Terms of Service

Welcome! By using the SummitPost ("SummitPost", "SP", "us", "our" or "we") website, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (the "Terms of Service") when on summitpost.org website and various related services (together, the "Site").

1. Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how SummitPost collects, uses and discloses the personal information we receive through your use of the Site. 

Information We Receive

When you use the Site or register to create an account with the Site and become a Member, you provide us with, or grant us access to, or permission to obtain, personal information that may be used to identify or contact you (“Personal Information”), such as your email address, personal name, phone number, pictures of you, mailing address and your billing information (for example, credit card number and billing address). In addition, we may receive other information that you provide to us, such as information that we receive through your use of SummitPost, such as your profile details, comments, postings or other content you provide. You realize that your use of SummitPost may result in the sharing of information that is instantly known to anyone.

Content that you share when you use SummitPost may have metadata (data that may not be obvious to you but consists of information about your content). If you do not want us to store metadata, please remove the metadata before uploading the content.

How We Use Information We Receive

SummitPost may use the information we receive: (i) for the purposes for which you specifically provided the information, (ii) to contact you or to provide customer service about our products and services, (iii) to enhance existing features or develop new features, products, and services, (iv) to provide advertisers and other third parties with aggregate (non-personally identifiable) information about our user base and usage patterns, and (v) to allow us to target advertising to our users using specifications provided to us by third-party advertisers.

SummitPost Members

When you register an account with us as a Member, we will display some of your personal information on your profile page and elsewhere on the Site. For example, users of SummitPost will see your profile picture, name, your Member status, images you upload, pages you create, your lists, and most anything you post on the Site. Providing your personal information is voluntary and should correlate with the degree of interaction you want to have with others.

By providing SummitPost your email address, you agree to our using your email address to send any notices required by law or other notices relating to SummitPost's policies in lieu of postal mail. In addition, we may use your email address to send you notices about important changes to SummitPost, new services, or special offers. You may opt-out of receiving these types of emails by unsubscribing or emailing us at webmaster@summitpost.org.

We will not share your personal information outside of SummitPost unless you have consented to have your personal information shared with a company that is not affiliated with us. If we do share your personal information with another company not affiliated with us, that information is subject to that company’s privacy policies. However, we may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so.

We also use your personal information to contact you with SummitPost newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or via the "My Account" section of the Site. (See "Changing or Deleting Information" below.)

Business Transfers

In the event that SummitPost is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement

SummitPost cooperates with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to the government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of SP or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity.

Changing or Deleting Your Information 

All Members may review, update, correct, or delete the Personal Information in their Account by contacting us or via the "Your Profile" section of the Site. If you completely delete all such information, then your Account may become deactivated. If you would like us to delete your Account in our system, please contact us at webmaster@summitpost.org with a request that we delete your Personal Information from our database. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request. We may retain an archived copy of your records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

International Transfer

Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, SummitPost transfers Personal Information to the United States and processes it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Advertising

SummitPost participates in the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. For more information please visit http://www.aboutads.info.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website or use our apps. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies for interest-based advertising, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website or use our apps. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies for interest-based advertising, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

How to opt-out http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/

Cookies

SP uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use cookies to gather information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

In addition, we use cookies on our website for the purpose of enabling an analysis of the surfing behavior of our site visitors.