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Privacy Policy

General Statement of Privacy
The NWGA takes your privacy seriously. We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The NWGA will not share, sell, rent or otherwise provide any personally identifiable information that you provide without your consent.

Collection of Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Our web servers automatically capture non-personally identifiable information including, but limited to, your domain name, the IP address of the web page from which you enter our site, the pages that you visit on our site, the click-through rates, and the amount of time that you spend here. However, the individual user will remain anonymous. We may use and analyze this data for trends and to improve our site. Any non-personally identifiable information that we give to third parties will be provided in aggregate form only.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
When you engage in activities such as registering for newsletters or to order various NWGA publications, you may be required to submit personal information to NWGA. This information will include data such as your name, company name, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address. If you choose not to provide the information that is requested by NWGA, you may continue to visit the site but you may be unable to access certain offers, services or secure pages. NWGA will not provide any personally identifiable information to any third parties without your consent. However, NWGA reserves the right to provide personally identifiable information to third parties if NWGA reasonably believes that this release of information is necessary: 1. To comply with legal requirements or legal process; 2. to protect and defend the rights or property of NWGA; or 3. to protect the other users of the site or the public.
Submissions and Postings
You understand and agree that NWGA does not monitor and is not responsible for any information that you provide on listservs, bulletin board services, chat areas, forums, enterprise platforms and/or other message, information exchange or document development facilities, and recognize that others may collect and use any information that you provide.  Such submissions and posting are subject to the terms and conditions of access to and use of this web site. Click here to view the Terms and Conditions, which is incorporated by reference, as if set forth fully herein.
Privacy with Respect to Minors
NWGA does not knowingly collect or use information from children under the age of 13 without the consent of a parent or guardian.
Cookies
When you visit our web site, we may place a cookie on your computer that will allow us to track your visit to our site and help us to improve the site. The cookies will not provide NWGA with any personally identifiable information about you.

Automatic Information Storage
Session Variables may be used temporarily in your system to create ease-of-use during your transaction. Examples of such information are automatically produced alphanumeric numbers held during your session on our site to facilitate page-to-page transactions.

Other Web Sites and Links
NWGA web site contains links to other web sites. If you choose to use any of these links, you will be leaving NWGA’s web site and going to a new web site. Protection of your privacy at these linked sites will be governed by the privacy policy at that site. You should take the time to read the privacy policies at these sites. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such sites or the use of any information that you provide.
Security
If there is a requirement to send NWGA credit card information, NWGA will use third party gateways and current encryption methods to transfer over the Internet. NWGA will not view or store your credit card number on our internal systems.

Although our site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information that is under our control, NWGA cannot guarantee complete security.

Use of Collected Information
We will release information about you if you direct us to do so, if we are required by law to do so, or in other legally limited circumstances (for example, to protect your account from fraud). NWGA may use your personal information (including your e-mail address) to contact you regarding NWGA news and events.

International User
Irrespective of your domicile or place of doing business, by using this web site, you agree that NWGA may collect, use and transfer your information as described in this Privacy Policy Statement.
Changes to Policy
This policy may change over time. Your continued use of the site after these changes are posted constitutes your agreement to the changes with regard to information collected.

Restriction of Liability
NWGA makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of noninfringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by NWGA.

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