Privacy Policy

 

Last revision: 4 November, 2023

This Privacy Policy applies to the The Hiking Club “website” (thehiking.club) and all applications contained within.

By visiting any of our websites, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions, please do not use our websites, products or provide any Personal Information to us. 

We reserve the right to change the provisions of our Privacy Policy at any time. We will indicate the date that the Privacy Policy was last updated. 

Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited before coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, Google Analytics and Hotjar, our website analytics providers, to learn about site traffic and activity. We do not use these tools to collect or store your Personal Information, so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Advertising
We share personal information with third parties so they and we can provide you with tailored advertising and measure and monitor its effectiveness. 

We use and manage third party tags on the website and associated domains of The Hiking Club, to learn how you interact with our site pages and emails, and this information helps us and our ad partners provide you with a more tailored experience. We use tracking snippets to capture data from your browser, make requests to a third party partner or set cookies on your device to store data.

We partner with third party publishers, advertising networks and service providers to manage our ads on other sites. Our third party partners may set cookies on your device or browser to gather information about your activities on the Services and other sites you visit, in order to provide you with The Hiking Club ads.

Affiliate Programs
We participate in third party affiliate programs and receive a commission when you buy a product or service after clicking on a link that takes you to the site of one of our affiliates. These third parties use cookies to track your clicks from our website to theirs.

Marketing Emails
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Order and account emails
We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve made a purchase

  • Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts
This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Customer Data
When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

 

Website Visitors
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Security Capabilities and Policy for Transmission of Credit Card Details
When you place an order through this website, we need to know your name, e-mail, phone number, address and credit card details if paying by credit card. This allows us to process and fulfil your order successfully. It also helps us in maintaining your account.

When you place orders, we use a secure server. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. Furthermore, all of the sensitive customer data we collect is protected by several layers of encryption and several layers of security to prevent unauthorised access.

Our payment options are safe and secure. None of your payment details are stored.