PRIVACY POLICY

North Star Appliance Repair operates www.northstarappliancerepair.org and may operate other websites. It is North Star Appliance Repair’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

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

North Star Appliance Repair also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on northstarappliancerepair.org blogs/sites. North Star Appliance Repair only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to North Star Appliance Repair’s websites choose to interact with North Star Appliance Repair in ways that require North Star Appliance Repair to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that North Star Appliance Repair gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at www.northstarappliancerepair.org to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with North Star Appliance Repair are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, North Star Appliance Repair collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with North Star Appliance Repair. North Star Appliance Repair 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 Star Appliance Repair may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. North Star Appliance Repair may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, North Star Appliance Repair does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

North Star Appliance Repair 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 North Star Appliance Repair’s behalf or to provide services available at North Star Appliance Repair’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 North Star Appliance Repair’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. North Star Appliance Repair 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 Star Appliance Repair discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when North Star Appliance Repair believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of North Star Appliance Repair, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a North Star Appliance Repair website and have supplied your email address, North Star Appliance Repair 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 Star Appliance Repair and our products. If you send us a request (for example via 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 Star Appliance Repair takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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

Business Transfers

If North Star Appliance Repair, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that North Star Appliance Repair 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 Star Appliance Repair 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 Star Appliance Repair and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, North Star Appliance Repair may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in North Star Appliance Repair’s sole discretion. North Star Appliance Repair encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a www.northstarappliancerepair.org account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.