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PRIVACY POLICY |
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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. |
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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.
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WHAT WE COLLECT AND STORE AUTOMATICALLY |
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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.
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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.
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IF YOU FILL OUT ANY ONLINE FORMS |
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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.
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EMAIL POLICY |
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American Hiking Society will not distribute, trade
or re-sell your email address. |
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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.
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LINKS TO OTHER SITES |
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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.
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LIABILITY NOTICE |
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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. |
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OWNERSHIP |
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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 |
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