Proper Peaks is committed to the privacy of our customers and guests (“you” and “your”). The Proper Peaks Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to Personal Information that Proper Peaks collects online.

“Personal Information” is information associated with an identifiable individual or household. Personal Information does not include information about a business or aggregated anonymous information that cannot be associated with a specific individual.

This Policy does not apply to information about Proper Peaks’s employees or to information that is not Personal Information.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW IT IS USED

Proper Peaks collects Personal Information during the course of operating our website and social media. We use this information to provide you with the best possible service and to meet our reasonable business needs.

(b) We collect your Personal Information when you use our web applications

Depending on your marketing preferences, we may also use your Personal Information to send you offers, invitations or promotions relating to our products, services or programs that we believe may be of interest to you. For example, we may monitor your commercial transactions or browsing habits on our websites which may influence the personalized special offers and promotions that we send to you.

We may collect your name, contact information and comments or questions when you submit an inquiry or comment, or otherwise provide us with feedback about our business. We may also collect information related to your experience using our products in a guest satisfaction survey. These surveys may include optional questions regarding your income, race/ethnicity, or gender which, if answered, help us to learn more about our customers and how we can improve our business and public engagement in snow sports. We may use this information to respond to your question and to improve our business, products, services and programs.

(d) We collect your Personal Information when you participate in a marketing initiative or create an online account

If you choose to create an online account profile, we may collect your name, contact information, age, gender, birth date, personal image, username and password and other information that you choose to provide (such as your preferences).

We may also collect your name, contact information, age and/or date of birth if you decide to participate in a marketing initiative such as a contest, sweepstakes or other promotion. In some cases we may also ask you specific questions about your preferences or for feedback on our business, products, services and programs. We use this information to administer the promotion, including contacting and announcing winners (where applicable), to improve our business, products, services and programs, and for marketing initiatives, such as offers or promotions relating to our products, services, or programs that we believe may be of interest to you, depending on your marketing preferences.

(e) We collect your Personal Information from third parties

If you are a resident of the U.S., we may also supplement the Personal Information that you provide to us with information that we obtain from third parties.

OUR COLLECTION OF INFORMATION THROUGH COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

When you visit one of our websites or use one of our Apps, your web browser sends us certain information depending on the browser you use and your security settings. This information may include your IP address, the name and version of your operating system, the name and version of your web browser, other technical data information, whether you accessed our website from a computer or a mobile device, when you open emails we send you, the date, time, and duration of your visit, and geolocation data. This web browser data helps with system administration, traffic reposting, and auditing. It also helps us better understand who our guests are, how they use our services, and what we can do to improve the user experience. We may use this information to offer you products and services and to create aggregate statistics. This helps us improve your experience both online.

We also use “cookies” to customize your website user experience by tailoring online content to align with your browsing habits. Cookies are small pieces of data, stored on your hard drive that send us information about your online browsing habits, including login and browsing history, button impressions, and personal preferences. Cookies also tell us under which account a user is logged in to one of our websites and this information helps us protect your information by making sure your personal preferences are only displayed when you are actually logged in. If you tell an Proper Peaks website to “Remember Me” or save your preferences, this information is stored using a cookie. Some cookies are also required to support the functionality of your transaction (e.g. putting items in your shopping cart).

We may work with advertising networks (such as Google AdWords and Facebook Ads) that use cookies and similar technologies to track your use of our websites and other websites so that they can provide advertising about products and services tailored to your inferred interests. This advertising may appear on our website(s) or on other websites. Some of our advertising network’s technology uses separate cookies or other tracking technologies that may be delivered to your device when you visit our websites, use our Apps, or open emails from us. These advertising technologies are governed by the individual third-party advertising network’s privacy policy, and you must contact them directly to opt out. Please contact us for this information. Some of these third-party ad networks may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI). If they are members of NAI, then you have the option to “opt out”. Additional information on NAI members and how to opt out, can be found at http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp

We may also use services, such as Google and Facebook, that also use cookies and similar technologies, to provide us with information on how you interact with the content on our websites. For example, the webpage content that you click on, the duration of your visit to our website, and what website you visited prior to ours.

We may also allow social plug-ins with social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. When you visit a page on our websites or our Apps that contains a social plug-in, your web browser sends information to that social plug-in and the social plug-in sends content directly to your web browser which enables it to gain information that you have accessed a page on one of our websites or Apps. For information regarding the third party’s use of social plug-ins and how it may impact your privacy, you should refer to the third party’s privacy policy.

