National Park Gear Reviews

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how National Park Gear Reviews collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit our website.

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Last Updated: January 1, 2025

Overview

National Park Gear Reviews ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Important: This Privacy Policy applies only to our website at nationalparkgear.store and does not apply to any third-party websites, services, or applications that may be linked from our site.

Information We Collect

Personal Data

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data: First name, last name, username or similar identifier
  • Contact Data: Email address and telephone numbers
  • Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products and services
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences

Non-Personal Data

We also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

How We Use Your Information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • To provide and maintain our service
  • To notify you about changes to our service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer care and support
  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the service
  • To monitor the usage of the service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues
  • To send you marketing communications (with your consent)

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

Types of Cookies We Use:

  • Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the website to function properly
  • Analytics Cookies: These help us understand how visitors interact with our website
  • Marketing Cookies: These are used to track visitors across websites to display relevant advertisements

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy:

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service, provide the service on our behalf, perform service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Amazon Associates Program

Affiliate Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Amazon may collect information about your interactions with our affiliate links. Please refer to Amazon's Privacy Policy for details on how they handle your data.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

Data Security

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data, including:

  • Encryption of data in transit and at rest
  • Regular security assessments and updates
  • Access controls and authentication procedures
  • Employee training on data protection practices
  • Incident response procedures

Your Privacy Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

  • Right to Access: Request access to your personal data
  • Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate personal data
  • Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
  • Right to Restrict Processing: Request restriction of processing your personal data
  • Right to Data Portability: Request transfer of your personal data
  • Right to Object: Object to processing of your personal data
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent for processing (where applicable)

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal data and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Children's Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.

If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Email: support@nationalparkgear.store

Address: Colorado Springs, CO, United States

Response Time: We will respond to your privacy-related inquiries within 30 days

Amazon Affiliate Disclosure

National Park Gear Reviews is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. This means that we may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made through our links, at no additional cost to you. Our reviews remain independent and unbiased, reflecting our genuine opinions based on thorough testing and evaluation. We only recommend products that we believe will add value to your outdoor adventures.

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