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Privacy Policy
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The Information We Collect
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Element Climbing will never sell or share any of your personal information to third parties.
At Element Climbing, you can subscribe to one of our services by creating a User Account.
The types of personally identifiable information that may be
collected include: name, company name (if applicable), address, e-mail address,
telephone number, fax number, and credit card information.
You can submit information about other people. For example, you might submit a person's
e-mail address to invite them to visit the Element Climbing website.
On our site, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable
information will be able to order products and services. You do not need to register
as a user to order products from Element Climbing.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit
our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet
Explorer) and the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows XP or Mac
OS).
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How We Use the Information
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We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for
our products or services and to respond to your inquiries about our offerings.
Your personally identifiable information including name, address, e-mail address,
and credit card information is available only to you via a
secure encrypted connection for the purposes of billing and shipping.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you
of maintenance to our site, or to contact you about your account with us.
We may use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve
the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet
experience. We also may use this information to aggregate and analyze site usage.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process,
for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such
information in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe
it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of
any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In
addition, we may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged
with another company.
Agents and contractors of Element Climbing who have access to personally identifiable information
are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this
Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other
than to carry out the services they are performing for Element Climbing.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures
of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that
we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy
Notice.
Element Climbing will never sell or transfer personally identifiable information provided
to us.
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Cookies
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To enhance your experience with our sites, our web pages may use "cookies." Cookies
are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences and
other non-personally identifiable information.
We use cookies to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we
may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g., to recognize
you by name when you return to our site).
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Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites
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Some of our web pages may contain links to other sites whose information practices may
be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices
as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these
third parties.
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Our Commitment to Security
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We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures
to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly
use the information we collect online.
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How You Can Access or Correct Information
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For instructions on how you can access the personally identifiable information that
Element Climbing has collected about you online, or how to correct factual errors in such
information, please contact us.
To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify
your identity before granting access or making corrections.
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Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
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Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason,
we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know
are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
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How to Contact Us
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If you have any questions or concerns about the Element Climbing online privacy policy or
its implementation you may contact us at privacy@elementclimbing.com.
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Updates & Effective Date
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From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about material
changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice
on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy
so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to
whom we disclose it.
The Privacy Policy posted on this site was updated on or about April 2008.
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