Last Updated: July 7,2014
Thank you for using QualityAirFilters.com. We are committed to honoring the confidentiality, integrity, and security of the personal information our Users share through the Services provided on the QualityAirFilters.com website. This QualityAirFilters.com Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) describes how we treat your information when you use QualityAirFilters.com and its Services. Please take a moment to read the following to learn more about our information practices and how we safeguard your information. We take our Users’ interests seriously. If you have questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at [email protected] (please put Privacy Policy in the subject line of your email).
As used in this Policy:
the term “personal information” means information that specifically identifies an individual (such as a first and last name, telephone number, mobile number, e-mail address, or mailing address or credit card number), or information about that individual that is directly linked to personally identifiable information. Personal information does not include “aggregate” information, which is data we collect about the use of our websites or about a group or category of services or Users, from which individual identities or other personal information has been removed. This Policy in no way restricts or limits our collection and use of aggregate information.
the terms “you,” “your,” “yours” and “User” refer to you, the User of this website, regardless of whether you have a registered account with QualityAirFilters.com.
the terms “QualityAirFilters.com,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to QualityAirFilters.com, a Texas corporation headquartered at 11 Greenway Plaza #3150, Houston, Texas 77046.
the term “Service(s)” means the services QualityAirFilters.com offers through QualityAirFilters.com and related websites, mobile applications, and other platforms that enable Users to access and use content made available by QualityAirFilters.com about its stores, its business and operations, the goods and services it offers for sale, promotional materials, employment opportunities, various interactive features that may be made available to Users from time to time, and other important information and functionality, some or all of which may be made available to the general public or only to registered Users of QualityAirFilters.com’s website(s).
It is important to us that you understand how QualityAirFilters.com works and how we use the information you provide. By using QualityAirFilters.com, including services available at one or more QualityAirFilters.com domains, such as QualityAirFilters.com, Users agree to be bound by this Policy and QualityAirFilters.com’s Terms of Use. Additional terms may be defined in the Terms of Use.
General. We collect personal information about our Users because it helps us deliver the best User experience we can provide. Gathering information enables us to provide convenient and accurate information about our goods and services offered in our stores and other content that may interest you, and to deliver timely and relevant information about various QualityAirFilters.com website Services that you may choose to use. Such practices also help us to tune the product experience over time so that we may optimize our Services based on User feedback and actual use. In addition, this information helps us keep you informed about the latest QualityAirFilters.com announcements, updates, and support information in a timely fashion.
Some information may be gathered by passive means, such as the use of cookies and log files (as described below), and will apply to all Users regardless of whether the User has completed a registration with QualityAirFilters.com. In addition to the information gathered through passive means, if you register for an account on a QualityAirFilters.com website, other information, including personal information, will be gathered from the registration and profile information you submit and from other active means as you use the website(s) and Services. Our gathering of personal information from registered Users may enable additional website functionality and help connect you with other registered Users.
Registration. When you sign up for a QualityAirFilters.com account, we will collect personal information such as your name, email address, street address, zip code, and User identifier and password. You must provide this information to register. Like all other passwords you create, you should choose a QualityAirFilters.com password that is known only by you. You acknowledge that the registration information is personal to you, and by creating an account on QualityAirFilters.com, you allow others, including QualityAirFilters.com, to identify you.
By registering for a User account on QualityAirFilters.com, you voluntarily and willingly provide us certain information, including personal information, which we collect in order to provide our Services. If you have any hesitation about providing information to us you should not register for a QualityAirFilters.com account. If you already are a registered User and have any reservations about using QualityAirFilters.com, you should close your account.
Profile Information. Once you become a registered User, you may provide additional User information, which may include personal information. Providing additional information about yourself beyond what is minimally required at registration is entirely up to you. Any information you provide at registration or in other sections may be used by QualityAirFilters.com as described in this Policy and in the Terms of Use. If you decide not to share certain information, QualityAirFilters.com may not be able to deliver the full benefits of the Services to you.
