Last updated: September 7, 2026
Who we are
CANYONEERING101 LLC, a Utah limited liability company, operates canyoneering101.com. The website is an educational resource created and maintained by Brett C Johnson.
This policy explains how information is handled when you visit the website, use its learning tools, or contact us.
For privacy questions or requests, contact Brett C Johnson, CANYONEERING101 LLC, at [email protected].
Using the website
You can read the modules, view photographs, browse canyon references, and use the quiz without providing your name or email address or creating an account.
The website currently does not offer public accounts, a forum, visitor comments, contact forms, newsletter registration, or online checkout. We do not display advertisements on the website.
Information collected automatically
Website operation and security. When your browser requests a page or image, our hosting and security services receive technical information. This may include your IP address, requested page, request time, browser or device information, referring page, and error information. This information is used to deliver the website, maintain performance, investigate problems, and protect against misuse.
Visitor statistics. We use Google Analytics to understand which pages and modules visitors use and to improve the website. Analytics may process page addresses and titles, referring websites, visit times and engagement, browser and device information, approximate location, and browser or session identifiers. These statistics can involve technical information and identifiers even when you have not provided your name or email address.
Google explains its processing in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Search and quiz tools
Our website search matches your search against an index within your browser. The search tool’s own code does not send the words you type to our server as a search request.
The quiz calculates answers and scores within your browser. Its own code does not submit your individual answers to our server or save a personal progress record between visits. Page requests and analytics described elsewhere in this policy can still apply when you use these tools.
Cookies and your choices
Cookies are small pieces of information stored in your browser. Functional cookies may support security, administration, and remembering consent choices. Analytics cookies support visitor statistics.
Our cookie-consent banner and consent-preferences control allow you to accept or reject optional cookies and change your choice later. Rejecting optional analytics cookies does not prevent you from reading the guide or using the quiz. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it at any time; withdrawal does not affect processing already carried out lawfully.
Google’s Consent Mode can send limited measurements without analytics cookies before acceptance or after rejection. These requests can include page and technical information. Rejecting analytics cookies therefore does not necessarily prevent every connection to Google. We do not describe cookie-free measurement as collecting no information.
You can also block or delete cookies using your browser settings. Deleting a cookie does not automatically delete information previously received by us or a service provider. Google also offers an Analytics opt-out browser add-on for supported browsers.
Information you choose to send us
If you email us, we receive your email address, the contents of your message, and any other information or attachments you include. We use these to respond, resolve your inquiry, or handle a privacy request. Please send only information relevant to your inquiry.
Why we use information
We use information to operate and protect the website, understand the use of its educational content, respond to correspondence, and meet applicable legal obligations.
Where a data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on consent for processing that requires consent, our legitimate interests in providing a functioning and secure website and responding to inquiries, and legal obligations where applicable. A legitimate interest does not replace consent when the law requires consent for a particular activity.
Service providers and disclosures
Our services include Bluehost for hosting, Cloudflare for website security and traffic protection, Google Analytics for statistics, Gmail for email correspondence, and Complianz software for cookie choices. Information may be processed by providers involved in delivering these services and by people authorized to operate the website or respond to your request.
We may disclose information when legally required or when necessary to address fraud, security incidents, or the protection of legal rights.
The website is operated from the United States. Service providers may process information in the United States or other countries, where privacy laws may differ from those in your location. Providers describe their international processing and applicable safeguards in their privacy and processing terms. You can consult Bluehost’s privacy information, Google’s Privacy Policy, and Google’s data-transfer information, or contact us with questions about the arrangements relevant to your information.
How long information is kept
We retain personal information for the purposes described in this policy. The relevant criteria include whether an inquiry is still open, whether records are needed to investigate a technical or security problem, and whether a legal obligation or dispute requires continued retention. Information should be deleted or de-identified when it is no longer needed for those purposes.
Google Analytics uses retention controls for user-level and event-level information. Aggregated reports may remain available longer because those controls do not apply to all reports. Cookie expiration periods are separate from the retention of information already collected. Hosting and other providers also have retention arrangements for the information they process. Contact us for information about a particular category or a deletion request.
Your privacy rights
Depending on applicable law and the circumstances, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict the use of, or obtain a portable copy of personal information.
You may also have a right to object to processing based on legitimate interests. You may withdraw consent where processing depends on consent.
To make a request, email [email protected]. We may need information sufficient to verify the request and locate relevant records. Rights can be subject to legal exceptions, and we will respond as required by applicable law.
You may also complain to the privacy regulator where you live or work, as applicable. UK visitors can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Other websites and changes to this policy
The guide links to resources operated by other organizations. Their privacy practices apply when you visit those websites.
We will update this policy when our practices change, including before introducing forum accounts or other features that collect additional information. The date at the top identifies the latest update.