This privacy statement covers the site www.QDeals.com, owned and operated by QDeals, Inc. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to our users’ privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices.

• QDeals.com collects user's name, mailing and email address, and gender (optional). This data allow us to provide rebates and/or incentives to the users who purchase through our site.
• We do not provide any information to the third parties through this web site except a unique identifier which allows us to track your purchases. The third parties or our affiliate merchants only knows about the unique identifier, nothing else. For this reason, when you purchase in any of our affiliate sites, you need to provide them your personal information like name, address, credit card number etc. Please read the affiliate site's privacy statement when you make a purchase at their site.
• QDeals.com uses the user information to provide the rebates and/or other incentives to the user who purchases through our site. We also use the user information to send our newsletter QFlyer and other special deals periodically.
• QDeals.com does not share the user information with any other companies.
• If you do not wish to take in our rebate, cash back or other incentive programs, you may not register with us. Login as guest to find the deals, click on affiliate merchant links to get into their web sites.
• You can opt-out of our newsletter QFlyer or any other email at any point if you want to.
• We do not collect sensitive information like credit card number or social security number. The information you provide us like name and address is securely stored our database.
• At any point, the users can correct any inaccuracies or make changes in their personal information.

If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, they should first contact our customer service department by email by clicking here. We try our best to resolve any privacy concerns.

Information Collection

QDeals.com is the sole owner of the information collected on www.QDeals.com. QDeals.com collects information from our users at several different points on our web site.

Registration and use of information

In order to be eligible for any rebate or referral money, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give contact information (such as name, mailing and email address). We use this information to provide the rebates and/or other incentives to the user who purchases through our site. We also use this information to contact the user about services on our site for which he/she has expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as gender), but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.

Profile

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.

Our affiliate merchant and other partners (such as advertisers) use cookies on our site. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.

Third Party Advertising

The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by affiliate merchants and other third parties. Information about users’ visit to this site, such as number of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other personal information), may used to serve ads to users on this site.

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by QDeals.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any other third parties.

Log Files

Like most standard web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. We use a tracking utility called LiveStats that uses log files to analyze user movement.

Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)

We or our third party companies 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 the web users. The main difference between the two is that clear gifs are invisible on the page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. QDeals.com does use any clear gifs which are tied to users’ personally identifiable information.

In addition, we may use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by the recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If users would like to opt-out of these emails, please see the Opt-out section.

Special Offers and Updates

We send all new members a welcoming email. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and our newsletter QFlyer. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out sections.

Service Announcements

On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though they can deactivate their account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.

Service Desk

We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account we reply via email or phone, in accordance with the users wishes.

Sharing

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our web site.

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

We do not share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers.

Business Transitions

In the event QDeals.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Users will be notified via email prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information. If as a result of the business transition, the users’ personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection they will be given choice consistent with our notification of changes section.

Choice/Opt-out

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or changing their account profile in QDeals.com.

Links

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, QDeals.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.

Tell-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we may ask them for the friend’s name and email address. QDeals.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. QDeals.com may store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend may contact QDeals.com via email to ServiceDesk@QDeals.com to request the removal of this information from our database.

Security

This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit personal information via the web site, their information is protected both online and off-line. If users have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can send an email to ServiceDesk@QDeals.com.

Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Information

If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, email or mailing address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users’ personally identifiable information. Any change can usually be done at the Account Profile screen. Any information can be removed by emailing our Service Desk at ServiceDesk@QDeals.com.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please click here to contact us.