Privacy Statement and Legal Disclaimer

Legal Disclaimer
Skiing is an inherently dangerous activity (to say nothing of writing about it) that involves significant risk of bodily harm or even death. No part of Aspect Journal should be construed as instruction or invitation to attempt any of the activities discussed, or as a guide to any of the locations described. Before attempting any skiing activity, professional ski instruction should be sought and professional guidance obtained, particularly when venturing into the dangers of backcountry skiing. Be careful out there.


Privacy Statement of Aspect Journal
We are committed to protecting your privacy at Aspect Journal. We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer, and we are the sole owner of all information collected on this site. We do not sell or rent this information to others in any way, but may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about users of the site, traffic patterns, and related site information. This data reflects our site usage patters gathered during visits by thousands of users of our Web site each month but does not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual member. We may also provide log files and other databases of user information to third parties for analysis, so we can get a better understanding of traffic through our site and thus improve our content offerings.

Consent:
By using our Web site, you give Aspect Journal permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics. If you register at Aspect Journal, you authorize us to use information you provide to personalize the information we deliver to you and to use your demographic information when calculating aggregate customer data. Aspect Journal may occasionally amend this policy. We suggest that you check to see if it has changed from time to time.

Information Automatically Logged:
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Use of your IP address is limited to banning of abusive users. IP addresses are never made public to fellow users of Aspect Journal.

External Links:
This site contains links to other sites. Aspect Journal is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Public Forums:
This site makes forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Registration Forms:
The Aspect Journal Forums registration requires users to give us contact information in the form of a valid e-mail address and a nickname for identification/login purposes. Contact information from the registration forms is used to get in touch with the user when necessary. In the case that you subscribe to our mailing list, you may opt-out of receiving future mailings.

Data Quality/Access:
This site gives users the option of changing and modifying information previously provided: You can edit your profile by clicking here.

Cookies:
The Aspect Journal Forums uses cookies to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. For more information on the use of cookies, click here.

Security:
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.

Your Consent:
By using our Web site, you give Aspect Journal permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics. If you register at Aspect Journal, you authorize us to use information you provide to personalize the information we deliver to you and to use your demographic information when calculating aggregate customer data. Aspect Journal may occasionally amend this policy. We suggest that you check to see if it has changed from time to time.

Contacting the Web Site:
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please send us an email at questions at aspectjournal dot com and we will reply as soon as possible.