Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We collect information you choose to provide and limited technical information needed to operate the website.

• Contact information you submit, such as name, email address, phone number, city, and state.
• Planning interests you select or describe, such as retirement, protection, investment, business owner, women and wealth, or family planning topics.
• Message content you choose to send through the contact form or by email.
• Basic website information that may be collected automatically by hosting, security, or analytics tools, such as pages viewed, browser type, device type, approximate location, referring page, and date/time of visit.

Please do not submit account numbers, Social Security numbers, tax documents, health information, passwords, or other highly sensitive information through the website forms.

How We Use Information

• Respond to your request or schedule an introductory conversation.
• Provide requested resources or follow-up information.
• Understand which planning topics visitors are interested in.
• Maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the website.
• Comply with applicable legal, regulatory, supervisory, or compliance obligations.

How Information May Be Shared

We do not sell personal information submitted through this website. Information may be shared with Sarah DePover, Northwestern Mutual and its affiliates, compliance or supervisory personnel, service providers that support the website or communications, professional advisors, and government or regulatory authorities when required or appropriate.

If you become a client or apply for a product or service, additional privacy notices and account-level disclosures may apply.

Financial Privacy Notices

Financial institutions may be required to provide privacy notices describing how they collect, share, and protect nonpublic personal information. For Northwestern Mutual's privacy notices and customer privacy information, review:

• Northwestern Mutual Privacy Notices
• Northwestern Mutual Customer Privacy Notice

Cookies, Analytics, and Browser Signals

This website may use basic cookies, server logs, or analytics tools to understand site performance and visitor activity. The site is not intended to use this information to sell personal information or deliver behavioral advertising. Because there is no common industry standard for Do Not Track signals, the website may not respond to all browser Do Not Track signals. If legally required Global Privacy Control or similar signals are detected and supported by the website's tools, they should be honored for applicable opt-out rights.

Your Privacy Choices and State Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of certain personal information, and to opt out of certain uses or disclosures. These rights may be limited by exceptions for legal, regulatory, security, fraud prevention, recordkeeping, or client-service reasons.

California residents can also review Northwestern Mutual's California Notice at Collection. To make a website privacy request, contact Sarah using the information below.

Retention and Security

Information is retained for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, including legal, regulatory, compliance, business, security, and recordkeeping purposes. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information submitted through the website, but no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Children's Privacy

This website is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through this website.

Contact

To ask a privacy question or make a website privacy request, contact Sarah DePover at 608-695-2891 or sarah.depover@nm.com. You may also use the Contact page.