Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Insurance Connections Northwest 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. Insurance Connections Northwest’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Insurance Connections Northwest’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Insurance Connections Northwest may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Insurance Connections Northwest also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Insurance Connections Northwest does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Insurance Connections Northwest’s websites choose to interact with Insurance Connections Northwest in ways that require Insurance Connections Northwest to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Insurance Connections Northwest gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at this website to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Insurance Connections Northwest are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Insurance Connections Northwest collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Insurance Connections Northwest Insurance Connections Northwest does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Use of Personal Data

Insurance Connections Northwest may collect aggregated statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Insurance Connections Northwest may monitor the most popular website account on this site. Insurance Connections Northwest may display this information publicly or provide it to others. Insurance Connections Northwest does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Insurance Connections Northwest 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 Insurance Connections Northwest’s behalf or to provide services available at Insurance Connections Northwest’s websites, 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 Insurance Connections Northwest’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Insurance Connections Northwest 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, Insurance Connections Northwest discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Insurance Connections Northwest believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Insurance Connections Northwest, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Insurance Connections Northwest website and have supplied your email address, Insurance Connections Northwest 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 Insurance Connections Northwest and our products. 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. Insurance Connections Northwest takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

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. Insurance Connections Northwest uses cookies to help Insurance Connections Northwest identify and track visitors, their usage of Insurance Connections Northwest website, and their website access preferences. Insurance Connections Northwest visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Insurance Connections Northwest’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Insurance Connections Northwest’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Insurance Connections Northwest may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Insurance Connections Northwest’s sole discretion. Insurance Connections Northwest encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.

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