Site Policies

Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure

The purpose of NWI Families is to help you discover events, activities, and resources in Northwest Indiana (Lake, Porter, and LaPorte Counties. By sharing this information we hope to help you make family memories, find fun seasonal activities, locate kids activities, and discover resources you might not otherwise know about!

There are a number of costs associated with running a website – website hosting, sending newsletters, staff time, website design, and more. Sometimes when you click on a link and make a purchase through that link we’re earning a small fee from that company. Posts with affiliate links are marked, however we only recommend products and local activities that we think are a good deal and/or something we use and love ourselves.

We also accept paid advertising on our website in the Sponsor areas and in Sponsored Blog Posts. This helps us continue to provide you with all of our great content for FREE!

Business & Organization Listings Disclosure

Any reference made here to local businesses, products, organizations, services, classes, etc. is for informational purposes only. We STRONGLY encourage you to do your own research before participating in an event or engaging with a local business or organization. The listing of any event, business, organization or other entity on this website is not an official or personal endorsement unless expressly stated. For many of the businesses and organizations listed on our site, any description or additional information was created by the business or organization referenced and was not created by NWI Families. Therefore, no text from our website may be quoted or reproduced to imply endorsement by NWI Families.

We love to support our local businesses and organizations that provide great opportunities for Northwest Indiana area families. We love telling you about the places and events we love here. We also have good manners, which means if we don’t have something nice to say, we won’t say anything at all. If you wonder why an event, business, or organization isn’t listed on our website, it is possible it was overlooked (so send us an email at info(at)nwifamilies.com or fill out our directory listing form. However, it is also possible that through personal experience we are not fans of a particular place or event, and have made the decision to leave it unlisted.

Hold Harmless

The intent of NWI Families is to provide ideas for family-friendly activities, events, and resources in and around Northwest Indiana: Lake, Porter, and LaPorte Counties. All information is provided as suggestions for fun activities or events, and participants assume all risks from any activities they engage in. NWI Families is not responsible for any injuries or problems that may arise from partaking in any of these events and activities; users/readers/visitors to nwifamilies.com agree to hold NWI Families harmless in any such claims.

Privacy Policy

At nwifamilies.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by nwifamilies.com and how we use it. All of the website tracking information listed below is standard for any website. If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.

Email
We treat you in the way we like to be treated ourselves. We respect your privacy, because we appreciate our privacy. This means that we will never sell, give, or rent information obtained through this site to any other parties under any circumstances. Your email address is only used to communicate with you and will not be used for any other purposes whatsoever.

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Website Comments
Any information you include in a comment on our blog may be read, collected, and used by anyone. If your Personal Information appears on our blogs and you’d like it to be removed, contact us. If we’re not able to remove your information, we’ll let you know why.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Online Privacy Policy Only
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

Update
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: August 1, 2023.