QuinStreet, Inc.
Company
Practices Regarding Your Privacy
We at QuinStreet, Inc. and our affiliated companies
worldwide are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize your
need for appropriate protection and management of any information you share
with us by using our web sites.
QuinStreet has established the following Online Privacy Policy so that you can
understand the care with which we intend to treat your information. This policy
describes the overall privacy practices of QuinStreet regarding information we
collect on our network of web sites and through our other Internet advertising
mediums, including but not limited to email, newsletters, and
leave-behinds. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that
QuinStreet does not own or control, or to people that QuinStreet does not
employ.
Your
California Privacy Rights
California has passed legislation requiring certain specific
disclosures be made available to California residents who use the Internet and
provide information that may be used for marketing purposes. That legislation
requires any business that discloses a customer's personal information (as
defined by the act) to any third party for direct marketing purposes to provide
the customer a method for obtaining the names, addresses and certain other
specified details of anyone who might have received that personal information.
If you are a California resident you may request this information from
QuinStreet or any of its affiliates by writing to us via email at info@quinstreet.com or you may send us
correspondence at the following address: QuinStreet, Attn: Privacy, 950 Tower Lane, 6th floor
Foster City, CA 94404. QuinStreet is not obligated
to respond to more than one such request from a customer per calendar year.
Information
Collected by QuinStreet
Non-Personally Identifiable Consumer Information
QuinStreet collects various types of information from you to better meet your
needs and to provide you with a more relevant user experience. Some of this
information is collected automatically through cookies (a small text file
placed on your computer) or other Internet tracking technologies. The type of
information your browser or Internet session may automatically provide us with
can include the browser you are using, your Internet domain, the operating
system on your computer, your IP address and the URL you saw just before coming
to the QuinStreet site, the pages of the site you visited and the URL of the
page you visited upon leaving the site.
QuinStreet may also contract with reputable third-party advertising companies
to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may also use cookies or other
measures to collect your non-personally identifiable information.
Personally Identifiable Consumer Information
In addition, at some of the QuinStreet web sites, we collect information that
you may choose to provide to us when requesting additional information from us
or from one or more of our clients. Examples of personally identifiable data
that you may provide to us include name, address, and email address. If you
provide personally identifiable data to us, you may later elect to have your
information deleted from our files, or kept from being used for purposes other
than for the service requested, by following the opt-out procedures set forth
below.
How
Collected Information is Used
The non-personally identifiable information that QuinStreet
collects is used for marketing and sales efforts to better target
advertisements and other content in an effort to create a more personally
relevant experience. The information is also used to predict responses to
advertisements, and to help determine which ads perform best and which content
is most appropriate for different individuals.
If you elect to provide QuinStreet with personally identifiable information, we
may utilize such information for marketing purposes, and this use may result in
follow-up communications from QuinStreet and from our clients. In addition,
that information may be combined with information collected from other sources
to assist with targeting ads to your preferences and behaviors, and for other
QuinStreet sales and marketing efforts.
Sharing
Information with Third Parties
All personally identifiable information you provide is
maintained in confidence by QuinStreet. There are instances, however, in which your personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable
information is shared with third parties, as described below.
Your non-personally identifiable data may be shared with third-party partners
of QuinStreet on an anonymous basis.
When you request information from QuinStreet or one or more of our clients, we
may transfer that information within QuinStreet or route your information to
our client(s), across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other
countries or jurisdictions around the world, so that they may provide the
information on their product or service that you requested.
We may also disclose information to a third party who provides substantially
similar services as the original service about which you requested more
information. In such situations, we will provide you with an opportunity to
opt-out of such sharing. Please be aware that QuinStreet is very careful in
selecting companies with whom it does business.
In addition to the above situations where your information may be shared with
others, there is also the possibility that QuinStreet, or part(s) of the
company, may one day be purchased by, or merged with, another company. In the event
of such transaction, the acquiring (or merging) company will have access to all
collected personally identifiable information.
Finally, QuinStreet may share your information as necessary to comply with a
court order or to cooperate with government and law enforcement officials.
Security
Wherever your personally identifiable information may be
held within QuinStreet or on its behalf, we intend to take reasonable and
appropriate steps to protect the information you shared with us from
unauthorized access or disclosure. Please note that while QuinStreet will make
every reasonable effort to protect your information, no transmission of data
over the Internet is 100% secure.
Choice
Non-Personally Identifiable Consumer Information - Use of
Cookies & Opting-Out
Some of our web sites utilize cookies to collect
information about your website activities and to recall the personal
information you previously shared with us. Most browsers allow you to control
cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them.
You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may
choose to block cookies with your browser. Blocking cookies may result in a
lower quality experience for you while you are visiting QuinStreet web sites.
Personally Identifiable Consumer Information - Opting-Out
You may choose whether or not to provide personally
identifiable information to QuinStreet. If you choose to provide such
information to QuinStreet, you have the right to tell us not to make some of
the uses of such information described herein or may have such information
deleted in its entirety. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletters,
surveys or promotional communications via email, you may opt-out by clicking
here and following the instructions to unsubscribe. To have your personal
information completely removed from our databases, simply contact us at info@quinstreet.com and provide the name
of the service for which information was provided, your full name, mailing
address, phone number and email address so that we may identify you in the
opt-out process. Once we receive your instruction, we will promptly take
corrective action.
Access/Accuracy
To the extent that you do provide us with personally identifiable
information, QuinStreet wishes to maintain the accuracy of this information.
Where we collect personally identifiable information from you on the Web, our
goal is to provide a means of contacting QuinStreet should you need to update
or correct that information. If for any reason those means are unavailable or
inaccessible, you may send updates and corrections about your personally
identifiable information to info@quinstreet.com
and we will make reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes in the
information that we hold as soon as practicable.
Children's
Privacy
In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act (COPPA), QuinStreet.com is not structured to attract children. Accordingly,
we do not intend to collect personally identifiable information from anyone we
know to be under 13 years of age.
Refer
a Friend
Some of QuinStreet's web sites offer you the opportunity to
easily notify a friend of the offer or information promoted on the site. If you
choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about a QuinStreet site, we
will ask you for your friend's personally identifiable information, including
name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email
inviting him or her to visit the site. QuinStreet stores this information for
the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our
referral program.
Your friend may contact us at info@quinstreet.com
to request that we remove this information from our database. Our one-time
email to your friend will inform him or her of this fact.
Commitment
Protecting your privacy online is an evolving area, and
QuinStreet's web sites are constantly changing to meet these demands.
If you have any comments or questions regarding our Online Privacy Policy,
please contact us at info@quinstreet.com.
While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the
best of our abilities as soon as practicable after you bring it to our
attention.
Your
Consent
By using this web site, you consent to the terms of our
Online Privacy Policy and to QuinStreet's processing of personally identifiable
information for the purposes given above. Should the Online Privacy Policy
change, we intend to take every reasonable step to ensure that these changes
are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently on our web
site for a reasonable period of time and by amending this privacy policy.
Contacting
Us
For more information, or if you have
questions or concerns regarding QuinStreet's Privacy Policy, you may email us
at info@quinstreet.com or you can send
correspondence to the following address:
Privacy
QuinStreet
950 Tower Lane, 6th floor
Foster City, CA 94404
Date: November
15, 2010