Please read the following information concerning Oregon.com's privacy policy.

What's it all about?
Your privacy matters.
What kinds of information do we collect?
How do we use it?
What about security?
A brief explanation of cookies.
How you can choose what to receive.
Contacting us.

What's it all about?
Oregon.com respects your privacy. Our goal is to be your trusted, objective source for information about Oregon and to make your visits to our site easy and enjoyable. Our privacy policy tells you about what customer ("user") information we gather and how we use it. It also explains how you can choose what kinds of personal information we use for different purposes, and how you can update the privacy preferences in your customer record. In short, you can choose the ways in which your personal information is used by Oregon.com --or not used. This policy may change over the years, so please check back periodically.

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Your privacy matters.
Oregon.com protects your privacy. Oregon.com will not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent. Oregon.com reserves the right, however, to disclose customer ("user") information in special cases when we have reason to believe that this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with the site, Oregon.com business operations or its properties, other Oregon.com customers, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Oregon.com may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

From time to time, Oregon.com shares aggregate information about our users with advertisers, sponsors, business partners, and other third parties to help them to better understand our customers' needs. For example, we may say that of Oregon.com's audience, X percent like to fish and Y percent enjoy hikes on nature trails.

This site (www.oregon.com) contains links to other sites. Oregon.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

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What kinds of information do we collect?
We gather information that you voluntarily provide whenever you visit our site, sign in at our guest book, request information, fill out a form, or purchase from us directly. This information is also collected whenever you register as a member of our site or take advantage of our special offers. For example, we may request your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address when you respond to an offer for a free relocation brochure or when you place your electronic "vote" in an online poll of popular Oregon vacation destinations.

Optionally, you can provide us with an indication of your interests and activities, your shopping or purchasing habits, age, occupation and the like, by choosing to participate in various customer surveys that we may post online from time to time.

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How do we use it?
We use this information to help fulfill your online requests, customize our web content or advertising to suit specific audiences (such as outdoor enthusiasts or museum-goers), and to give you more value and a personalized experience with each future visit.

We also use the personal information, that you choose to provide, to:
Update you on the status of any request or product/service order,that you initiate, alert you to important news and announcements, tell you about special offers exclusive to Oregon.com as well as special offers from other companies.

We also inform you about exciting new features of our site, including extra services available to help make your life easier.

In any postal mail or e-mail that we may send (with the exception of a personal response to an email inquiry initiated by you), it is our policy to have instructions on how to unsubscribe, so you can choose whether or not to receive any future mail or e-mails from us.

Occasionally, we also make only our "opt-in" mailing and/or e-mail lists available to other companies who have been carefully selected, vigorously screened, and whose products and services may be of interest to you. "Opt in" means that you have previously consented and given us permission to disclose your personal mail and/or e-mail information to third parties. In these cases, we require that instructions on how to unsubscribe be provided in the email message.

We never share telephone numbers with any third party.

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What about security?
The security of our customers' data is a top priority for Oregon.com. We strive to ensure our software and web-based services are as secure as possible in order to keep our customers' information safe. Please note, however, that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, any web sites you visit and information that you share with us, is done so at your own risk.

When you visit our site or that of our advertisers or sponsors, you may be advised (via a message that pops up on your screen) that you are being sent a "cookie" and asked to accept it. The use of cookie technology is an industry standard and is found at most major web sites, including Oregon.com.

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A brief explanation of cookies.
When you accept a cookie from our site, we assign a random number to your computer that is kept in a file there, called a "cookie". Cookies make surfing the Oregon.com site easier, by saving your preferences while you're at our site. (We never save passwords or credit card information in cookies.) Cookies help us to see which areas of our site are the most popular and which are not visited as frequently. We use the information
from cookies (such as total number of visitors and pages viewed) to provide services that are a better match with your needs and interests. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. Unless you specifically tell us, we will never know who you are, even though we may assign the browser on your computer a cookie. By choosing to accept a cookie, more personalized and customized web content may be available to you.

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How you can choose what to receive.
We will from time to time send you messages about new site features or offers from our advertising partners. These messages will be targeted based on the interests you have indicated to us.

Most of our regular visitors find these messages to be valuable and helpful. Should you not wish to receive them, please follow the procedure below.

If you do not wish to receive these messages, please tell us. Send an e-mail message to dshryock@oregon.com. Type the word "remove" in the subject line. We will remove your e-mail address from our list. Please allow at least 10 business days for the process to take effect.

If you receive a message from us and choose not to receive future e-mails, click reply and send a message. Please remember to include the word "remove" in the subject line. The same processing time applies.

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Contacting us.
If you have questions about this privacy policy or have comments or suggestions you'd like to share about our site, please contact dshryock@oregon.com.

Thank you for visiting Oregon.com.

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