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This
Qualprean, Inc Online Privacy Policy applies to data collected by
Qualprean, Inc through this website only, being the only site through which
Qualprean, Inc disseminates information to the general public.
Qualprean, Inc respects your privacy. Accordingly,
Qualprean, Inc does not collect the information of anybody visiting this site,
except as may have been provided to us as explained presently under
Collection of Your Personal Information. In effect therefore, it is
strictly at the option of the visitor whether or not to provide any
information we may seek and request for any purposes for which the
visitor may ask for support or services. Further,
Qualprean, Inc is
committed to protecting your privacy; and as such
Qualprean, Inc
uses the information the visitor willingly provides us exactly as we have
stated in the below explanations as well.
This website and services
we offer are supported by advertising, as such we also deliver
advertisements. We may collect information about your visit, including
the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in
connection with this
Qualprean, Inc, just to prepare a visitors
count information for our advertisers, in justifying our billing as well
as periodically re-evaluating our pricing policy for advertisements. We
may even provide website analytics tools on this
Qualprean, Inc for
collecting information on this site. Additionally, we collect certain
standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit,
such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and
referring Web site addresses. However, we designed our systems to select
ads based only on data that does not personally and directly identify
you.
However, we do not collect
information on advertisements placed on this site by third party sites.
Actually we are so particular about our commitment to protecting your
privacy so much so that we encourage all our advertisers and their
support services to encrypt even the links from our site to their sites.
We may, however, use various web tokens, customized links or similar technologies
to determine which links you
click in order to provide you more focused advertisement display or
other information.
Collection of Your Personal
Information
When we ask you, here at
Qualprean, Inc, to provide personal information, such as your e-mail
address, and name for subscription/RSS Feed, the information is used
strictly to enable us inform
subscribers of changes to the information we disseminate. However, if you
should choose to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription
service, we may also
collect mailing data such as your address, city, state, ZIP code,
telephone and fax; we may also ask for additional information, such
as your credit card number and billing address, that is required to create a
Qualprean, Inc billing account.
In order to access some
Qualprean, Inc services, you will be asked to sign in with an
e-mail address and password, which we refer to as your credentials. In
most cases, these credentials will be part of the
Qualprean, Inc ID
or Passport Network credential. You can use the same credentials to sign
in to many different
Qualprean, Inc sites and services, as well as
those of select
Qualprean, Inc partners. If you access our services
via a mobile phone, you may also use your telephone number and a PIN as
an alternative credential to your username and password. As part of
creating your credentials, you may also be requested to provide
questions and secret answers, which we use to help verify your identity
and assist in resetting your password, as well as an alternate email
address. Some services may require added security, and in these cases,
you may be asked to create an additional security key. Finally, a unique
ID number will be assigned to your credentials which will be used to
identify your credentials and associated information.
Use of Your Personal
Information
Qualprean, Inc
collects and uses your personal information to send newsletters or
promotional e-mail from
Qualprean, Inc, deliver to you the
transactions you have requested. These uses may include providing you
with more effective customer service; performing research and analysis
aimed at improving our products, services and technologies; and
displaying content and advertising that are customized to your interests
and preferences.
We also use your personal
information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory
service communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders,
information on technical service issues, and security announcements.
Some
Qualprean, Inc services, such as RSS Feed, may send periodic
member letters that are considered part of the service. We may also
occasionally send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform
you of other products or services available from
Qualprean, Inc and
its affiliates.
We may use some of the information we
collect in order to determine in some respects the ads we allow
third-parties to display. For example, we may select the ads we display
according to certain general interest categories or segments that we
have inferred based on the nature of the contents of articles we provide
as your read, the pages you view and links you click when using
Qualprean, Inc’s and (c) the search terms you enter when
using
Qualprean, Inc’s
Internet search services.
Sharing of Your Personal
Information
As part of our commitment
to protecting your privacy, except as described in this statement, we
will not disclose your personal information outside of
Qualprean, Inc and its divisions without your consent; we may give you a choice
as to whether you wish to receive communications from
Qualprean, Inc on behalf of external business partners about a partner's
particular offering (without transferring your personal information to
the third party).
