Bar 717 Ranch Privacy Policy

The Bar 717 Ranch is not interested in using, storing, or sharing your personal data except to improve the usability and performance of our website. There are several ways in which our website will use, store, or share your data to this end, the details of which are found below.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT:

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms and other forms

When visitors fill out forms on the site we collect the data shown in the form itself, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Campservations

Campservations our email newsletter is managed by Mailchimp. You can find their privacy policy here. You can opt-out of our email list at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of each email. 

Squarespace

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.

If you ‘opt in’ to our newsletter, we may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace and Flodesk, our email marketing providers, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Our Services may use third party analytics and advertising cookies. We use Google Analytics to gather data create reports how users engage with our website and then we use this data to improve our user experience.  The information collected through the use of analytics may include, for example, your IP address, the website from which you visited us, the type of device you used.  You can find more information on how Google analytics tracks data here: Google Analytics privacy policy. You can opt out from the use of Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add On 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, or filled out any other form you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Questions or Requests

If you have any questions you can contact us through any of the means on our contact page.

Bar 717 Ranch Website Accessibility Statement

At the Bar 717 Ranch we recognize the importance of making our web content accessible to everyone. We are continually working to increase and maintain our website’s compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). If you have any requests or concerns about the accessibility of our website use the information on our contact page to let us know. We will consider all requests.

Shasta-Trinity Operations Statement

This business operates under special use permit with the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, and reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.)

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible State or local Agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information is also available in languages other than English. To file a complaint alleging discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online here, or at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provided in the letter all of the information requested in the form.

To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: (1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; (2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or (3) email: program.intake@usda.gov. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.