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.

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. By allowing us to understand how you use our Services, these tools can help us provide you with a better, more relevant online experience. In addition, we may work with third-party advertising companies to target and serve advertising you see on the Services or on third-party sites based on preferences gleaned from such technologies. You may set your browser to block all cookies, including Climbing the Seven Summits’, while using our Services (in which case some aspects of the Services may not function properly), or you may set your browser to block third-party cookies and allow first-party cookies, which would allow us (but not third parties) to collect such information. Please refer to your browser’s documentation if you wish to block some or all cookies, web beacons, and/or similar tools. 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: We make contact data,

including email addresses, available in certain of our subscription-only databases.

▪ To comply with legal process or to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your state or country of residence;

▪ To protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates;

▪ To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and

▪ To allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

 

Consent

By using Climbing the Seven Summits’ Services (for example, when you register for an account, purchase a product or service, enter a contest or promotion, communicate with us, or use interactive portions of our sites and applications), you consent to our collection, use and sharing of your PII as described in this policy. In some cases, we may also ask you to confirm your knowledge of the terms of this policy; however, we are not obligated to do so.

 

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 of Climbing the Seven Summits’ marketing communications, you may send a request to 6519B 34th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98126. You may receive email marketing messages from us about other companies’ offerings as part of a business partner marketing program. To opt-out of a business partner marketing email program, you may follow the instructions at the bottom of any email we send you as part of the program. To remove a specific phone/fax number from all of 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, shipping, subscription fulfillment, research, analytics, list cleansing, postal mailings, email and fax deployment, telemarketing, and other information and business services. We only provide these companies with the relevant information required to perform their services and they are explicitly restricted from using any data received from us for their own marketing purposes. We share your PII with guides contracted to help on our expeditions. We also share your PII with emergency and rescue responders. For further clarification, Climbing the Seven Summits has the right to share your personal information, including your private medical and financial information, with contracted guides, ground operators, logistical and field partners and other third parties in order to render the Services. By accessing or using the Services you agree to the disclosure of your information according to these terms.

 

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. An email or other response will then be sent to your mobile device. Opting to participate in this type of campaign is your choice. When you engage in these mobile marketing campaigns, Climbing the Seven Summits and the third-party campaign operator may collect and use your cell phone number, the name of your wireless service provider, images that you send using your cell phone as part of the campaign, and other relevant information.

 

Correcting and Updating Your Information

If you are a registered user, you can access your account information and make corrections or updates upon log-in. The accuracy of such information is solely your responsibility. You may also separately contact us to request access to other PII about you which is in our possession. If you request to deactivate your account or delete your PII, we will endeavor to fulfill your request but some PII may persist in backup copies for a certain period of time and may be retained as necessary for legitimate business purposes or to comply with our legal obligations.

 

Security

We use a variety of technical, physical, and administrative security measures to secure the confidentiality of your PII information and to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration, and destruction. However, due to the design of the Internet and other factors outside our control, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and our servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties or by government agencies. You remain responsible for protecting your user name and passwords and for the security of information in transit to us over the Internet. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

 

Other Important Information

Climbing the Seven Summits reserves the right to access and disclose PII to comply with applicable laws, government requests, court orders and other legal requirements, or to investigate alleged or suspected fraud or violations of the terms and conditions governing our Services.

 

Changes to This Privacy Policy

As new products and services are offered or as existing products and services are improved, we may need to update this policy. When we do so we will post the changes here. For material changes we may also email our registered users with the new details. We encourage you to review this policy from time to time to stay informed about how we are protecting the PII you provide. Your continued use of our Services covered by this policy constitutes your consent to the practices in place at the time of your use.

 

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this policy or our processing of your information, please contact us at:

Climbing the Seven Summits

6519B 34th Ave SW

Seattle, WA 98126