Privacy Policy
Updated June 2020
Your privacy is of utmost concern. We collect personal information (your name and/or email) in four places: our contact form, comments left on the website, forms to sign up for mailing lists, and purchases made through Paypal.
If you contact us through our contact form, we use your email address to respond to you. That’s it. If you contact us with a question or comment that needs to be answered by a land manager or nonprofit associated with the public land that you are asking us about, we will connect you with the appropriate agency or person.
Your Rights
You always have the right to be removed from our mailing lists or to delete a comment or information you’ve provided to us as an article or photo. If it isn’t obvious how to do that yourself, simply contact us and we’ll take care of it.
Comments
If you leave a comment on this website, your email is required by our software. You can choose to post a comment or not. Your email is used for no other purpose than to link to and show a gravtar (image of yourself) that you may have posted on gravatar.com. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
When you leave a comment, the Akismet anti-spam service collects your IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by you such as your name, username, email address, and the comment itself). If you want an old comment removed, simply contact us with a link to the page it is on, and we will delete it for you. We reserve the right to periodically remove old comments that are no longer relevant to current trail conditions, and to abstain from posting comments that are not in good taste for our broad audience.
Mailing Lists
If you sign up for a mailing list, we will email you occasionally on the topic you signed up for, usually no more than once a month. There will always be a link at the end of those emails so you can unsubscribe from the mailing list. You can also contact us directly to be removed from any and all mailing lists you have signed up for on this website.
When you purchase a book from us via Paypal, Paypal retains your email and address so we may contact you about the transaction. We do not store that information on our website, nor do we share it with anyone other than printing it on a shipping label at our home when your book is shipped. If you order a copy of The Florida Trail Guide or Florida Trail Hikes, we copy your email into the mailing list for periodic updates to the guidebook to inform you of any changes to the Florida Trail since you purchased the book. As explained above, you can unsubscribe from that mailing list the first time you receive an email, or contact us directly to be removed from the list.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. YouTube is the main embedded content we use to show our videos of the trails, and Flickr for photo galleries. Those websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website when you visit us.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising
The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.
The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
Mediavine partners with the following data processors:
- Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
- Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
- Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
- LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
- RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites 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, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
- District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
- YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
- The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
- Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
- AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
- OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
- Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
- Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
- Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
- GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
- Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
- MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
- RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
- Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
- 33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
- Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.
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This website is provided for your personal, non-commercial use. If you represent a commercial entity and are interested in licensing content from this website, please contact us for information.
No Warranties
Use this website at your own risk. This website is provided to you “as is” as a service, with no guarantees either express or implied. Maps are presented for entertainment purposes and are not meant to represent an accurate survey of any specific location.
While it is our intent to provide accurate information, Florida Hikes makes no warranty that any content supplied on this website satisfies any applicable government law, regulation, or requirement. Neither Florida Hikes nor its owners, subcontractors, agents, partners, or licensors warrant that the Web site or its operation will be accurate, reliable, uninterrupted or error-free. No agent or representative has the authority to create any warranty regarding the website on behalf of Florida Hikes. Florida Hikes reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of the Web site.
Exclusion of Liability
Hiking is an outdoor activity that involves personal risk and responsibility. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall Florida Hikes, its owners, subcontactors, or individuals submitting their own information to this site be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages and expenses whatsoever arising out of or in any way connected with use of this website, delay or inability to use this website, or for any information, products, or services obtained through this website.
By using this website, you specifically agree that no licensor, supplier, or information provider to Florida Hikes shall have any liability to you for any reason whatsoever based upon the information provided on or through this website.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Florida Hikes and its agents, licensors and suppliers harmless from and against any and all claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of this site, or any content, product or service offered through this site, in a manner that violates or is alleged to violate these Terms and Conditions.
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Linking to Us
Unless you are subsequently advised otherwise by Florida Hikes, you are hereby licensed to create links to the content on the Web site, provided that the link accurately describes the content as it appears on the Web site. Florida Hikes reserves the right to revoke this license generally, or your right to use specific links, at any time.
Under no circumstances may you “frame” the Web site or any of its content or copy portions of the website to a server, except as part of an Internet service provider’s incidental caching of pages. Each page within the website must be displayed in full (including all trademarks, branding, advertising and promotional materials), without any accompanying frame, border, margin, design, branding, trademark, advertising or promotional materials not originally displayed on the page within the website. You may not utilize the RSS feeds from this site to generate web pages that mimic this site. The source of the RSS feed must be clearly shown.
Your Contributions
To protect the copyright of our website, a copy of this website will occasionally be submitted to the Library of Congress for registration. Your contributions will be included as part of the overall registration, much as within an issue of a magazine. However, any contributions of content, including uploads of articles and images, press releases, and news items remain under your copyright. By posting on this website, you grant Florida Hikes non-exclusive use of your content. Contributions, however, do not equate to a share in equity of the website. Additionally, your contributions may be removed from this website at any time without prior notice.
Copyright Notice
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