Individuals' privacy is important to Northwestern Business College ("NBC"). To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices. Our privacy and public records obligations are governed solely by applicable Illinois statutes and by any applicable federal laws.
This notice applies to all information collected by or submitted to official NBC websites. The following information explains the Internet privacy policy and practices that NBC has adopted for its official websites. This notice shall not be construed as a contractual promise and NBC reserves the right to amend it at any time without notice.
When you access an NBC webpage, the user information and the essential and nonessential technical information listed below may be automatically collected - those categories are referred to collectively as "access" information. No other information is collected through NBC's official websites except when you deliberately decide to send it to NBC (for example, by clicking on a link to send NBC an e-mail). The information you might choose to send NBC is listed below as "Optional Information."
Your client information is used to route the requested web page to your computer for viewing. In theory, the requested web page and the routing information could be discerned by other entities involved in transmitting the requested page to you. We do not control the privacy practices of those entities. Essential and nonessential technical information helps us respond to your request in an appropriate format (or in a personalized manner) and helps us plan website improvements. Optional information enables us to provide services or information tailored more specifically to your needs or to forward your message or inquiry to another entity that is better able to do so, and also allows NBC to plan website improvements.
We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design NBC's website. For example, we may report that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our application form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
We may keep client information from our systems indefinitely after the web page is transmitted, but we do not try to obtain any information to link it to the individuals who browse our website. However, on rare occasions when a "hacker" attempts to breach computer security, logs of access information are retained to permit a security investigation and in such cases may be forwarded together with any other relevant information in our possession to law enforcement agencies.
We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order or request only to complete that order or request. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order or request. Similarly, we use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order or request only to complete that order or request. Again, we do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order or request.
We generally use return e-mail addresses only to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are generally not used for any other purpose and by NBC policy are not shared with outside parties.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without a clear notice on the particular site and without also providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
As required by law. Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our website.
Some official NBC websites use "cookies." Often a cookie enables the NBC website to tailor what you see according to the way you entered the site (i.e., if you entered by pushing a button identifying yourself as a student, your subsequent views of information might be tailored for student audiences). For this kind of cookie, the information stored in that cookie might include the following (formatted for legibility):
Name: NWBC_cookie Session: 5770188679.136437
Timestamp: 469021878
Portal: 0
Expires: Tue, 01-May-2001 19:40:58 GMT
Domain: nwbc.edu
Path: /
There is no legal requirement for you to provide any information at our website. However, our website will not work without routing information and the essential technical information. Failure of your browser to provide nonessential technical information will not prevent your use of our website but may prevent features from working. For any optional information that is requested at an NBC website, failure to provide the requested information will mean that the particular feature or service associated with that part of the web page may not be available to you.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures in place to safeguard and secure the information we collect online, consistent with the policies of NBC and with the laws and regulations of the state of Illinois.
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies and practices, please call us at (847) 318-8550 or send us an e-mail at Webmaster@nwbc.edu. If you wish to review or change information gathered about you via an official NBC website but you do not know how, the NBC Webmaster will assist in locating the persons responsible for that site so that you may make your request for review or change of information directly.
