Privacy Policy

This site is owned by, and operated at the direction of, Quality Assured Enterprises, Inc. (collectively, “QUALITY ASSURED LABEL”, “QUALITY ASSURED”, “QAL”, “QA”, “we”, “us”, and “our”). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.

Because we gather certain types of information about our website users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement or policy discloses what information we may gather and how we may use it.

INFORMATION QUALITY ASSURED LABEL GATHERS AND TRACKS

Quality Assured Label may gather two types of information about users:

1. Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to, e.g., receive our electronic newsletters, videos, and educational and product literature or to contact us for more information.
2. Information from tracking users that is derived mainly by tallying page views and downloads throughout our site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to users’ needs and understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances do we intend to provide any information about an individual user to a third party, unless the user consents or has consented to such use or dissemination of such information, or otherwise as mentioned below regarding sharing of the information.

Quality Assured Label Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

1. Electronic media policy (Email)
   We may offer various electronic media to users, and gather the email addresses of users who voluntarily so subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link or instruction provided in a newsletter or otherwise on our site.

2. Online marketing usage tracking
   We may track user traffic patterns throughout our site. This information is intended to be kept for our use only, and to better target and serve our audience with relevant information and services.

   We may place a file called a "cookie" in the browser or other files of your computer, to track user traffic patterns. The cookie itself is not intended to contain personal information although it may enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have provided. A cookie is not intended to, e.g., read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

USE OF INFORMATION

Quality Assured Label may use any information we gather to enhance users’ experiences with our company and the products and services we provide.

As stated above, we use information that users provide in order to send out electronic newsletters, to develop and evolve the content at our site, and to evolve the products and services that we offer, etc. We may transmit newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and may occasionally transmit special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. The information gathered is for our internal use only.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

We may use your information to tailor our interactions, as well as our content, to better suit your needs. We do not intend to share information about an individual user with any third party without the consent of the user, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process, or in our discretion to protect our employees, our users, or the public generally. However, we may engage a third party vendor, consultant, or service to assist us with gathering, tracking, and analyzing, etc., your information in furtherance of our use of information as stated above.

SECURITY

Quality Assured Label typically operates using secure data networks that are protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies may be periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We typically give users options, wherever necessary and practical, to opt out of receiving electronic communications.

YOUR CONSENT

By entering or using our site, you hereby consent to our collection and use of your information. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we may post any such change on this site so that you may be aware of what information we may collect, how we may use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it.