Privacy

Privacy Policy | QBOS, Inc.

Privacy Policy as of Feb 16th, 2009
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Your email address in a nutshell:

We won't lend, sell, lease, or in any other way give somebody else your email address.

QBOS takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This policy covers how QBOS treats personal information that QBOS receives and collects, including information you provide related to your past use of QBOS products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. Personal information also includes non-public information that: (i) is or would likely be personally identifiable, and (ii) has not been designated through such service as information that may be shared with others.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that QBOS does not own or control or to people that QBOS does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

General

QBOS collects personal information when you register with QBOS, when you visit QBOS pages or the pages of certain QBOS partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. QBOS may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register we may ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with QBOS and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

QBOS collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including information about your use of services that we offer.

QBOS automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, QBOS cookie information, and the pages you request from our servers.

QBOS' servers are located both inside and outside the United States, and data may be processed and/or stored by any QBOS server at any time.

QBOS uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the experience and content that you see (including advertising), fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external purposes.

Children

This is not a web site directed to children under age 14.

QBOS does not knowingly contact children under age 14 or ask a child under age 14 for personal information.

If QBOS discovers that a child younger than the age of 14 has provided QBOS with personal information, QBOS will take steps to delete such information from its system.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

QBOS does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you have explicitly requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

  • We may provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with QBOS under confidentiality agreements. As a condition of receiving this information, we require that these companies only use your personal information to help QBOS communicate with you. However, these companies do not and will not have any independent right to use or share this information.
  • We may also use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve our technologies and services, and we may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties.
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
  • We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of QBOS' terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
  • We may transfer information about you if QBOS is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, QBOS will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Cookies

QBOS may set and access QBOS cookies on your computer.

California Residents

California laws permit registered users who are California residents to request certain information regarding disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To request such information, please e-mail us.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

QBOS may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your QBOS account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions, please email us at: [email protected]