Privacy & Cookies policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://canoetrails.us.

The Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated program Canoe Trails all-encompassing legal information and privacy policy is designed to help one understand how data is collected and used by the aforementioned entities. The legal and privacy policies also apply to data distributed between the Venture Crew #488 program, the affiliated Canoe Trails web server and the user’s computer system.

By using or accessing the Venture Crew #488’s affiliated Canoe Trails website in any form, you are accepting the practices described herein.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see 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 visible to the public in the context of your comment.

While the Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program administrators will attempt to monitor the web forums and all other online services offered, we cannot control the actions of other users. Thus, we cannot and do not guarantee that user content posted by another member on the Canoe Trails website or Canoe Trails forum will be deemed as appropriate or safe to view. The Canoe Trails administrators will remove anything deemed as offensive without warning or approval immediately upon discovery.

The Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated program Canoe Trails will not be held liable for any type of inappropriate user content posted on or sent to Canoe Trails visitors and members. While the Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program will make every attempt to maintain an environment for youth and adults alike, the aforementioned programs cannot guarantee non-Canoe Trails content being acceptable to all ages. If content located on the Canoe Trails website or forum is deemed as offensive, please contact the Canoe Trails administration immediately at CanoeTrails488@gmail.com.

Please note that even after removal of data from the Canoe Trails website and any services offered, copies of user content or data may remain viewable in cached and archived pages indefinitely.

Online information you submit to the Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program, and its subsidiary services may be available to all visitors—both human and technical. Your profile name, profile picture, account(s), email(s), etcetera may be visible to any individual that does a basic Internet search. While the Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program will make every attempt to keep the services it offers secure, you agree to not hold the Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program, the Boy Scouts of America, and any other organization participating with Canoe Trails liable for any loss of data, both personal and non-personal, when accessing or utilizing Canoe Trails online services.

Children Aged 14 and Under:

The Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program and its subsidiary services do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone 14 years old and younger. If you are 14 years old or younger, please do not attempt to register for any service or send any information about yourself, of which includes your name, address, telephone number, or email address, without parental or legal guardian consent. If the Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child aged 14 or younger without parental or legal guardian consent, we will delete collected information as quickly as possible, excluding web server statistics/records. Though the Canoe Trails administrators will remove the data from the web server and any subsidiary services offered, we do not guarantee that it will not be viewable by other means not associated with Canoe Trails. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under age 14, please contact us at CanoeTrails488@gmail.com.

Children between the Ages of 14 to 18:

The Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program recommend that minors over the age of 13 and younger than 18 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet, including the Canoe Trails website and its subsidiary services. It is also requested that anyone under the age of 18 not give or use any type of personal information that another could discover one’s identity or location.

Media

If you upload images to the website, 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

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.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Right to Revise

The Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program maintain the right to change and alter any regulations or wording within the legal information and privacy policy documentation herein at any point in time without future notification.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

Reference to any specific commercial products, processes, or services by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply the endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program, the Canoe Trails website and its members, the Boy Scouts of America, or any other organization participating with Canoe Trails. All proper copy rights, names, or trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Law Enforcement Action

The Venture Crew #488 program and the affiliated Canoe Trails program will cooperate fully with any law enforcement member when approached for any criminal activity taking place on the Canoe Trails website or any subsidiary service offered by the program. The Canoe Trails administration will turn over any requested data to law enforcement without the need for a search warrant or approval by the member(s) in question.

Embedded content from other websites

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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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 we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contacting the Web Site Administrators

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or legal information, please contact Canoe Trails at CanoeTrails488@gmail.com.