We occasionally hire other
companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling
the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support,
hosting websites, processing transactions, or performing statistical
analysis of our services. Those companies will be permitted to obtain
only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are
required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are
prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
We may access and/or
disclose your personal information if we believe such action is
necessary to: (a) comply with the law or legal process served on
Qualprean, Inc; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of
Qualprean, Inc (including the enforcement of our agreements); or
(c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users
of
Qualprean, Inc services or members of the public.
Accessing Your Personal
Information
You may have the ability
to view or edit your personal information online. In order to help
prevent your personal information from being viewed by others, you will
be required to sign in with your credentials (e-mail address and
password). The appropriate method(s) for accessing your personal
information will depend on which sites or services you have used.
Some
Qualprean, Inc
sites or services may collect personal information that is not
accessible via the links above. However, in such cases, you may be able
to access that information through alternative means of access: You can write us by using our Web form and we will
contact you within 30 days regarding your request.
Communication Preferences
You can stop the delivery
of future promotional e-mail from
Qualprean, Inc by following the
specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. You may also have the
option of proactively making choices about the receipt of promotional
e-mail, telephone calls, and postal mail from particular
Qualprean, Inc by visiting and signing into the web-page, which allows you to choose whether or not you wish to
receive marketing communications from en-know.com, and
respectively to
subscribe or unsubscribe to change-notification emails about articles on
this site and our services.
These choices do not apply
to the display of online advertising. Nor do they apply to the receipt
of mandatory service communications that are considered part of certain
Qualprean, Inc services, which you may receive periodically unless
you cancel the service.
Security of Your Personal
Information
Personal information
collected on
Qualprean, Inc sites and services may be stored and
processed in the United States or any other country in which
Qualprean, Inc or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities,
and by using a
Qualprean, Inc site or service, you consent to any
such transfer of information outside of your country.
Qualprean, Inc abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S.
Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of
data from the European Union.
Qualprean, Inc is
committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We
use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect
your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer
systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities.
When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card
number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of
encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If a password is used to
help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your
responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share this
information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you
should always choose to log out before leaving a site or service to
protect access to your information from subsequent users.
Collection and Use of
Children's Personal Information
Qualprean, Inc
site and services are intended for general audiences and do not
knowingly collect any personal information from children. When an
Qualprean, Inc site does collect age information, and users
identify themselves as under 13, the site discards the personal information,
and returns a message suggesting subscription by the
parents for the use and sharing of our services. We will not knowingly
enable children under the age of 13 to
create an
Qualprean, Inc Account Profile based on their personal information.
Supporting Interactivity
with Cookies
Qualprean, Inc
website uses a variety of approaches to support dynamic interaction
between your computer and the web-server that serves the subscriber with
our web-pages. One of these approaches uses "cookies" to enable you to
interact with our access restricted services and to help personalize
your online experience. A cookie is a small text file, that may be
dynamically generated by our website when you first sign in to a
subscription account with us, and that is placed on your hard disk by a
Web-page server that serves you [the subscriber] our web-pages. Cookies
cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in
the domain that issued the cookie to you.
However, a subscriber has 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 sign in or use other interactive features of
Qualprean, Inc
site and services that depend on cookies, considering the varied uses to
which "cookies" is put in the
Qualprean, Inc
site.
Qualprean, Inc
website use cookies to store your preferences and other information on
your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to
repeatedly enter the same information and to display your personalized
content and appropriate advertising on your later visits to these sites.
When you sign in to this site using your
Qualprean, Inc
Account Profile credentials, the website may generate an encrypted
cookie and store in the same, your unique ID number, and the time you
signed in, and have the cookie placed on your hard disk. This cookie
allows you to move between pages at the site that require sign-ins,
without having to sign in again on each of such pages. When you sign
out, these cookies are deleted from your computer. Depending on the
approach we adopt at a set time, we may also use cookies to improve the
sign in experience. For example, your username may be stored in a cookie
that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows
your username identification to be pre-populated, so that you will only
need to type your password the next time you sign in. If you are using a
computer other than your own or do not otherwise want this information
to be stored on your computer, you can opt not have the cookie generated
when you select the appropriate radio button on the sign-in page.
