Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: December 26, 2022

At Outdoorsy Black Women, accessible from https://outdoorsyblackwomen.com or through the Outdoorsy Black Women app, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Outdoorsy Black Women and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Outdoorsy Black Women. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number. When you use any of our contact forms, an Account is created automatically for you and associated with the data you chose to share with us.

Community and Account

Our community is a vital part of our website when you register for an Account, whether by explicitly registering or using one of our contact forms, you understand that a public online profile will be automatically created within our community hosted on OutdoorsyBlackWomen.com and that it is inseparable. You have the right to remove your account at any given time. Removal of your account automatically removes all of the data associated with the account with the exception of necessary billing information related to any purchases that we are required to store by law. Contact us if you wish to have the account removed or if you have additional questions.

Marketing

Outdoorsy Black Women reserves the right to include images of your Outdoorsy Black Women’s header graphic or overview summary page on the Outdoorsy Black Women website or in other marketing materials for demonstration and promotional purposes. We may also display additional images, such as an image of your member profile including your photograph. Care will be taken to present images in a professional manner and without compromising the character of the Outdoorsy Black Women community. You can update your account information and preferences at any time.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• You might be contacted via our community by other community members
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

Outdoorsy Black Women follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Outdoorsy Black Women uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Outdoorsy Black Women’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Third Party Accounts

We may share general information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Outdoorsy Black Women under confidentiality agreements. General information may be used to help Outdoorsy Black Women communicate offers to you from Outdoorsy Black Women and our marketing partners. Our partners do not have any independent right to share this general information and any offers will include a URL and email address that you can use to unsubscribe from future mailings.

Analytics

Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Site and enhance your experience when you use the Site. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Our Service is not directed to individuals who are under the age of 18. Outdoorsy Black Women does not knowingly collect Personal Data from individuals under the age of 18. Outdoorsy Black Women does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 18. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Other Uses and Disclosures of Personal Information

We may also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, in particular when we have a legal obligation to do so:

• Applicable Law.  We may share Personal Information to comply with applicable law and regulations, which may include laws outside your country of residence.
• Transactions, Liquidation: We may share Personal Information with third parties in connection with a transaction, such as a merger, sale of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business, or in the event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings.
• Public and Government Authorities, Law Enforcement: Where permitted or required by applicable data protection laws, we may disclose your Personal Information pursuant to a legal request, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.
• Protecting Rights and Safety: Where permitted or required by law, we may share your Personal Information with others if we believe in good faith that it will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of Outdoorsy Black Women, any of our users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.

Other Information

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual. The Services collect Other Information such as:

• Browser and device information
• App usage data
• Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
• Demographic information and other information provided by you that does not reveal your specific identity
• Information that has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific identity

Collection of Other Information

We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including: 

• Your browser or device. 
• Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services (such as the App) you are using.  We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly. 
• Your use of the App. 
• When you download and use the App, we and our service providers may track and collect App usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device accesses our servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on your device number.
• Cookies. 
• Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using.  Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data.  We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience.  We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding them.  We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website.  You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. 
• Pixel tags and other similar technologies. 
• Pixel tags. Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates. 
• Analytics. We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends.  This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources.  You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/‌partners/, and exercise the opt-out provided by Google by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Physical Location. 
• We may collect the physical location of your device by, for example, using satellite, cell phone tower or WiFi signals.  We may use your device’s physical location to provide you with personalized location-based services and content.    In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such uses and/or sharing of your device’s location.

Uses and Disclosures of Other Information

We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law.  If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Privacy Policy.  In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information.  If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

Your Choices Regarding Personal Information

Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information:

• Notifications. We may send you push notifications and similar forms of communication from us, which you can control within the Services. If you choose to use our chat-based virtual visit, you will receive notifications to your mobile device when your physician responds.
• Email and SMS Messaging.  We may also use your email address or phone number to send you messages, such as changes to features of the Services and special offers. If you do not want to receive such notifications, you may opt-out or change your preferences by contacting our support team at [email protected]. Opting out may prevent you from receiving notification including notices regarding updates, improvements, or offers. You will not be able to opt-out from receiving service and payment-connected notifications from us.
• Marketing. We give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes.  You may opt out from: 
• Receiving marketing-related emails from us. If you no longer want to receive marketing related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by contacting us via the Contact page.

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable.  Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.

Access, Change, or Delete your Personal Information 

If you would like to request to access, correct, update, suppress, restrict, or delete Personal Information, object to or opt out of the processing of Personal Information, or if you would like to request to receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us in accordance with the “Contact” page. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed or whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase).  

Online Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you when you access and use the Services and other websites or online services.

You may receive advertisements based on information relating to your access to and use of the Services and other websites or online services on any of your devices, as well as on information received from third parties. These companies place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags). They also use these technologies, along with information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop. If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn how to opt out of it in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#/. You may download the AppChoices app at www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in mobile apps. 

Third-party Services

This privacy policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which our services link. The inclusion of a link on our services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us.

In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure, or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM, or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our app or website.

Third-Party Payment Service

Our Services provide functionality allowing you to make payments to Outdoorsy Black Women using third-party payment services with which you have created your own account. When you use such a service to make a payment to us, your Personal Information will be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this privacy policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information.

Retention Period

We will keep your Personal Information for as long as your user account is active, in order to allow you to have access to your information and to provide you with our services.

We may continue to retain your Personal Information even after you deactivate your user account or stop using Outdoorsy Black Women, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our users, enforce our agreements or protect our legitimate interests, consistent with applicable law.

When your Personal Information is no longer required, we will ensure it is deleted.

Security

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact” page.

Disclaimers

All the information on this website – https://outdoorsyblackwomen.com – including but not limited to Outdoorsy Black Women Community is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. Outdoorsy Black Women does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website (Outdoorsy Black Women), is strictly at your own risk. Outdoorsy Black Women will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.

Outdoorsy Black Women does not accept liability whatsoever for content created by its Users or for the activities of its Users. These cannot be attributed to Outdoorsy Black Women, nor do they represent Outdoorsy Black Women’s opinion.

From our website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of these sites. These links to other websites do not imply a recommendation for all the content found on these sites. Site owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link which may have gone ‘bad’.

Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies and terms which are beyond our control.

Changes

Outdoorsy Black Women may periodically update this policy. This policy is subject to change at any time, without prior notice. You are responsible for reviewing this policy on a regular basis.