Privacy Policy
This explains how Northgarden collects, uses and shares your information when you access our watershed research database. It also covers your privacy rights and what the law says about protecting you. We use your personal data to run and maintain the Service. By using Northgarden, you're agreeing that we can collect and use your information as described here.
Interpretation
Capitalized words have specific meanings defined below. These apply the same way whether we're talking about one thing or many.
Definitions
Here's what we mean by certain terms in this policy: • Account: your unique login to access Northgarden or parts of it. • Affiliate: a company that controls, is controlled by, or shares control with another company. Control means owning 50% or more of shares, equity interest or voting securities. • Company (also "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our"): Northgarden. • Cookies: small files stored on your device that track your browsing and usage. • Country: Washington, United States. • Device: anything that can access the Service—computer, phone, tablet, etc. • Personal Data: information about you that identifies or could identify you. • Service: the Northgarden website. • Service Provider: anyone who processes data on our behalf. • Usage Data: information we collect automatically from how you use the Service or from the system itself. • Website: Northgarden. • You: the person using the Service, or the company or legal entity they represent.
Types of Data Collected: Personal & Usage Data
We may ask you to provide certain information to contact or identify you while using the Service. This could include your name, email address, any messages you send through the contact form, and usage data. Usage Data gets collected automatically. This covers your device's IP address, browser type and version, pages you visit, how long you spend on them, unique device identifiers and diagnostic information.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking tools to monitor activity on the Service and store information. Beacons, tags and scripts help us collect data and improve what we offer. • Cookies or Browser Cookies: small files placed on your device. You can set your browser to reject all cookies or alert you when one is sent. • Web Beacons: tiny electronic files in some parts of our Service and emails that let us count who's visited a page or opened a message. We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for essential functions, policy acceptance and functionality. Check our Cookies Policy for details on which ones we use.
Use of Your Personal Data
We use your personal data for these reasons: • Providing and maintaining the Service, including tracking how it's used. • Managing your account and registration. • Fulfilling contracts with you. • Reaching out via email, phone, SMS or similar methods. • Sending you news, special offers and information about products, services and events. • Handling your requests. • Business transfers. • Data analysis, spotting usage trends and measuring how well campaigns work. We may share your information with Service Providers, Affiliates, business partners or other users in public areas, or with your permission.
Retention and Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your personal data stays with us only as long as we need it for the purposes in this policy. We keep and use it to meet our legal obligations. Your information gets processed at our offices and wherever the people involved in processing are located. It may be transferred to and stored on computers outside your state, province, country or jurisdiction. By consenting to this policy and submitting information, you agree to that transfer.
Delete Your Personal Data
You can ask us to delete the personal data we have about you. The Service may let you remove certain information directly from your account. You can update, change or delete your information anytime by logging in. We may need to keep some information if we're legally required to do so.
Disclosure and Security of Your Personal Data
If we merge with another company, get acquired or sell our assets, your personal data could be transferred. We'll notify you before that happens. Sometimes we're required by law or by government bodies (courts, agencies) to share your personal data. Keeping your data safe matters to us, but no internet or electronic storage method is completely secure. We use industry-standard protections, but we can't guarantee absolute security.
Children's Privacy
The Service isn't meant for anyone under 18. We don't knowingly collect personal information from kids. If you're a parent or guardian and know your child gave us personal data, contact us. If we find out we've collected data from someone under 18 without parental consent, we remove it from our servers.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service links to other websites we don't run. Third party links take you to their sites. Check their privacy policies before you go—we don't control their content, policies or practices and aren't responsible for them.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We update this policy occasionally. Changes get posted here and we'll email you or put a notice on the Service before they take effect. This policy became effective August 12, 2026.
Contact Us
Questions about this Privacy Policy? Email us at info@northgarden.pro.