Avalanche Safety Solution’s Website Privacy Policy

This statement discloses the privacy practices and policies for Avalanche Safety Solution's website. If you have any questions about these practices and policies, please contact us.

Avalanche Safety Solutions respects your personal privacy. Avalanche Safety does not sell, rent or provide your "Personal Information" to third parties, except as described below. Personal Information as used herein refers to data and facts about you which include, but are not limited to, your name, age, address, email address, financial information (account or credit card numbers), phone number, etc.

Personal Information is personal to you in that belongs to you and identifies who you are. There are a variety of pathways, electronic and otherwise, by which any singe element of these data can point to you personally. Personal Information does NOT include your IP Address as defined below. Personal Information is generally kept for Avalanche Safety Solutions business which is primarily used to assist you in your current or future purchases or in analyzing sales trends.

Personal Information is primarily gathered from an order form where customers request information, products and services. Personal Information that is collected by Avalanche Safety Solutions is used to bill the user for products and services, and to ship those products. In order to complete and fulfill orders. Personal Information must be shared with our outside shipping company and credit card processing company. Personal Information is also used to get in touch with the customer when necessary, normally regarding an order.

Cookies and IP Addresses

Avalanche Safety Solutions also collects, uses, and monetizes IP Addresses. An IP Address is a convention of the Internet Protocol that identifies your "virtual" address on the internet. This IP Address is not personal to you and does not identify any of your Personal Information. All devices connected to a network have an IP Address permitting communication to and from the device. If you connect to the Internet from your computer, then you have an IP Address that looks something like this: 209.17.654.152. In the simplest possible terms, your IP Address contains no data that identifies you as a person. It is only a logical address allowing you to connect to others and others to locate your computer. We use an IP Address for a number of uses as set forth herein. We use an IP Address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. The IP Address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information. Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart. We use cookies for other purposes such as site personalization. You can reject cookies and still use the Avalanche Safety Solutions site; however, it will disable the ability for the site to recognize your cart, your account and any personalization efforts. Avalanche Safety Solutions may monetize or otherwise provide anonymous IP Addresses to third parties. Avalanche Safety sometimes employs other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples of such may include hosting our website, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links, retargeted advertising, analyzing data, etc. These third parties have access only to IP Addresses, no Personal Information is provided to them.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. Avalanche Safety is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Your Rights And Obligations With Respect To Content And Material Submitted By You

Any comments, reviews, posts, feedback, questions, answers, notes, messages, images, video, audio, materials, ideas, suggestions or other communications you submit on Avalanche Safety are not private or proprietary. By submitting User Content on or through Avalanche Safety, you grant Avalanche Safety an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual right and license to use, copy, modify, display, archive, store, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works based upon such User Content, in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future. By submitting such User Content on or through Avalanche Safety, you are confirming that (a) you are the sole author of the User Content and the User Content originated with you and was not copied in whole or in part from any other work; (b) you have obtained all necessary permissions associated with the User Content, including without limitation permissions relating to copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity and/or rights of privacy; (c) the User Content does not contain hate speech or profanity and is not libelous, obscene or otherwise in violation of this Agreement, and (d) that you are not a minor and have the legal right and capacity to enter into and comply with these Terms. By submitting any such User Content on or through Avalanche Safety, you grant Avalanche Safety permission to use your name, alias and any other information (as provided by you) to attribute such User Content to you. Without limiting the generality of the previous sentence, and subject to our Privacy Policy, you authorize Avalanche Safety and its affiliates to share the User Content across all affiliated Web sites, and to use your name and any other information in connection with its use of such User Content. You also grant Avalanche Safety and its affiliates the right to use any material, information, ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such User Content. We are not responsible for the similarity of any of our Content or programming in any media to User Content submitted by you. Any and all rights granted in this section are granted without the need for any compensation to you in any form. User Content does not reflect the views of Avalanche Safety, and Avalanche Safety does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, completeness, timeliness or reliability of any User Content, nor endorses or supports any opinions expressed in any User Content. In no event shall Avalanche Safety have or be construed to have any responsibility or liability for or in connection with any User Content. If we determine, in our sole discretion, you or any User Content you submit violates this Agreement, we reserve the right, at any time, without notice and without limiting any and all other rights we may have under this Agreement, to (a) refuse to allow you to submit further User Content, (b) remove and delete your User Content, (c) revoke your registration and right to use the User Content Submission Features and (d) use any technological, legal, operational or other means available to enforce the terms of this Agreement, including, without limitation, blocking specific IP addresses or deactivating your registration, access using your e-mail address, your user name and password.

Avalanche Safety DOES NOT ENDORSE THE USER CONTENT, IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USER CONTENT AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PERSONS WHO MAY USE OR RELY ON SUCH USER CONTENT) FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE (WHETHER ACTUAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHERWISE), INJURY, CLAIM, LIABILITY OR OTHER CAUSE OF ANY KIND OR CHARACTER BASED UPON OR RESULTING FROM ANY USER CONTENT PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEB SITE.

How Secure Is Information About Me? 

We work to protect the security of your Personal Information during any transmission of same by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. Email is not a secure form of communication. Do not send important Personal Information via email.

 Changes to this Privacy Policy

Avalanche Safety may update this privacy policy in the future. We will notify you about material changes to this privacy policy by placing a prominent notice on our website. Any changes in our use of personal information contrary to Members' initial consent will be posted, in advance, on our website with instructions regarding consent to any changes. Notices may also be posted in our store and sent by email. All changes will remain in compliance with federal and provincial privacy legislation.