Privacy Policy – Posted on December 8, 2009
BicycleTouringPro.com takes your privacy very seriously. This privacy policy describes what personal information we collect on this site and how we use it.
Routine Information Collection
All web servers track basic information about their visitors. This information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser details, timestamps and referring pages. None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site. The information is tracked for routine administration and maintenance purposes. Here at BicycleTouringPro.com, we use Google Analytics to track our traffic and visitor information.
BicycleTouringPro.com will never share the information we collect about you with other companies or individuals unless we have your express consent.
The Use Of Cookies
Where necessary, BicycleTouringPro.com uses cookies to store information about a visitor’s preferences and history in order to better serve the visitor and/or present the visitor with customized content.
Advertising partners and other third parties may also use cookies, scripts and/or web beacons to track visitors to our site in order to display advertisements and other useful information. Such tracking is done directly by the third parties through their own servers and is subject to their own privacy policies.
Controlling Your Privacy
Please understand that you do have the choice of changing your browser settings so as to disable cookies if so desired. Disabling cookies for all sites is not recommended as it may interfere with your use of some sites. The best option is to disable or enable cookies on a per-site basis. Consult your browser documentation for instructions on how to block cookies and other tracking mechanisms.
Opt-In & Opt-Out Provisions
BicycleTouringPro.com email subscribers give their consent for us to email them once they fill out the email subscription form on our site. Once you fill out this form, we have your consent to email you with news and information pertinent to BicycleTouringPro.com readers.
All BicycleTouringPro.com subscribers (whether they be email, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or any other subscription method) have the choice of opting out at any time. Third party sites (such as Faceboook , Twitter and YouTube) have their own opt-out/unsubscribe options, so please seem them for details on the opt-out process.
If you wish to unsubscribe from the emails sent out by BicycleTouringPro.com, all you have to do is click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails you are receiving from us. If you choose to unsubscribe, you will immediately stop receiving emails from BicycleTouringPro.com.
Third-Party Advertising
Any advertisements served by Google, Inc., AthleticAds.com and/or any affiliated companies may be controlled using cookies. These cookies allow third party ad servers to display ads based on your visits to this site and other sites that use these third-party advertising services. Any tracking done by Google, AthleticAds.com or any other third-party website is subject to their own own privacy policies.
Special Note On DoubleClick DART Cookie
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.
- Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Reviews & Endorsements
BicycleTouringPro.com is a for profit website. The products, services and advertisements mentioned on this site are here to make money.
Links to third party websites are placed either 1) because we think you would enjoy the content these third-party sites provide or 2) to direct you to an affiliate product, order or sales page. We can not and do not take responsibility for the content on the websites we link to.
Every product written about and/or reviewed on BicycleTouringPro.com is obtained for free or at discount unless otherwise noted. All reviews are a matter of opinion. Whether a product/service has been obtained for free or at discount does not in any way mean that that product/service will receive a positive review. All products and services are reviewed based on years of bicycle travel experience. and are the honest opinion of their reviewer(s). Just because we receive free products and services to write about on BicycleTouringPro.com does not in any way mean we will give those products, services or companies a positive review or endorsement.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent and we expect most changes to this Privacy Policy will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the bottom of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please feel free to contact us for further clarification.
Bicycle Touring ProPO Box 982216
Park City, UT 84098
USA