Deployment of Web Beacons
Qualprean, Inc
Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes
called single-pixel gifs - that may be deployed to facilitate the
delivering of cookies between pages on our website and allow us to count
users who have visited those pages and consequentially be in a position
to deliver co-branded services.
Qualprean, Inc
may also deploy on this site, Web beacons from third parties to enable
us perform Aggregated Statistics compilation that permits assessments of
the effectiveness of specific promotional campaigns, and possibly other
operations of this site.
Finally, being supported
by Advertisers and Ad Serving Companies, our acceptance of the
advertisement on our site, may amount to the authorizing of such companies that advertise on
Qualprean, Inc sites to place Web
beacons on their sites in order to allow us to develop statistics on how
often clicking on an advertisement on a
Qualprean, Inc site results
in a purchase or other action on the advertiser's site.
We prohibit Web beacons on
our sites from being used by third parties to collect or access your
personal information. Further, we do not include Web beacons in
promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters for any reason
whatsoever.
Displayed Third Parties-Advertisements
The majority of the online
advertisements you see on
Qualprean, Inc Web pages are by
third-party ad serving companies, including ad networks, to display
advertisements on
Qualprean, Inc Web pages. These companies
currently include (, but are not limited to) Google AdSense,
AdBrite.com, and CommissionJunction.com .
Quite possibly, though
often, when site visitors click on advertisements, the corresponding Ad serving companies
may
place a persistent cookie on the visitors computers in order to recognize
the
computers each time they display an online advertisement to a visitor. Because
these companies may serve advertisements on many different websites,
they may be able to compile information over time about where you, or
others who are using your computer, saw and/or clicked on the
advertisements they display. These companies may use this information to
make predictions about your characteristics or preferences and to
display targeted advertisements that they believe may be of interest to
you. They may also associate this information with your subsequent
visit, purchase or other activity on participating advertisers’ websites
in order to determine the effectiveness of the advertisements.
These companies may offer
you a way to opt out of ad targeting based on their cookies. Some of
these companies are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which
offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member
companies. You may find more information by clicking on the company
names above and following the links to the websites of each company.
Controlling "Spam" or
Unsolicited E-mail
Qualprean, Inc
is concerned about controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam";
Qualprean, Inc
has a strict Anti-Spam Policy prohibiting any form of enabling of the
use of your information to send spam: In this regard,
Qualprean, Inc
will not sell, lease or rent its e-mail subscriber lists to third
parties. However, while
Qualprean, Inc
continues to actively review and implement new technology, such as
expanded filtering features, admittedly, there is no currently available
technology that will comprehensively prevent the sending and receiving
of unsolicited e-mail. Using junk e-mail tools and being cautious about
the sharing of your e-mail address while online will help reduce the
amount of unsolicited e-mail you receive.
Changes to This Privacy
Statement
We will occasionally
revise this Privacy Policy so as to reflect changes in our delivery of
our products and services and
as a result of our adoption of customer feedback. When we should make
such revisions to this Privacy Policy, we will necessarily change the "last updated" date at the top
right-corner of this ePage bearing the Policy. Moreover, If there
should be material changes to this Policy statement or in how
Qualprean, Inc
intends to use your personal information, we will notify you either by
prominently posting a notice of such revisions prior to implementing the
revisions or by directly sending you an email notification. However, we encourage you to
periodically review this Policy statement to keep apprised of how
Qualprean, Inc is protecting your information.
Contacting Us
Qualprean, Inc
welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you should
have questions about this policy or believe that it is not being adhered
to, then please contact us by email at
privacypolicy@qualprean.com, or by regular mail at
Policy Director,
Qualprean, Inc, 15 Warren Street, Ste 37 M, Hackensack, NJ 07602-1032
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