Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

BackcountryPlanet.com is committed to protecting your privacy. We respect your privacy, and strive to keep your personal information confidential. Please take this opportunity to read our policy to learn how BackcountryPlanet.com handles your personal information. By accessing the BackcountryPlanet.com website, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement.

Personal Information Collected

BackcountryPlanet.com, may obtain some types of anonymous information about your visit, such as the Internet Service Provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address you use to connect to the Internet, your browser type, the type of computer operating system you use (Macintosh or Windows, for example), the pages that you access while at BackcountryPlanet.com and the Internet address of the Web site from which you used to link to our site. Such non-personally identifiable information is used to analyze trends, improve BackcountryPlanet.com, and administer the site.

Use of Cookies

BackcountryPlanet.com uses "cookies" to enhance your online experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored as a text file and placed on your hard drive by a web server. Cookies are not able to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and are only able to be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie. If you decide to decline cookies you may not be able to experience the full features available on BackcountryPlanet.com.

Advertisers, advertising vendors or third parties that serve ads on BackcountryPlanet.com may use cookies. We have no access or control over these cookies and cannot be responsible for the privacy policies or practices of these advertisers, vendors or third parties. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by BackcountryPlanet.com only.

Links

BackcountryPlanet.com web site contains hyperlinks to other sites. Please be aware that BackcountryPlanet.com is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these web sites. We encourage our users upon leaving our site to read the privacy statements and terms of use of the web sites they visit. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by BackcountryPlanet.com.

Advertisers

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Use of Information

BackcountryPlanet.com may use the information collected on our site to:

• enhance the functionality, design and content of our site;
• customize content and advertising;
• contact you with special offers, products or services;

Disclosure of Information

We may provide third parties with collective profiles of our user groups and their activities and preferences. Such collective profiles may also be disclosed in describing our site and services to prospective partners, advertisers and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

We may disclose information as necessary to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements; to affect a sale, assignment, or other transfer of our assets or one or more of our service agreements; or if we believe, in good faith, that such disclosure is legally required or necessary to protect others’ rights or to prevent harm.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change, modify or amend this policy at any time. If we ever change the Privacy Policy, we will post that information on this Privacy Policy page.