Your privacy is important to Flipsidetreks. This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally identifiable information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
Collection of your Information
We collect information from you when you voluntarily visit our site, register on our site, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form or enter information on our site. This can include signing up for our blog, commenting on a post, or otherwise entering information on our website.
Use of Your Information
We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:
- To personalize user’s experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and offerings in which you are most interested.
- To improve our website in order to better meet your interests.
- To send periodic emails regarding our site and blog updates.
- To follow up after correspondence.
Links to Third Party Websites
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Use of Cookies
As most websites do, we use cookies. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Personal information is not collected by cookies, however, if you previously provided personal information then cookies may be linked to this information.
They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. In some cases, we use third-party advertising companies to show you ads when you visit our website. These companies may use your stored cookies to provide you advertisements about goods and services that are of an interest to you.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
Advertisers such as Google
Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on sites. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at mike@flipsidetreks.com.