PRIVACY POLICY
	American Hiking Society is committed to protecting your privacy. The information below covers what information American Hiking collects on the Web site and how we use it. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us via e-mail at info@AmericanHiking.org.
	American Hiking Society collects no personal information about you when you visit this web site unless you choose to provide this information, such as answers to survey questions, information collected when joining or renewing or purchasing American Hiking products, and information collected when contacting us for information. No personally identifiable information is collected about individuals without their knowledge. American Hiking also collects general information about Web site use, without personally identifiable information, identifying personal information, such as what pages and sections are most popular with users.
	WHAT WE COLLECT AND STORE AUTOMATICALLY
	If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. Please note that this information does not identify you personally in any way.
	We use the information we collect in this fashion to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you. Our web site logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually browse the site.
	IF YOU FILL OUT ANY ONLINE FORMS
	Any electronic commerce applications that we provide for program registration, membership, or merchandise are conducted using secure servers to protect your credit card information. Again, all information requested and provided by you in the processing of any of these electronic commerce transactions will only be used to respond to you and fulfill your request.
	EMAIL POLICY
	American Hiking Society will not distribute, trade or re-sell your email address.
	American Hiking provides forms on its Web site where users can sign-up to receive email alerts and sign our guestbook. No one is placed on a regular email list that has not requested subscription through these forms or in some other manner.
	LINKS TO OTHER SITES
	Our web site has many links to our partners, members of the Alliance of Hiking Organizations, and numerous other external sites. In a few cases we link to commercial organizations. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
	LIABILITY NOTICE
	American Hiking Society makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this web site and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this web site for any material provided or represented by other than the staff of American Hiking. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this web site or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this web site to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, except where otherwise noted, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by American Hiking.
	OWNERSHIP
	Information presented on this web site is copyright protected and may be distributed or copied only with the express written permission of the American Hiking Society. American Hiking shall have the unlimited right to use for any purpose, free of any charge, all information submitted to American Hiking via this site except those submissions made under separate legal contract.