Our website uses cookies to improve interactions and user experience within the website, and on occasion to provide marketing information or advertise online, directly or through third party vendors. By continuing to use this website you have given us your consent to Use of Cookies as per General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), You can read our Privacy Policy here.

Cookie Notice

This Website uses cookies to improve the user experience and ensure that it is functioning effectively, and on occasion to provide marketing information or advertise online, directly or through third party vendors.

This Cookie Notice is part of HikeSquad’s, Privacy Statement. For more information about HikeSquad, and how it protects your information, please see the Privacy Statement.

In order to provide you with a more personalized and responsive service, HikeSquad needs to remember and store information about how you use this Website. This is done using small text files called cookies. Cookies contain small amounts of information that are downloaded to your computer or other device by a server for this Website. Your web browser then sends these cookies back to this Website on each subsequent visit so that it can recognize you and remember things such as your user preferences. You can find more detailed information about cookies and how they work at https://www.aboutcookies.org.

Whenever you use this Website, information may be collected through the use of cookies and other technologies. By using this Website you agree to HikeSquad’s use of cookies as described in this Cookie Notice and also to the use of cookies on the other country, regional or practice specific websites contained in www.hikesquad.digital that you may visit, as described in their accompanying cookie notices.

What cookies do HikeSquad use and why?

Some of the cookies HikeSquad uses are necessary to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas that may contain content for registered users.

HikeSquad also uses functional cookies to record information about the choices you have made, and to allow it to tailor the site to its users. For example, to remember your language or region, or that you have already completed a survey. This information is usually anonymized and not used for any other purpose.

HikeSquad or its service providers also use analytic services to understand how effective HikeSquad’s content is, what interests HikeSquad’s users have, and to improve how this Website works. In addition, HikeSquad uses web beacons or tracking pixels to count visitor numbers and performance cookies to track how many individual users access this Website and how often. This information is used for statistical purposes only. It is not HikeSquad’s intention to use such information to personally identify any user. However, if you have registered and signed into this Website HikeSquad may combine this information with information from its web analytic services and cookies to analyze how you use this Website in more detail.

Please contact HikeSquad if you would like more detailed information on the cookies it uses.

How to control cookies?

By using this website, you agree that HikeSquad can place cookies on your computer or device as explained above. However, you can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please bear in mind that removing or blocking cookies can affect user experience, and parts of this website may no longer be fully accessible.

Browser controls

Most browsers will allow you to see what cookies you have and delete them on an individual basis or block cookies from particular or all websites. Be aware that any preference you have set will be lost if you delete all cookies, including your preference to opt-out from cookies; as this requires an opt-out cookie that has been set. For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, see https://www.aboutcookies.org or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq.

Managing Analytics cookies

You can opt-out of having your anonymized browsing activity within websites recorded by analytics cookies. HikeSquad uses the following service providers. You can learn more about their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their cookies by clicking on following links:

Here is Freshworks Privacy Pages

https://www.freshworks.com/privacy/

https://www.freshworks.com/legal/

Google Analytics:

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

Social buttons

The Website contains ‘social buttons’ to enable users to share or bookmark web pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites and these sites may log information about your activities on the Internet including on this Website. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information and to find out how to opt-out, or delete, such information.

External web services

HikeSquad sometimes uses external web services on this Website to display content within the web pages of this Website, for example to display images, show videos or run polls. Similar to social buttons, HikeSquad cannot prevent these sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your use of this embedded content.

Email Communications

HikeSquad may also use tracking technologies to determine whether you have read, clicked on, or forwarded certain email communications which HikeSquad sends to you. If you do not want HikeSquad to confirm whether you have opened, clicked on or forwarded its communications, you will need to unsubscribe, because it is not possible for HikeSquad to send these emails without tracking enabled. Registered subscribers can update their communication preferences at any time by contacting HikeSquad, or can unsubscribe following the instructions in the individual email communications you receive from HikeSquad.

HikeSquad may modify or amend this Cookie Notice from time to time, at its discretion. When HikeSquad makes changes to this notice, it will amend the revision date at the top of this page, and such modified or amended Cookie Notice shall be effective to you and your information, as of that revision date. HikeSquad encourages you to periodically review this Cookie Notice to be informed about how it is using cookies.