Privacy Policy

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.north-wind.com. This privacy notice applies solely to the information collected by this website. This privacy notice will notify you of the following:

• What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
• What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
• The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Your Consent

By using our site, www.north-wind.com, you consent to our privacy policy.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

North Wind is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We only have access to collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, industry-related information, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. Although our website only aims to include quality, safe, and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. External links are clickable text, banner, image, and video links to other websites.

North Wind cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website. Users should note that when they click on external links, they are doing so at their own risk. Therefore, North Wind cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We have implemented commercially acceptable security measures we consider reasonable and appropriate to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Please be advised, however, that while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information.

When/if a secure transfer portal becomes available for North Wind and its customers, information will be encrypted and transmitted securely. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the web page address. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement, and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its employees participate in are subject to the terms and conditions, as well as the privacy policies, held with each social media platform respectively. Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution regarding their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and risk. Note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

North Wind and its employees, through their social media platform accounts, may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs (web addresses). Users are advised to take caution and good judgment before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore North Wind cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Email News

This website operates an email news program, used to inform subscribers about the latest company or industry-related news, products, and services. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Marketing Campaigns

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a third-party database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates, and frequency of activity. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based on their activity.

Customer Surveys / Feedback

We value customer feedback as it can help us better understand expectations, what we are doing well, and identify areas that need improvement. We reserve the right to use such feedback, either attributed or unattributed, for marketing purposes.

Do-Not-Track Signals

Our website includes third-party applications that track visitors. Third-party applications may not respond to Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) requests. Clicking on the links will bring up their privacy policies. Those applications that do respond to DNT do not drop cookies into visitors’ browsers.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately at info@north-wind.com.