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The Northstar Companies 4285 Genesee St Cheektowaga, NY 14225 p: 716.276.1400 f: 716.565.6928 HR: Joe Castle jcastle@northstarlocation.com © 2007 The Northstar Companies. All Rights Reserved. |
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Privacy Policy Statement EFFECTIVE DATE 12/01/2006 |
| Your privacy and understanding of the use of information about you is important to us. This policy is designed to inform you of our privacy protection practices. |
| This is the Web site of Northstar Location Services, LLC. ("Northstar"). This privacy notice applies to all the information practices of the Northstar online bill pay site. Other sites maintained by Northstar operate under their own strict privacy and security policies. Our address and contact information is: |
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Northstar Location Services, LLC 4285 Genesee St Cheektowaga, NY 14225 Phone 1-877-630-6700 Fax 716-565-6928 Email address: nlsemail@northstarlocation.com |
| Use of Your Information |
| We are committed to data security and the use of optimal industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving user data exchanged with our site. Our physical and technological facilities are designed and regularly enhanced to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that you provide us at this site. |
| For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes your IP address to act as a receipt for any payment made. An email address provided to Northstar will be solely used for the purposes of debt collection. |
| Northstar is a collection agency. Any information obtained from the use of these services will be used for the purpose of debt collection. We collect credit card and debit card numbers and expiration dates, as well as checking account numbers, which are used for the purpose of executing payment transaction authorized by your use of this site. We collect social security numbers, account information, usage history, and payment amounts as a necessary part of using the Northstar online payment service. |
| We are required to share your payment information with our affiliates in order to process and manage your transactions, but we limit the sharing to only that information that is necessary to complete the transaction. |
| Only aggregate information on Web site utilization and email addresses of those who request an electronic payment receipt are shared with services providers or their agents with whom users have an existing relationship. No individually identifiable information is collected and used for any purpose other than the execution and reporting of payment transactions and the provision via email of electric payment receipts. We cooperate with law enforcement inquiries, court orders, subpoenas and other legal process, which may compel the disclosure of personal identifying information. |
| We use cookies to facilitate user navigation and session persistence at the site. Our site logs also generate certain kinds of non-identifying usage data: number of hits, site referrals, entry and exit pages, I.P. numbers, browser types, originating hosts, and top search strings. These statistics contain no personally identifiable information, and are only used to measure how the site is used and/or to improve site design. |
| You may review and update your personal identifying information by logging onto https://www.makeabetterliving.com. We strongly recommend that you protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer. |
| We reserve the right to transfer information in connection with a change in the ownership of any of the assets or control of Northstar (whether through a merger, sale or issuance of capital stock or otherwise). |
| Changes to the Privacy Policy |
| From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Privacy Statement or any privacy notice. If our information practices change at some point in the future, we will post these changes at our Web site, https://www.makeabetterliving.com. You will have the ability to opt out of these new uses. Please check our web site periodically. |
| Minors |
| Minors (persons under 18 years of age) should not send any information about themselves to us, including information concerning their name, address or email address. Northstar does not knowingly collect individually identifiable information from minors. In the event that we learn we have collected such information without parental consent, the information will be deleted from our database as soon as is reasonably possible. |
| Conditions of Use |
| If you chose to visit the Northstar Payments Web site, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Statement and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of New York state law (without regard to principles of conflicts of law). |
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