Who we are
Chasing Summits at chasingsummits.com is owned and operated by Janine Jeffery. The information provided is intended for use as an educational service.
This Privacy Policy page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our service, the Chasing Summits website.
By utilizing our service, you thereby agree to the collection and use of information as is outlined in this policy. The personal information that we collect is used for providing and improving the service. We will not use or share your information with anyone outside the terms and conditions stated in this Privacy Policy.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string data is collected to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is then visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, it is recommended that you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
What are cookies? As is common practice with almost all websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience.
This section describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.
We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the website’s functionality.
Cookies We Utilize:
- If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year from their collection date.
- In order to provide you with the best experience on our site, we provide the ability to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
Third-Party Cookies:
- Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
- We may use social media buttons and/or plugins on Chasing Summits that allow you to connect with your personal social network accounts. For these to work, the selected social media sites, Facebook and Instagram, will set cookies through our website which may be used to personalize and enhance your experience on their websites and applications, and/or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes, as outlined in their respective privacy policies.
- Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technology to collect or receive information from your browsing history and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads. For more information, check the privacy policies, and privacy and ad settings on your specific social media accounts.
How To Disable Cookies:
You can prevent the collection and utilization of the aforementioned cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. (For more information on this action, select ’help’ on your preferred browser. Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of Chasing Summits and several other websites that you visit, as this action is performed on your browser and not the selected website.
Therefore, because disabling cookies will usually inadvertently disable certain functionality aspects and related features of this site, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Children’s Privacy
Our service does not address and is not intended for anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to perform these necessary actions.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Therefore, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes that have been made. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy updates directly on this page. These changes are effective immediately as of the date of publication or revision of the Privacy Policy.