Website Visitor Privacy
Mainelyhiking.com values the privacy of all visitors "of good intent" and utilizes no software or program to compromise that privacy.
Cookies: To preserve the privacy of visitors, this website does not utilize cookies to track visits or to attempt to gather any personal information of any kind.
All Email addresses from contact messages are not stored, shared with or sold to any organization, person or other entity.

Mainelyhiking does not condone or knowingly participate in the sending of unsolicited emails (SPAM) and takes steps to prevent any SPAM from being sent using this server's resources or programs.
Probes / Suspicious Server Requests: This website does utilize software to recognize visitors - human or non-human - who's intent is suspicious or potentially hostile in nature. This is deemed necessary to prevent any compromise of server security or resources.
All suspicious requests and probes are recorded and reviewed. Any potentially hostile probe will result in the banning of the originating IP address from any access to this server.

Terms of Use / Copyright © Information
All content, images & graphics on this website are © copyright 1998 - 2007 Mainelyhiking LLC and Jeff Wood, who is solely responsible for any and all content, comments and opinions that may be stated.
Permission to print or use content (but not images or graphics) for personal, non-commercial purposes is not required. Permission to use any content, images or graphics for any commercial purposes must be obtained. Please use the email address.
Most images on Mainelyhiking.com are the photographic works of Jeff Wood. All Images & Graphics are © Copyright and owned by Mainelyhiking.com and may not be copied or reproduced without express permission.
Permission to use certain Mainelyhiking images for certain educational purposes may be granted by request to teachers or outdoor groups for their stated purpose only. All image use requests must be for non-commercial use and be from an educator or outdoor group.
Additionally, no permission will be given to any request originating from an anonymous or "courtesy" email address like Hotmail or Yahoo. All image use requests are granted or denied on a per-request basis. Mainelyhiking reserves the right to reject or deny any image use request for any reason.
If permission to use a Mainelyhiking image is granted, the image remains the property of Mainelyhiking and any & all © Copyright marks and embedded watermarks must remain in place. Images may not be manipulated in any way except for resizing to fit the needs of the stated purpose for which permission to use the image has been granted.