Your privacy is important to us at Western Mountaineering. We understand that you provide private information in the course of doing business with us online, by mail and by telephone. So that you understand how we operate to protect this information, the following is a description of our policies on collecting and protecting the information you provide to us.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We collect information from you when you place an order and when you contact us to request information or for other purposes. We may also collect information through surveys, contests and other interactions with you. The information collected may include, but is not limited to, your name, age, address, email address, IP address financial information (account or credit card numbers), phone number, etc.
WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR?
The information we collect may be used to process your purchases, returns and other transactions with us. We also use information collected to tailor our visitor’s experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences, and in our business planning and development of products and promotional materials. We may also use the information we collect to contact you about our company, updates and promotional materials. You may opt out of receiving such information, updates and promotional materials by contacting us.
HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit card, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
DO WE USE COOKIES?
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers
DO WE DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?
We don’t sell your information to third parties. We may provide the information we collect to third parties who assist us in operating our website so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may release personally identifiable information when we believe that it is necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, governmental requests, or contractual obligations, to address insurance, audit, or security matters, or for any other purpose that we have a good faith belief the disclosure is required, authorized or appropriate. We also may release such information to enforce or apply this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use Agreement or other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, you, other customers, employees, or others.
EXTERNAL LINKS
This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Websites.
YOUR CONSENT
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, we may use consumer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to this page to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at this page periodically.
HOW DO YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY?
If you have any questions or concerns about privacy or this privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.
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