Last updated: Nov 12th, 2020
We believe that the responsible use of data supports growth and builds strong relationships between brand and consumer. As a business, we are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of all individuals with whom we interact. We are committed to being transparent in our handling and processing of personal data at all times in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it and the only reasons would be to contact us to hear about our services, join our newsletter, download or sign up to receive content, offer our services, or join our team (we can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason). We don’t share your personal information with anyone except: (i) to third parties who help us provide our marketing or services to you (e.g., calling you to market our services); (ii) to comply with the law; (iii) develop our services, or (iv) protect our rights. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of one of our services or as specified herein or on our form.
This Privacy Notice explains in detail the types of personal data we may collect about you when you interact with us on any website where this Privacy Notice appears. Quartile is the data controller of any personal data you provide to us, including in relation to this website.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) provides California residents with additional rights with respect to their personal information. Those rights are explained below in Section 7 (Your California Rights). This Privacy Notice includes certain disclosures required under CCPA.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
1 – Personal Data Collected
Information collected on the website.
Quartile LLC (“Quartile”) operates Quartile.com. It is Quartile’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Quartile is a data controller for data collected on this website.
While using our website, we ask you to provide us with certain personal data that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personal Data includes, but is not limited to:
If you provide us with your phone number, you hereby expressly consent to receive calls from us or from our third-party service providers acting on our behalf (including via an auto-dialer). You may opt-out of this at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the end of this Privacy Notice.
1.1 – Information Received from Clients
Quartile receives data from its clients and processes this data per contract in place with our clients. Quartile does not have a direct relationship with these individuals and is acting as a service provider to our clients in this instance. While we maintain this data, we are only permitted to use it to provide the services we are contracted to handle.
1.2 – Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Quartile collects information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Quartile’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Quartile’s visitors use its website. Quartile also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on blogs if available. Quartile only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
1.3 – Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Quartile uses cookies to help Quartile identify and track visitors, their usage of the Quartile website, and their website access preferences. Quartile visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Quartile’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Quartile’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. See our Cookie Policy here.
1.3.1 – What Kinds of Cookies Do We Use?
The Site may use Strictly Necessary Cookies, Performance Cookies, Functional Cookies, Targeting Cookies, and Social Media Cookies. Any of these may be first-party cookies or third-party cookies, persistent or session.
1.3.2 – Don’t Want Cookies?
Most web browsers let you choose whether to accept cookies. Most also let you delete cookies already set. The choices available, and the mechanism used, will vary from browser to browser. Such browser settings are typically found in the “options”, “tools” or “preferences” menu. You may also consult the browser’s “help” menu.
For example:
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
There are online tools available for clearing all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, such as www.allaboutcookies.org. Usually, deletion of cookies will anonymize the information associated with the pixel and a website will not receive any further associated information. Please note at this time, we do not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “do not track” instructions.
1.4 – Aggregated Statistics
Quartile collects statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Quartile monitors the most popular blog posts or pages on the site. Quartile may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Quartile does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
2 – Use of your information
As mentioned, the information that Quartile collects and stores relating to you is used to communicate to you and to provide our services to you. Quartile takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of personal information. We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
If you are a new customer, Quartile will only contact you when you have provided consent and only by those means you provided consent.
2.1 – Grounds for using your personal data – EEA specific provision
In addition, Quartile relies on the following lawful grounds to collect and process any personal data you may have provided:
3 – Third Party Service Providers, Employees, Agents, or Contractors
Quartile discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Quartile’s behalf (including to market our services to you) or to provide services available at Quartile’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Quartile’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Quartile will not rent or sell potentially personally- identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone without advance notice. We do share information as described above with our website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to only use this information for the purpose in which Quartile shared it with them.
3.1 – Third-party Disclosure for Joint Marketing Events & Digital Assets
For users in the United States, we sometimes participate in joint marketing events with third parties. On the registration page, it is clear who the other joint marketing party is. If you opt-into a joint marketing event or digital asset in the United States, we may provide your registration information to these third parties & partners for use in marketing and in designing or providing their own services, to send you information about its products and to notify you if you win a contest. You may opt-out of us providing such information by opting out of our email newsletter and/or not registering for joint marketing events. You should contact the other third party directly who may already be sending you messages in order to request that these communications stop, and to review their privacy policies. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
3.2 – To Comply with legal process or to protect Quartile
Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Quartile discloses potentially personally- identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests, or when Quartile believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Quartile, third parties or the public at large.
3.3 – Business Transfers
If Quartile, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Quartile goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Quartile may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
4 – Storing your personal data/Transfer of Data
Quartile operates its site in the United States. If you are located in another jurisdiction, please know that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. By using this site and providing Quartile with information, you consent to this transfer, processing, and storage of your information in the United States. It is important to note that the privacy laws in the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in other countries such as the European Union. Quartile service providers use appropriate safeguards to transfer your personal data to the United States.
5 – Third-party links
Quartile may have links on the Quartile site to other sites that Quartile does not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be taken directly to that site which is governed by its own privacy notice. Quartile strongly encourages you to read that privacy notice. Quartile does not control that site and assumes no responsibility for the content, policies, or its practices.
6 – Choices and Individual Rights
Quartile aims to take reasonable steps, so you can correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you are a customer of one of our clients that works with Quartile and would no longer like to be contacted by them, please send your request to the client that you interact with directly. If our client requests Quartile to remove or amend that data, we will respond to that request within 30 days.
