Explore Hood Canal—Privacy Policy

General
ExploreHoodCanal.com respects the privacy of every individual who visits our websites. This Privacy Policy outlines the information ExploreHoodCanal.com may collect and how we may use that information.

Personal Data
ExploreHoodCanal.com will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you (e.g., your name, address, telephone number or email address (“personal data”) through our websites unless you have provided it to us voluntarily. If you do not want your personal data collected, please do not submit it to us.

When you do provide us with personal data, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise: we may store and process that information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our information and offerings; we (or a fulfillment house or other third party on our behalf in connection with a promotion) may use that information to contact you; and/or we may provide other third parties with aggregate – but not individual – information about visitors to or users of our sites. We do not now and do not currently intend to sell, rent or market personal data about you to third parties.

Additional Information Collected Automatically
In some cases, we may automatically (i.e., not via registration) collect technical information when you connect to our site that is not personally-identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet Browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our site.

Information Placed Automatically on Your Computer—Cookies
When you view one of our websites, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a “Cookie” or similar file and can help us in many ways. For example, Cookies allow us to tailor a website to better match your interests and preferences. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block all Cookies or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored. Please refer to your Browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.

WHAT ARE WE DOING?

To help us make the Explore Hood Canal website a positive place for everyone, we've been using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities, and user friendly for everyone.

The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We’ve chosen Level AA as the target for the Explore Hood Canal website.

HOW ARE WE DOING?

We've worked hard on the Explore Hood Canal website and believe we've achieved our goal of Level AA accessibility. We monitor the website regularly to maintain this, but if you do find any problems, please get in touch.

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

If you enjoyed using the Explore Hood Canal website, or if you had trouble with any part of it, please get in touch. 

Thank you for Recreating Responsibly in Mason County.

Hello visitors,

The safety of our residents and guests is our highest priority. We are asking everyone to recreate responsibly to keep our beautiful forest, small towns and expansive waterways healthy – and fun – for everyone.

If you do not feel well, please stay home. We cannot wait to see you back in Mason County when you are healthy.

Helpful Links

Department of Fish and Wildlife
National Park Service COVID-19 Updates
Mason County Health Guidelines