WA LEGAL AND PRIVACY POLICY

Information on this website is collected by Wilderness Athlete™ (“WA”), LLC. Please read below for detailed information about our privacy policy.

Information Collection and Use

WA is the owner of all information collected at this site. WA does not sell, share, rent or otherwise disclose any information about current or former customers or their referrals with anyone else in any way that is different from what is disclosed to you in this policy. We may collect information from several different points on our website or the websites of our marketing partners and vendors who have chosen to link to our site, when you make a purchase from our store or have other interactions where personal data is provided to improve the overall experience, content, ease of use and shopping experience on these websites and to improve our marketing and promotions efforts for our company overall.

WA works diligently to protect the security of your personal information, including credit card information, by using security software that encrypts data.  At different points of interaction, you might provide us with personal information such as your name, address, telephone numbers, social network sites and email address. Additionally you may provide us demographic personal information such as income level, gender, and other personal information on an optional basis. To protect against unauthorized access to your account, password and to your computer, it is important that you log off when you are finished visiting any of WA websites.

In addition, our web server may automatically collect the following information:

• your internet service provider’s address

• the referring URL

• the information on the pages you access on our site and

• the information on marketing partner pages you access thru our site

Personal information that you provide to WA may be used by us for the purposes of enabling a marketing partner of WA to contact you at your request for the purposes of learning more about the product or service you’re interested in.  WA may also use your personal information in order to contact you and keep you informed of developments or opportunities in relation to WA or any of its products or services.

WA may also use information collected when you make a purchase on line through a marketing partner’s website or at a WA trade show in order to process your order or purchase, process credit card payments, provide return or refund service or advise you of WA promotions and product news. We may also send you emails, SMS texts, or mail with offers from marketing partners which have products or service we believe might be of interest to you.

WA does use third party companies to gather information and provide services to us, for example sending communications and contacting our customers, maintaining and organizing customer information, conducting promotions, and maintaining and upgrading our internet services,. Some of those third parties will and do have access to the information which customers provide, including email addresses and credit card information and they may also use cookies on behalf of WA.

WA may also use marketing partners or third party providers to provide ads for WA products or services throughout the internet. They may provide anonymous information regarding your visits to a WA website (or that of a WA marketing partner) and your interaction with the goods and services provided.  They may also use information about your visits to WA and other web sites to target advertisements for goods or services. Your anonymous information may be collected thru various technologies, including but not limited by, a pixel tab, a standard technology used at most major consumer websites. This technology does not require the use or collection of any personally identifiable information such as your name or email address.

Please note that this policy only applies to the WA website and not the web sites of other companies to which WA may provide links.  By visiting or using the WA website, you agree to the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

If you have any concerns regarding the use of your information or wish to be removed from any of our marketing and communication lists, please contact us at the address shown at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Cookies

WA collects “cookies”.  A “cookie” is a small text file, or string of information, that can be stored on your hard drive containing information about you, the pages you viewed, how long you viewed them and by how many people. WA may use your name and information to keep you informed of future products, services, promotions and events. WA may place cookies on your hard drive to assist in site navigation and to personalize your experience on the WA site. If you wish to disable those cookies, most internet browsers allow you to delete cookies from your computer hard drive, or prevent them from being stored, or signal a warning before a cookie is stored. Please refer to your browser instructions to learn more about your browser functions. If you elect to block cookies, please note that you may not be able to take full advantage of the features and functions of the WA website.

We may use a marketing partner or vendor’s services to help WA measure the effectiveness of advertising and to learn about how visitors to our websites use them. To obtain accurate measurements we may use web beacons and cookies provided by a marketing partner or vendor on our websites. The type of information we would collect would include the specific website and pages visited, and information about product or service transactions made. We may use such data to conduct targeted marketing and promotions programs or to determine the nature of our customers and the types of products which each customer finds most attractive.

IP Addresses

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our website. Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic data and to recognize customer traffic patterns and site usage.

Security

WA has adopted reasonable technical and organizational security measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to or accidental loss of or destruction of your personal information. The personally identifiable information that you provide is considered confidential and such information will not be provided to others.  Not all personal information collected on this website will be retained. All personal information that is retained is encrypted and all systems linked to the internet are equipped with firewalls and tested regularly to provide a high level of security.  WA may use your personal information as is required by law or legal process.

We may retain your personal information at our headquarters in Cave Creek, Arizona, USA, and we will assure the security of your personal information in all of our facilities.

If you have any concerns regarding the use of your information or wish to be removed from our email list, please contact us at the address shown at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Children

WA does not intend to sell products and services for purchases by children.  Furthermore, WA does not intend to collect any personal information from children under the age of eighteen. If you are under the age of 18 you may not use the web site without an involvement of a parent or guardian.  WA only sells products and services to those who are 18 and older, and is in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA).  COPPA sets forth rules and procedures that governs the way in which sites may collect, use and disclose personal information of children.  If a parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with such personal information would like the information deleted from our records, he or she should contact us at the email address or telephone number listed at the bottom of this policy statement. We will then delete the child’s personal information from our files.

If we become aware that personally identifiable information regarding a child under the age of 18 has been collected at the Site, we will use such information for the sole purpose of contacting a parent or guardian of the child to obtain verifiable parental consent. If we cannot obtain consent after a reasonable period of time, or if when contacted a parent or guardian requests that we do not use or maintain such information, we will make reasonable efforts to delete it from our records. Upon request by a parent or guardian, WA will provide a description of the specific types of personal information collected from a child who is under the age of 18.

Links to other Websites

From time to time WA may have a link to other websites of marketing partners or vendors for your convenience. Please check the privacy policies of such other websites which may vary from this one.

We have no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the content, actions or policies of marketing partner or third party web sites. The inclusion of marketing partner or third party web sites on our Site in no way constitutes an endorsement of such web sites’ content, actions or policies.

Surveys, Promotions and Contests

The WA website may request personal information from you via an electronic entry form for purpose of your participation in a survey, promotion, contests or sweepstakes. If you choose to provide the personal information requested, we will use that personal information to administer your participation in the relevant survey, promotion, contests or sweepstakes, and in the other ways indicated in this Privacy Policy.

Right to access and change information

You have the right to access, review and change any personal information that WA might retain.  WA does not accept changes to your personal information posted on WA company social networks sites. To access or change personal information, please contact us by phone, mail or e-mail at the addresses set out below.

Notification of Changes in Privacy Policy

This policy may be revised over time.  We will post any changes to our privacy policy on the relevant section of our website when our policy changes. However, your consent to provision of information under the current policy will be assumed to constitute consent to any new policy. By your continued use of this website we will make the assumption that you have consented to providing personal information under this privacy policy.