Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is the policy of the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, http://amcbostonpaddlers.org, and other sites we own and operate.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use its website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

We also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee website choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a forum at amcbostonpaddlers.org/community to provide a username and email address. In all cases, the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. 

The AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities. 

Aggregated Statistics

The AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, we may monitor usage on the most popular forums on our website and may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
 

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The AMC, the AMC Boston Chapter and the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and volunteers that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on behalf of the AMC or to provide services available at the AMC, AMC Chapter and Committee websites including amcbostonpaddlers.org, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. The AMC, the AMC Boston Chapter and the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information gathered on this website to anyone. 

Other than to its employees, contractors and volunteers, as described above, the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law.

If you are a registered user of the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee website and have supplied your email address, the AMC, the AMC Boston Chapter and the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with the AMC community. 

The AMC, the AMC Boston Chapter and the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

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. The AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the AMC Boston Paddlers Activity Committee website, with the drawback that certain features of our website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.

This policy is effective as of 1 January 2020.

Contact

AMC Boston Paddlers is the Paddling Activities Committee of the Boston Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC).

You can reach us at:

AMC Boston Chapter Paddlers Committee
c/o Appalachian Mountain Club
10 City Square, Suite 2
Boston, MA 02129
email: admin@amcbostonpaddlers.org

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