Privacy Policy
Effective September 1st, 2009
All IQ-AV owned sites, including www.IQ-AV.com ,
this site, are covered by the policies herein. IQ-AV
Affiliates may each have
their own Terms of Use and Privacy Policies. Please review all affiliate's
policies, if applicable, to understand the privacy terms applicable on their sites.
Because IQ-AV wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it
is disclosing its information practices. If you have questions or concerns
regarding this statement, you should first contact IQ-AV according to the
contact information provided on this site.
When does IQ-AV collect my personally identifiable information?
When you register for one of IQ-AV's services on any of our sites, we
may collect
personally identifying information from you. The more
information you provide, the better we are able to customize our services and
your experience to suit your needs and preferences. In addition to
registration, we may collect personally identifiable information from you when
you participate in promotions and special programs, register for premium or
customized services available, or register at one of our merchants or partners.
How is my personally identifiable information used?
Our main goal is to provide you with a customized and more relevant
experience on IQ-AV site. We review our users' preferences, traffic patterns,
and other information in aggregate so that we can better understand what it is
you want. Please note that we do not share your personally identifying
information with the anyone.
We may use a third party to serve ads when you visit our site. This third
party ad server may use certain information about your visit to our site in
order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of
interest to you, but they are not allowed to collect or use personally
identifiable information about you for their own purposes.
The email address provided by you at registration, or as updated, may be
used by IQ-AV and its affiliated entities, to contact you for any reason,
including: (1) Your account status (including an email confirmation of
registration), (2) Major changes to the website, the Terms of Use and Privacy
Policy, (3) Participation in user surveys, asking for feedback on the website
and (4) notifying you of existing or prospective products and services offered
by us or our advertisers and partners. This information helps us to improve our
website.
What other information does IQ-AV collect and how is it used?
Cookies. IQ-AV uses cookies to store and track your preferences to
provide you with a more personalized user experience. A cookie is a message
that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's
hard drive. Most Internet sites use cookies. You can set your browser
preferences to reject all cookies but then you will not be able to participate
in most customized services, and you may be required to repeatedly log in to
participate in various services, promotions, or product offerings. Cookies make
your experience easier by saving your preferences and passwords.
Most browsers can be configured to reject cookies or alert you when cookies
are being sent. Keep in mind that if you refuse cookies, it is possible that
some portions of any web site including IQ-AV site may not function exactly as
intended.
IP Address. IQ-AV may also collect IP addresses for the purposes of
systems administration, security or to collect information in aggregate (e.g.
how many visitors logged in to a IQ-AV site). An IP address is a number that is
assigned to your computer automatically when you use the Internet. When you
visit a particular IQ-AV web page, our servers log your IP address. Your IP
address is not linked to anything personally identifiable.
Who does IQ-AV share information with?
We will not disclose your personally identifiable information to third
parties except to the extent requested by you as necessary to provide you
with a requested product or service. If you do not accept any of the offers,
your information will not be retained by our registration offers partner.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as
required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our
rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process served on our Web site.
What else should I know about my privacy?
You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information
online in a public area on any site, that information may be collected and used by others.
We do not control the actions of our visitors and registered users. If you
disclose personal information in a chat room, forum, on a web page, or any
other publicly accessible place whether on a IQ-AV site or elsewhere, you do so
at your own risk and you understand that your submitted information may be
collected and used by others to send you unsolicited messages, advertisements,
or for other purposes.
Please remember that protection of your privacy begins with you. You are
solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any password you use to
register, and you should always be careful and responsible whenever disclosing
information online.
This web site may contains links to other sites that are not owned or
controlled by IQ-AV. Please be aware that we, IQ-AV, are not
responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable
information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web
site.
PRIVACY PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN. In compliance with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly provide access to IQ-AV
site to persons under the age of thirteen (13). If IQ-AV later learns that any
registered user is under the age of thirteen (13), we will take appropriate
steps to remove the user’s information from the database and we will restrict
this individual from future access to IQ-AV site. We feel strongly about
protecting the privacy of children. We encourage kids to involve their parents
in any interactive activity they participate in online. Except where otherwise
disclosed, we will not collect or use any personal information from children we
know to be under the age of
Acceptance of Privacy Policy. By using IQ-AV site and services, you
signify your acceptance of this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree or are
not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy statement, your only
remedy is to discontinue use of IQ-AV site. We reserve the right, to modify
this Privacy Statement at any time. If we materially change how we use your
personal information we will notify you either by email or through a prominent
notice on the web site. Your continued use of any portion of IQ-AV site
following notification or posting of such changes, will constitute your accept
of those changes. If you have questions or concerns about our specific
policies, please contact us through our contact form
Want more information? Check out these helpful links...
Electronic Frontier Foundation - a civil
liberties organization working to protect your rights online.
Electronic Privacy Information Center -
established to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues
relating to the National Information Infrastructure.
Privacy Issues Page - from the Center for
Democracy and Technology (CDT).
Cookie Central -- dedicated to
provide full information upon Internet Cookies.
