SWS Mountain Guides Privacy Policy
SWS Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to swsmtns.com, and Sierra Wilderness Seminars Inc. and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Sierra Wilderness Seminars Inc. include swsmtns.com, SWS Mountain Guides, California Rock Guides, California Ski Guides, californiarockguides.com and californiaskiguides.com. The SWS Mountain Guides website is a Mountaineering Guide Service booking courses, climbs, ski tours and expeditions site. By using the SWS Mountain Guides website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information:
In order to better provide you with products and services offered, SWS Mountain Guides may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
– General outdoor interests
These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services.To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
SWS Mountain Guides collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested. SWS Mountain Guides may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from SWS Mountain Guides and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties (more)
SWS Mountain Guides does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. SWS Mountain Guides may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to SWS Mountain Guides, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. SWS Mountain Guides may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on SWS Mountain Guides or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of SWS Mountain Guides; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SWS Mountain Guides, or the public.
Tracking User Behavior:
SWS Mountain Guides may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within SWS Mountain Guides, in order to determine what SWS Mountain Guides services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within SWS Mountain Guides to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information:
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by SWS Mountain Guides. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses.
This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the SWS Mountain Guides website. Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of your Personal Information:
SWS Mountain Guides secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. SWS Mountain Guides uses the following methods for this purpose:
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will: Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to.
Children Under Thirteen:
SWS Mountain Guides does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications:
From time to time, SWS Mountain Guides may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from SWS Mountain Guides or click on a link therein.
• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that iscompatible with the context in which you provided the information.
External Data Storage Sites - (more)
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from SWS Mountain Guides, you may opt out of such communications by Clients may unsubscribe from emails by clicking the unsubscribe link.
External Data Storage Sites:
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted. Changes to this Statement SWS Mountain Guides reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information:
SWS Mountain Guides welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that SWS Mountain Guides has not adhered to this Statement, please contact SWS Mountain Guides at:
Sierra Wilderness Seminars Inc.
210 East Lake St.
Mount Shasta, California 96067
Email Address: mail@swsmtns.com Telephone number: 888-797-6867 Effective as of: September 01, 2021
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SWS Main Office:
110 Alpine St. Mount Shasta, California
96067
Bear Valley Office:
P.O. Box 5104
265 Bear Valley Rd, Bear Valley, California 95223
Lone Pine Office:
120 South Main St., Suite 1.5, Lone Pine, California 93545