Privacy Policy

This site is owned and operated by The Camping Journal. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At The Camping Journal, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. The Camping Journal gathers two types of information about users: Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters (not applicable at this time), or when you send us an email. Information The Camping Journal gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because The Camping Journal derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does The Camping Journal divulge any information about an individual user to a third party. The Camping Journal tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. The Camping Journal does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser). The Camping Journal sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

COOKIES: We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. The Camping Journal uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION: The Camping Journal uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY: The Camping Journal operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

OPT-OUT POLICY: At this time, The Camping Journal does not use a mailing list and will never send you an solicitation email.

YOUR CONSENT AND RESPONSIBILITY: By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by The Camping Journal. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

DO NOT STEAL: Any use of The Camping Journal's website content, photographs or images - including any commercial use, reproduction, modification, distribution, republication or display, without the prior written permission of The Camping Journal or Terry Taylor is strictly prohibited. Our RV checklists may be printed for personal use only. If you wish to use one of our articles, recipes, checklists, photographs or images at your business or organization - just ask! Thanks.