Privacy Policy
The Hitching Post Campground, L.L.C. (“The Hitching Post Campground”) is committed to respecting the privacy of users. This Privacy Policy is the terms and conditions that apply to the online collection of data through our web sites (the “Site”).
This website may contain links to third party sites. We have no control over such third party sites and are not responsible for the privacy policies, actions or omissions of such third parties.
Collection and Use of Information
When you visit our Site, you do so anonymously unless you specifically choose to provide us with information that identifies you personally, for example through emails or making reservations. If you do provide us personally identifiable information, that information will be protected by security measures designed to preserve the confidentiality and security of your transactions.
We may request that you provide personal identifying information, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, credit card number, contact information, and other such information. We may also collect information about your use of our Site, such as what pages are being viewed and what features, services or offerings you use.
When you send us an email, we use your email address to reply, and for a limited time we may store your email address, your message, and our response for quality assurance purposes. We may also do this to meet legal and regulatory requirements.
We often use email to inform customers about products and services that we offer and that may be of interest after you. You will also have the opportunity to opt out of future messages with each marketing email you receive from The Hitching Post Campground. If you wish to opt out of receiving future emails, please follow the instructions at the bottom of emails that are sent to you to elect this option.
Our Use of Your Information
We use the information gathered on our Site to improve our services, and to generally try to provide a positive user experience. We may use your contact information in order to send you communications regarding updates to our Site, facilities programs or events, to survey your opinion of current features and services, or to try to determine potentially new products and services. Any feedback submitted by you becomes the property of The Hitching Post Campground, and we can use such feedback for marketing purposes or to contact you for further information.
Choices Regarding the Disclosure of Personal Information to Others
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties, or combined personal and demographic information or information about your use except as stated below:
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If we have your consent.
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We disclose information to companies and individuals we employ or contract with to perform administrative and operational functions. Such individuals and companies may provide goods and services such as web hosting, servers, metrics, marketing assistance, processing payments, reservations and customer service.
Use of Cookies
We may use “cookies” to enhance your use of our Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by our web server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. When you return to our Site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline all cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, however, that may hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on our Site.
Use of Web Beacons
The Hitching Post Campground pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. You may not decline web beacons, however, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or modifying your browser setting to notify you each time a cookie is tendered and permit you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
Security of the Personal Information
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.
When you make reservations online at The Hitching Post Campground Site, your credit card information is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (“SSL”) protocol. SSL makes it difficult for your credit card information to be intercepted or stolen while being transmitted.
Changes to Privacy Statement
If we decide to materially change our Privacy Policies, we will post those changes through a prominent notice on the web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and to whom we will disclose it.
Contact Information
camp@hitchingpostcampground.com
The Hitching Post Campground
620 Girls Camp Rd.
Mill Spring, NC 28756
Main Office: 828-625-1138