Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at MyHiking.club (“Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at [Contact Information].
1. Information We Collect
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Website, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on the Website, or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You
- Name
- Email Address
- Phone Number (optional)
- Hiking Details (including dates, locations, and descriptions of hikes)
- User Profile Information (such as profile pictures and biography)
2. How We Use Your Information
We use personal information collected via our Website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
- To Facilitate Account Creation and Logon Process: If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process.
- To Post User Content: We use the information you post about your hikes to share with other users.
- To Enable User-to-User Communications: We may use your information to enable user-to-user communications with each user’s consent.
- To Send Administrative Information: We may use your personal information to send you product, service, and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
- To Protect Our Services: We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
- To Enforce Our Terms, Conditions, and Policies: We may use your information to enforce our terms, conditions, and policies.
3. Sharing Your Information
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
- Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
- Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
4. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
5. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right to:
- Access: Request access to your personal data we hold about you.
- Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
- Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data.
- Restriction: Request the restriction of processing of your personal data.
- Objection: Object to the processing of your personal data.
- Portability: Request the transfer of your personal data to another party.