Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

American Hiking Society is committed to protecting your privacy. The information below covers what information American Hiking collects donor information online and offline and how we use it. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us via email at privacy@AmericanHiking.org

Personal Information

American Hiking Society collects no personal information about you when you visit this website unless you choose to provide this information, such as answers to survey questions, information collected when joining or renewing, or purchasing American Hiking products, and information collected when contacting us for information. American Hiking also collects general information about website use, such as which pages and sections are most popular with users. No personally identifiable information is collected about individuals without their knowledge.

What We Collect and Store Automatically

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. Please note that this information does not identify you personally in any way.

We use the information we collect in this fashion to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you. To support operability and user experience our website logs granular location and device data on a per-region basis that includes, but is not limited to: city, browser minor version, browser user-agent string, device brand, device model, device name, operating system minor version, platform minor version and screen resolution. To understand the different types of usage we collect the following type of events: page views, scrolls, outbound clicks, site search, video engagement, and file downloads.

Our website logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually browse the site.

If You Fill Out Any Online Forms

Any electronic commerce applications that we provide for program registration, contributions, or merchandise are conducted using secure servers to protect your credit card information. Again, all information requested and provided by you in the processing of any of these electronic commerce transactions will only be used to respond to you and fulfill your request.

Categories of Data Collected Across Online Forms From American Hiking Society

The following are a representative list of data categories that may be collected as part of one or more forms (digital or physical):

• Name and Contact Data: Information that identifies an individual and allows communication, such as name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.
• Demographic Data: Statistical data about a person’s characteristics like age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and occupation.
• Limited Health Data: Non-sensitive health-related information, such as general wellness indicators or anonymized medical data, that does not include full medical records.
• Payment or Financial Data: Information related to financial transactions, including credit card numbers, billing addresses, and bank account details.
• Subscription and Licensing Data: Details about a user’s access to services or products, including license keys, subscription status, and usage rights.
• Content: Any user-generated or provided material such as documents, messages, posts, or files shared within a service.
• Photographic, Video, Audio or Recordings Data: Multimedia files that capture visual or audio representations of individuals, places, objects or events.
• Feedback or Ratings Data: User-provided evaluations, comments, or scores reflecting opinions or satisfaction with a product, service, or experience.

When and With Whom American Hiking Society Shares Information

When you give to American Hiking Society, and subject to your right to opt out, American Hiking Society may sell and share your name, postal address, and email address but not your phone number with organizations and partners that offer products or services that we believe may interest you or further American Hiking Society’s mission. American Hiking Society may also share your name and postal address with a third party in order to fulfill your donor benefits, such as a magazine subscription published by a third party. 

When you register for either our Volunteer Vacations or Alternative Break programs, American Hiking Society may share your name, postal address, email, and phone number with a volunteer crew leader and host organization(s) for the purpose of facilitating your volunteer trip.

When you register for our Hike the Hill program, American Hiking Society may share your name, postal address, email, and phone number with our partner organization(s) for the purpose of facilitating your Hike the Hill events.

You are provided an opportunity to opt out whenever you give online and off-line. Additionally, you have the right to opt out of such information sharing by simply contacting the development team at 1-301-565-6704 or by emailing optout@AmericanHiking.org.

Email Policy

American Hiking Society uses your email for the purposes of furthering American Hiking Society’s mission and may distribute, trade, share or sell your email address.

American Hiking provides forms on-line and off-line where users can sign-up to receive electronic newsletters and alerts, and sign our guestbook. No one is placed on a regular email list that has not requested subscription through these forms or in some other manner.

If you have opted to receive any of our publications by email, you are able at any time to unsubscribe by following the directions in the email publication itself or by contacting American Hiking Society at optout@AmericanHiking.org.

By filling out an online form on the American Hiking website, American Hiking Society may contact you by email to invite you to give. To opt out of this, contact the development team at 1-301-565-6704 or by emailing optout@AmericanHiking.org.

Update Your Information

American Hiking Society is committed to ensuring the personal information you have provided us can be changed and remains accurate. For updates to the personal information you have provided to American Hiking Society make those requests by contacting the development team at 1-301-565-6704 or by emailing privacy@AmericanHiking.org.

Links to Other Sites

Our website has many links to our partners, members of the Alliance of Hiking Organizations, and numerous other external sites. In a few cases, we link to commercial organizations. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Liability Notice

American Hiking Society makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website for any material provided or represented by other than the staff of American Hiking. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this web site or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, except where otherwise noted, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by American Hiking Society.

Ownership

Information presented on this website is copyright protected and may be distributed or copied only with the express written permission of American Hiking Society. American Hiking shall have the unlimited right to use for any purpose, free of any charge, all information submitted to American Hiking via this site except those submissions made under the separate legal contract.