Your privacy is critically important to us, and we have a few fundamental principles:
- We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
- We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
- We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
- We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.
Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.
Who We Are and What This Policy Covers
American Outdoor Gear Hub runs AmericanOutdoorGearHub.com and wants you to use it and be a part of the American Outdoor Gear Hub community. The site is designed to inform, connect, and inspire.
This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you access or use AmericanOutdoorGearHub.com, operated by American Outdoor Gear Hub (collectively, “we,” “our” or “us”).
Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.
Information We Collect
We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.
We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.
However, please note that we have structured the Site so that you are able to access and use the Site as a Site visitor without providing us with any Personally Identifiable Information. By accessing and using the Site as a visitor, you are acknowledging that you have read and understood this privacy policy and agree to be legally bound by it.
Information You Provide to Us
It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us either when commenting on “The Blog” or by voluntarily providing information on the “Contact” page. We collect certain information that identifies you as an individual (collectively, “Personally Identifiable Information”). The only Personally Identifiable Information we collect is your name and email address.
Information We Collect Automatically
We also collect some information automatically:
- Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
- Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
- Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. American Outdoor Gear Hub uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, and to deliver targeted ads. For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Types of Cookies
The list below explains the types of cookies we use on our websites and why we use them.
- Strictly Necessary: We may use cookies that are strictly necessary for operating the Site and that help us prevent fraudulent activities on our Website.
- Analytics and Performance: Performance cookies collect information on how users interact with our Site, including what pages are visited most, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our Site functions and to understand how users interact with it.
- Advertising: These cookies are used to display relevant advertising to visitors who access and use the Site, as well as to understand and report on the efficacy of ads served on our websites. They track details such as the number of unique visitors, the number of times particular ads have been displayed, and the number of clicks the ads have received. They are also used to build user profiles, including showing you ads based on products you’ve viewed or acts you have taken on our (and other) websites. These are set by American Outdoor Gear Hub and trusted third party networks.
Please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ and https://cookies.insites.com/disable-cookies/ for more information on how you can disable some or all cookies.
How and Why We Use Information
Purposes for Using Information
We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:
- To communicate with you, for example through an email, in response to content posted to the “Contact” page.
- To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising
- To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with the Site, which helps us improve the Site.
How We Share Information
We do not sell our users’ private personal information.
We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:
- Legal and Regulatory Requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
- Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you.
- Published Support Requests: And if you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
Information Shared Publicly
Information that you choose to make public is–you guessed it–disclosed publicly.
That means, of course, that information like your comments on “The Blog” are all available to others.
Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.
Please keep this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.
How Long We Keep Information
We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it — which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.
Security
While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.
Choices
You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:
- Do not provide any Personally Identifiable Information: We have structured the Site so that you are able to access and use the Site as a Site visitor without providing us with any Personally Identifiable Information. You have complete control over the information that you choose to make public like comments on “The Blog,” so please keep this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.
- Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using the Site, with the drawback that certain features of the Site may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
How to Reach Us
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us.