Privacy Notice
We provide these privacy highlights for your convenience but we encourage you
to review the full Quantities Inc.
Privacy Policy.
Collection, Use, Disclosure, and Security of Personal Information
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We collect personal information when
you use our services or otherwise interact with us, including information you
provide, such as contact information, billing & credit information, and resumes;
information that is automatically collected, such as details about use of our
services and our Web pages; and information from other sources, such as credit
reports and mailing lists.
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We use personal information for
various business purposes, such as to complete transactions and bill for
products and services; respond to requests for service or assistance; create and
improve products and services; suggest additional or different products or
service; and protect our rights and property.
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We do not sell, rent, or provide
personal information to unaffiliated third-parties to market their products and
services to you. We may disclose personal information to unaffiliated
third-parties who complete transactions or perform services on our behalf and
under certain other limited circumstances, subject to restrictions on the
third-parties’ use of such information.
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We use a variety of physical,
electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information and we use
reasonable procedures to erase or render it unreadable when we dispose of it.
Our Privacy Policy is also designed to
assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you
provide to us on Quantities.com and to assist you in making informed decisions
when using our Web site, products and services. If you have questions or
concerns regarding this notice, you should first contact
TheQS@quantities.com . If you do not receive acknowledgement of your
inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should
contact VERISIGN at
http://www.verisign.com. VERISIGN will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site, you may provide us with two types of
information: personal information that you knowingly choose to disclose that is
collected on an individual basis; and Web site use information that is collected
on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration & Purchase Information
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and
your practices when you register to be a member of Takeoffdepot.com, register
for certain services, register for e-mail newsletters and alerts, or purchase
items through our site. This data collection can include such personally
identifiable information as name, company name, address, phone number, e-mail
address and credit card information. You may also provide additional comments
on how you see Quantities.com servicing your needs and interests.
Business Directory
We maintain a business directory within Quantities.com for the purposes of
sending update notices, news letters and notices of special offers. If at any
time you wish to be added or removed from the directory, you should contact
TheQS@quantities.com
directly with your request.
E-mail Information
If you choose to correspond with us through e-mail, we may retain the content
of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and our responses.
2. Web site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard
technology called "cookies" (see "What Are Cookies?" explanation below) and Web
server logs (“log files”) to collect information about how our Web site is used.
Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date
and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent on our Web site, and the Web
sites visited just before and just after our Web site. We, our advertisers and
ad serving companies may also use small pieces of code called "web beacons" or
"clear GIF’s" to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen
and how users responded to them. Personally identifiable information is not
stored in these cookies, web beacons or clear GIF’s. We use a third-party
tracking service that uses cookies and log files to track non-personally
identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate, for usage
and volume purposes, to help us better understand the needs of our visitors.
How Do We Use the Information You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering
and expanding our business activities, providing customer service, and making
available other products and services to our customers and prospective
customers. We occasionally also use the information we collect to notify you
about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we
think you will find valuable. We may retain your personal information for
administrative, reporting and analytic purposes. We will not share or sell
your information unless you affirmatively opt in to such information sharing.
You have the opportunity to opt in or opt out of these specific types of
communications in our
TheQS@quantities.com. You have the opportunity to
opt out any time you receive an e-mail from us by using the link provided at the
bottom of the e-mail communication. You may also notify us at any time if you
do not wish to receive these offers by TheQS@quantities.com.
Communications from Our Site & Opt-out Options
If you register with our Web site or purchase any products from the site, you
can expect to receive a welcome e-mail and/or an order confirmation e-mail. If
you have registered with our Web site, you will receive any of the
communications (newsletters, updates, product information, alerts) that you have
opted in to receive. From time to time, we may need to send critical service
updates from the Web site. You may not opt out of receiving these critical
service updates. If you wish to change your preferences for receiving
communications from our Web site, please email
TheQS@quantities.com.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document that often includes an anonymous
unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your
computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive
specifically designated for cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to
your browser if your browser's preferences allow it. In order to protect
your privacy, your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has
already sent to you and not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Some of our
business partners (e.g. advertisers) use cookies that originate from their Web
sites. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies. For more
information, see “Third Party Advertisers.”
How Do We Use the Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you shop on our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you
from other shoppers so that your shopping cart is only available to you. In
some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary
advertisements or from having to log in more times than is necessary during the
same session. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us
to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Web site and to assess
which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in
order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers.
Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do
not store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We enter into alliances, partnerships and other business arrangements with
third parties who will be given access to personal information (including, but
not limited to, your e-mail address) for the purpose of providing you
information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to
you and that you have opted in to receive. We will not share or sell your
information unless you affirmatively opt in to such information sharing.
If you opt out of receiving such communications please
TheQS@quantities.com and we will honor your opt-out.
Service Providers
We use third parties to perform credit card processing and e-mail services on
our Web site. When you purchase a product from us, our credit card processing
vendor will facilitate the transaction. An e-mail service provider will provide
our e-mail services. We will share billing and e-mail information, as
necessary, with the third party to provide that service.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable
information for any other purpose, including their own marketing purposes.
Business Transitions
As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings.
Customer, e-mail and visitor information is generally one of the transferred
business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such
information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers or any dissolution.
You will be notified via e-mail of any such change in ownership or control of
your personal information.
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Atnets, our
advertising partner. We share aggregate Web site usage information about users
with potential advertisers for the purpose of targeting our Internet
advertisements on this site.
Atnets uses cookies and clear GIF’s on this Web site, which allow it to
recognize a user's cookie when a user visits the site. The information that
Atnets collects and shares through this technology is not personally
identifiable.
For more information about our third-party advertisers or to learn more about
the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please
click here.
Email-A-Friend
If you choose to use the Email-A-Friend referral service to tell a friend
about information you’ve found on our Web site by forwarding an article, we will
ask you for your friend’s name, e-mail address and any comment you wish to make
to your friend. We will automatically send your friend a one-time e-mail by
forwarding the article to your friend. We do not store this information and it
is used for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail. We will not use
your friend’s e-mail for marketing purposes and/or share it with any other
party.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about
important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you
will find valuable. You have the opportunity to opt in for these notifications
at registration and you have the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to
receive these offers by
contacting us at a later date.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter
sensitive information, such as credit card data, we encrypt that information
using secure socket layer (SSL) 128-bit encryption technology. Pages with forms
that collect sensitive information on our Web site will utilize this technology
and will have URL’s that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. To learn more
about SSL,
click here.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet and no method of electronic
storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially
acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its
absolute security.
E-mail is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this
reason, we request that you do not send private or sensitive information to us
by e-mail. If you have any questions about security on our Web site,
please
TheQS@quantities.com
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You can view and update your registration information online on our
Member Center page. You may also request access to
all of your personally identifiable information that we collect and maintain in
our database by TheQS@quantities.com.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or
subpoena, or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the
law or comply with legal process served on us or our Affiliated Parties (as
defined in our Terms of Use Agreement); (b) protect and defend our rights and
property, our site, the users of our site and/or our Affiliated Parties; or (c)
act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, ourselves or
third parties.
What About Other Web sites Linked to Our Web site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or
from our Web site, nor are we responsible for the information or content
contained therein. Links to other Web sites are provided solely as
pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web
site.
Please remember that, when you use a link to go from our Web site to another
Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your activities and
interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites that have a link on our
Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please review
those privacy rules and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site, you consent to our collection, use and retention of
your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we make
material changes to our privacy practices, we will post those changes on our Web
site to keep you informed of what information we collect, how we use it and
under what circumstances we may disclose it.