Privacy Policy
We take your privacy seriously. This policy describes what personal information we collect 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, and lets me know what pages and information are useful and helpful to visitors.
Where necessary, this site uses cookies to store information about a visitor's preferences, login status, and history in order to better serve the visitor and/or present the visitor with customized content. Your approximate location may be identified based on your IP address and stored in a cookie. The location information is used to display maps that are centered on your approximate location.
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
Note that you can change your browser settings to disable cookies if you have privacy concerns. 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.
Special Note About Google Advertising
Any advertisements served by Google, Inc., and affiliated companies may be controlled using cookies. These cookies allow Google to display ads based on your visits to this site and other sites that use Google advertising services. Learn how to opt out of Google's cookie usage. As mentioned above, any tracking done by Google through cookies and other mechanisms is subject to Google's own privacy policies.
About Google advertising: What is the DoubleClick DART cookie? The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. Visit the Google Privacy Center for more details: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Google Analytics
This site may use Google Analytics. You can find out how the use of Google Analytics affects your privacy at http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/index.html
Map Data
If you click on the "Save Route" button after entering map route information, your route information will be saved. Your route information may be associated with your bulletin board user information (if applicable) and/or your Facebook user information (if applicable). All saved routes are currently publicly available and can be seen by other users. If you do not save your route, your route data will not be stored and will not be available to other users. You may post links to your saved route information on any website. Users clicking on your saved route link will see the route information which you saved. If you are logged in when you save your route, your user id number will be stored with your saved route. Storing your user id information with your routes will allow you to retrieve a list of the routes that you saved. If you do not want your user id number to be stored with your saved routes, log out of the site before saving routes.
MapQuest Elevation / Altitude Data
Elevation Courtesy of MapQuest
. Map locations from map routes are shared
with MapQuest to create elevation / altitude graphs and data. Details regarding MapQuest's privacy policy
can be found on their privacy policy page.
Portions of this site may make use of Facebook links and applications. Please check the Facebook website for their privacy policy and how you can control the availability of your Facebook information.
Feedback
Comments entered on the Feedback page can be seen by other users. If you do not want your comments to be publicly viewable, do not enter comments on the Feedback page.
Forum
Comments entered on the Forum pages can be seen by other users. If you do not want your comments to be publicly viewable, do not enter comments on the Forum pages.