This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), including any addendum that may be applicable based on the application the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Economic Area (EEA), sets out how TipQC Ltd. (“TipQC” or ‘We”) collects, uses and protects any information that we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use any TipQC owned website (www.tipqc.com, and other websites identified as being owned by TipQC) (collectively our “Websites”), our services or products.
Consent
By accessing these Websites, you agree that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy, which describes how we use your information, and what options you have to update or request the deletion or correction of information submitted to us via the Sites. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Statement, do not use our Sites.
By using our Websites, you consent to the use, storage and disclosure of your information by us in the manner described in this statement. We reserve the right to make changes to this statement from time to time and will alert you to such changes via the posting of new or modified Privacy Policy on our Websites.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under GDPR or the CCPA, please contact us at info@tipqc.com.
Information Collected
The practices described in this Statement may also apply to the information you provide to us in writing or by telephone, such as when you contact our customer service staff. Personal information may include items such as your name, company name, email, address, and telephone number. Unless you provide it to us voluntarily, we do not collect personal information about you in connection with your use of our Websites.
Please note that this Privacy Policy is in addition to, and does not limit, any protections afforded to your information pursuant to any separate contracts relating to the confidentiality of information provided to us.
Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are stored on an Internet user’s computer by a web server. Our Website is hosted and maintained by a third-party vendor, GoDaddy, whose terms of service can be found at godaddy.com. Cookies help us to deliver certain functionalities to you and to guarantee the best user experience possible. We use cookies for advertising, social media, and analytics purposes.
When you visit our Websites, we may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes: to help us recognize you as a unique visitor (just a number without any personally identifiable information) when you return to our Websites; to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests; to avoid requiring registration for access to content on the Websites; to develop leads for our business development team and our business partners and to provide direct marketing communications to you if you have consented to receive such communications; to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users interact with our Websites; and to help us improve the structure of our Websites.
We also use third-party remarketing cookies, including Google AdWords and Google Analytics cookies. To see an overview of privacy at Google and how this applies to Google Analytics, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You may opt out of tracking by Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Similarly, you can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. You can use your browser settings to withdraw your consent to our use of cookies at any time and delete cookies that have already been set. Note that by disabling certain categories of cookies you may be prevented from accessing some features of our Websites, or certain content or functionality may not be available.
Transactional Information
Certain non-personal information may be collected automatically as part of your use of the Websites, as well as from your transactions with us and our affiliates or non-affiliated third parties. This non-personal information is used to improve the overall Website operations, functionality, and appearance. Such non-personal information may include your web browser type, domain name, referring site(s), date/time, and IP address, from which you visited the Website.
Data Usage
Personal information is used by the Company for the purpose for which it was submitted. For example, if you submit your email address and other information required to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use that personal information to send you our newsletter. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer the Site.
Data Retention
TipQC will retain your data only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes of the reason for collection. We will retain and use your data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
TipQC will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Data will be disposed of and/or destroyed in accordance with industry best practices when no longer needed. Such practices may include shredding and permanent deletion from primary and backup media.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the EU and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the EU and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Information Pertaining to Minors
We do not wish to collect personal information from minors (children under 18 years of age, or any other age defined under applicable law). If we become aware that a minor is attempting to or has submitted personal information via our Websites, we will notify the user that we may not accept his or her personal information. We will then delete any such personal information from our records.
Links to Third-Party Sites
The Websites include links to other third-party web sites including access to content, products, and services of such affiliated and non-affiliated entities. If you choose to use these provided links, you may be taken to a third party’s website. The Terms and Conditions of our Websites and this Privacy Policy do not bind such a third party and we urge you to familiarize yourself with the individual privacy and other terms for each linked site prior to submitting your Information to such sites.
Data Breach and Breach Notification
A data breach is an incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data has potentially been viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so. Data breaches may involve personal health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), corporate intellectual property or sensitive customer data.
All notifications required under this policy shall be made without unreasonable delay following the discovery of a breach. As a general rule, we will attempt to provide such notification within 72 hours of discovery, unless a delay is requested by law enforcement or for national security purposes. Records will be kept of all individuals or entities that were notified.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Demographic and aggregate Information may be shared by us with partners. We make every reasonable effort to preserve user privacy. However, we reserve the right to disclose personal information when required or permitted by law and we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, a current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on us.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify or change any privacy policies at any time without any notice to you. Any modifications will be effective immediately as of the date the modified Privacy Policy is posted on our website. Your continued use of our Websites following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Newsletters
From time to time, we may contact users by email newsletters. Our emails will provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners when you subscribe to our newsletter. You can always opt-out from receiving emails from us.