Privacy Policy

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully prior to using this Site.

Overview:

• Terms and Modifications to Privacy Policy
• Collection of Your Information
• Security Measures
• Access to Your Information
• Terms of Disclosure Of Your Information
• Other Disclosures
• Uses of Your Publishable Information
• Uses of Your Personal Information
• Uses of Information about Unregistered Visitors
• Opt Out
• Compliance with Laws
• European Union Residents
• Data Quality And Your Access to Make Changes
• Website Partner Services Data
• Children's Privacy
• External Links
• Contacting Us On Privacy

This web Site is being operated under the privacy policy if Qualirate, LLC. By using this Site, you signify your agreement to the terms of Qualirate's privacy policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not disclose any personal information through this Site. The terms "Contributor," the Site, the "Site Owner," "we" and "Your Information" (including "Your Personal Information" and "Your Publishable Information") are defined in your User Agreement. The User Agreement governs your use of the Site.

Any changes or amendments to the Qualirate, LLC Website privacy policy will be posted to this page. Changes are effective immediately unless otherwise stated. Please check our Privacy Policy periodically if you desire to be informed of such changes.

Site Functions. The Qualirate website enables consumers to post their preferences relating to certain goods or services. We collect Your Information to help us provide relevant market research to our clients, business partners and our visitors.

General Methods, including Cookies. For each visitor to our Web page (whether registered or not), our Web server automatically records the visitor's domain name and IP address. We collect only the domain name of visitors to our web page, aggregate information on which pages visitors access or visit, and information volunteered by the visitor, such as survey information and/or Site registrations. We do not collect e-mail addresses of unregistered visitors. Cookies may be used to collect information.

Cookies. We use a feature on your Internet browser called a "cookie". Cookies are small files that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies for remembering user names and passwords and preferences, tracking web click streams, for load balancing, consumer preference analysis, and other technical and operational functions. Because we use cookies, we believe we can deliver faster service, consistent, updated results, and a more personalized Site experience. You have the option of setting your browser to reject cookies. However, doing this will hinder performance and negatively impact your experience on our Site.

Timing.: To be effective, Qualirate intends to retain indefinitely historical data from such postings for purposes of current and future conducting market research. Such research may include comparisons of different consumer preferences by relevant demographics over different time periods. Retaining data over time will help us improve our methodologies for consumer preference metrics, thereby serving our clients and our consumer communities.

Purpose of Collection. We collect Your Information for several purposes:

• to enable you to use the website;
to enable us to provide information, goods and/or services via the Internet;
• to enable Qualirate business partners and customers to improve the quality of their goods and services and their market research;
• to validate reputation for moderation of research evaluations provided by site visitors;
• to improve our metrics and performance;
• to develop an online community of individuals who wish to participate in market research processes;
and
• for other purposes disclosed when we collect the information.

The Site uses certain security measures to protect Your Personal Information. When you provide Your Personal Information, or place an order online, Your Personal Information is scrambled using SSL encryption technology before being sent over the Internet. Although we cannot guarantee the security, encryption or the privacy of Your Personal Information, SSL makes it very difficult for your information to be stolen or intercepted while being transferred.

We also maintain Your Personal Information in a data base that is separate from Your Publishable Information.

Resale or Disclosure of Your Personal Information to Third Parties. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease Your Personal Information collected on our website or included on our e-mail lists to any third party. However, we retain the right to sell this Site, our domain names and any other assets, including without limitation our databases, content and other intellectual property in connection with a sale or restructuring of Site Owner as a company.

Access to Your Personal Information. When enter any of Your Publishable Information, you are authorizing us to use it for general business purposes and to share it subject to this Privacy Policy. Recipients of Your Personal Information may consist of Site Owner, its business partners, contractors, customers, successors, and affiliates and their respective advisors and auditors. We may use Your Personal Information for our marketing purposes including to contact you with formation, offers, surveys and newsletters. We may also convert Your Personal Information into new files or records from which your identity is not recognizable, and we may use such converted information for any lawful purpose.

Access to Your Publishable Information. When you enter any of Your Publishable Information, you are authorizing us to use it for general business purposes including for republication, sharing with business partners, clients, customers and others without restriction. Since Your Publishable Information is not generally sufficient to identify you personally, we believe it is reasonable to do so.

Deciding What to Provide. If you do not provide Your Personal Information, you will still have access to the non-restricted portions of the website, but you might not be able to complete any communications or transactions with the Website or its operators.

The Site Owner makes reasonable efforts to protect Your Personal Information. This policy describes how we intend to handle your personal information.

Subcontractors. Qualirate hires subcontractors to assist in its business of maintaining the Site and delivering goods and services through the Site. Your Personal Information (including credit card information) is gathered through a secure server provided by a subcontractor. When Qualirate, LLC employs subcontractors that may have access to Your Personal Information, they are bound by a confidentiality agreement to ensure that they exercise the same level of care when handling your personal information as we do.