A Web Beacon is a tiny graphic with a unique identifier which is placed in the code of a web page. We use Web Beacons to count visitors to its websites and to monitor the traffic patterns within and between our websites, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand how you have come to our site, and to improve site performance. Web Beacons help us to measure the effectiveness of our content and other offerings.

You can choose to disable cookies using your web browser’s preferences menu. By turning off cookies, we will still be able to track your browsing history during a single visit to one of our websites however, we will not be able to link your browsing history during each of these visits to you, as you will be considered a new visitor each time you visit one of our websites. Web Beacons will no longer be able to track your activity on our websites however, the Web Beacon may be able to continue to track activity based on your IP address. Be aware that turning off cookies may disable certain functions on the website and cause it not to function properly.

We may include links to third party sites on our websites. When you click on those third-party links, you leave our website. This Policy does not apply to third party sites or any information that you provide on those sites.

WHEN WE MAY COMBINE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may combine the Personal Information you provide, or that we collect, in order to better understand your needs, requirements, and personal preferences so that we may improve our business, products, services and programs and optimize your experience, or when you are dealing with one of our team members, or a other authorized third party.

Depending on your marketing preferences, we may also use this information to send you offers, invitations or promotions relating to our products, services or programs that we believe may be of interest to you. For example, we may monitor your commercial transactions or browsing habits on our website which may influence the personalized special offers and promotions that we send to you.

WHEN WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will not sell your Personal Information for monetary value. We may, however, provide your Personal Information with third party service providers in the following circumstances:

Vendors – We may share your Personal Information with vendors (including affiliates acting in this capacity) who provide services on our behalf such as payment card processors, call center administrators, web-site hosting, data management, identity verification (for example, in order to confirm your eligibility for special offers, such as military discounts), market analyses, marketing, advertising, and contest administration, or your personal information may be collected by such service providers on our behalf.

Partners – We may disclose your Personal Information to third-party partners in situations where the disclosure is necessary in order to complete or provide the service, product, or information that you have purchased or requested. For example, we may disclose your Personal Information to a third-party tour operator if you purchased a tour from the third-party tour operator using our websites.
Corporate Transactions – We may disclose your Personal Information to another entity, if necessary, in the event of an actual or proposed merger, sale, re-organization, including as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, or for the purposes of evaluating and/or performing such transaction.
Special Circumstances – We may consider it necessary or may be required by law to disclose your Personal Information with our attorneys, or with others who are legally authorized in certain emergencies where the health, safety, or well-being of a person is at imminent risk, or if required in order to comply with a court order, or as otherwise required to comply with the law.

YOUR CONSENT

We collect, use and disclose your Personal Information as outlined in this Policy and with your consent, except where permitted or required otherwise by law. We may be required or permitted under statute or regulation to collect, use or disclose Personal Information without your consent, for example to comply with a court order, to collect a debt owed to us or if there is an imminent threat to an individual’s health, safety, or well-being.

Your consent may be express (for example, oral, written, or electronic) or your consent may be reasonably inferred or implied from something that you do (for example, use of our websites, implies consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Policy). In some instances, an authorized representative may consent on your behalf. In the case of minor children, a parent or legal guardian may consent to our collection, use and disclosure of a minor’s Personal Information.

You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restraints by contacting us at the locations listed in the Access section of this Policy. However, your withdrawal of consent might affect your experience and our ability to provide products or services to you, or quick and accurate service to you online.

If you do not consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information online as described in this Policy, do not use our websites or Apps.

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR MARKETING PREFERENCES

If you no longer want us to use your Personal Information for marketing purposes, including to send you promotional communications, you may contact us (see “Contact Us” section below) and ask to be removed from our mailing and/or contact lists. We may ask you for more information where required in order to identify you correctly.

You may also manage your email subscriptions by clicking on “Unsubscribe” to stop receiving future promotional communications from us, or by clicking on “Manage My Email Preferences” found at the bottom of any of our emails you receive in order to manage your email subscriptions.

If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, please either reply “STOP” to the text message, or contact us with your request (see “Contact Us” section below).

Children Under 13: We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of thirteen, without prior consent of the child’s parent or legal guardian. Proper Peaks’s websites and social media pages available online are not directed to users under the age of thirteen. If you believe that your child under the age of thirteen may have provided us with Personal Information online please contact us at yourprivacy@properpeaks.com and we will take appropriate action.

