Information Collection and Use:

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 view while on this website

• Your IP address (for up to seven days)

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.

While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. You are not bound to provide this information and if you do, you do so at your own discretion. Personally identifiable information may include but is not limited to, your name and email address.

We will not share this information with third parties but the information may be stored within third party systems that support the Slowerhiking website, being:

• Squarespace (the platform on which Slowerhiking is built).

We encourage you to view privacy polices of this third party: Squarespace

Information Collected when Commenting on Blogs:

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages so you can post comments. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

Your chosen name (displayed with your posted comment)

Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts allowing you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Your IP address

This information is not retained.