Our Privacy Policy

At the Norwest Maritime Center and Wooden Boat Foundation ("NWMC/WBF") we are committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information we collect about you to process orders and to provide a more personalized shopping experience. We work diligently to protect confidentiality, restrict transfer of personal data, incorporate technical safeguards and appropriate security policies.

We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.

INFORMATION COLLECTED

NWMB/WBF collects information from you at several different areas on our site. You may receive information regarding new features, services and special offers we think you'll find valuable. Registration is required in order to use this website, and you must create an account prior to completing any purchase. During registration you are required to provide your name, email address, zip code, phone number and a password. This information is necessary in order for us to contact you about services on our site for which you have expressed interest and so that you may later login to our site to check your order status and account history. Our website order forms request data from you including: contact information such as name and shipping address; financial information such as credit card number, security code, expiration date, billing address, and billing phone number. This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer orders. If we encounter difficulty when processing an order, this contact information is used to contact you. This information is collected from a secure web page and encrypted for your protection. Note that we may disclose this information to your credit card issuing bank if a fraudulent order is being investigated or disputed by you.

Cookies are data stored on the end-user's hard drive with information that relates directly to the end-user's visit to our website. We use a cookie to store a unique session identifier, which allows us to maintain shopping cart and website selections from one page request to the next, and maintain session information from one visit to the next. By setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in more than once, thereby saving time while visiting our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still browse our site. However, the user experience will be limited. In addition, the user will be unable to log in or make a purchase. Cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance users' experience and display products that relate directly to individual user preferences. Some of our business partners and/or advertisers may also use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.

WEBSITE LOG FILES

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement and gather demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable sites. IP addresses may be used in fraudulent charge investigations.

SHARING and THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. We value your privacy at NWMC/WBF, and will never release any account information to anyone outside of the necessary core groups that help our business function unless our customers give us the authority to do so.

LINKS TO OTHER MATERIALS AND SITES

At certain places on this site, links to other websites can be accessed. Such external sites contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of NWMC/WBF. NWMC/WBF does not endorse, approve, certify, or control these external sites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of information located at such sites. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process or service does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favoring by NWMC/WBF. NWMC/WBF assumes no responsibility for consequences resulting from use of information obtained at linked sites. NWMC/WBF is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, reliance on, or performance of such information.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.

THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT (WEBSITE) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS DOCUMENT (WEBSITE) COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. NWMC/WBF MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED IN THIS PUBLICATION AT ANY TIME.