Outgear.com is firmly committed to protecting the private information that you provide to us. Outgear.com values the users of our website. Your privacy and trust are very important to us. Below we set out the details of our Privacy Policy, but if you have questions about any aspect not addressed below, please Contact Us with those questions.

1. Introduction

The type of information that we receive from your visit to our Web sites depends upon what you do when visiting our sites. We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our sites and to help us make our sites more useful to visitors. t is the policy of Outgear.com that we will not obtain personal identifying information about you when you visit our Web sites, unless you choose to provide the information to us (for example, through a questionnaire in which you willingly provide such information, or in which you are requesting a publication or other information to be transmitted to you by Outgear.com).

2. Use of Cookies and other types of tags.

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that your Internet browser stores on your computer’s hard drive. We do not store any personally identifiable information as part of the cookie. By receiving a cookie from our site, you will not have to log-in a password on future visits while your account is active, thereby saving time while on the site. Even without cookies enabled on your browser, you can still use most of the features of our site.

3. Links to Other Sites.

From time to time, our site will contain links to other sites or to advertisers. Keep in mind that Outgear is not responsible for the content on those site nor the privacy policies of those sites. Please be aware that our privacy policy applies only to this site. Naturally, we cannot be responsible for the content or privacy policy of other companies.

4. Web Server Activity

Like most Web servers on the Internet, USGS servers collect and store within Web access logs all of the information that your Web browser sends when it requests a Web page, including:
- the name, domain, and numerical internet address of the host computer (typically a computer belonging to your Internet Service Provider and not your personal computer) from which you access the Internet;
- the date and time you accessed our site;
- the Internet address of the Web page that you came from;
- the page you requested from our site and the number of characters sent to your computer; and
- the information your Web browser software sends as its so-called “User Agent,” which typically identifies the browser software and may also indicate the operating system used in your personal computer and the type of computer. It is impossible to determine the actual identity of an individual user from this information. The logs are periodically summarized and analyzed to study site usage over time and to perform other studies to help us improve the site's organization, performance, and usefulness. Monthly extracts of the log files are archived and stored offline at our discretion for an indefinite period of time. Some statistical summaries derived from these data may be retained online or offline at our discretion for an indefinite period of time.

5. Third Party Websites

You may be able to access third party websites directly from the Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply when you access third party websites. We cannot control how third parties may use Personal Information you disclose to them, so you should carefully review the privacy policy of any third party website you visit before using it or disclosing your Personal Information to its provider.

6. Tell us what you think.

We always welcome your comments and input. Please feel free to call, write, or Contact Us online. Our address and phone number follow.

7. Contact Information.