Privacy Policy

This notice describes our privacy policy for the snowgoatskimo.com website. SnowGoat Skimo and Skimo Northwest protect your privacy. Except in the situations below, we do not sell, trade, or share names, contact information, or purchasing data of our members. Snowgoatskimo.com is a general audience website, intended for users of all ages. Personal information of all users is collected, used, and disclosed as described in this Privacy Notice below. If you are under 13, please note the special provisions for your use. By visiting the SnowGoat Skimo website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Information Does SnowGoat Skimo Collect and Use

The information we learn from members and participants helps us personalize and continually improve your experience with SnowGoat Skimo. Here are the types of information we gather:

Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. We collect personal information such as your email address, name, home or work address, and telephone number. SnowGoat Skimo may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites. We may collect credit card numbers and related billing information when you purchase products, services, or memberships. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to and processing your requests, helping match your volunteering interest with appropriate activities, and communicating with you.

Anonymous Demographic Information: In addition to personal information that you give us, we may also ask for or track certain anonymous information that we may analyze or share with third parties on an anonymous, aggregated basis. This information is used to improve our website, share "ratings" information with partners, and conduct market research.

Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses SnowGoat Skimo or race registration websites online. We do not use spyware on our website.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are pieces of information generated by a web server and stored in the user's computer, ready for future access. Cookies are embedded in the HTML information flowing back and forth between your computer and our servers. Cookies were implemented to allow user-side customization of web information. For example, cookies will be used to remember your login name. We safeguard this information and do not share it with others for any reason. The internet has a lot of information about cookies, so please research if you want further information about what cookies do. Our website never uses cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie.

Policies for Children Under 13

Safeguarding the personal information of children is extremely important to us. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on the site. No information should be submitted to or posted on the SnowGoat Skimo website by children under 13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian. Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, SnowGoat Skimo does not collect or provide any personally identifying information of children under 13 years of age, regardless of its source, for any purpose whatsoever. SnowGoat Skimo may, however, collect certain personally identifying information to protect the integrity of the web site and the safety of children under 13 using the website. In the event SnowGoat Skimo collects such information, the information will be deleted from SnowGoat Skimo’s systems as soon as possible. No information collected from users under 13 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purpose whatsoever, either inside or outside of SnowGoat Skimo. We do not allow children under 13 years of age to be listed in any user directories or to receive direct marketing communications from SnowGoat Skimo or other third parties.

Does SnowGoat Skimo Ever Share Information?

Information about our users and volunteers is an important part of our organization, and we protect it. We do occasionally share information only as described below and with organizations similar to SnowGoat Skimo, or where such information is required to administer events and programs such as ski mountaineering races. SnowGoat Skimo will also share its membership database within its organization as outlined above.

Some information on our membership and participant lists, such as your name and address, may be exchanged with other similar organizations.

We may provide your personally identifiable information to vendors and agents who provide services for us. For instance, we may provide your personal information to the credit card processor in conjunction with the sale of a product or service of SnowGoat Skimo. We may also provide your personal contact information to third party vendors in conjunction with our commitment to communicate with our community. Any data collected by third party vendors is intended to be used for the sole purpose of fulfilling SnowGoat Skimo’s business needs or to facilitate race events. We use this data for things like tracking member engagement, making technology improvements, registering race participants, delivering surveys, and managing budget/fees based on engagement. We take great care to protect your information and assure that it is only used for our operational needs and for providing ski mountaineering race experiences. Each of our vendors has its own policies and processes for how data is collected, stored, and transmitted to us, including use of cookies and other tracking measures.

We may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform with legal requirements or legal process; (b) protect or defend the rights or property of SnowGoat Skimo; or (c) act to protect the safety and security of users of our services including race participants, members of the public, or SnowGoat Skimo.