Last updated: August 8, 2026
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Terms of Use
While we strive to bring you the most up-to-date and accurate information, we cannot make any warranties or guarantees of any kind about the reliability, accurateness and availability of any product or service we may mention, link or publish on our website.
Any information you take from The Hiking HI is at your own risk and we hold no accountability and are not liable to the completeness of what is provided throughout the content of this website. If you find incomplete information, you may contact us where we will update it as we see fit.
All the information presented throughout this website are opinions and thoughts of us at The Hiking HI. Under no circumstance are we providing professional legal, medical, or any other professional advice and as such, we hold zero liability to any loss or damage, directly or indirectly. Every decision you take from the information presented on The Hiking HI is strictly of your own choice and at your own risk.
Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive ("Raptive") is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive's data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement
Affiliate Program Participation
The Hiking HI engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into this website. If you click on an affiliate link, a cookie may be placed on your browser to track any resulting bookings or sales for the purpose of paying commissions, at no additional cost to you. We participate in affiliate and referral programs with tour and activity operators and booking platforms, including Hawaii Forest & Trail through the FareHarbor booking platform, along with other partners.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use this site. Google Analytics collects information such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited and referring sources. This data is used in aggregate to improve the site. You can read how Google collects and uses this data in the Google Privacy Policy, and you can opt out using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Information We Collect
Contact form: when you fill out our contact form, we collect the name, email address and message you provide, and use them only to respond to you.
Cookies: cookies are used on this site by us and by third parties, including advertising and analytics partners, to remember preferences, measure traffic and deliver and measure advertising. You can disable cookies through your browser settings, though some parts of the site may not work as expected.
Embedded content: articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, maps and booking widgets. Embedded content from other websites behaves as though the visitor has visited that other website. These providers may collect data about you, set cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
This privacy policy does not cover the practices of third-party advertisers, booking platforms or websites we link to. We encourage you to review their own privacy policies, which will explain their practices and any opt-out options they offer.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, including residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia and other US states with comprehensive privacy laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Right to know. You can request confirmation of whether we process your personal information and request access to the categories of personal information we have collected about you.
- Right to delete. You can request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain legal exceptions.
- Right to correct. You can request that we correct inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
- Right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. You can opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, including for targeted advertising and cross-context behavioral advertising.
- Right to non-discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at thehikinghawaii@gmail.com. We may need to verify your identity before we can act on your request. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.
Global Privacy Control: this site honors the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. If your browser or extension sends a GPC signal, we will treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for that browser.
Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and monitor and guide their online activity.
thehikinghi.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Links To Other Websites
thehikinghi.com contains links to other websites. If you click on these links, you will enter a different website. Please read the privacy statements of these linked sites, as their privacy policies may differ from ours and we are not responsible or held accountable in any matter for their privacy policy.
What Partners Have Access To
thehikinghi.com has entered into partnerships and other affiliations with a number of vendors. These vendors may have access to certain personal information on a need to know basis in order to provide their services. Our privacy policy does not cover their collection or use of this information. We will disclose information in order to comply with a court order, subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our visitors.
Copyright
We hold all copyright to the content on this site. Our material may not be reprinted, copied, or published without our written consent.
Changes To This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this page.
Terms of Service
Binding Arbitration ("Arbitration Agreement")
a. Applicability of Arbitration Agreement. You agree that any dispute or claim against us, or our vendors or service providers (collectively, "We" or "Us"), related in any way to your access or use of this website, to these Terms, or to any aspect of your relationship with Us, will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that (1) you may assert claims in small claims court if your claims qualify, so long as the matter remains in such court and advances only on an individual (non-class, non-representative) basis; and (2) you or We may seek equitable relief in court for infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights (such as trademarks, trade dress, domain names, trade secrets, copyrights, and patents). You agree that you must commence any arbitration or other claim within one (1) year after the dispute arises; otherwise, the claim is permanently barred, which means that you will no longer have the right to assert a claim regarding the dispute. This Arbitration Agreement will apply, without limitation, to all claims that arose or were asserted before the effective date of these Terms or any prior version of this Arbitration Agreement.
You agree in advance that you will not participate in or seek to recover monetary or other relief in any lawsuit filed against Us, alleging class, collective, and/or representative claims on your behalf. Instead, by agreeing to arbitration, you may bring your claims against any of Us in an individual arbitration proceeding (except for any Batch Arbitration, as described below). If successful on such claims, you could be awarded money or other relief by an arbitrator. You acknowledge that you have been advised that you may consult with an attorney in deciding whether to accept these Terms, including this Arbitration Agreement.
The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Arbitration Agreement.
