Northwoods is committed to protecting your privacy. To make your shopping experience more convenient, we gather information from you. We maintain the privacy of your information using security technologies and adhere to policies that prevent unauthorized use of your personal information.
We collect information you explicitly provide us during your web site visit in order to provide you with offers and information. We may also use the information we collect from you online to contact you via telephone, e-mail or other means regarding offers of products and services that may be of interest to you.
In addition, in order to fulfill your order, we need to know your name, email address, mailing address, credit card number, and expiration date. In order to activate or validate the software license for a particular computer, we may also need to collect the target computer's name and the user login name.
In addition to the information we collect directly from you, we also monitor and track usage of our web site, viewing and traffic patterns, customer behavior, and other similar information. We compile this information into a statistical aggregate. We use this aggregate information as well as all of your personal information for internal business and administrative purposes including to improve our web site, our product and service offerings, our operations, and our customer service.
Northwoods does not provide nonpublic information about you to any other companies to market their products and services unless you authorize us to do so. Even when you do so, these other companies are not allowed to use this information for purposes beyond your specific authorization.
Northwoods does not provide your credit card information to any third party, except as is necessary to process your order. Northwoods automatically encrypts your order information in transit from your computer to our order server using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL) with an encryption key length of 128-bits (the highest level commercially available). Before you even register or log in to our site, our server checks that you're using an approved browser - one that uses SSL 3.0 or higher.
In some situations, however, we are required to or we may provide all the information we gather about you to third parties without your consent, as permitted by law, such as:
We may provide aggregate information about site usage and traffic patterns, stripped of any individual identification, to third parties to comply with various reporting obligations and for business or marketing purposes.
When you place orders, we offer the use of a secure server that encrypts all your personal information before it is sent to us to prevent unauthorized access to your information. We also offer the option of placing a credit card order over the phone.
Northwoods may store the information collected during your visit in an electronic database or other storage system. Northwoods uses security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of any stored data.
Northwoods uses a feature of your Internet browser called a "cookie" to assign a unique identification to your computer. Cookies are files that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive. These files allow you to easily access your customer data on our site. They also save you time by tracking your order information so that you do not have to re-enter this information upon every visit. Northwoods does not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer unless you knowingly provided such information.
Northwoods' Web sites may contain links to third-party sites that you may find useful. These third-party sites may have their own privacy policies. You should review the privacy policy of any Web site before you provide personal or confidential information.
While this Privacy Policy states our standards for maintenance of non public information about you and we will make efforts to meet them, we are not in a position to guarantee these standards. There may be factors beyond our control that may result in disclosure of information. As a consequence, we disclaim any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of data.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post these changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone.