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LeadQual Privacy Policy
Effective March 1, 2007
Protecting the privacy of our users is very important to LeadQual. When you provide
contact information to LeadQual, the information you provide to us is used to provide the
services you have requested, to deliver email notifications to you, and from time to time,
to validate your identity. Our data collection policies allow you to choose how much
information you provide to us, and to control how we use that information. To find out
more, please read on.
Information Collection & Use
LeadQual wants your experience to be satisfying and safe. Our data collection policies
allow you to choose how much information you provide to us, and what LeadQual does
with the information you supply. Your information will be kept within LeadQual unless
you consent to our supplying all or a portion of your information to third parties as a part
of one of our service offerings. However, if you tell LeadQual not to send you further
emails, this instruction may be communicated to third parties who send email on
LeadQual’s behalf solely to allow us to comply with your instructions. LeadQual collects
information online to allow you to use our services. Depending on the service you are
accessing, you could be asked at various times to provide information such as your name,
email address, contact phone number or other information related to lead generation or
qualification. We request this information to deliver on the services you are requesting,
and to allow us to provide our strongest value to you - a personalized online experience.
Information collected online is often defined as being either anonymous or personally
identifiable:
1. Anonymous Information refers to information that cannot be tied back to a specific
individual. For instance, we may know that thousands of people have visited this Privacy
Policy webpage, but we do not necessarily know their names, where they live, or their
date of birth. What we collect from visits such as this constitutes anonymous information.
Some of the individuals who access our services decline to use the personalization
features that are available to them, and therefore those individuals are anonymous to us
and the only data we collect about them is anonymous information.
2. Personally Identifiable Information refers to information that tells us specifically who
you are, such as your name, email address or phone number. While you can search and
browse some sections of our web site without providing any information, certain
activities do require you to provide contact information. Registering with LeadQual may
also cause a cookie to be issued; this cookie allows LeadQual to "recognize" you when
you are on our site to allow us to personalize our service for you.
Anonymous Information
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in
log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type,
internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp,
and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to
administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic
information about our user base as a whole.
We may link this automatically-collected data to Personally Identifiable Information.
We may use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies to track non-personally
identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate. For information
regarding such service’s data collection and privacy practices, please visit
http://www.google.com/privacy.html.
Personally Identifiable Information
In order to use the basic features of this Web site, you need not provide any personal
information. However, if you wish to receive a free ROI analysis, you must first provide
us with your contact information as well as the services you are interested in. We use this
information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed
interest. Depending on the services you have chosen to use, some or all of your
Personally Identifiable Information may be used by LeadQual to provide such services.
Personally Identifiable Information may also be provided to intermediaries and third
parties who assist LeadQual in providing you with the service you request. Except as
otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, however, LeadQual will not share, rent or sell
your information to third parties without your permission.
LeadQual is the sole owner of the information collected on www.LeadQual.com and
www.management.leadqual.com. LeadQual may collect Personally Identifiable
Information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
Special Offers and Updates
We may occasionally send you information on services, special deals, products and/or
promotions.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is
necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance,
we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in
nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your
account.
Customer Service
Based upon the Personally Identifiable Information you provide us, we may send you a
welcoming email. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to
provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate
with you by email or telephone, if you have provided such information.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, or clear gifs to create a
“profile” of your preferences. We may tie your Personally Identifiable Information to
information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers
and to improve the content of the site for you.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping
purposes. We may use cookies on this site. We may link the information we store in
cookies to any Personally Identifiable Information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make
it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you
browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time.
You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet
browser’s “help” file.
We may set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it
more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our
users to enhance the experience on our site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our
site, such as saving properties, will be limited.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We may employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs),
that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective.
Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and
are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are
stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages
and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We may tie the
information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ Personally Identifiable Information.
We may use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been
opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain
communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by
LeadQual. Please be aware that we, LeadQual, are not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements
of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this web site.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your Personally Identifiable Information changes, or if you no longer desire our
service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by contacting us at
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Security
LeadQual operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and
password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed
and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the
information provided by our customers. You the consumer are ultimately responsible for
the security of your LeadQual Member Name and password. Please take care to store
your Member Name separately from your account password, or better yet, choose a
password that you don't need to write down at all.
Business Transitions
In the event LeadQual goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition
by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets as well as in the event of a
bankruptcy, assignment for benefit of creditors or receivership, your personally
identifiable information may be disclosed and will likely be among the assets transferred.
You will be notified via prominent notice on our web site for 30 days of any such change
in ownership or control of your personal information.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your Personally Identifiable Information as required by
law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to
comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our web site.
Your Privacy Rights Regarding Third Party Sharing
To help service your requests, we may provide certain Personally Identifiable
Information to third parties who may use this information for their own purposes,
including sending advertising to you.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy
statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose
it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it
frequently.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us
at info@LeadQual.com.
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