Privacy Policy for quub.com
quub.com is owned and operated by Open Presence, Inc. We at Open Presence, Inc. (referred to as "we", "us", or "our") the importance of protecting the privacy of certain information ("information") collected about our customers and prospective customers (referred to as "customers", "you", "visitors" or "your"). This privacy statement, effective July 15, 2008 discloses the privacy practices our collection, use, and disclosure of information.
Please note that the real-time nature of your reported status can be misused or abused by members of your own contacts. Please carefully manage your privacy preference for your own protection.
Information Collected
Sensor Information: We provide a service that uses machine intelligence to help you maintain a real-time status. To provide this service, we collect, maintain, and use various sensor data from your mobile device. You can choose to disable our software’s use of the sensor information at any time, but this will disable the machine-generated suggestions as well.
Cookies: We use a feature of Internet web browsers called "cookies". Cookies are generated by web servers and stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit practically any website on the Internet. Cookies enable us to "remember" who you are, to store your user preferences to track user trends and search patterns in general. We use cookies to improve the quality of the information and services we offer and to better understand how users interact with us. In some secured areas of our website, cookies are required to associate you with your personal information stored in our systems.
We do not and cannot use cookies to retrieve individual personally identifiable information about you from your computer or mobile device unless you knowingly and willingly provided such information. The cookie technology we use cannot obtain information from your hard drive or pass on a computer virus.
You can adjust your web browser security settings to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you disable the use of cookies in your web browser, some features or services we offer at this website may not function properly.
Web Usage Information: We collect anonymous information about all of our website visitors each time they visit our website so that we can understand how people are using the website and so that we can improve upon the overall quality of our visitors' online experience. We record the date and time of your visit, the page you visited, your IP address, the Internet service provider you are using, referral data, the type of browser you are using and the type of operating system you are using. You do not have to register with us before we can collect this anonymous information. We do not collect any unique information about you (such as your name, e-mail address, etc.) except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information. We do not require you to share information that identifies you personally, such as your name or email address in order for you to use our website. We analyze information we collect about our visitors to examine trends, administer the site, track our visitors' paths through the website.
User Submitted Data: When you sign up for a new account, you may provide personally identifiable information such as account name, email address, phone number, date of birth, gender and password.
Clear Gifs Information: When you use our website, we may use “clear Gifs” (Web Beacons) that will allow us to recognize the online usage of our users in a non-personally identifiable manner. We may also use clear Gifs in HTML emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by the recipients.
Contact Invitation: When you use the invite feature to invite your contacts, we will use the phone number or email address for the one-time invitation process. This information will be deleted from our system shortly after the invitation is sent.
Use of Your Information
The information you submit will be used in conjunction with your sensor information to operate, maintain and provide the features and functionality of our service. We may use personally identifiable information, sensor information, and non-personally-identifiable information, to statistically analyze site usage and to improve our services.
We use cookies, clear Gifs, and log file to 1) remember you so you do not have to re-enter the login each time you access our service; 2) provide custom and personalized content, advertisements, and information; 3) monitor the effect of our marketing campaigns; and 4) compile aggregate metrics of our user activity.
We do not use your personally identifiable information or sensor information to send commercial or marketing messages without your express consent or unless you have opted-in to be part of a specific program or feature.
Your e-mail will never be shared with anyone in anyway. We may use your e-mail address to verify a newly created account, restore your password, to contact you for administrative purposes, and to send you periodic updates. You may modify your communication preferences and opt out of the e-mail communications from us by accessing “Settings” in your profile.
Disclosure of Information
Personally Identifiable Information
We will not disclose your personally identifiable information to any third party unless we believe disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with local or federal laws or in response to a court order, subpoena, or warrant; (2) enforce our Terms of Use agreement or to protect our rights; (3) protect the rights or safety of other users.
We will not share your personally identifiable information with third party companies for their marketing or advertising use without your explicit consent. You will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out of such campaigns.
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas, this information can be accessed by the public and in turn be used by others to send you unsolicited communications.
Aggregate Data
We may use your Personal Information to generate Aggregated Data for internal use and for sharing with interested third parties for studying, planning and marketing purposes. "Aggregated Data” are records which have been stripped of personally identifiable information, and which have been manipulated or combined to provide generalized, anonymous information. Your identity and personal information will be kept completely anonymous in Aggregated Data.
Information Security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. We use SSL to secure all online data transmissions. Passwords are stored in encrypted format for increased security. Our servers are protected by firewalls and are physically located in secure data facilities to further increase security. While no computer is 100% safe from outside attacks, we believe that the steps we have taken to protect your personal information dramatically reduce the likelihood security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
Additional Notices and Disclosures
Links on quub.com
Our website may contain links to other websites on the Web. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by us.
Correspondence
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence and we may collect your email address.
Children's Privacy
This site is not intended for children. Children may only use this site with direct supervision of a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly request or collect personally identifiable information online or offline contact information from users under 13 years old nor do we knowingly use or share personal information from users under 13 years old with third parties.
In the Event of Merger, Sale, or Bankruptcy
In the event of an acquisition, quub reserves the right to transfer personal information to the acquiring company. If the acquiring company plans to change the content of this privacy policy, we will notify you in advance. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, we may not be able to control how your personal information will be used. You will be notified if such an event does occur.
Changes to Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be revised periodically and the effective date will be posted at the bottom of this message to reflect the last update. You should revisit this policy from time to time to review changes to the privacy policy. If we change our privacy policy, we will first provide you with an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prevent that use. Continued use of our website constitutes your agreement to this privacy policy and any future revisions.
Your Acceptance of Our Privacy Policy
By using this website, you acknowledge your agreement to Open Presence and/or its affiliates. If you do not agree with the terms, please do not use our services.
Questions and Comments
Questions and comments about your privacy policy should be directed to privacy@quub.com or mailed to Privacy Officer, quub, Inc