The only personal information that you must provide when registering on the Big Dog web site is a first and last name and an e-mail address. You may provide additional personal information in the Member Information form. This information is not required and should only be supplied if you feel comfortable doing so. This information is only available, on the Big Dog site, to registered users. Persons with administrative rights to the server and database may also be able to access this information. This is necessary to perform normal database maintenance, repairs, and backups; however, it does mean that information is not completely secure. Nearly all networked information systems are potentially vulnerable to attack by hackers, viruses, network problems and natural disasters. Information stored in the Big Dogs database is not sold or diseminated to mailing lists or advertisers. Such information is only used to display user information as it applies to the sport of cycling. Occasionally, we may make use of this information to contact our users regarding changes and/or problems with this site or their Big Dog Account or to mail out Big Dog ride information.

Mileage information for users is stored online and backed up regularly. However, some or all of this data could conceivably be lost under some circumstances. The Big Dogs provide this service free of charge, and are not responsible for lost data or misrepresented statistics. We try to provide a safe and accurate means for the storage and display of mileage statistics, but we are not liable for any misrepresentation or loss of data that might accidentally occur.

This site may make use of 'cookies' to improve the functionality of the site for users. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer when you connect to this site. The only reason that this site uses cookies is to identify visitors as registered users of the site. This allows the user to access all features of the site without having to log in every time the site is accessed. If your browser has been set to refuse cookies, all of the features of the site may not be available to you.

This site is hosted on servers provided by Brinkster Inc, the largest free Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) web hosting company in the world. If you have any comments or concerns about the Big Dogs WWW Site, please visit our Contacts page.

Thanks,

The Big Dogs