NLC Statement of Privacy
The National League of Cities (NLC) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Statement of Privacy applies to the NLC website and services; it does not apply to other online or offline sites, products or services. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Policy.
Collection of Your Personal Information
NLC collects your personal information through voluntary submission through online forms. These forms collect information such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. NLC and its operational service partners do collect and use your personal information to process membership and other relevant payments.
As part of standard internet practice, we collect the following information when you visit our sites:
- Your IP address (a number automatically assigned to your computer when you are using the internet);
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
- The internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site;
- The date and time you visited this site;
- The pages your visit within the NLC site;
- The type of device used when visiting the NLC site
NLC encourages you to review the privacy policies of websites you choose to link from NLC so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your personal information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the NLC website.
Use of Your Personal Information
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide these companies with the personal information they need to deliver the service. They must maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
NLC does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
NLC 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 NLC or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights of property of NLC, including its website; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of NLC or the public.
Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which NLC or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. NLC abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
Control Your Personal Information
NLC offers choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. You may notify us of your preferences by going to https://www.nlc.org/contact-nlc/, selecting “Technical Support” as the topic and submitting your request.
You may also stop the delivery of future promotional emails from NLC by logging into myNLC and updating your email preferences.
Security of Your Personal Information
NLC is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a secure protocol (i.e., HTTPS) over the Internet when transmitting confidential information such as a credit card number. However, even after we receive personal information from you, we cannot guarantee that your information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed as a result of a breach of our commercially reasonable efforts or as a result of any other event beyond our reasonable control. Also, please be aware that your email transmissions and/or other communications to NLC containing personal information may be unlawfully intercepted or accessed by third parties and/or this Website may be subject to hostile network attacks or administrative errors. Accordingly, NLC cannot and does not guarantee that your transaction information is completely secure and safe from such risks.
Accuracy of Your Data
You are responsible for ensuring that the personal information you have submitted or accessed through the website is accurate and complete. You may change the information we have on file for you by accessing your myNLC account. Please contact us immediately if you notice changes to your profile that you did not request or if you notice any suspicious activity concerning your account. You can contact us by routing your concern through our Contact Us page.
Changes to this Policy
NLC reserves the right to modify the Privacy Policy at any time. If there are material changes to this Policy or in how NLC will use your personal information, NLC will post such changes prior to implementing the change. NLC encourages you to periodically review this Policy to stay up to date on how NLC is protecting your information.