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This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how Hiker Country collects and processes your personal information through your use of the Website and the Services, including any information you may provide when you create an account and a profile with us, when you purchase or use our Services, when you submit status updates, when you search for our Website, when you subscribe to our email alerts, when you contact our customer service, when you participate in surveys, public forums, chats, or when you respond to one of our requests for suggestions and other content.
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Please note that the Website is intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website, App or through our Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us.
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It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your information. This Privacy Policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
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Controller or Processor
To the extent that Hiker Country holds information about you due to your use of our Services, Hiker Country is the controller and responsible for your personal information. To the extent that Hiker Country holds information about you due to its presence in content uploaded by Hiker Country customers, Hiker Country acts as a processor on behalf of such customers and the terms of this Privacy Policy does not apply to such information.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below.
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Contact Details
Our full details are:
Hiker Country.
Email address: hikercountry01@gmail.com
Postal address: 3703 Treeline Drive, Valrico, FL 3359
If you are based in the European Union, you also have the right to make a complaint at any time to your local supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the regulator so please contact us at hikercountry01@gmail.com first.
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Changes to the Privacy Policy and your duty to inform us of changes
This version was last updated on April 16, 2023.

We reserve the right to change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will post the revised Privacy Policy to our Website (as linked within the App) and the last revision date of revision will be updated so that you will always be able to understand what information we collect, how we use your information, and under what circumstances we may share your information with others.

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your relationship with us..
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Third-party Links

We do not collect information for third-party links, nor sell any of you information to third-parties.

We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
● Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
● Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
● Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

The types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data are:
● Legitimate Interest - this means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal information for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal information for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
● Performance of Contract – this means processing your information where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
● Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation -this means processing your personal information where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
● Consent – this means you have consented to our use of data in this manner. We may ask for your express consent for certain uses, and you are free to withdraw that consent at any time. Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal information other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for which we will use your personal information‍
We have set out below, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal information, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.Note that we may process your personal information for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your information. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal grounds we are relying on to process your personal information where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/Activity Type of DataLawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest to register you as a new customer:
a. Identity
b. Contact
Performance of a contract with you to allow your use of the Service:
a. Identity
b. Technical
c. Contactd. Financial
e. Transaction

Performance of a contract with you to process and deliver your order including:
a. Manage payments, fees and charges

Collect and recover money owed to us
a. Identity
b. Contact
c. Financiald. Transaction
e. Marketing and

Communications
a. Performance of a contract with you
b. Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)To manage our relationship with you which will include: Performance of a contract with youa. Notifying you about
changes to our terms or
b. Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

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c. Necessary for our legitimate
b. Asking you to leave a review or take a survey interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our services)

To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey
a. Identity
b. Contact
c. Profile
d. Marketing and

Communications
a. Identity
b. Contact
c. Profile
d. Usage
e. Marketing and

Communications
a. Performance of a contract with you
b. Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our services, to develop them and grow our business)
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To administer and protect our business and this Website and Mobile App (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) a. Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise)

b. Necessary to comply with a legal
obligation
To use data analytics to improve our website, services, customer relationships and experiences
a. Identityb. Contact
c. Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our services, to keep our Website and Mobile App updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our strategy) To make suggestions and recommendations to you about services that may be of interest to you
a. Technical
b. Usage
a. Identity
b. Contact
c. Technical
d. Usage
e. Profile

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our services and grow our business) or where have otherwise consented to such usage

Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal information uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You may elect to opt out of receiving any further marketing or advertising emails from us through the mechanism provided in those emails. We may send you targeted advertising through the Service on to you.

Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you.
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.