Outdoor Freaks, Corp. has created a privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and protection of all persons who visit the Outdoor Freaks website. This statement sets forth our information gathering and dissemination practices for Outdoor Freaks. For purposes of this policy, the term "visitor" includes visitors to our site who are not yet members.

What We Collect and Where

Our website collects information from members including contact information, outdoor preferences, gender, and location.

How Secure is the Information We Collect?

Outdoor Freaks is committed to industry best practices concerning security measures to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information in our possession. Sensitive member information is not published to the public or to other members. Our company databases are accessible only by people with a need to know and who have entered into and are bound by a confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement with Outdoor Freaks.

Contact Information

We use member contact information (email addresses) to send information about our company and to keep members informed when necessary. We also use the information we collect to improve the content of our Websites and as training aids. To contact us please see our Contact Us page.

Outdoor Preferences

We collect members' outdoor preferences to help us tailor our content to member needs. In addition, this information is used in aggregate to help us secure advertising to help support and expand the Outdoor Freaks website, to offer real-time events and to represent Outdoor Freaks at conventions and trade shows.

Financial Information

Customers can enter credit card data through our Store. Customer financial information is encrypted for its protection during its transmission over the internet and is sent directly to a secure card processor. We do not store credit card data.

IP addresses

We use visitors' and members' unique network addresses (IP Address) to help diagnose problems with our servers, to moderate our forum and to administer our websites. An IP address may be used to identify possible abuse and may be blocked if abuse is detected.

Cookies

We use cookies to help us recognize visitors as unique visitors (just a number) when they return to our websites. This allows us to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site to help us improve the structure of our Web site. We cannot identify visitors personally in this way.

We use permanent cookies to remember members when they use the Remember Me option . This allows members to continue to be logged in to our website. Members may opt out of this by not checking the Remember Me option and logging in for each visit to access member-only content.

We use cookies to recognize members, to allow access to members-only areas, to remember forum view preference and to allow member access to update their personal information.

Bottom Line

We gather all information for internal use only and will not authorize the release of any information to anyone outside Outdoor Freaks unless required to do so by law. Information may be disclosed when we are legally required to by a US court order, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website and applicable laws, or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website.