to members more targeted advertising, products and services that may be of interest to them. We do not disclose information that will be used to identify you personally.
Co-branded and Joint Offerings
We may from time to time co-brand our content, product offering, or communications with a partner or advertiser. Those co-branded materials will be obvious in that they will have our name or logo along with our affiliate or partners logo or name. Please be aware that when you click through any of the links that are provided on these co-branded efforts that they may not be connected to Outdoorzy and may adhere to the advertiser's or partner's Privacy Policy and not Outdoorzy's.
Links
This site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that Outdoorzy is not responsible for the privacy practices of other Web sites, including advertising or ecommerce partners. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personal information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. Cookies are used to manage sessions on our site. Users must enable cookies to use our site. Also, users may optionally use a cookie to remember their password in order to automatically log in to our site. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user which they did not intentionally submit to us. It is the user's choice to enable cookies on their browser.
Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
Outdoorzy users can modify any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info. If you loose your password or cannot access your profile for editing please contact info@outdoorzy.com for help.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policy, we will post the changes here on our web site for our users. If we use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email or by placing a prominent notice on our site. If at any time a user wants more information on the Privacy Policy or how their information is being used they can contact info@outdoorzy.com.
Invite a Friend
If a user elects to use our Invite feature to invite a friend to our site, we ask them for the friend's email address. Outdoorzy will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to join the site. Outdoorzy stores this email address for the purpose of automatically adding the respondent to the friends list of the user sending the invitation, and also to send reminders of the invitation. Outdoorzy does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. The friend may email info@outdoorzy.com to request the removal of this information from our database. Outdoorzy will allow the person invited to opt-out of future offers but we cannot control if others send invitations again.
Events Calendar, Private Messaging, Chat Rooms, Message Boards, and Public Forums
Always use caution when posting on the events calendar, forums, message boards, or other public areas of our site and other sites. Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online for example on message boards, through e-mail, or in chat areas - this information can be collected and used by others. In short, by posting personal information online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Be careful about where you post information that is personal or sensitive in nature.
Security
Your Outdoorzy account is password-protected. This web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information and treats this very seriously. We use industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. We limit the access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel or database update maintenance. If you have any questions about the security at our website, please email us at info@outdoorzy.com.
Opting-out of Emails
Users who no longer wish to receive our periodic emails and newsletters can opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions contained in the email or by logging-in and changing their settings in the Account Info section of the site.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies. Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. Outdoorzy does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Outdoorzy and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. If users are not sure of an advertisers policies they should research that company and its policies before following an advertising link.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of Outdoorzy, or your dealings with this Web site, please email us at info@outdoorzy.com. If you have feedback about the policy or would like to make a suggestion please send those messages to feedback@outdoorzy.com.
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