Privacy policy

NorthWest Payroll Services is committed to protecting your privacy. Our privacy statement applies to data collection and usage on our site and services only.

Collection of your personal information

For some of our services we may collect personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. NW Payroll may also collect demographic information, such as your post code, gender and employment position.

NW Payroll keeps a non personally identifiable log of the pages our customers visit within NW Payroll, in order to determine what areas of the site or services offered are the most popular.

NW Payroll may also collect certain information about your computer hardware and software. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses.

Security of your personal information

NW Payroll is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide in an area of our web server's computer systems with limited access. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of your personal information

NW Payroll collect and use your personal information to operate NW Payroll and deliver the services you have requested. These services may include the display of customized content based upon the information NW Payroll has collected.

NW Payroll may also use your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from NW Payroll.

NW Payroll does not sell, rent, lease or disclose its customer lists to any third parties. NW Payroll may, from time to time, contact you about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to any third party.

If NW Payroll were to hire other companies to provide services on our behalf that involve the use of the information we have collected we will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

NW Payroll may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on NW Payroll or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of NW Payroll, including its web site(s); or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of NW Payroll services or members of the public.

Use of Cookies

NW Payroll uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you register to use any of our online services, a cookie helps NW Payroll to recall your specific information on subsequent visits and will simplify the process of logging in to the site.

Google Ads

Certain parts of the website, mainly the free information sections, bear adverts from Google who use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies visit www.networkadvertising.org. You can find additional information in Appendix A of the NAI Self-Regulatory principles for publishers (PDF).