We require the consent of the child’s parent or guardian for a child under the age of 13 to open an account or create profile related to an App. Parents and guardians understand the App may collect information about their child, such as photos, chat sessions, location information and the lifts that the child has skied or boarded. We collect this information for the limited purpose of providing the App Services. We do not collect or use this information in order to market products or services to children, and we will not sell this information. To disable your child’s account, request a copy of the information, or ask a question about the App and your child’s data, parents and guardians should contact us at yourprivacy@properpeaks.com.

Affiliate Disclosure

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites

Additionally Proper Peaks participates in other affiliate programs which may compensate Proper Peaks if individuals purchase through links to these affiliate sites.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We will generally keep your Personal Information on file for a reasonable period of time in order to meet our needs as described herein and as applicable, the needs of the parties to whom we disclose it. This file will be maintained on our servers or those of our service providers and will be accessible by our authorized employees, service providers and representatives. We maintain reasonable and systematic controls, schedules, and practices to retain and destroy Personal Information.

Internal Protections: We protect Personal Information by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information. We have policies and practices to protect against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, modification, or destruction. While we make efforts to protect your Personal Information we are not in a position to guarantee that your Personal Information will always be secure. There may be factors beyond our control which may result in loss or theft, or unauthorized access, use or disclosure of your Personal Information. As a consequence, we disclaim any warranties or representation on non-disclosure of your Personal Information. We also employ a Chief Privacy Officer to be accountable for our compliance with these policies and whom you may contact at the address below with any question, concern or complaint.

Please be aware that your Personal Information may be transferred to, stored and processed by us and its affiliates in Canada and the United States where Proper Peaks, or its affiliates or service providers operate and maintain data. While outside of Canada, your Personal Information will be subject to applicable foreign laws, which may permit foreign government, regulatory or national security authorities to have access to your Personal Information in certain circumstances. By providing us with your Personal Information, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third party service providers with whom we share it as described in this Policy.

Ezoic Services

This website has an exclusive advertising contract with Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), a renowned leader in website optimization, enhancing user experiences, optimizing ad performance, and generating revenue through advanced AI-powered technology. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including to display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website. For additional information about Ezoic’s advertising partners, please see Ezoic’s Advertising Partner Page here.

ACCESS AND CORRECTION

Request a Copy: To obtain access to, or a copy of, your Personal Information that we have on file for little or no cost contact yourprivacy@properpeaks.com Attention: Chief Privacy Officer. Access to this information may be denied if you are unable to verify that you are the subject of the request. Information may also not be provided when giving you access to the information would threaten someone’s life or security, reveal third-party Personal Information, breach confidentiality, violate attorney/solicitor-client privilege, disrupt a formal dispute resolution, or impede a law enforcement investigation.

Accuracy: We endeavor to ensure that your Personal Information is as accurate, complete, and as up to date as necessary for the purposes for which it will be used or shared. If you would like to request correction of your Personal Information that we have on file you may write to us at yourprivacy@properpeaks.com Attention: Chief Privacy Officer.

Contact Us: If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, you may contact us at:

Email: yourprivacy@properpeaks.com

California Customers:

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

In addition to your rights specified in this Policy, California citizens and households may request the deletion of or access to their Personal Information in accordance with the CCPA. To submit a request to delete or a request to access your Personal Information, please contact our Chief Privacy Officer at yourprivacy@properpeaks.com or visit the Contact Us page on our website to submit a webform. You must include sufficient detail in your request, such as your first and last name, date of birth, email and postal addresses. We may ask you for more information where required in order to identify you correctly. We will attempt to provide you with the requested information within forty-five (45) days of receipt. We do not discriminate against customers who submit requests to access or delete their Personal Information.

Shine the Light

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California citizens may request certain information regarding our disclosures in the prior calendar year, if any, of their personally identifiable information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at the address listed above. You must include sufficient detail in your request, such as your first and last name, date of birth, email and postal addresses. We will attempt to provide you with the requested information within thirty (30) days of receipt. We reserve our right not to respond to requests sent more than once in a calendar year, or requests submitted to an address other than the one set out in this policy.

SUBJECT TO CHANGE

This Policy is subject to change and may be supplemented or modified at any time. You should check this site regularly to stay up to date about changes to this Policy. If material changes are made, we will notify you by placing a notice on our website.

EFFECTIVE: March 2022