Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy at AlpineZone.com. We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer, and we are the sole owner of all information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that we have not mentioned in this statement. For more information, please click one of the links below:

Cookies
Email
Third parties
AlpineZone’s affiliate services
Links
Security
Obtaining your consent
Questions?


Cookies:
Like many other Web sites, AlpineZone.com uses cookies to identify members so they don’t have to re-enter a username and password when they, for example, wish to post to a topic in theВ Message Forums. Cookies also help us improve your experience and display more prominently goods and services that might interest you. If you do not have cookies enabled, you must enter your password each time you access our site’s member features.

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Email:
There are two reasons for requesting your Email address:

  • Forum Membership: You must register to post in the AlpineZone Message Forums. The registration process requires the entry of a valid Email address. There is also forum functionality that can only be achieved via a valid Email address (e.g. watched topic and private message notification). You can opt to receive messages from the forum administrators in your User control Panel. Mass Emailing from the forum software is the only sales and marketing tool used to send Email regarding AlpineZone.com services or other information.
  • Contest EntryAt times, we run contests such as lift ticket giveaways. As part of the contest entry we need to collect personal information such as your name, forum username, Email address, mailing address, etc. This information is used to contact winners and for prize fulfillment. We do not contact contest entrants via Email for any reason not related to the contest itself.

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Third parties:
AlpineZone.com may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about our customers, traffic patterns, and related site information. This data reflects site usage patterns gathered during thousands of visits to our Web site each month but does not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual member or visitor, unless that member or visitor has given us permission to share that information. We may also provide log files and other databases of user information to third parties for analysis, so we can get a better understanding of traffic through our site and thus improve our content offerings. At times, AlpineZone.com uses a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our sites. This company may use information about your visits to our and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

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AlpineZone.com’s affiliate services:
AlpineZone.com has entered into and will continue to enter into partnerships and other affiliations with relevant vendors and service providers. Our GearLodging andMerchandise sections are currently available through partnerships with Altrec.com, Worldres.com and CafePress.com, respectively. Their Privacy Policies are accessible below:



Backcountry.com’s Privacy Policy



WorldRes.com Privacy Statement



CafePress.com Privacy Policy

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Links:
This web site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another Web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.

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Security:
We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you disclose in your browsing secure. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security.

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Obtaining your consent:
By using our Web site, you give AlpineZone.com permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics. If you register at AlpineZone.com, you authorize AlpineZone.com to use information you provide to personalize the information we deliver to you and to use your demographic information when calculating aggregate visitor data. AlpineZone.com may occasionally amend this policy. We suggest that you bookmark this page and check to see if it has changed from time to time.

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Questions?
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, contact:

Nick Reuter
Co-Owner, Double Black Diamond, LLC
AlpineZone.com
774-481-1114
contact@alpinezone.com