Your privacy is very important to us. At Blue Sun Designs, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)We don’t share (or sell) your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Blue Sun Designs LLC (“Blue Sun Designs”) operates a couple of websites including cabin4gear.com, getoutadventures.com, and bluesundesigns.com. It is Blue Sun Designs’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.Website Visitors Like most website operators, Blue Sun Designs collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Blue Sun Designs’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Blue Sun Designs’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Blue Sun Designs may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.Blue Sun Designs also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Blue Sun Designs only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.Gathering of Personally-Identifying InformationCertain visitors to Blue Sun Designs’ websites choose to interact with Blue Sun Designs in ways that require Blue Sun Designs to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Blue Sun Designs gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Blue Sun Designs collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Blue Sun Designs. Blue Sun Designs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.Aggregated StatisticsBlue Sun Designs may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Blue Sun Designs may monitor the most popular pages on the getoutadventure.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Blue Sun Designs may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Blue Sun Designs does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying InformationBlue Sun Designs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Blue Sun Designs’ behalf or to provide services available at Blue Sun Designs’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Blue Sun Designs’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Blue Sun Designs will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Blue Sun Designs discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Blue Sun Designs believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Blue Sun Designs, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Blue Sun Designs website and have supplied your email address, Blue Sun Designs may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Blue Sun Designs and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Blue Sun Designs takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.CookiesA cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Blue Sun Designs uses cookies to help Blue Sun Designs identify and track visitors, their usage of Blue Sun Designs website, and their website access preferences. Blue Sun Designs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Blue Sun Designs’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Blue Sun Designs’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.Business TransfersIf Blue Sun Designs, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Blue Sun Designs goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Blue Sun Designs may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.AdsAds appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Blue Sun Designs and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.CommentsComments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives. Privacy Policy Changes Although most changes are likely to be minor, Blue Sun Designs may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Blue Sun Designs’ sole discretion. Blue Sun Designs encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change. Any questions or concerns about this policy can be directed to kate@bluesundesigns.com.