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CLIMBING THE SEVEN SUMMITS

Climbing the Seven Summits, LLC (“Climbing the Seven Summits”) is committed to protecting the privacy of the information you share with us when you access and/or use our website, applications, products, events, services and other offerings (Services). This policy describes how we collect, use and share the personally identifiable information (PII), which includes sensitive information like your health, financial, identification, and travel information, that you provide to us when you register or contract with us to receive Services. This policy may be supplemented by additional privacy terms or notices disclosed to you in connection with your registration for or receipt of Services.

Information Collected:

We may collect PII and/or anonymous information from you in the course of your use of the Services. That includes information you provide to us when you subscribe or register for any of our digital, in-person or printed products, services, events, or offerings; sign up for newsletters or promotions; participate in a survey; purchase a product or service; use of our future mobile application; post comments; and/or otherwise communicate with us or interact with the Services. We may collect health information from you in the course of your use of the Services. The health information we may collect from you is individually identifiable health information which relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition, the provision of health care to you, or your past, present or future payment for the provision of health care. To purchase certain services from us, you must provide contact information and financial information, including banking information, credit card number and credit card expiration date. This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

We may collect travel information from you. This includes your passport number, visa information, driver’s license number, TSA number, citizenship, date of birth, gender, frequent flyer miles, travel preferences, trip/meeting preferences and other information.

Medical information submitted as part of our application or registration process is collected solely for expedition safety, risk assessment, and emergency preparedness purposes. This information is provided voluntarily by participants and is used to support informed decision-making related to participation in high-altitude and remote expeditions.

Once you have registered or otherwise interacted with us, we may create a profile for you. We keep your profile up to date by adding information about your registrations or subscriptions, the events you attend, the content you access, how you interact with our offerings, and the like. We also may receive information about you from external sources that are not affiliated with Climbing the Seven Summits and add that to the information you have provided to us. For example, we may expand our Services by acquiring names and contact details from other sources that compile contact information. This information might be public information or data you provided to others with authorizations to share it with third parties.

Automated Collection Technologies:

Like most website operators, we use cookies (small data files stored on your computer by your web browser upon visiting a website) to operate our Services efficiently and as intended. Through these technologies we gather information about you, such as your browser type, operating system, IP address, mobile device identification number, and navigation history.

We may also use these technologies to gather information about your interactions with our Services, such as the time and date when you viewed or used a page or item of content or functionality, which advertisements you have clicked on and whether you filled out an online form. When you receive newsletters or promotional emails from Climbing the Seven Summits, we use customized links or similar technologies to determine whether the email has been opened and which links you click, in order to provide you more focused email communications or other information.

We use information gathered through these tools for our internal security audit log, for trend analysis and system administration, to gather broad information about our audiences and their geographic locations, and to otherwise improve the Services.

In addition, we may use third-party analytics and advertising tools that rely on cookies and similar technologies to help us understand user behavior and improve our marketing and website performance.

These tools may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on pages, interactions with site elements, device and browser information, IP address, and referring URLs.

Cookie Policy

For more detailed information about the specific cookies and tracking technologies used on this website, how they function, and how you can manage or update your preferences, please review our full Cookie Policy here:

https://climbingthesevensummits.com/cookie-policy

Hotjar:

We use Hotjar to better understand how users interact with our website and to improve the user experience. Hotjar may collect information such as device type, browser information, geographic location (country only), and behavioral data including clicks, scrolling, and navigation patterns. Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile and does not collect personally identifiable information such as names, email addresses, or payment information.

Meta (Facebook) Pixel:

We use the Meta Pixel to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, understand actions users take on our website, and help deliver relevant advertisements on Meta platforms. The Meta Pixel may collect information about your interactions with our website and may associate this data with your Meta account in accordance with Meta’s data use policies.

You may control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Where required by law, we also provide a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or reject non-essential cookies and update your preferences at any time.

We reserve the right to use new technologies, as they become available, to gather additional, relevant information from our users and improve our Services and your experience of them.

How We Use Your Information:

We may use information about you:

• To provide you with Services and information that you have requested from us or that we think may be of interest to you.
• To send account notices or otherwise manage your account, respond to requests, inquiries, comments or concerns.
• To pay for our Services.
• To offer you customized content and individualized personalization of the Services to make them more relevant to your professional interests and responsibilities.
• To ask for your input to help in our research about our Services.
• To contact you with information about, and provide invitations for, products, services, events and research opportunities – ours and other companies’ – directed at your professional interests and responsibilities.
• To make travel reservations.
• To provide medical care or support.
• To give suppliers in our communities a limited opportunity to find you.
• To comply with legal process or respond to requests from public and government authorities.
• To protect our operations, rights, privacy, safety, or property.

Consent:

By using Climbing the Seven Summits’ Services, you consent to our collection, use and sharing of your PII as described in this policy. Where required by law, certain data collection activities, including the use of non-essential cookies and tracking technologies, will occur only after you have provided consent through our cookie management tools.

Your Choices:

You may opt out of our email marketing lists by following the directions at the bottom of our emails. To remove a specific email address from all Climbing the Seven Summits’ marketing communications, you may send a request to 6519B 34th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98126.

Disclosure of Your Information:

Climbing the Seven Summits contracts with other companies to provide certain services on our behalf, including customer service, credit card and billing processing, analytics, email deployment, and other business services. We only provide these companies with the relevant information required to perform their services and they are restricted from using the data for their own marketing purposes.

We share your PII with contracted guides, ground operators, logistical and field partners, and emergency or rescue responders as necessary to deliver the Services.

Mobile Devices:

Mobile marketing campaigns may involve your sending an email from your mobile device to Climbing the Seven Summits or a third-party campaign operator. Participation is voluntary. Information such as your phone number, service provider, and campaign interactions may be collected.

Correcting and Updating Your Information:

If you are a registered user, you may access and update your account information upon log-in. You may also request access to or deletion of your PII, subject to legal and operational requirements.

Security:

We use technical, physical, and administrative security measures to protect your information. While we take reasonable steps to safeguard data, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted over the Internet.

Health and medical information is collected through secure, HIPAA-enabled form systems that utilize encrypted data transmission and access controls. Climbing the Seven Summits maintains a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with its form provider to support the secure handling of sensitive health information. Access to this data is limited to authorized personnel and may be shared with guides, medical staff, or emergency responders only when necessary for participant safety.

Other Important Information:

We may access and disclose PII to comply with applicable laws, legal processes, or to investigate suspected fraud or violations of our terms.

Changes to This Privacy Policy:

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted here, and material changes may be communicated to registered users.

How to Contact Us:

Climbing the Seven Summits
6519B 34th Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98126