Privacy policy

Northwalk is committed to your privacy and online security. You can expect to find the following information in this site’s privacy policy:

  • What information this site gathers and tracks about you.
  • What this site does with the information it gathers and tracks.
  • With whom this site shares the information it gathers and tracks.
  • This site’s opt-out policy.
  • This site’s policy on correcting and updating personally identifiable information.
  • This site’s policy on deleting or deactivating your name from our database.

Our privacy policy

We have a firm commitment to privacy. You should know that Northwalk gathers data only from customers; we do not gather and store information about visitors to the site. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for Northwalk.

IP address and cookies

We do not use your IP address for any reason. Our site does not use cookies as all data entered on our site is either filed into the database or kept in the session memory as long as you stay on the site.

Personal information

Copyright law protects some of the content you may access on this site. In order to be granted permission to use this copyrighted material, you must submit accurate, current, and true information about yourself and your intended use of the material. When you register and when you place an order for certain items, we may ask you to give us the following Personally Identifiable Information:

  • contact information (such as name and email address)
  • unique identifiers (such as a Northwalk account number or social security number)
  • and financial information (such as an account or credit card number)

You have the option to enter your personal information once, or enter it each time you return to the site to make another selection.

We will also maintain records of your transactions with the Northwalk system, including

  • records of product and services you purchased
  • records of your use of the Northwalk web site

We use your personal information in the following ways:

  • to process your order
  • to process your payment
  • to send your order to you
  • to get in touch with you when such contact is necessary and is related to the purposes of the Northwalk system
  • unique identifiers are used to verify your identity and as account numbers in our record system
  • financial information that is collected is used to bill you for product and service purchases
  • to monitor the use of our system and look for ways to improve our services

We may disclose your contact information to others as follows:

  • The Northwalk system provides its users with the ability to obtain software and content licenses from publishers. Each publisher may require that Northwalk disclose to it the names and other identifying information of the users to whom the publisher’s rights or permissions have been granted. Northwalk does not control the use of such information by publishers.
  • Northwalk will disclose such information when required to do so by law or as requested by government or law enforcement authorities.

Changing and modifying your information

To modify information you previously provided, log onto Northwalk, enter your password, and edit your registration information as needed.

Security

We recognize that security has become a critical issue for Internet users. Northwalk takes precautions to protect the integrity of your information and to avoid loss, theft, misuse or alteration. Northwalk uses industry-standard, commercially available technology, such as firewalls and SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Encryption, to protect your registration and online transaction information. To check the security of your connection, look at your browser window after accessing the server. If you see a closed lock then your information will be encrypted as it is transmitted.

Public Forums

This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information.

Children’s Guidelines

Northwalk will NOT knowingly:

  • collect online contact information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity
  • collect personally identifiable offline contact information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior parental consent
  • distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior parental consent
  • give anyone under the age of 13 the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent within the children’s educational section of the web site
  • entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, anyone under the age of 13 to divulge more information than is needed to participate in the activity

Links

This site contains links to other sites. Northwalk is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.