Privacy Policy

Updated as of July 14, 2005

This Privacy Policy discloses the general privacy practices for the Quantitative Intelligence Company ("QI") website. QI is committed to respecting your privacy rights when visiting any QI website, such as this one. To protect your Personal Information (as defined below), QI has created the guidelines outlined below. To ensure accuracy and security, QI reviews and updates this privacy policy from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this privacy policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how QI collects and uses personal information. By using our web site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by QI. Any changes to this policy will be promptly posted on this page, with an updated "effective date" posted at the end of this policy. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by QI.

Personally Identifiable Information

QI collects personal information from its visitors on a voluntary basis through its "Request Information" form. QI does not require this information from its visitors to obtain access to any of its sites. QI uses this personally identifiable information to respond to inquiries and questions. QI does not share any of this personally identifiable information except as required by law. If you would like us to remove any of the information you have submitted to us, please contact us at webmaster@qicompany.net.

IP Addresses: QI logs IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes and to determine site usage. Your IP address does not contain personal information about you.

Use of Personal Information

We believe in protecting your privacy, and will not share Personal Information with third parties outside of QI , except as described in this Privacy Policy. We believe we can enhance your experience on our Site with the information you share with us. We use Personal Information about you to improve our advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically analyze Site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to personalize the Site's content, layout, and services. We may also use your Personal Information, such as your e-mail address or mailing address, to contact you regarding products and/or services that may be of interest to you, to respond to an inquiry from you regarding the information that we have collected, or respond to your comments and suggestions.
As part of your experience on our Site, you may receive communications from us related to products and services that might interest you. While we believe these services will enhance your experience at our Site, you will at all times be able to opt out from receiving these communications, either by specifically opting out of these services or by deleting your profile from our database. Please refer to "Opting-Out" below for further reference.
We reserve the right to disclose Personal Information when needed to comply with the law or a legal process, cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, or to identify persons violating the law.

Party Collecting the Information

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination of information that we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose any information to other parties, whether through, for example, blogs, bulletin boards, and the like, through third party services or promotions offered on or through the Site or through other web sites throughout the Internet, different policies may apply and QI shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of such information.
The Site may offer forums, message boards, or chat rooms as one of the services on the Site. If you disclose personal information in one of these forums, this information becomes public information, can be viewed, collected, and used by others and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. QI is not responsible for the use of information you disclose in these forums. We encourage you to consult the Forum Rules regarding the policies and procedures that apply to that portion of the Site.
Our Sites may operate as part of a larger group of sites, and may carry co-branded pages. In addition, other sites may use the Site's or QI 's name. Since QI does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies, if any, of such third parties, and QI shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of your private information by such parties. Therefore, we encourage you to ask questions and review those parties' privacy policies before you disclose your Personal Information to others.

Links to Other Materials

Third party sites linked to and from the Site are not under the control of QI. QI shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time. QI does not endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from which the Site is linked. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to the Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Children's Privacy

QI cares about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent. In the event that we receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practicable.

Opting-Out

We respect your privacy and ability to choose whether to share information with us and any third party. You may choose to "opt-out" of sharing Personal Information in several ways. When choosing to use certain features or services on the Site, you can choose whether to share optional Personal Information in connection with the feature or service. If you receive communications from us that you prefer not to receive, you may opt out from receiving these communications, by modifying the contact options in your registration profile.
You may "opt-out" altogether from providing Personal Information to us by not registering on the Site and thereby not providing Personal Information. You may also choose at a later date to have your name removed from our database by clicking on the Opt-Out/Unsubscribe link contained within email communications or by sending an email to webmaster@qicompany.net with "unsubscribe" contained in the subject line.
Certain portions of the Site and certain services provided on the Site, however, do require registration in order to access or use these areas and services. If you choose not to register or provide certain information, these areas will not be accessible to you.

Security

QI maintains above industry standard safeguards to ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of the Personal Information that you provide to QI.

Updating your Personal Information

You can update your account information at anytime simply by contacting us at webmaster@qicompany.net and we will attempt to correct any inaccuracy in a timely manner.

Successor in Interest

We reserve the right to convey any information we collect from or about you to a successor in interest.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at webmaster@qicompany.net.

Effective Date and Changes

This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 14, 2005. QI reserves the right to modify the terms of this policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice to this page. Your continued use of the Site following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes.