Making Tracks Earth Education, LLC (“we” or “us” or “our” or “Making Tracks”) respects your privacy as one of our users (“user” or “you”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at www.makingtracks.us, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Site, but please also share with us your concern(s) as we would like to know how we can better serve you.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the “Last Updated” date below. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy.
Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Site, and you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or modification.
You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted or by attending or participating with any of our events, activities, or classes offered or provided to you or others.
To help us provide services and conduct our business, we may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personally identifiable information of you or any you register for one of our courses or accounts, such as your name, billing address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register for a course or an account on our Site, purchase any items from our Site, or otherwise choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as submitting contact requests online. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however your refusal to
do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site and you may be unable to register for classes or other services offered. You also will not be able to register for an account with the Site.
Since we are often in nature, we also collect certain basic health and medical information through the Site. This information enables us to better identify and assist with remedying potential hazards or issues for participants. This information may include allergy information, medication/supplement information, other related health information, emergency contact information, and other health or medical related items.
Information our servers or software program may automatically collect when you access the Site or your account, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. If you are accessing the device from a mobile application, this information may also include your device name and type, your operating system, your phone number, your country, your likes and replies to a post, and other interactions with the application and other users via server log files, as well as any other information you
choose to provide.
Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g. valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date, billing address, name on credit card, etc.) may be collected when you purchase, order, receive a refund, or request information about our services from the Site. We retain an association of which individuals have paid for the courses or classes they registered for and may provide each instructor with a list of individuals who have paid the course fee in full. With most of the financial information, such information is stored by our payment processor Stripe. Please review
their privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy for further information about how they handle and treat your information and contact them directly for responses to your questions. Please understand that when you make a purchase from our Site, you will be providing financial information to a third-party.
Information obtained from third parties connected to the Site, such as plug-ins, payment providers, contact us forms, or other services or software offered or provided by third parties. Please understand that when you access the Site, third parties do collect and transmit information in accordance with their Privacy Policies.
This Site may use cookies and other analytical tools to track a user’s use and experience with the Site. Such information may include pages you visit, length of time on the pages, whether you purchase courses, information provided by third party services, and information that identifies statistically probable location, gender, age and other personal information by noting your browsing activities and comparing it to statistical trends.
Personal and other information you may provide when responding to surveys.
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smoother, more efficient, and more customized experience and helps us to identify ways that we can improve and tailor our services. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, to comply with our legal obligations, to have attorneys review our legal obligations, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection.
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, analytics, contractors, Site plug ins, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. Marketing Communications With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
If you interact with instructors, they may obtain or access personal information about you that you share with them and they may obtain registration information from us that you provided to us. This includes medical and health information that you provided to us.
When you post comments, contributions or other content about us on social media or other online locations (such as reviews), your posts may be viewed by all users and others on the internet and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Our Site may include affiliate links that take you to third party websites. When you select an affiliate link, some information about you or your visit to the Site is communicated to the affiliate for purposes of accounting for purchases you make after following the affiliate link and remitting certain payments to us. The information collected and used is governed by those controlling the site(s) associated with the affiliate links, and you should review the privacy policies associated with such links prior to making any purchases from the affiliate links.
We may share your information with our related companies, in which case we will require those related companies to honor this Privacy Policy. Related companies include (if any) a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
We may share your information with our instructors, agents, and business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
We may share your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. We may also share your information with such third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
If we reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we may transfer your information to the successor entity. If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, your information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline to honor commitments we made in this Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the actions of third parties with whom you share personal or sensitive data, and we have no authority to manage or control third-party solicitations. If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.
We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Site. You may not decline web beacons. However, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or by modifying your web browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered, permitting you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis. Internet-Based Advertising
Additionally, we may use third-party software to serve ads on the Site, implement email marketing campaigns, and/or manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us. For more information about opting-out of interest-based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
We may also partner with selected third-party vendors, to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Site through the use of first party cookies and third- party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the Site, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. By accessing the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to
these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
You should be aware that getting a new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.
The Site may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links to leave the Site, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. We do not guarantee any policies or practices of companies associated with links provided on the Site, and all such links are provided for your convenience only. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Site.
We may use administrative, technical, and/or physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information, and you do so not relying on us to guarantee or warrant the security of any information you share with us.
The courses we provide are offered for a variety of ages, from children to adults. While children are welcome to take a course with us, we do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. Rather, we work to conduct all business and online transactions with parents. If you become aware of any advertising or efforts directed at children under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
We do not knowingly use any information about children under age 13 for marketing or solicitation purposes. If a child under age 13 is enrolled by a parent or guardian in a course, the child’s personal information will be used to identify them in that particular course and will be shared with the instructor of the course. However, the personal information of a child under age 13 will not be knowingly used by us. We do not send advertisements to children under age 13, but instead communicate with the child’s parent or guardian and use the parent’s or guardian’s information in accordance with
this Privacy Policy. If you become aware of any use of the personal information of a child under age 13 outside the scope of providing a course the child is enrolled in, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online if our software does not recognize the request. Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. If you set the DNT signal on your browser, we will only respond to such DNT browser signals if our software recognizes the request.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Making Tracks Earth Education, LLC
2735 East Louise Avenue
Salt Lake City, UT 84109
(650) 394-5532
admin@makingtracks.us
Last updated August 24, 2021
Erik has such passion for giving back to others to create more possibilities for youth to grow up Nature-Connected. I highly recommend getting involved with his programs and giving yourself and your children a healthy foundation in a balanced relationship with the Earth.
- Rick Berry, 4 Elements Earth Education
Erik’s dedication to and passion for teaching are so strong. His programs are a benefit to all who attend. The quality of his work and commitment to people and their connection to the earth and skills is such a high priority.
- Karen Sherwood, Earthwalk Northwest
My girls and I started doing weekly classes with Erik two years ago, and it has been a favorite time together that we look forward to each week. Whether it is cold and rainy or sunny and warm, my girls can’t wait to go every week, and we benefit from getting out in nature and fresh air. We have gained a better understanding and respect for nature which couldn’t be more needed in today's world. We are so grateful for Making Tracks!
- Jamie Walsh, Client
Making Tracks Earth Education is just what I was looking for to help me and my children learn deeply how to love and connect with nature through games and hands-on experiences. Erik teaches in such a unique and profound way that my family has gained more connection to each other, to ourselves, and to nature through taking his classes. He really makes students think and own their own learning process. We absolutely love this style of learning and everything about Making Tracks.
- Rachel von Niederhausern, Client