TAI – Privacy policy

Effective Date: 11/26/2024

This Privacy Policy governs the handling of your personal data by The Adventure Institute, owned and operated by Tam Global Ventures LLC (“we,” “our,” or “us”). By using our website at https://www.theadventureinstitute.com, you agree to the terms outlined here.

1. Who We Are

Our mission is to provide education on outdoor survival skills through online courses and materials. Our website address is: https://www.theadventureinstitute.com.

2. Data Collection

Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies
We use cookies to improve your experience on our site:

• Comments Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies will last for one year to make it easier for you to leave follow-up comments without re-entering your details.
• Login Cookies: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
• Editor Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

3. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

4. Data Sharing

Spam Detection
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Password Resets
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

5. Data Retention

• Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
• User Profiles: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

6. Your Data Rights

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

7. Data Security

We implement industry-standard security measures but recommend caution when sharing sensitive information online.

8. Contact Us

For inquiries about this policy, please contact us at:

• Email: info@theadventureinstitute.com
• Mail: The Adventure Institute, 1148 Leary Way NW, Seattle, WA, 98107

This policy is subject to updates to meet evolving laws and technologies. Continued use of our website signifies acceptance of these terms.