Disclaimers

Transparency

Lillooet Ice Festival believes in total organizational transparency. Below is an overview of our general policies and program efficacy. For questions or further details, please contact our Organizing Committee by email.

Governance & Evaluation

Lillooet Ice Festival Organizing Committee provides guidance and strategic oversight of the festival, socials, events, clinics, and workshops.

Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that our commitment to diversity and inclusion builds a stronger climbing community and that’s why we provide a free and open registration to any and all participants.

Privacy Policy

Introduction

Lillooet Ice Festival knows the importance of safe-guarding the personal privacy of its donors, participants, clients, customers and visitors to its website. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) details the information that may be collected, how we use your personally identifiable information and how we protect it from inadvertent disclosure.

Terms

This Privacy Policy applies only to websites operated by or on behalf of Lillooet Ice Festival and specifically to those websites hyperlinked to this Privacy Policy (the “Sites”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to any non-electronic data collection.

The Sites contain links to the websites of other companies and third parties. Lillooet Ice Festival is not responsible for the content, practices, privacy policies or terms of usage of those websites.

As used in this Privacy Policy, “personally identifiable information” means information that can be used to identify an individual, or that contains individually identifying characteristics, such as full name, e-mail address, phone number or credit card information. “Aggregate information” refers to group information which has been initially provided as personally identifiable information, but can no longer be used to identify an individual due to the removal of all personally identifiable information.

Collection and Use

You can utilize certain functionality of the Sites without providing personally identifiable information. However at your sole discretion, you may choose to register with Lillooet Ice Festival in order to purchase products, make donations or participate with us. The following require that you provide personally identifiable information:

Making a donation
Delivery of merchandise that you purchase online
Billing your credit card for purchases
Order confirmation
Response to customer-service inquiries or requests
Communication of special offers and featured items, but only if you choose to receive such notices

Lillooet Ice Festival does not collect any personally identifiable information from the Sites unless it is provided voluntarily. We use personally identifiable information only for purposes consistent with the reasons for its provision, such as:

Making a Donation

First off, thank you. Lillooet Ice Festival is sustained by the generosity of our family of donors. By making a gift, you’re helping transform lives. In order to complete your donation, we collect information associated with your credit card to bill for payment, including your name, address, phone number and other identifying information reasonably necessary to complete the transaction.

Purchases of Products and Services

In order to allow you to purchase products or services through the Sites, we collect information associated with your credit card to bill for payment, confirm orders and ship products, including your name, address, phone number and other identifying information reasonably necessary to complete the transaction.

We offer a newsletter to anyone interested in receiving Lillooet Ice Festival updates. When you sign-up for the newsletter, we collect your name, e-mail address, mailing address and other contact information. You may be asked to provide other information in connection with specific programs, or more generally about your interests, so we may specifically tailor our communications with you. This information is not sold, given, or shared with any unaffiliated third-party and is only used to update you with new products, events, or other Lillooet Ice Festival news. We encourage all of our subscribers to share these newsletters with their friends and we are open to ideas for what you would like to see in them. If you ever decide you wish to no longer receive the newsletter, you can always unsubscribe.

Information Requests

You may be asked to provide personally identifiable information so that we may respond to your requests for information made through the Sites, contact forms, or when contacting us personally through our contact information listed at the bottom of the website.

General Uses

Your personally identifiable information will be used as described in the Site where submitted, in accordance with BC provincial and federal laws. We may also use your personally identifiable information to customize communications with you about products or services, for identity verification, to collect any debts owed, to investigate disputes and for other purposes that may be legally required.

Database Usage

We may supplement the personally identifiable information collected from you on the Sites with data collected from other sources, including but limited to information provided in person, by phone or by mail. We reserve the right to use third-parties to supplement your personally identifiable information, including change of address, contact and financial information.

Cookies; IP Address

Text files stored in your web browser, or “Cookies,” allow us to collect information about your use of the Sites. Cookies are used to recall your personally identifiable information, including user registration, to customize your use of the Sites. Cookies identify you when you visit our Sites, so you can put items in your shopping cart and place your order. You need to have Cookies enabled in order to shop online at the Sites. If you have disabled Cookies in your web browser, you must place your order via phone or email. (Each browser has its own method of enabling and disabling cookies, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.) Cookies are also used aggregately to track user patterns on the Sites to help us improve the user experience.

Our web servers also collect information about your connection to the Internet, including your IP Address. Your IP Address does not identify you individually; however, we use your IP address to optimize the Site experience, to administer and improve Site functionality and to diagnose problems users may encounter. Ouray Ice Park, Incorporated also uses your IP Address to determine navigation routes to the Site.

Control of Information

Lillooet Ice Festival may contact you with information concerning products, services or promotions; however, you always have the choice to unsubscribe from such communications. You may contact us to manage your marketing preferences and to request removal from marketing lists at the address provided below or through “Contact Us” within the Sites. Additionally, marketing communications from Lillooet Ice Festival will contain an opt-out or unsubscribe mechanism allowing you to change your marketing preferences. If you decide not to receive communications from Lillooet Ice Festival, we may continue to use your personally identifiable information in order to communicate with you regarding transactions, products and other information of an informative nature.

Sharing of Information

Lillooet Ice Festival will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to non-affiliated third parties for marketing purposes. Lillooet Ice Festival may share your personally identifiable information with affiliates or representatives with whom Lillooet Ice Festival maintains a business relationship.

Lillooet Ice Festival may hire third parties to provide services on its behalf, which may entail the use of personally identifiable information. Such third parties are required to maintain the confidentiality and security of personally identifiable information they receive from Lillooet Ice Festival. They are restricted from using personally identifiable information for any purposes other than those authorized by Lillooet Ice Festival.

Again, you may contact us to manage these preferences and to request removal from these affiliate and representative lists at the address provided below or through via our Contact page.

Other than as described above, Lillooet Ice Festival will not share your personally identifiable information collected on the Sites with third parties without your permission, except as is reasonably necessary: (i) to complete a transaction, (ii) to respond to a direct inquiry, (iii) to register you for communications and promotions that you request, (iv) to comply with any federal, provincial or local law, court order or proceeding that is legal in nature; or (v) to enforce an agreement with you, to protect the interests of Lillooet Ice Festival, its affiliates or representatives with whom Lillooet Ice Festival maintains a business relationship, or as is otherwise permitted or compelled by law.

SSL Encryption

When you submit personally identifiable information through our Sites, including credit card information, the data is transmitted using secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption technology. However, no electronic data transmission can be guaranteed as 100% secure. While Lillooet Ice Festival strives to protect your personally identifiable information during transmission, we do not warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us.

Unsolicited Submissions

Communications or suggestions made by you through the Sites which are not by their nature intended to be confidential, shall be deemed to be non-confidential. Lillooet Ice Festival will have no obligation of any kind with respect to such communications and shall be free to use and distribute them to others without limitation, including, but not limited to, their use for marketing purposes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or your personally identifiable information, you may contact us by email: lillooeticefest@gmail.com

Acceptance of this Privacy Policy

By using the Sites, you give your unqualified acceptance of this Privacy Policy, and you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions posted on the Sites under “Privacy Policy” and “Terms of Use.” If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, please do not access the Sites or submit any personally identifiable information to us through our Sites.

Changes

Lillooet Ice Festival Organizing Committee reserves the right to update, change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and the version of this policy which is applicable to your use of the Sites is the version that appears here. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted here and/or on this Sites.