Quartile outlines your choices below:
7 – Personal information we collect about California consumers
We describe the personal information we have collected about consumers in the twelve (12) months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Notice in the part of our Privacy Notice titled, “Personal Data Collected” above. The information we collect includes the following:
7.1 – Disclosures of Personal Information for Monetary or Other Valuable Consideration or for Business Purposes
Quartile does not sell your data —we are not data brokers, and we don’t put your data on the open market. However, under the CCPA, some sharing of personal information necessary to provide you with personalized ads and with some of our partners may be considered a “sale,” even if no money is exchanged. In that respect, we have disclosed email addresses and contact information to other businesses and third parties which include our joint marketing partners when we host webinars and events with them within the twelve (12) months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Notice. As is common practice among businesses that operate websites, we may also have disclosed certain online identifiers, information about the use of our website, and inferences drawn about you to our social media, advertising, and analytics partners. We have disclosed personal information in all or substantially all of the categories identified in this Additional Notice for California Resident Consumers for various business purposes. For more information about the categories of personal information we have disclosed, the categories of entities with which we have disclosed this information, and the purposes for which we have disclosed the information, please see “Use of Your Information” above and “Where and How We Share and Disclose Your Information”. For information regarding the purposes for which we collect and use the personal information we collect, please see “Use of Your Information” and “Where and How We Share and Disclose Your Information” sections above.
7.2 – Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights. We will honor requests received to the extent required by applicable law and within the time provided by law.
7.2.1 – Right to Access and Information Regarding Personal Information
You have the right to request that we disclose to you the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. Specifically, you have the right to request that we disclose the following to you, in each case in the twelve-month period preceding your request:
7.2.2 – Right to Deletion of Personal Information
You have the right to request that we delete Personal Information about you that we have collected from you.
7.2.3 – Right to Opt-Out
You have the right to opt-out of the disclosure of personal information about you for monetary or other valuable consideration.
YOUR CALIFORNIA RIGHTS (CCPA)
This section describes the rights that residents of California have and in other jurisdictions as provided by local law, and how to exercise such rights.
Right to Know about Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use, disclosure, or sale of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access and Deletion Rights), and subject to certain limitations that we describe below, we will disclose such information. You have the right to request any or all of the following:
Right to Request Deletion
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records. However, we may retain personal information that has been de-identified or aggregated. Furthermore, we may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) in order to perform certain actions set forth under CCPA, such as detecting security incidents and protecting against fraudulent or illegal activity.
Exercising Access and Deletion Rights
Only you, or a person or business entity registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf (an “authorized agent”), may make the requests set forth above. You may also make a request on behalf of your minor child.
The request should include your contact information and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. In addition, you should provide sufficient information (including information that reasonably enables us to verify the identifying information we currently maintain about you) that allows us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected the personal information or an authorized representative.
We will respond to consumer requests in a reasonably timely manner. If we require extra time to respond, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. In order to protect the security of your personal information, we will not honor a request if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. The method used to verify your identity will depend on the type, sensitivity, and value of the information, including the risk of harm to you, posed by any authorized access or deletion. Generally speaking, verification will be performed by matching the identifying information provided by you to the personal information that we already have.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request (and will not be made more than twice in a 12-month period). If we cannot comply with a request, or cannot fully comply with a request, the response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply.
7.2.4 – Right to No Discrimination
We may not discriminate against you because of your exercise of any of the foregoing rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, including by:
7.3 – Requests to Exercise Your Rights
You may request to exercise the foregoing rights by:
Please note that we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to information or acting on your request to exercise your rights, as required or permitted by law. We may limit our response to your exercise of the above rights as permitted by law.
7.4 – Data Sharing for Direct Marketing Purposes
California Civil Code § 1798.83 further permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident, you may ask us to refrain from sharing your personal information with certain of our affiliates and other third parties for their marketing purposes. Please tell us your preference by contacting us at privacy@quartile.com or by writing us at the address below.
8 – Security
Quartile uses reasonable administrative, logical, physical, and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, and modification. Unfortunately, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, Quartile cannot guarantee the security of your information.
9 – Sensitive Data
Quartile requests that you do not send us any sensitive data such as social security or national identification numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health data, biometrics or genetic, criminal background or trade union membership information. If you do send Quartile this information, then you are consenting to its processing in accordance with this privacy notice. To avoid processing of sensitive data, do not submit it.
10 – Our policy on children’s information
The Quartile site is not directed to children under 16. If you learn that your minor child has provided Quartile with personal information without your consent, please contact Quartile.
11 – Contact Us
Quartile welcomes any queries, comments, or requests you may have regarding this policy please do not hesitate to contact us at privacy@quartile.com.
Quartile is the Data Controller for information collected on this website and can be reached at:
Quartile
Attn: Marketing Dept
420 Lexington Ave, Suite 2415
New York, NY 10170
Information that is provided to Quartile from its clients is controlled by them.
12 – Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Quartile may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Quartile’s sole discretion.
13 – About Amazon MWS API
We request just data for our algorithm's operation and retained data necessary to the learning process. We don't have acquisition PII on the MWS Data data because we don't need it; our algorithm use just product-related data. This product-related is a characteristic of our platform. We had only one Developer account per region. The client Token is stored along time that the Client is an active account in our database.
Internally all data traffic is encrypted on the database servers and access-controlled with IAM and MFA required for all authorized developers and admins.
Per region to complement information above, our accounts are:
NA: mws@quartile.com