b. Process. To begin a claim, you must first send a letter describing your claim in detail, including your name and contact information, your legal claim, the specific facts giving rise to your claim (including the date(s) and amount(s) of any relevant transaction or interaction with us), and the requested relief, to thehikinghawaii@gmail.com. You and We agree to attempt in good faith to negotiate an informal resolution of your claim. If a resolution is not reached within thirty (30) days, you may commence an arbitration action as set forth herein. The arbitration will be conducted by JAMS, an established alternative dispute resolution provider. Disputes involving claims and counterclaims under $250,000, not inclusive of attorneys' fees and interest, will be subject to JAMS's most current version of the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and procedures available at http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-streamlined-arbitration/; all other claims will be subject to JAMS's most current version of the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures, available at http://www.jamsadr.com/rules-comprehensive-arbitration/. JAMS's rules are also available at www.jamsadr.com or by calling JAMS at 800-352-5267. If JAMS is not available to arbitrate, the parties will select an alternative arbitral forum. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted remotely, based on written submissions, or in person at a mutually agreed location. We will be entitled to make an offer of judgment in the arbitration proceeding. If the offer of judgment is not accepted, and the award is not more favorable than the unaccepted offer, you will be solely responsible for all costs incurred by Us after the offer of judgment is made to the extent permitted by applicable law. Any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
c. Fees. If the arbitrator finds that you cannot afford to pay JAMS's filing, administrative, hearing, and/or other fees, and you cannot obtain a waiver from JAMS, we will pay them for you. If the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous, you agree to pay Us our attorneys' fees and costs in the arbitration, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
d. Authority of Arbitrator. The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, will have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute related to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of this Arbitration Agreement, including, but not limited to, any claim that all or any part of this Arbitration Agreement is void or voidable. The arbitration will decide the rights and liabilities, if any, of you and Us. The arbitration proceeding will not be consolidated with any other matters or joined with any other cases or parties. The arbitrator will have the authority to grant motions dispositive of all or part of any claim. The arbitrator will have the authority to award monetary damages and to grant any non-monetary remedy or relief available to an individual under applicable law, the arbitral forum's rules, and these Terms (including the Arbitration Agreement). The arbitrator will issue a written award and statement of decision describing the essential findings and conclusions on which the award is based, including the calculation of any damages awarded. The arbitrator has the same authority to award relief on an individual basis that a judge in a court of law would have. The award of the arbitrator is final and binding upon you and Us.
e. Waiver of Jury Trial. You and We hereby waive any constitutional and statutory rights to sue in court and have a trial in front of a judge or a jury. You and We are instead electing that all claims and disputes will be resolved by arbitration under this Arbitration Agreement, except as specified in Section (a) above. An arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court and must follow this Agreement as a court would. However, there is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is subject to very limited review.
f. Waiver of Class or Consolidated Actions. Except with respect to Batch Arbitration (as defined below), all claims and disputes within the scope of this Arbitration Agreement must be arbitrated on an individual basis and not on a class basis, only individual relief is available, and claims of more than one customer or user cannot be arbitrated or consolidated with those of any other customer or user. In the event that this subparagraph is deemed invalid or unenforceable neither you nor We are entitled to arbitration and instead claims and disputes will be resolved in a court as set forth in these Terms.
g. Batch Arbitration. You and We agree that, in the event that there are fifty (50) or more individual requests for arbitration of a similar nature filed against Us within an approximately (30) thirty-day period (or otherwise in close proximity) regardless of the state(s) in which such claims are filed, JAMS will administer all such similarly situated arbitration demands on a collective basis as a single, consolidated arbitration (subject to a single set of fees, proceeding schedule, and, if required, hearing) before a single arbitrator in accordance with the requirements outlined elsewhere in this section, provided that, in the event that the arbitrator deems it impracticable or inequitable to administer all such claims collectively in a single arbitration, (s)he may group demands for arbitration into groups of not fewer than twenty (20) matters, plus a remainder group as needed (or as otherwise deemed by the arbitrator to be practicable, equitable, and in best keeping with the spirit of this provision) and arbitrate each group of matters as a single, consolidated arbitration (either structure a "Batch Arbitration"). You and We agree (1) to work with JAMS in good faith to facilitate the resolution of disputes on a Batch Arbitration basis and (2) that requests for arbitration are of a "similar nature" if they arise out of the same event, agreement, or factual scenario and raise the same or similar legal issues and seek the same or similar relief. Disagreements over the applicability of this Batch Arbitration process will be settled in a single, consolidated arbitration proceeding that includes all affected parties and is resolved by a single arbitrator subject to the requirements of this section. This Batch Arbitration provision shall in no way be interpreted as authorizing a class or collective arbitration or action of any kind, or any suit or arbitration involving joint or consolidated claims, under any circumstances other than those expressly set forth in this section.
h. Severability. If any part or parts of this Arbitration Agreement are found under the law to be invalid or unenforceable, then such specific part or parts will be of no force and effect and will be severed, and the remainder of the Arbitration Agreement will continue in full force and effect.
i. Survival. This Arbitration Agreement will survive the termination of your relationship with Us.
j. Modification. Notwithstanding any provision in these Terms to the contrary, We agree that if We make any future material change to this Arbitration Agreement, it will not apply to any individual claim(s) for which that you had already provided notice to Us.
Consent to Data Collection
These Terms of Service incorporate our Privacy Policy, which discloses how we, our vendors, and our service providers collect and use data when you use the Site and/or mobile applications. You hereby consent to the collection and use of data by us, our vendors, and our service providers as described in the Privacy Policy (including any links to other policies therein). You can revoke this consent at any time by following the opt-out instructions in the Privacy Policy or clicking the provided links on the Site.
Limitations on Liability
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE, OR OUR VENDORS OR SERVICE PROVIDERS (COLLECTIVELY, "WE" OR "US"), SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF ANY OF US EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID OR PAYABLE TO RAPTIVE BY YOU FOR THE WEBSITE DURING THE SIX-MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE ACT, OMISSION, OR OCCURRENCE GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY; OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100). THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS SUBSECTION SHALL APPLY TO ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, STATUTE, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PARTIES HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.