QGuide.com Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Internet web site located at the URL QGuide.com (the "Site") of QGuide Pty Ltd ("QGguide.com").  This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout QGuide.com governing the use of personally identifiable information about users of our Site and users of our travel and tourism services (the “Services”).  

Privacy Policy Updates
Due to the Internet's rapidly evolving nature, QGuide.com may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time.  If so, QGuide.com will post its updated Privacy Policy on our Site located at QGuide.com so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information.  QGuide.com encourages you to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.  Your continued use of this Site and/or continued provision of personally identifiable information to us will be subject to the terms of the then-current Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use
You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself.  However, in certain sections of this Site and when you use our Services, we may invite you to participate in surveys, questionnaires or contests, contact us with questions or comments or request information, provide us with feedback, or complete a registration form (“Registration Data”).  Due to the nature of some of these activities, we may collect personally identifiable information as part of your Registration Data, such as your name, birthday, contact data such as your address, email address, phone number, username, password, credit card number, and other contact information that you voluntarily transmit with your communication to us.  We also may collect information about you and your use of our Site and Services through your use of our Site and Services as set forth below in the “Aggregate Information” paragraph.

We may use your personally identifiable information to verify that you are an individual and not a “bot,” register you to use our Services, contact you to deliver certain services, news or information you have requested (including advertising information about QGuide.com or its partners), verify your authority to enter our Site, and improve the content and general administration of the Site and our Services and for targeted advertising.

Children's Privacy
QGuide.com recognizes the privacy interests of children and minors under the age of 18 and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests.  This Site is not intended for children and minors under the age of 18.  QGuide.com does not target its Services or this Site to children and minors under the age of 18.  QGuide.com does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children and minors under the age of 18.  

Cookies
We may use small text files called cookies to improve overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you.  
 
Aggregate Information
Our Site may track the total number of visitors to the Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, browser type, and IP addresses, and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information.  We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Disclosure
We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our Services to you. For example, we may provide your personally identifiable information to a credit card processing company to process your payment or to a marketing, research and/or advertising agency to send advertising to you on our behalf.  Such third party entities will be restricted from further distributing your personally identifiable information and from using your personally identifiable information for commercial purposes and may be obligated to a written confidentiality agreement that is at least as protective of your personally identifiable information as the terms of this Privacy Policy.  We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority.  We will not pass on or sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organization if you have opted out at time of registration or at any time in the future, except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which QGuide.com participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all assets of QGuide.com to which this Site relates.

Links to Third Party Sites
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which QGuide.com does not have control ("External Web Sites").  Such links do not constitute an endorsement by QGuide.com of those External Web Sites.  You acknowledge that QGuide.com is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that QGuide.com is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites.  Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.

Security
We may employ procedural and technological security measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.  QGuide.com may use encryption, password protection, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.  The data that you transmit as part of your use of the Services (“Storage Data”) is in encrypted form and QGuide.com does not have access to your Storage Data in its unencrypted form.

Notice to Non-United States Users
The information you enter on this Site or otherwise provide to QGuide.com may be transferred outside of your country to the United States of America which does not necessarily offer an equivalent level of protection to that is required in other countries or the European Union.  In particular, you are advised that the United States of America uses a sectoral model of privacy protection that relies on a mix of legislation, governmental regulation, and self-regulation.   By agreeing to the terms of use and this privacy policy, you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States of America which may not offer an equivalent level of protection to that required in your country and to the processing of that information by QGuide.com on its servers located in the United States of America as described in this Privacy Policy.

Correction/Updating Personally Identifiable Information
QGuide.com provides you with the ability to review, correct and delete any of the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us.  If you wish to review or correct any information you have provided to us, you may access your account online.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us via email at privacy@QGuide.com.  

This Privacy Policy was last updated: February 26, 2008
This Privacy Policy is effective as of: August 05, 2007