Effective Date: 09-01-2024
Your privacy is important to us
It is Northwest Water Source’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to northwestwatersource.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “northwestwatersource.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.
Contents
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- Website Visitors
- Personally-Identifying Information
- Security
- Northwest Water Source uses Google AdWords for remarketing
- Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
- Aggregated Statistics
- Cookies
- Privacy Policy Changes
- Contact Information & Credit
1. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Northwest Water Source collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Northwest Water Source’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Northwest Water Source’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Northwest Water Source may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Northwest Water Source also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://northwestwatersource.com blog posts. Northwest Water Source only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
2. Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Northwest Water Source’s websites choose to interact with Northwest Water Source in ways that require Northwest Water Source to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Northwest Water Source gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at https://northwestwatersource.com to provide a username and email address.
3. Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
4. Northwest Water Source uses Google AdWords for remarketing
Northwest Water Source uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
5. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Northwest Water Source discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Northwest Water Source’s behalf or to provide services available at Northwest Water Source’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Northwest Water Source’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Northwest Water Source will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Northwest Water Source discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Northwest Water Source believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Northwest Water Source, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://northwestwatersource.com and have supplied your email address, Northwest Water Source may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Northwest Water Source and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Northwest Water Source takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
6. Aggregated Statistics
Northwest Water Source may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Northwest Water Source may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Northwest Water Source does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
7. Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Northwest Water Source uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Northwest Water Source uses cookies to help Northwest Water Source identify and track visitors, their usage of https://northwestwatersource.com, and their website access preferences. Northwest Water Source visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Northwest Water Source’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Northwest Water Source’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Northwest Water Source’s use of cookies.
8. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Northwest Water Source may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Northwest Water Source’s sole discretion. Northwest Water Source encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.