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Who we are
Hello, I’m Gayle Porter and this is the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for PorterQI.com. Your data protection and privacy are important to us, so please read on.
Definition of Terms
Porter Quality Improvement LLC is the data controller, and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “PorterQI,” “we,” “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
Users and members of the site (referred to as “you” and “your”)
Introduction
This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site: porterqi.com.
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 18 years of age.
Contact details
Porter Quality Improvement LLC
Email address: support@porterqi.com
What data we may collect about you, and what we do with it
It is very important that the information you provide is accurate and up to date for continued use of the site. Please let us now if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at support@porterqi.com or updating your information via your profile.
Only information capable of identifying an individual is considered personal data. Anonymized data is not considered personal data.
The following categories of personal data may be processed via this site:
- Communication data includes any communication that you send using our site or email, such as the contact form, emails, social media messaging, social media posting or any other method of communication involving us or the site. We lawfully collect and process this data to communicate with you, to maintain our own records, and to defend, establish, or pursue legal claims to uphold the integrity of our site and our legitimate interests.
- Customer data includes data relating to any purchases of goods, services, and subscriptions. This data includes details such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, or purchase details. We lawfully process customer data to fulfill transactional contracts between you and us through monetary exchange for such goods, services, and subscriptions. We keep records of such transactions.
- User data includes data our website and online services are used by you, which also included data you post on our website. We lawfully process this data to operate our website, to provide relevant content to you, to uphold the security of our website, to preserve back-ups of our website and databases, and for the legitimate administration of our website and business.
- Technical data includes data regarding the use of our website, such as IP addresses, login data, browser details, length of visit, page views and navigation paths, number of visits, time zone settings, and other device information. We use an analytics tracking system to lawfully process this data and analyze your use of our website, to administer our website, to deliver relevant content to you, to understand the effectiveness of our content, to develop marketing plans, and to protect our legitimate business interests.
- Other data includes data that is not directly collected by us, but which we might lawfully process for our legitimate business interests, for example data from third parties such as analytics providers, advertising networks, search information providers, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, data brokers, or aggregators. We may also receive data from publicly available sources such as official census data.
- Sensitive Data includes specifics about your race, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, criminal convictions, and biometric data like health and genetic information. We do not collect or record sensitive data about you.
We will only use personal data only for the purpose it was collected or a reasonably similar purpose. If we need to use your data for a new or dissimilar reason, this privacy will be updated, and we will inform you in a reasonable time of the changes made. For more information on this please email us at: support@porterqi.com.
How we collect your personal data
We collect data in two ways: directly and automatically.
- Direct Data Collection includes data you supply directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails).
- Automatic Data Collection includes certain data collected from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technology and data collected about you from third party services we use in our legitimate business operation, like analytic providers and payment and delivery services.
Cookies
Your browser can be set to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you if cookies are accessed or set. Our site uses cookies as part of its operation. Disabling cookies may cause the site not to function as we intended and may affect your experience interacting with our site.
Types of cookies used
- Necessary cookies are used to recognize your account and that you are logged in to access content. Some content on the website will be unavailable if these cookies are disabled.
- Functionality cookies are used to personalize features of the website according to choices you have made. Disabling these cookies may result in losing any personal changes you have made to your account in the site, but content should be available.
- Analytical cookies use anonymized data to analyze how you and other users are interacting with our website. Personal information is not included in the use of this type of cookie. Disabling the cookie will not affect your use of the site but may affect our ability to provide the best experience and improve the site to best serve our customers.
How to delete cookies?
You can block or remove cookies through your browser settings. If you are unsure of how to do this, visit www.internetcookies.org, which provides instructions for most browsers regarding their cookie settings.
Marketing communications
We may use your personal data to send you marketing communications as part of our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, you may receive marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications. You may opt out of receiving such communications at any time. Under these regulations, limited companies may receive marketing communications without consent. However, limited companies may still opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time.
We will not directly share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes. We use third-party services for analytics and payment and delivery, who maintain their own privacy policies, and may use data they collect for marketing services. We make no warranties on the use of personal data by third-party services.
You may opt out of us sending you marketing messages at any time by selecting the opt-out links on any marketing message you receive OR by emailing us at support@porterqi.com at any time.
Opting out of marketing communications does not apply to our collection of personal data because of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.
Disclosures of your personal data
We may be required to share your personal data with the following parties as part of our legitimate business interests:
- IT and system administration service providers
- Payment servicers, lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers
- Government bodies
- Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
However, we make no warranties on the use of personal data by third-party services.
Data security
We have reasonable security measures to prevent your personal data from being lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. Access to your personal data is only available to parties with a business need that requires access to your data. Any party lawfully accessing your data is per our instructions, which includes strict confidentiality.
For example, we do not keep or handle any payment data directly on this site or in our databases. All financial transactions are processed through Stripe. Please review Stripe’s Privacy Policy for how they store and use your personal and financial information.
We will notify you and any applicable regulator if a data breach is suspected if we are legally required to.
Data Retention
Your personal data will be retained for a sufficient time to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, which includes satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
For legal purposes, basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) is required to be maintained for six years after they stop being customers.
Anonymized data may be retained indefinitely without further notice to you.
Your legal rights
Data protection laws may give you the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, cease processing, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
See more about data privacy laws in the United States at https://iclg.com/practice-areas/data-protection-laws-and-regulations/usa
To exercise these rights, please email us at support@porterqi.com
We may charge a reasonable fee if your request is unfounded, repetitive, or excessive, or we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
As a security measure, we will need to collect specific information from you to confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise your rights). If your identity cannot be confirmed, we will refuse to comply with your request.
We try to respond to legitimate requests within 90 days. Occasionally it may take us longer than 90 days if your requests are particularly complex. In this case, we will notify you.
Third-parties
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. We may utilize third-party services for legitimate business activities. Use of the site may allow third parties, like payment processors, to collect or share data about you. We make no warranties on the use of personal data by third-party services. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements, and we make no warranties on the use of personal data by third-party services.
We encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit. For a list of third-party services we use, email support@porterqi.com
Privacy policy changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, PorterQI may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in PorterQI’s sole discretion. PorterQI encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