Customer Service and Support. QualityAirFilters.com may collect information through the QualityAirFilters.com Customer Service and Support interfaces in order to, among other things, accurately categorize and respond to customer inquiries and investigate breaches of our terms.
Site Usage, including Social Media. We may collect information about how our Users are using certain QualityAirFilters.com features and functionality and whether they are interacting with third-party applications or clicking on advertisements. In addition, we may offer certain social networking features within the Services, including from third party social networking sites like Facebook.com and Twitter.com. We may gather information about your profiles on such social networking sites and store and republish such information on our website and as part of our Services. For more information on our social networking practices, see “Social Networking Applications” in the Terms of Use.
Cookies and Advertising. Like most websites, QualityAirFilters.com uses cookies, web log files, and related technologies to track site usage and trends, improve the quality of our Service, customize your experience on QualityAirFilters.com’s website and through its Services, and deliver third-party advertising to Users both on and off the QualityAirFilters.com website. A cookie is a tiny data file that resides on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, which allows us to recognize you as a User when you return to the QualityAirFilters.com website using the same computer and web browser. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. Please note, however, that if you decline to allow cookies in your browser, some or all of our features or Services may not function properly as a result. In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing the Services to our Users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. QualityAirFilters.com does not store unencrypted personal information in the cookies.
Log Files, IP Addresses, and Computer or Mobile Information. When you visit the QualityAirFilters.com domain we may log your IP address, access URL, time of access, browser type, and referral URL in order to provide us with internal information regarding site traffic statistics. This information may also be used to identify Users who are using the service for activity that is deemed in conflict with our Terms of Use. This information is used in the aggregate, and is never linked back to any personal information, except as otherwise described herein.
We store all User information in secure databases protected via a variety of industry-standard access controls. Secure passwords, SSL encryption (however, we do not use encryption during your day-to-day use of our website), firewalls, and other electronic measures are in place that help us protect your data. We also maintain physical and procedural safeguards, such as secure areas in buildings, authentication procedures, training our employees in the proper handling of personal information, and limiting employee access to this information to those employees with a business need for access. We employ these measures to ensure this data is accessed only for the purposes specified in this privacy statement. When we use third parties to assist us, we require that they comply with all the same confidentiality and security measures. However, since the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to QualityAirFilters.com. There is no guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login and account information. Please note that emails, instant messaging, and similar means of communication are not encrypted, and we strongly advise you not to communicate any confidential information through these means.
USES OF INFORMATION
Consent to Process Information About You. By submitting your personal information on the QualityAirFilters.com website or otherwise providing same to us, you agree that we may use such personal information for any lawful purpose, subject to any restrictions contained in this Privacy Policy. The information you provide to QualityAirFilters.com may reveal, or allow others to identify, your geographic location, or other aspects of you. By providing information to us for the purposes of creating a registered User account or adding any additional details to your QualityAirFilters.com account, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Policy and QualityAirFilters.com’s Terms of Use and Subscription Agreement. Supplying information to QualityAirFilters.com, including any sensitive information, is entirely voluntary on your part. You have the right to withdraw your consent to QualityAirFilters.com’s collection and processing of your information at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Policy and the Terms of Use, by closing your account. Please note that your withdrawal of consent will be effective only upon such withdrawal and will not be retroactive.
QualityAirFilters.com Communications. As described in the Terms of Use, we may communicate with you in various forms including, without limitation, emails, postal mail, telephone, texts, Facebook messages, Twitter Tweets, messages within other social media, messages within the QualityAirFilters.com Services, notices posted on the QualityAirFilters.com website or through other currently available QualityAirFilters.com Services or future Services. We may send emails that help inform Users about features offered in existing or new Services, and we will also send you service messages relating to the functioning of existing Services. We may also send you messages with promotional information directly, or on behalf of marketing partners that have partnered with us. If you receive communications via the carrier service with which you have a mobile communications subscription or otherwise have access, you understand and agree you are responsible for paying any service fees associated with your receipt of messages on your mobile device (including applicable data and text messaging charges and tolls).
