Privacy Policy
Mountainsmith, LLC respects your privacy. Accordingly, it has adopted the following privacy policy for the Mountainsmith.com web site. This policy notifies you of:
- the organization collecting the information,
- how the information is used,
- with whom the information may be shared,
- what choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information,
- the kind of procedures we employ in an effort to hinder the unauthorized access, deletion, alteration, use or disclosure of information you provide to Mountainsmith.com, and
- how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information you provide to us. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us here.
SCOPE OF POLICY
This policy applies to Mountainsmith.com’s treatment of personally identifiable information that is collected through the Mountainsmith.com website. The policy does not apply to practices of companies whose websites may be linked to Mountainsmith.com. For access to the privacy policies of such linked websites, please refer to the information provided by such websites at their home pages. Also see the paragraph below under the heading "Hypertext Links".
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
Mountainsmith, LLC collects personally identifiable information when you request information from Mountainsmith.com. On such occasions, Mountainsmith.com may ask for your name, email address, zip code and personal information concerning your interests, occupation, gender and other demographic information. Mountainsmith.com also receives and records information from server logs from your browser including cookie information relating to pages requested.
Mountainsmith, LLC does not seek to collect such information from persons under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any such information to us. If you are the parent or guardian of a person under the age of 18 who has provided such information to us, please inform us (through the Mountainsmith.com website or telephone number listed above) and we will remove such information from our database as described further below.
In addition, no person (of any age) is required to provide us with the personally identifiable information we request. If you do not wish to provide such information, you are free not to do so. Your provision of requested information to us through the Mountainsmith.com website or other means is presumed by us to be voluntary and with your consent to the uses described herein. If after submitting personally identifiable information to us, you wish to "opt-out," please contact us as noted above and we will remove your information from our database as set forth below in the section titled "Managing Your Information." Please know that such a decision will not stop advertising or content that is generated prior to the time when we can accomplish the removal of your information.
Mountainsmith, LLC uses the information you provide to us to customize advertising and content that we present to you, to contact you concerning specials and new products and to enhance our product offerings. Mountainsmith.com will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to any third party except when:
- You have been given an opportunity to "opt out" of sharing the information and have declined to exercise that right within the time period provided;
- Mountainsmith, LLC must share the information in order to provide a product or service that you have requested, in which case we will demand that any third party we use to fulfill your order agree that it does not have the right to use the personally identifiable information other than to fulfill your request; or
- Mountainsmith, LLC is required to respond to subpoena, court orders or other legal process requiring such disclosure.
USE OF COOKIES
Mountainsmith.com uses cookies to enhance the interactive nature of your Internet experience and to provide a convenient feature to save you time. Cookies enable Mountainsmith.com to quickly retrieve specific information from previous visits and to recall features that you may have customized on your browser.
MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION
You are entitled to request access to and correction of all your personal data collected by us via the Mountainsmith.com website, as well as to require us to delete your data if you no longer want us to process it. You can make such a request or a related inquiry by contacting us here. We will keep your data as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this privacy policy. You may choose not to receive unsolicited marketing material from Mountainsmith.com and you have the right to request deletion of your Mountainsmith.com account information, subject to Mountainsmith, LLC need to keep appropriate archives of its business operations.
SECURITY
Mountainsmith, LLC employs reasonable measures to maintain all personally identifiable information provided by you on computer servers in a controlled and secured environment in an effort to hinder unauthorized access, loss, alteration, use or disclosure of such information. Mountainsmith.com utilizes secure socket layer encryption technology and firewall network protection to protect personally identifiable information that is transmitted to Mountainsmith.com. Unfortunately, the nature of the Internet is such that information may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or disclosed by unauthorized persons.
Because of the international nature of the services and products provided by the Mountainsmith.com website and the nature of Mountainsmith, LLC’s business, personal data may, subject to applicable law, be transferred internationally throughout Mountainsmith, LLC world-wide for the purposes described above. This may mean that personal data are transferred to countries which do not have laws or regulations which protect personal data, such as the United States, where the server for Mountainsmith.com’s website is located. We use reasonable measures to limit the disclosure of the data you provide to us only to certain staff within Mountainsmith, LLC and its affiliates (i.e. staff whose job it is to process your inquiries and survey answers or otherwise to administer the Mountainsmith.com website, and those staff involved in the provision of Mountainsmith.com services and products which may be of interest to you) and to require that they process the data only for the purposes identified in this privacy policy.
To protect Mountainsmith, LLC’s customers from fraudulent transactions on Mountainsmith.com’s e-commerce website, all orders are subject to review and verification. As part of the verification process, an order may be temporarily placed on hold in order to verify credit card billing information, which may include contacting the credit card holder.
MODIFICATIONS TO THIS POLICY
Mountainsmith, LLC may make modifications or amendments to this policy from time to time. In the event that such changes alter how Mountainsmith.com gathers, processes, uses or discloses your personally identifiable information, Mountainsmith, LLC will post such changes on our website.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Mountainsmith, LLC, its suppliers, licensors, or the original creators of all materials on the Mountainsmith.com website own all copyrightable subject matter on the Mountainsmith.com website and all trademarks, patents, proprietary information, technologies, products, processes or other proprietary rights of Mountainsmith, LLC and/or such other parties. No license to or right in any such copyrights, trademarks, patents, proprietary information, technologies, products, processes and other proprietary rights of Mountainsmith.com and/or other parties is granted to or conferred upon you. In addition, direct linking, deep linking, framing, page-jacking, meta tagging, and using a robot, spider, or automated device of any kind to monitor or copy the Mountainsmith.com website is strictly prohibited.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Mountainsmith.com hereby authorizes you only to copy the content herein solely for your personal and private use in learning about, evaluating, or acquiring Mountainsmith.com products. Except where expressly noted, no other permission is granted to print, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, upload, download, store, display in public, alter, or modify the content contained on this website. Any unauthorized use of any material contained on this website may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes. Any other use of materials on this website, including reproduction for purposes other than those expressly permitted herein, modification, distribution, or republication, without prior written permission of Mountainsmith, LLC is strictly prohibited. Any copy made by you as permitted herein must retain all copyright and trademark notices, including any other proprietary notices, contained in the materials. The use of such materials on any other website or in any environment of networked computers is prohibited.
HYPERTEXT LINKS
In the event this website contains hypertext links to websites that are not created or maintained by Mountainsmith.com, this privacy policy applies only to the Mountainsmith.com website and not to any of these third party websites. Mountainsmith.com is not responsible for the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of those third party websites. The inclusion of any link to such websites does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by Mountainsmith.com of the third party websites. Mountainsmith.com disclaims any liability for links (1) from another website to this website, and (2) to another website from this website. Mountainsmith.com cannot guarantee the standards of any website to which links are provided on Mountainsmith.com’s website, nor shall it be held responsible for the contents of those websites, or any subsequent links. For this reason, Mountainsmith.com does not represent or warrant that the contents of any third party website is accurate, compliant with state or federal law, or compliant with copyright or other intellectual property laws. Mountainsmith.com does not endorse the contents of these third party websites in any way. Also, Mountainsmith.com is not responsible for web casting or any other form of transmission received from any linked website. Any reliance on the contents of a third party website is done at your own risk, and you assume all responsibilities and consequences resulting from such reliance.