Your Personal Information is not disclosed to any third parties without the prior authorization of the person providing the information or unless otherwise required by applicable law. However, content that you post, and the personal information associated with that content, may be disclosed to licensees of Qualirate, LLC who have posted the questionnaires and other materials to which you have responded.

Your Publishable Information may be used to

1. identify you (not by name, but by a screen name that you choose) and your reliability as a trustworthy evaluator for purposes of disclosure on our website of model evaluators and to our clients as sample evaluators;
2. develop and display your reputation index (good or bad);
3. provide us with information relating supporting our website operations, your postings on the site and other information relevant to our methodologies and the products and services identified on the Site.

Users who provide Your Personal Information are asked to complete a questionnaire with identifying information and demographic information. Your Personal Information that we collect on registered Contributors is used in the following ways by the Qualirate, LLC Website Site Owner, our contractors, affiliates, business partners and clients:

1. to improve the content of our Web pages.
2. to notify users via e-mail about merchandise and services and updates to our Web Site.
3. to conduct surveys and to promote and market merchandise and services.
4. to verify cumulative demographic statistics that are collected at the Site.
5. for competitions, surveys and editorial consultation about the Website.
6. for publication of Your Publishable Information (particularly your contributions to any Forums) on the Website.
7. for notifying you of information pertaining to the events and performances where you have checked the box to either register or receive further information
8. for contacting you for any of these purposes.
9. to comply with laws, rules or regulations, or legal process.

The aggregated information that we collect is used for the following purposes:

1. improving the content of our Web pages.
2. monitoring and evaluating marketing programs.
3. collecting and storing customer information.

Most visitors to the Qualirate, LLC website indicate that they welcome details of Qualirate consumer surveys, market research, information on new products in a category of expressed interest to the visitor, other materials from Qualirate or selected Qualirate business partners and clients. We acknowledge that individuals should have the right to choose not to receive such information. You will be given the right to opt out of receiving such information whenever you are asked to provide Your Personal Information on this Site. If you do not opt out immediately, but later decide that you do not wish to receive future Qualirate, LLC communications, you can notify us of this as set out below. You may remove your name from the promotional list for events by contacting us.

Our offices, employees and servers are all located in the State of New York. The Site is intended for use by U.S. residents. We are subject to the federal laws of the United States and the laws of the State of New York and, to the extent applicable, other States and territories of the United States. We do not warrant that we will comply with the laws of any other jurisdictions. Residents of other jurisdictions use the Site at their own risk.

When we collect Your Personal Information about European Union data subjects under conditions that are not consistent with this Privacy Policy, the affected data subject will be given the opportunity to opt-out of that use or transfer. The company may transfer personal information to a third party acting as its agent (e.g., consultants, tax advisors and preparers, accountants, auditors, lawyers, subcontractors, business partners and clients) if the third party confirms that it provides the same level of protection required by this Privacy Policy. In that case, no notice or choice will be provided to the data subject we determine that the use of such Your Personal Information for a purpose incompatible with the purpose for which it was collected. Notice and choice are provided to data subjects if Your Personal Information will transferred by agreement or by law to a third party who is not an agent of the Site Owner.

Upon proper identification, we will provide you with the opportunity to know about Your Personal Information that we hold about you. We will provide the ability to correct, amend or delete, as appropriate, any such information that is incomplete or inaccurate. Should you wish to exercise any of these options or should you have any questions or concerns about information that Qualirate, LLC has collected in relation to you, please feel free to contact us. Specific details on how to correct, change or remove subscription information from our e-mail lists are provided in the text of each e-mail distribution to the consumer or on the Site. We may retain any superseded information for our historical files.

From time to time, we may partner with other companies to provide services to Members that we feel may be valuable to them. Only in cases where you need to subscribe or register to use these services, we will share your registration information with the partner company. We share this information to provide the service to you and for better customer service.

If any of these services are discontinued, registered Members will be given the option to opt out of being contacted by the partner company.

This Site does not specifically collect information about children (that is, persons under the age of 13). We believe that children should get their parents' consent before giving out personal information. If you are concerned about your child's use of the Qualirate, LLC Website, we encourage you to use Web filtering technology to supervise your child's access to the Site.

This website provides links to various websites that we as Site Owner does not control. When you click on one of these links, you will be transferred out of our website and connected to the website of the organization or company that you selected. Even if an affiliation exists between our website and a third party website, we exercise no control over linked sites. Each of these linked sites maintains its own independent privacy and data collection practices and procedures. If you visit a website that is linked to our Site, you should consult that site's privacy policy before providing any personal information.

If you have any questions or concerns about privacy, please contact us.