Disclosure to Third Parties. To the extent allowed under applicable law, we may sell, rent, lease or otherwise provide the personal information that you supply to us to businesses and third parties, including without limitation (a) providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation; (b) email marketers (where we collect your email address); (c) telemarketers (where we collect your telephone number and where permitted by applicable law); (d) SMS text-based marketers (where we collect your mobile telephone number and where permitted by applicable law); and (e) direct marketers. As further described below, we may also work with other businesses to bring selected retail opportunities to our users.
Communications from Third Party Marketing Partners. QualityAirFilters.com from time to time partners with third parties to offer our Users a variety of products and services. We may share personal information and other information with these third party marketing partners in order to deliver tailored advertising to you that matches your interests when you visit our website as well as other websites and for those marketing partners to offer you additional products and services that QualityAirFilters.com believes may be of interest to you. In connection with these marketing efforts, you may receive communications from each such marketing partner in various forms including, without limitation, emails, postal mail, telephone, text messages, Facebook messages, Twitter Tweets, and messages within other social media. Like with receiving communications from QualityAirFilters.com, you are responsible for paying any service fees associated with your receipt of communications from marketing partners on your mobile device (including applicable data and text messaging charges and tolls). Although we only work with third parties whom we believe to be reputable, our marketing partners may have different privacy policies and practices than QualityAirFilters.com . We encourage you to review our marketing partners’ privacy policies to further understand their procedures for collecting, using and disclosing your information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of our third party marketing partners or any other third parties, and you acknowledge that QualityAirFilters.com is not in control of, nor is it responsible for, the content of any communications which you may receive from individual marketing partners, nor is QualityAirFilters.com in control of or responsible for the frequency with which marketing partners deliver communications to you. If you terminate your account with QualityAirFilters.com, you will stop receiving communications from us, but you will not stop receiving communications from marketing partners with whom we have already shared your personal information as permitted by this Privacy Policy unless you contact that party directly.
Third Party Services. QualityAirFilters.com may from time to time make available to its Users services provided by one or more third parties. If you choose to use services provided by third parties, you may be asked to confirm acceptance of the privacy policy and/or user agreement of the third party, which have not necessarily been reviewed or approved by QualityAirFilters.com. It is your choice whether to make use of these third party services and whether to proceed under any third party terms. We may not screen or audit such third party terms or agreements, and we cannot guarantee that any third party will abide by this Policy or other agreements we may enter into with such third parties. If you or other Users of QualityAirFilters.com use or interact with any third party providers, these providers may access and share certain information about you with others, such as your profile or other information. QualityAirFilters.com is not responsible for your use of or inability to use any third party services, including the content, accuracy, or reliability of applications and the privacy practices or other policies of these providers.
Sharing Information with Other Third Parties. Except as otherwise described under the sections titled “Communications from Marketing Partners,” “Third Party Services” and as otherwise disclosed in this Policy, we will only share your personal information with third parties to carry out your instructions, to provide Services, and as necessary to enforce our User Agreement or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of QualityAirFilters.com, its Users, and the public. For example, we may use a third party service provider to perform services such as billing Users for any fee-based or e-commerce Services that QualityAirFilters.com may offer from time to time on its website(s). In addition, we may transmit personal information to one or more third parties providing external hosting services to us. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personal information except to provide these Services (including all third party hosting services, which generally will store this information as part of the service they provide to us). We may provide aggregated anonymous data about the usage of the Services to third parties for purposes that we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate, including to prospective advertisers on QualityAirFilters.com .
