We respect your right to privacy and will protect it when you visit our website. This page explains how we handle information about you when you visit and use our site. The sponsors of GeocachingPolicy provide this website as a public service — you do not have to provide any personal information in order to browse its content. The extent and type of information we receive from you depends on what you do while you are visiting our website.

GeocachingPolicy collects no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you specifically and knowingly choose to provide such information to us. If you choose to provide information to us, we will use it only to fulfill your request for information or services.

Our website automatically records website usage information that we analyze statistically to track operational problems, to prevent fraud, and to improve the effectiveness, security, and integrity of the site. This information does not identify you personally and we do not use this information to track or record information about individuals. We will disclose this information to third parties only in aggregate form or as may be required by law. For each page that you visit, we collect and store only the following technical information in what is called a web server log file:

By providing us with your personal information, for example by sending us an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through our website, you expressly consent to the collection, processing or use of this information for us to respond to your message and to help provide you with the information and services that you have requested. We make every effort to disclose clearly how information is used at the point where it is collected so that our users can determine for themselves whether they wish to provide the information.

Your submission, including personal information, may be shared within the GeocachingPolicy organization as well as with others, if necessary to address matters raised in your submission.

We do not collect, give, sell or rent any personal information to third parties for commercial marketing.

We may retain electronically submitted information as long as necessary to respond to your request. Computer web server logs may be preserved as long as administratively necessary and are scheduled for destruction in accordance with guidelines approved by our provider. The information in the logs may be used at any time as necessary to prevent security breaches and to insure the integrity of the data on our servers.

If you use an on-line form to register or for other purposes, information you provide will be retained in our system as appropriate.

We use commercial encryption techniques to protect the transmission and storage of the information you submit to us when you use one of our secure online forms. E-mail that you send to us is not necessarily secure against third-party interception or misdirection. For your own protection, you may wish to communicate sensitive information using a method other than e-mail.

For website security purposes and to ensure that our website remains available to all users, GeocachingPolicy.org computer systems that support the website use industry-standard methods and software to monitor and audit network traffic. We do this to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change site information, and to identify any other attempts to cause damage. Anyone visiting our website expressly consents to such monitoring and auditing.

Our website contains links to the websites of other government, public and private organizations that are outside of our control. When you follow a link to another site, you leave the GeocachingPolicy.org site and your web interactions are no longer covered by our privacy policy. GeocachingPolicy.org is not responsible for and does not endorse the privacy or security practices and content of non-Geocachingpolicy.org websites.

Websites may send to your computer small pieces of text called cookies along with some of the web pages that you visit. Cookies are typically used on transactional pages as place-holders to retain context and content during individual user sessions. This makes it easier for you to use the dynamic features of these web pages without having to provide the same information repeatedly as you move from one page to another during your visit.

There are three types of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer’s random access memory (RAM) and is only available for the duration of an active browsing session. A session cookie is not placed on any hard drive, and it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie from a website is saved to a file on your hard drive and is accessed whenever you re-visit the website that put it there. This lets that website remember what you were interested in the last time you visited. A third-party cookie is a persistent cookie that is set by or sent to a website different than the one you’re currently viewing.

The GeocachingPolicy.org website and its pages do not use persistent or third-party cookies, but sometimes use session cookies. Some of the interactive sections of our website may set session cookies in temporary memory in order to provide streamlined navigation. These session cookies are not stored on your computer's hard drive and are automatically erased as soon as you close your browser. Information from these session cookies is not collected or saved.