Your privacy is very important to us. At North Country Insurance Services, we have a few principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.

It is the policy of North Country Insurance Services to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

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

North Country Insurance Services also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on our blogs. North Country Insurance Services only discloses commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to North Country Insurance Services’ websites choose to interact with North Country Insurance Services in ways that require North Country Insurance Services to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that North Country Insurance Services gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to sign up for a class or receive North Country Insurance Services updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, North Country Insurance Services collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with North Country Insurance Services. North Country Insurance Services 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.

Aggregated Statistics

North Country Insurance Services may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, North Country Insurance Services may monitor the most popular pages on the NorthCountryInsures.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. North Country Insurance Services may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, North Country Insurance Services does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

North Country Insurance Services 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 behalf of North Country Insurance Services or to provide services available at North Country Insurance Services’ 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 North Country Insurance Services’ website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. North Country Insurance Services 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, North Country Insurance Services discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request, or when North Country Insurance Services believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of North Country Insurance Services, third parties, or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a North Country Insurance Services website and have supplied your email address, North Country Insurance Services 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 North Country Insurance Services and our products. We primarily use our product 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. North Country Insurance Services 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. North Country Insurance Services uses cookies to help North Country Insurance Services identify and track visitors, their usage of the North Country Insurance Services website, and their website access preferences. North Country Insurance Services visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using North Country Insurance Services’ website, with the drawback that certain features of North Country Insurance Services website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If North Country Insurance Services, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that North Country Insurance Services  goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of North Country Insurance Services may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by North Country Insurance Services and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose, your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, North Country Insurance Services may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and in the sole discretion of North Country Insurance Services. North Country Insurance Services 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.