User Communications. To the extent that QualityAirFilters.com makes available through the Service the ability to communicate with other Users or with third party marketing partners, such communications that you initiate may list your name, email address, or both in the header or body of the message
Polls and Surveys. QualityAirFilters.com or third party providers from time to time may conduct polls and surveys. As a User, you may be invited to participate in polls and surveys from the QualityAirFilters.com website. Your selection may be random, or it may be selective. Your participation in any poll is completely your decision. Some third parties may target advertisements to you on the results page based on your answers in the poll. Further, QualityAirFilters.com or third parties may follow up with you within the QualityAirFilters.com system regarding your participation. We may use third parties to deliver incentives to you to participate in surveys or polls. We may disclose personal information to third parties in connection with the conduct of any polls or surveys. In addition, if the delivery of incentives requires your contact information, you may be asked to provide personal information to the third party fulfilling the incentive offer, which will only be used for the purpose of delivering incentives and/or verifying your contact information. It is up to you to decide whether you provide this information, or whether you desire to take advantage of an incentive.
Interactive Features. If you participate in any interactive features offered by QualityAirFilters.com on its website(s), such as reviews, discussion boards, or interaction with your social media accounts, you should be aware that any personal information you choose to provide may be read, collected, or used by other Users of these forums, as well as by other third parties, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. QualityAirFilters.com is not responsible for the information you choose to submit in these services.
Testimonials About QualityAirFilters.com. If you provide any testimonials about QualityAirFilters.com or its Services, we may post those testimonials in connection with our promotion of QualityAirFilters.com to third parties. Testimonials and advertisements may include your name and other personal information that you have provided.
Compliance with Legal Process. It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information, account information and/or information about your activities as a QualityAirFilters.com User when required by subpoena or other legal process, or if QualityAirFilters.com has a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (a) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (b) to enforce the Terms of Use, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations, or to protect the security or integrity of our site and its Users; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property or personal safety of QualityAirFilters.com , our Users, employees, or others. All such disclosures shall be made at QualityAirFilters.com’s sole discretion without notice to or consent from the User(s).
Disclosures Related to Business Transactions. In the event QualityAirFilters.com or a division goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition of or by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personal information will be among the assets transferred. You may not be notified of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information. Any third party to which QualityAirFilters.com transfers or sells QualityAirFilters.com’s assets will have the right to continue to use any personal and other information that you provide to QualityAirFilters.com.
YOUR CHOICES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Removing Your Account. You can close your account by contacting QualityAirFilters.com Customer Service and Support. If you close your account, we may delete any or all of your account information without liability. However, we may retain certain data contributed by you if QualityAirFilters.com believes it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. QualityAirFilters.com may also retain and use your information if necessary to provide the Services to other Users. For example, if QualityAirFilters.com ever makes available on its websites any forums or other interactive features, your contributions to such QualityAirFilters.com features may remain visible to others after you have closed your account. Similarly, information you have shared with others, or that other Users have copied, may also remain visible. QualityAirFilters.com disclaims any liability in relation to the deletion or retention (subject to the terms herein) of information or any obligation not to delete the information.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Privacy of Minors. This website is not directed or otherwise promoted for use by children under the age of thirteen (13). We ask that any User under the age of thirteen (13) not submit any personal information to us or use the Service. Any person who provides their information to QualityAirFilters.com through the account registration page for new customers or any other part of the Service represents to QualityAirFilters.com that he or she is thirteen (13) years of age or older. Users who are under the age of eighteen (18) must obtain the consent of a parent or legal guardian before using the Service.
California Privacy Rights. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits Users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we disclosed their personal information (if any) for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year and the categories of personal information disclosed to those third parties. If you wish to make such a request or have any questions about QualityAirFilters.com’s information sharing practices, you may contact us by sending us an email at [email protected] (please include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line of your email) or write to us at QualityAirFilters.com , LLC., 11 Greenway Plaza #3150 Houston, Texas 77046, Attn: Privacy Policy Issues.
Changes to this Privacy Policy. QualityAirFilters.com may update its privacy policy from time to time. Please check this URL frequently to see the latest version of this policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current Policy applies to all information that QualityAirFilters.com has about you and your account. Using the QualityAirFilters.com Services after a change shall constitute consent to the changed terms or practices.
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, please email us at [email protected] (please put “Privacy Policy” in the subject line of your email) or contact us at the following address:
QualityAirFilters.com Attn: Privacy Policy Issues 11 Greenway Plaza #3150 Houston, Texas 77046