Effective Date: January 25, 2012

1. THIRD PARTY ADVERTISEMENTS/GOOGLE ADS. This site uses third party advertisements to generate revenue. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on runningsnowshoes.net, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Chicago real estate ads to someone in Illinois, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can choose to disable or turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Mcafee or Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how your ability to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

1.1: GOOGLE ADVERTISING COOKIE AND DOUBLECLICK DART COOOKIE: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on runningsnowshoes.net.  Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users of our site based on their visit to runningsnowshoes.net and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

2. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY. We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update, or modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update, or modification on the Site and without any other notice to you. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Site.  It is your responsibility to review this Policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all of its terms.