Privacy Statement

THE Q REGISTRATION PATH SOLUTIONS PRIVACY STATEMENT
(last updated: June 9, 2008)

Q Interactive, Inc. (“Q Interactive”, "us", "we" or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) describes all of the information handling practices for the Q Network’s Registration Path Solutions ("RPS"), including how we handle personal information we may obtain when you use RPS, and how we may share it.  This Privacy Statement does not apply to information we may obtain through other means, including offline or online in another forum, such as elsewhere at other Q Interactive-owned web sites.  This Privacy Statement is effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is otherwise effective on June 9, 2008 for all users.  The previous Privacy Statement was effective for all users on November 6, 2006.

If you have any additional questions about this privacy statement, or want further details on the topics covered herein you may send email to privacy@qinteractive.com, or write us at:

Q Interactive, Inc.
c/o Bradford Aaron, General Counsel
One North Dearborn Street, 12th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60602
Attention: Q Network RPS Privacy

OVERVIEW

Prior to your opportunity to view the offers contained in RPS, you maybe asked to provide certain personally identifiable information such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address (including zip code), age and/or gender by the publishers participating in RPS, who in turn transfer such information to us. WE MAY USE THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.  PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT WHEN YOU INDICATE INTEREST IN ANY ADVERTISEMENT(S). WE MAY TRANSFER YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS AND MARKETERS FOR VARIOUS MARKETING PURPOSES, INCLUDING THEIR ON-LINE AND/OR OFF-LINE PROGRAMS OR SERVICES.  We use the personal information that you supply to provide you with a more relevant experience by displaying content and delivering opportunities to you via direct mail and email according to your provided data.

COLLECTION AND INFORMATION

Information Collected During Use of RPS.  RPS allows companies to offer their consumers the opportunity to purchase subscriptions and merchandise from reputable advertisers during such company’s registration process. If you elect to purchase a subscription or merchandise through RPS, the advertiser will either provide an order form requesting information which may include contact information (such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing and shipping address) as well as financial information (such as your credit card number) or we will pass such required information to the advertiser based on information you already supplied to us or the publishers participating in RPS. This advertiser-requested information will only be provided to the specific sponsor of that offer.

INFORMATION AND SHARING

Use of Information When You Select an Offer or Purchase a Product/Service.  If you are interested in an offer from an advertiser, we provide you with the opportunity to share some of your contact information with them.  The information you submit to advertisers is subject to their own privacy policies. For example, you may wish to receive more information directly from an advertiser via e-mail or postal service, and you can use reply forms at various points on RPS to communicate that information to an advertiser. Or, in some circumstances, if you wish to receive more information from a advertiser, we may forward the information you have already supplied to us and/or our publishers after you indicated your interest in such offers.  It is strictly your decision to pass such information to any advertiser.  In addition, some offers or services will require us, by their terms, to forward your personal information (such as mailing address for delivery of orders) to an advertiser so that they can provide the service directly to you.  Otherwise, your information is shared with advertisers only on an aggregate (non-personally identifiable) basis.

Use of Information to Notify You About Our Products and Services.  We may use your information to inform you of other products or services available from RPS by making opportunities available to you on RPS.

Use of Information About You We Obtain from Third Parties. We may obtain information about you from our partner companies and other third parties in order to provide you with opportunities tailored to your interests. We may also use information obtained from our partner companies and other third parties for analytical and audit purposes.

Sharing Information with Our Business Partners and Service Providers.  We may share some personal information with our business partners, such as service providers and third party processors (collectively, “Clients”). These companies use your personal information to provide us with the services we have hired them to perform, such as to organize, administer, process, append and/or analyze our data on our behalf, or to deliver online or offline marketing materials to you or notify you of savings when you are visiting other web sites. These companies will help us provide more relevant offers to you and to eliminate the delivery of duplicate offers from a Client(s) and all such business partners are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to RPS program, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.  We may also share certain data with our Clients or service providers in aggregate form for audit, marketing and other purposes. We may transmit your search queries, if any, to business partners who use this information to provide us with search results and other information, which we then display to you.  Because aggregated data is not associated with any particular person, the third parties with whom we share this information will not have access to your personally identifiable information.

Sharing Information with Third Parties for Direct and Online Marketing Purposes. From time to time, we may provide your postal information and other relevant data to trusted third parties for direct and online marketing purposes who may send you marketing material on behalf of us and also use this postal information and other data to market to you on their own behalf.. We do not provide your e-mail address to these direct marketing parties

Legal Requests/Questionable Activities.  We will release or disclose your personal information, including to local, state, or federal law enforcement officials, when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or when required to do so by order of a court or authorized administrative agency.

