Privacy Policy & Disclosure

PRIVACY POLICY & DISCLOSURE

Who we are

Our website address is https://hintonthetrail.com.

Hinton The Trail (“we” or “us”) values its visitors’ privacy. This privacy policy is effective January 30, 2019, and it summarizes what information we might collect from a registered user or other visitors (“you”), and what we will and will not do with it.

Please note that this privacy policy does not govern the collection and use of information by companies that Hinton The Trail does not control, nor by individuals not employed or managed by Hinton The Trail. If you visit a Web site that we mention or link to, be sure to review its privacy policy before providing the site with information.

What we do with your personally identifiable information

It is always up to you whether to disclose personally identifiable information to us, although if you elect not to do so, we reserve the right not to register you as a user or provide you with any products or services. “Personally identifiable information” means information that can be used to identify you as an individual, such as, for example:

  • your name, company, email address, phone number, billing address, and shipping address
  • your Company Name user ID and password
  • credit card information
  • any account-preference information you provide us
  • your computer’s domain name and IP address, indicating
    where your computer is located on the Internet
  • session data for your login session, so that our computer can ‘talk’ to yours while you are logged in

If you do provide personally identifiable information to us, either directly or through a reseller or other business partner, we will:

  • not sell or rent it to a third party without your permission — although unless you opt out (see below), we may use your contact information to provide you with information we believe you need to know or may find useful, such as (for example) news about our services and products and modifications to the Terms of Service;
  • take commercially reasonable precautions to protect the information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction;
  • not use or disclose the information except:
    • as necessary to provide services or products you have ordered, such as (for example) by providing it to a carrier to deliver products you have ordered;
    • in other ways described in this privacy policy or to which you have otherwise consented;
    • in the aggregate with other information in such a way so that your identity cannot reasonably be determined (for example, statistical compilations);
    • as required by law, for example, in response to a subpoena or search warrant;
    • to outside auditors who have agreed to keep the information confidential;
    • as necessary to enforce the Terms of Service;
    • as necessary to protect the rights, safety, or property of Hinton The Trail, its users, or others; this may include (for example) exchanging information with other organizations for fraud protection and/or risk reduction.

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.

Other Information we collect

We may collect other information that cannot be readily used to identify you, such as (for example) the domain name and IP address of your computer. We may use this information, individually or in the aggregate, for technical administration of our Website(s); research and development; customer- and account administration; and to help us focus our marketing efforts more precisely..

Contact forms

Cookies

Hinton The Trail uses “cookies” to store personal data on your computer. We may also link information stored on your computer in cookies with personal data about specific individuals stored on our servers. If you set up your Web browser (for example, Internet Explorer or Firefox) so that cookies are not allowed, you might not be able to use some or all of the features of our Website(s).

External web sites

Please note that this Site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our site that you read the privacy statements of each website that might collect personally-identifying information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Site. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us.

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

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.

Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

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 profiles. 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.

Your privacy responsibilities

To help protect your privacy, be sure:

  • to take customary precautions to guard against “malware” (viruses, Trojan horses, bots, etc.), for example by installing and updating suitable anti-virus software.

Where we send your data

We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Notice to European Union (EU) users

Hinton The Trail‘s operations are located primarily in the United States. If you provide information to us, the information will be transferred out of the European Union (EU) to the United States. By providing personal information to us, you are consenting to its storage and use as described herein.

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy as we deem necessary or appropriate because of legal compliance requirements or changes in our business practices. If you have provided us with an email address, we will endeavor to notify you, by email to that address, of any material change to how we will use personally identifiable information.

AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE

Some of the items on this website will earn an affiliate commission. By using one of our links you will not pay a dime more for the product, but we may receive a percentage commission for each sale which allows us to continue to bring you great content.

We ONLY list items that we use ourselves and recommend after we’ve used it for a period of time.

AMAZON ASSOCIATE

Hinton the Trail, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising & linking to Amazon.com

BLUEHOST

We are earning commissions for our reviews or the traffic coming to Bluehost from our site.

ADDITIONAL AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIPS

We are affiliated with the following brands, sites, businesses, applications, etc., and as such may earn an affiliate commission for each sale or for traffic coming from this site and/or our affiliate links.

  • Artlist
  • Rakuten Advertising
  • Harvest Hosts
  • Tube Buddy
  • Adobe
  • DJI
  • Envato
  • Partner Stack
  • Avant Link
  • Share-A-Sale

Questions or concerns

If you have questions or concerns about Hinton The Trail’s privacy policy email us a [email protected] or contact us via any of the ways described in the Our Story page at https://hintonthetrail.com/our-story/.

Thank you for choosing Hinton The Trail!