Website Privacy Policy

What other information do we collect, and how is it used?

Use of this site, available as skisnowvalley.com, signifies your agreement to the Terms of Use / Disclaimer. Skisnowvalley.com is herein referred to as SSV.

We respect your privacy. That includes our newsletter subscribers, those who answer our surveys, and those who fill out our questionnaires:

  • We will NEVER sell or rent our mailing lists to third parties for e-mail marketing or any other purpose. We may advertise in our email publications;
  • We respect the purpose for which our site visitors gave us information;
  • We send our periodicals only to those who request them. Sometimes, people subscribe to their friends, and while we cannot prevent that, we offer information to these subscribers on how to easily unsubscribe if requested.
  • We keep our subscription lists as clean as possible to prevent obsolete e-mails from taking unnecessary bandwidth.

Cookies

SSV uses cookies to store and track your preferences to provide you with a more personalized user experience. A cookie is a message sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Most Internet sites use cookies. You can set your browser preferences to reject all cookies. Still, you will not be able to participate in most customized services, and you may be required to repeatedly log in to participate in various services, promotions, or product offerings. Cookies make your experience easier by saving your preferences and passwords.

We also use cookies that do not contain personal information. These cookies help us estimate our audience size, determine which areas of SSV sites are the most popular, and serve targeted advertising.

3rd Party Cookies

Some parts of the SSV site use cookies to collect information about visitor’s use of the Website and facilitate return visits. User activity information may be collected in partnership using a 3rd party tracking tool. The information collected from cookies is tracked to enhance security and improve the website’s functionality by avoiding duplicate data entry, facilitating navigation, and increasing content relevance. Cookies on the site may collect the following information: a unique identifier, user preferences and profile information used to personalize the content shown, and membership information to access SSV’s services. Some cookies used by SSV may remain on the user’s computer after they leave the Web site.

Most browsers can be configured to reject cookies or alert you when cookies are sent. However, if you refuse cookies, some portions of SSV sites may not function exactly as intended.

‘How To Geek’ has a good description of how to block cookies in various browsers.

IP Addresses

SSV may also collect IP addresses for systems administration or to report information in aggregate form to our advertisers (e.g., how many visitors logged in to an SSV site). An IP address is a number assigned to your computer automatically when you use the Internet. When you visit a particular SSV web page, our servers log your IP address. Your IP address is not linked to anything personally identifiable.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on this website to track visitor traffic. We have added IP Anonymization to our Google Analytics setup via Google Tag Manager. This setting anonymizes the IP address by removing the last octet of the IP address (your IP becomes 123.123.123.0 — where the last portion/octet is replaced with a ‘0’). This will happen before storage and processing begin. While we do not work directly with businesses in the EU or Switzerland, we have done this to address GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) for visitors to our website from the EU and Switzerland.

Email Subscription, Surveys, Etc.

This includes our newsletter subscribers, those who answer our surveys, and those who fill out our questionnaires:

  • We will never sell or rent our mailing lists to third parties for e-mail marketing or any other purpose. However, we may advertise in our email publications;
  • We respect the purpose for which our site visitors gave us information;
  • We send our periodicals only to those who request them. Sometimes, people subscribe for their friends, and while we cannot prevent that, we offer information to these subscribers on how to easily unsubscribe if requested (see below);
  • We keep our subscription lists as clean as possible to prevent obsolete e-mails from taking unnecessary bandwidth.

Subscribing

When you subscribe, SSV is seeking your consent to receive electronic communications. By providing your or another individual’s personal information to SSV or its affiliates, you agree to and confirm your authority from such other individual to our collection, use and disclosure of such personal information in accordance with our privacy policy.

Unsubscribing

You can withdraw your consent in whole or in part at any time by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link in every email sent.

You can also send us a message requesting to unsubscribe by contacting us via these options:

Questions or Comments?

Please get in touch with us with any questions or comments regarding SSV’s privacy policy.