Privacy Policy
The privacy policy for the QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM network of websites.
QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM cares about your privacy. We want to make you feel comfortable and secure using our web site. This privacy policy explains the types of information we gather, how it is protected, what we do with it and how you can correct or change information.
Consent to this Privacy Policy
By providing QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM with Personal Information (defined below), you signify that you agree with the terms of our current Privacy Policy as posted here. If you do not agree with any term in this Policy, please do not provide any Personal Information.
If you choose not to provide Personal Information, you may not be able to take certain actions, like becoming an editor, access particular areas of the web site, posting comments to our Blog, or send us e-mail.
Continuing Agreement
QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM may change or revise this Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this posting. Please review this Privacy Policy each time you visit this web site in order to be aware of the most current terms regarding your use of this web site. Your use of this web site reaffirms your continuing agreement to the most current Privacy Policy.
What Personal Information is collected and how?
When you are applying to become an editor, adding new entries or sending us email, you may provide us with your name, biography, photo, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, username and password, e-mail address and any additional types of Personal Data you may provide us with ("Personal Information"). We also collect information from you if you correspond with us directly.
QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM also uses "cookies" to receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with the web site. Cookies are identifiers transferred to your computer's hard drive through your browser which enable our systems to recognize your browser. This recognition allows web sites to give you customized and personalized service and helps web site owners identify ways to improve your online experience. Cookies may also be used to help web site owners track responses to messages sent on behalf of our advertisers so that QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM may aggregate such information and report results to them. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to reject or disable cookies or receive notice when a new cookie appears. If you choose to reject or disable cookies, you will be unable to use those specific areas of the web site that require the use of cookies. For more information about cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/.
QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM does not knowingly collect or maintain any Personal Information from children under the age of 13. In addition, no part of this web site is designed with the purpose of attracting any person under age 13.
How does QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM use your information?
QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM uses your Personal Information to enhance and personalize your online experience. For example, we use Personal Information to operate, maintain and provide our features and services on the QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM websites; Create, manage and verify user accounts; Contact you about service announcements, updates or offers; Send emails related to our services; Serve relevant and behavioral advertisements, and respond to user inquiries.
QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM does not sell Personal Information about individual customers to third parties, sell or rent lists of customers or use information about individual customers except as described below.
Aggregated Information: QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM may use aggregated information regarding its customers and usage of this web site and disclose such aggregated information to advertisers, partners and others for various purposes.
Third Party Service Providers: QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM may employ other companies and individuals to perform certain functions such as delivering packages, processing credit card payments and analyzing data. They may have access to personal information to perform their functions.
We allow third-party companies to collect certain information when you visit our web site or within our email newsletters. These companies may utilize cookies, pixels or other technologies to collect user information (e.g., hashed, de-identified, data, click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit the websites of the Digital Advertising Alliance at http://www.aboutads.info/choices
YouTube Data: By visiting our websites you acknowledge and agree that we use YouTube's API to display videos on certain pages. Therefore, you notably agree to be bound to the Google Privacy Policy available at the following URL address: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
Links to Third Party Websites
The QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM websites, from time to time, contains links to and from third party websites of our partner networks, advertisers, partner merchants, retailers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Please check the individual policies before you submit any information to those websites.
Enforcement of Agreement or Compliance with Law
QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM may use or disclose personal information when QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM believes it is appropriate to enforce these Terms of Use, to protect the rights, property or safety of QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM or its users or to comply with the law.
How may you change or remove your personal information?
You may at any time review and change your Personal Information stored by this web site by contacting us using our contact page.
You may also request that QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM permanently remove all Personal Information stored by QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM by delivering notice requesting such removal. Upon such request, QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM will remove all such information and will not thereafter use personally identifiable information about you in any way.
Site Security
QUINTESSENTIALQUILL.COM will take reasonable precautions to keep your Personal Information secure. All personally identifiable information is subject to restricted access to prevent unauthorized access, modification or misuse.