Sale/Merger.  We will transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. We will notify you in accordance with the procedures contained in the Privacy Statement Updates and RPS Maintenance section of this Privacy Statement if your information will become subject to a different privacy policy.

SECURITY

We use a secure, encrypted connection (called an SSL connection) on all pages where you transmit personal data to us. Whenever you access any of your account pages or change any of your user information, it is done over an SSL connection.  Additionally, we have implemented procedural measures to safeguard your information.  For example, only a very limited number of our employees have access to your personal information.

Despite these security measures, we cannot guarantee that a third party might not unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or that users might not abuse or misuse your personal information that they may illegally collect from RPS. Therefore, although we believe that our practices exceed industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEB SITES

Through the RPS, we may provide links to third-party web sites, such as those of our advertisers. Each of these web sites have separate privacy and data-collection practices, which may differ from RPS, and we are not responsible for the actions or practices of these third parties, nor for the content on these web sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these web sites before providing your personally identifiable information.

DIGITAL IDENTIFIERS

Cookies.  We use "cookies" for the purpose of pre-populating fields in offer forms, to prevent you from seeing the same offer multiple times and for web beacons (as described below in the "Web Beacons" section).  A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.  You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of RPS or the other web sites you visit.

We also review "log-file" data to monitor site performance and analyze traffic patterns and usage of our RPS. Each time you visit RPS, our server automatically recognizes the following:

This information, sometimes called log-file or clickstream data, is used to monitor RPS performance and ensure that RPS functions properly. It may also be appended to your personal profile so that we may further tailor RPS to your interests. If this clickstream data is appended to your personal file and you choose to share your personal information with an advertiser, the advertiser may also have access to this clickstream data.

Web Beacons.  RPS’s pages and/or HTML e-mails may contain electronic images (called “web beacons”, “single-pixel GIFs”, or “action tags”) that allow us to count users who have visited a certain web page or opened an e-mail, conduct research on publisher and advertiser web sites for auditing purposes, or to access your RPS “cookie” to identify you when on third party web sites.  Using web beacons allows us to personalize your experience by tailoring advertisements, updates, and other offers to your particular interests, and measuring the marketing effectiveness of offers.

Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides.  Information recorded through these web beacons may be used to report aggregate demographic or usage information about Members to our advertisers, or user-level usage information to our Third Party Processors.  The RPS’s web pages may also contain web beacons placed there by third parties to help determine the effectiveness of our joint promotional or advertising campaigns.  No personally identifiable information about you is shared with an advertiser or Third Party Processors except as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Statement.

Third Party Ad Servers.  We reserve the right to serve advertisements within our RPS either ourselves or by allowing other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to do so.  In addition, some of our advertisers may use the services of third-party ad networks.  Some of these third-party ad networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the third-party ad network to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, third-party ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows a third-party ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. We do not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or third-party ad networks. Those third-party ad networks that use persistent cookies may offer you a way to opt-out of ad targeting. You may find more information at the web site of either the individual third-party ad network or the Network Advertising Initiative.

CHILDREN/MINORS

RPS will automatically block enrollment of any person once they indicate they are under the age of 13.  If we later learn that a user is under the age of 13, we will terminate the account and delete the user's information. Inherent in RPS is the responsibility of parents and/or guardians to ensure that their children's privacy is protected.  

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

We disclaim and you agree that we will not be liable to you for any damages caused by acts or events beyond our reasonable control including, without limitation, acts of God, fires, floods, acts of terrorism, wars, civil disturbances, sabotage, accidents, labor disputes, governmental actions, and failures or delays of transportation that result in our disclosure of your personally identifiable information.

PRIVACY STATEMENT UPDATES AND SITE MAINTENANCE

We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, update, change, modify or revise this Privacy Statement, the Site or our services simply by posting such change, update or modification on the Site. Any such addition, update, change, modification or revision will be effective immediately upon posting. If we materially change how we use your personal information, we will notify you via e-mail.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, our information-handling practices, or other aspects of privacy, please contact us by e-mail or via postal mail at: RPS Privacy, c/o Bradford Aaron, General Counsel, Q Interactive, Inc., One North Dearborn Street, 12th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

Click here link to send e-mail.

Last Updated: June 9, 2008

close window