Privacy Policy

UKClimbing.com is dedicated to giving you the website resources and information you desire, without compromising your personal data integrity.

User Profiles
UKClimbing.com uses User Profiles to enhance and personalise the user-experience. User Profiles are free to set up and the only data we require is a functioning email address, a user name and a password. This information is collected via an input box and is submitted by the user and stored on a private database on our server. The email address is confirmed by sending an email to the submitted address with a link that is clicked on to validate the User Profile. A browser cookie is used to identify you on return visits. UKClimbing.com Ltd. does not divulge your User Profile information to any third parties. The password information is not encrypted so don't use the same password you use for sites requiring a greater level of security.

Emailing Other Users
It is possible to email other users via a form accessed from their User Profiles, or User names in the Forums. The actual email addresses are never publicly disclosed on the site although users should be aware that, when sending an email, your regsitered user email address is included in the sent email to allow replies. It is possible to keep your communication private by blocking UKC-form emails from unregistered users, or even blocking it completely.

UKClimbing.com Newsletter
UKClimbing.com produces a Weekly Newsletter. This mailing list for this Newsletter is held on our web server which is based in the UK. If you don't wish to receive the Newsletter then you can deselect the 'Subscribe me to the Weekly Newsletter' option in your 'User Options & Logout' in the top right-hand corner of many UKClimbing.com pages.

Privacy Options on your User Profile
The following privacy options are possible:
1) Under 'User Options & Logout' in the top right-hand corner of many UKClimbing.com pages, you can edit a lot of privacy options. You can set yourself to be unreachable by the on-site email function, and you can unsubscribe to our Weekly Newsletter.
2) You can change your user name by emailing us with a new user name - please check on the User Profile page for available names first.
3) You can manually edit all the text fields in your User Profile, or delete the contents of every field.
4) Individual photos can easily be removed from your gallery by licking on the 'Edit Photo' button in the top right-hand corner of the photos screen.
5) Logbook entries can be removed (see HELP page on the Logbook section) or the whole Logbook can be set to 'Hidden'.

Removing your User Profile
User Profiles are automatically removed after 2 years of inactivity. Browsing the site when logged on to a particular profile will re-set that profile as 'active'.
Although User Profiles can be deleted from our database before 2 years has passed, we discourage users from doing this since deleting a profile doesn't really achieve much, but can cause problems at a later date. The only data that is removed when we delete a User Profile is the personal data associated with that profile (which can be easily edited anyway) and the personal climbs Logbook (which can also be edited away or hidden beyond view). All the forum posts from the Profile, and photos in the gallery stay in place. By deleting a Profile we actually break the link between the Profile and the posts, gallery and Logbook and this link cannot be re-established at a later date. In the past we have had problems with people trying to lose old profiles only to build new ones under a new identity, however often they then come back to us and request their old Logbook and photos back which is not actually possible.
If you wish to have your User Profile removed please first empty it of all data, delete your logbook and photos, then contact us and we will remove the Profile.

Forum Posts
The UKClimbing.com Forums are the most popular climbing-related forums in the World. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these message boards becomes public as soon as you have posted it. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information. On most of the Forums the threads are archived permanently even if your Profile is removed.

Links
UKClimbing.com Ltd. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites which are linked to from the UKClimbing.com website, either from editorial content, classified listings, or the cross-site advertising.

Website Statistics
UKClimbing.com Ltd. uses Google Analytics for our websites statistics. We do not gather browsing behaviour of individual users.

UKClimbing.com Ltd is dedicated to your privacy and we hope that this privacy statement is a testament to our privacy commitment. If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding the UKClimbing.com Ltd. Privacy Statement, please feel free to contact UKClimbing.com Ltd.