Privacy Policy
Last Updated: May 4th, 2023
This privacy policy describes the personal data collected or processed when you use the Bear Mountain Fitness website (“Site”). It also explains how your personal data is used and protected, what choices you have relating to your personal data, and how you can contact us.
Who is Responsible for the Processing of Your Personal Data?
Bear Mountain Fitness™ is a trade name used by EdgarWilliamsLLC.
You can contact EdgarWilliamsLLC about this Privacy Policy at edgarwilliamsllc@gmail.com.
Our website address is: https://www.bearmountainfitness.com.
What Personal Data do we Collect and How do we use it?
We use WordPress for our website and by default WordPress does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users. However some of our plugins and partners collect personal data to enable normal use of this website. This is normal practice for most websites of this type.
Online Personal Training
We use PTDistintion.com and its software to manage our online personal training/coaching through this website and their Privacy Policy can be found here https://www.ptdistinction.com/terms/privacy.php.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on this site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is 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.
Any media or data sent through the online training/coaching portal is protected by your unique personal email address and password. This information is not stored on this website and is securely managed by PTDistinction software.
Contact and ‘Other’ Forms
The information you freely choose to provide including but not limited to your name, email, age, your questions and your answers to questions is used to contact you and communicate with you. This data is not used for marketing or sold to third parties.
Cookies
Your Preferences & User Experience
We use cookies to gather certain information about users, such as browser type, server, language preference, and country setting, in order to store user preferences on our Site to make your user experience more consistent and convenient. For example, we may store the recent searches you have performed in a cookie so that we can allow you to easily repeat those searches when you return to our Site, or so that we can suggest profile information when you sign up for an account. In addition, we use cookies to maintain your logged in state when you visit our Site repeatedly. We may also use your IP address to determine your geographic location in order to provide you with the most relevant search results.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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 your 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.
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.
Analytical Purposes
We use cookies to analyze user activity in order to improve the Site. For example, we can use cookies to look at aggregate patterns like the average number of recipe searches that users perform. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of the Site.
Marketing
We use cookies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook for marketing purposes. These cookies allow us to display Bear Mountain Fitness related promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the Internet. Bear Mountain Fitness may also share information about your behavior on the Site with third parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you. We also use cookies to facilitate the Bear Mountain Fitness Targeted Ads Program. In this Program, we use cookies to determine which ads users have seen, and how many times users have seen a particular ad.
Managing Cookies In Your Browser
Use the options in your web browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. You can easily delete and manage any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser by following the instructions provided by your particular browser manufacturer.
Bear Mountain Fitness uses several features of Google Analytics. Bear Mountain Fitness and Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site. This means that vendors including Google will display Bear Mountain Fitness promotional material on other sites you visit across the Internet.
Opt-Out
You may opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers including AdWords and opt-out of customized Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager. To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser add-on, which is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, to enable you to opt-out of Google’s programs.
Fraud/Spam Prevention
We use cookies during fraud reviews and investigations. Some of our cookie/device tracking happens via 3rd party vendors, other times we use our own indexes to identify activity related to specific cookies.
Testing, Usability, and Performance Improvement Purposes
We use cookies to ensure users receive a consistent user experience while we conduct testing on certain aspects of our Site in order to improve our product offerings. We also use cookies to improve the performance and reliability of our Site.
Referral Tracking
We use cookies to associate user activity with the third party website that referred the user to our Site, or to associate user activity that Bear Mountain Fitness referred to a third party website. Some of these third party websites are partner websites that receive credit for the activity of users they refer to our Site, or give Bear Mountain Fitness credit for the activity of users referred to such third party websites. We do not share any personal information or information about individual user activities with these partner entities. However, we may share information, such as the third party website you were visiting when you clicked on a Bear Mountain Fitness link to a Post.
Security Purposes
We use cookies to limit certain types of cyber attacks.
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.
How long we retain your data?
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also 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.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Dreamhost (https://www.dreamhost.com/legal/privacy-policy/)
Google (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=us)
Square (https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy)
P T Distinction Ltd (https://www.ptdistinction.com)
Additional information
How We Protect Your Data
We use Wordfence WordPress Firewall and Wordfence WordPress Malware Scanner for your protection.
We use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which encrypts any personal information you enter into subscription, comment and contact forms on our website. The encryption process protects your information by scrambling it before it is sent to us from your computer.
Only one person has the admin password for this website.
What Data Breach Procedures We Have In Place
Any breach should immediately be communicated to the owner by Wordfence and Wordfence software will be activated.
What Third Parties We Receive Data From
What Automated Decision Making and/or Profiling We Do With User data
Google (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=us)
Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements
This website is not a member of a regulated industry nor is subject to additional privacy laws.
Links to Other Sites
Bear Mountain Fitness is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites that may be linked to this site or of any third party advertisers.
Acceptance of Privacy Statement
Your use of our website(s), including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this privacy statement and the applicable Terms and Conditions of Service. BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT AND THE APPLICABLE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement page and any other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by other means, such as e-mail, at our discretion.
Your continued use of any portion of our website following posting of the updated privacy statement will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
Thank you for reviewing our Privacy Policy.