Your privacy is important to us

It is Backpack Buff’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to backpackbuff.com/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “backpackbuff.com/”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

1. Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Backpack Buff collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Backpack Buff’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Backpack Buff’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Backpack Buff may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Backpack Buff also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://backpackbuff.com/ blog posts. Backpack Buff only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

2. Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Backpack Buff’s websites choose to interact with Backpack Buff in ways that require Backpack Buff to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Backpack Buff gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at https://backpackbuff.com/ to provide a username and email address.

3. Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

4. Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Backpack Buff and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms of service of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

6. Backpack Buff uses Google AdWords for remarketing

Backpack Buff uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

7. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Backpack Buff discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Backpack Buff’s behalf or to provide services available at Backpack Buff’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Backpack Buff’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Backpack Buff will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Backpack Buff discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Backpack Buff believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Backpack Buff, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://backpackbuff.com/ and have supplied your email address, Backpack Buff may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Backpack Buff and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Backpack Buff takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

8. Aggregated Statistics

Backpack Buff may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Backpack Buff may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Backpack Buff does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

9. Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

10. Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Backpack Buff uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Backpack Buff uses cookies to help Backpack Buff identify and track visitors, their usage of https://backpackbuff.com/, and their website access preferences. Backpack Buff visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Backpack Buff’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Backpack Buff’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Backpack Buff’s use of cookies.

11. Business Transfers

If Backpack Buff, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Backpack Buff goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Backpack Buff may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

12. Your Rights Under CCPA

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

The right to access your personal information that we have collected.

The right to delete your personal information.

The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information.

The right to not be discriminated against for exercising your CCPA rights.

13. Your Rights under GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

The right to access your personal information.

The right to rectify your personal information.

The right to erase your personal information.

The right to restrict the processing of your personal information.

The right to data portability.

The right to object to the processing of your personal information.

The right to withdraw your consent at any time.

14. Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Backpack Buff may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Backpack Buff’s sole discretion. Backpack Buff encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.