This is the Website Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) for Quad Partners LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “Quad,” “we,” “us,” “our”). Quad is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Notice describes the personal information that we collect about you as a user of this website (the "Site"), how we use and disclose this information, and the steps we take to protect this information. If you are a California resident, please review our Supplemental California Privacy Notice.
This Privacy Notice seeks to help you understand whether and how we collect Personal Information from or about you when you visit the Site, and how we may use, share, and retain such information. The term “Personal Information” has the meaning given to it under applicable laws and regulations relating to data protection and privacy and, for the avoidance of doubt, refers to any information which directly or indirectly identifies or otherwise relates to a living individual, device or household.
Your visit to the Site is subject to this Privacy Notice, which is incorporated into our Terms of Use. By visiting the Site, you agree to this Privacy Notice, which may be updated by us at any time. You should review this Privacy Notice carefully. If you do not agree with it, you may not use the Site. By using the Site, you confirm that you understand and agree with the provisions of this Privacy Notice. Please note that if you do not provide certain Personal Information to Quad when requested we may not be able to provide you with access to all areas of the Site and associated services.
This Privacy Notice applies only to the Personal Information that we may collect through the Site and does not concern any third-party website to which the Site may link. Note, if you are a current or prospective investor of Quad, our policies and practices regarding the collection and processing of your Personal Information are detailed in our Investor Privacy Statement.
1. The Information We Collect About You
We may collect the categories of Personal Information listed below about you in connection with your access and/or use of the Site.
· Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us:
i. Contact information (for example, name, phone number, email address);
ii. Account information (for example, username and password);
iii. Communications (for example, submitted questions); and
iv. Background information (for example, education, experience, qualifications, employment history).
· Information Collected Automatically:
i. Technical information (for example, browser type, IP address, cookies, and operating system); and
ii. Usage information (for example, pages visited, search terms entered, and frequency of visits).
2. How We Use Your Information
Your Personal Information may be collected, stored, disclosed and processed by Quad for the following purposes:
· Provide and improve the Site and related services. We may use your Personal Information to provide and improve the Site and related services or otherwise in connection with the administration of our business and to fulfill our contractual obligations.
· Communication. We may use your Personal Information to communicate with you about the Site and related services, respond to your questions, or offer you additional products or services.
· Comply with the law and exercise our rights. We may use your Personal Information as reasonably necessary to assess and ensure compliance with applicable laws, legal requirements, and company policies; to protect our assets or to investigate or defend against any claims of illegality or wrongdoing (including to obtain legal advice or to establish, exercise or defend legal rights); and in response to a court order or judicial or other government subpoena or warrant.
· Corporate transaction. We may use your Personal Information in the event we undertake or are involved in or contemplating any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency event.
· Recruitment and hiring. We may use your Personal Information to evaluate your candidacy when you apply for a job with us.
· Manage our website. We may use your Personal Information to enable, analyze and improve our website, authenticate you, track pages viewed or messages opened, to personalize your browsing experience, and to provide you with tailored content.
· For purposes otherwise set out in this Privacy Notice. We may use your Personal Information for other purposes set out in this Privacy Notice.
3. When We Disclose Information
Quad does not share Personal Information with other people or nonaffiliated companies except when we have your permission, as required by law, and/or under the following circumstances:
· Group companies and affiliates. We may disclose, share, or transfer your Personal Information to any business entity that is part of our corporate family.
· Service providers and professional advisors. We may disclose your Personal Information to third party vendors who provide services in support of our business operations. We may also disclose your Personal Information to our professional advisors such as our attorneys, accountants, and insurance providers.
· Parties involved in a corporate transaction. We may disclose your Personal Information to relevant third parties in the event of a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy.
· Law enforcement or other governmental entities. We may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to comply with the law, prevent unlawful activity, defend our rights, or maintain security.
· Other third parties with your consent. We may disclose your Personal Information to any other third party where you have provided consent to such disclosure.
4. Your Rights
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, you may have legal rights in relation to your Personal Information. These rights may include:
· Declining to share certain information with us (in which case we may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality of the Site).
· Requesting and obtaining information regarding how Quad may use your Personal Information.
· In some circumstances, requesting and receiving some Personal Information about you that you have provided to Quad.
· In some circumstances, requesting that Quad correct your Personal Information if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
· In some circumstances, requesting that we erase your Personal Information (but please note that there may be circumstances where we are legally entitled to retain Personal Information regardless of any such request).
· In some circumstances, requesting that we restrict or block our processing of your Personal Information (again, there may be circumstances where we are legally entitled to refuse that request).
· Where applicable, the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by Quad.
You can inquire about your rights by contacting us using the details listed below in Section 9.
5. How We Protect Your Information
· Data Security. Quad has implemented and maintains commercially reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your Personal Information. Please note, however, that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We therefore cannot guaranty and do not warrant the absolute security of your Personal Information. Depending on your location, the Personal Information we collect about you may be transferred to a jurisdiction that does not provide the same level of protection of Personal Information as the jurisdiction in which you reside.
· Data Retention. We retain Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary in connection with the purposes for which the Personal Information was collected or to comply with the law, prevent fraud, facilitate an investigation, defend against legal claims, or exercise our legal rights.
· Protecting Children. Our Site and our products and services are intended for use by those over the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect or solicit any categories of Personal Information from any individual under the age of eighteen (18). If you are under 18 years of age, then please do not use or access the Sites at any time or in any manner.
6. Cookies
When you use the Site, we may send one or more cookies (which are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters) to your computer or mobile device, to help analyze our web page flow, customize our content, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your ability to use the Site or certain features of the Site. We may also use Google Analytics or a similar service that uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Site.
We do not allow third parties to place cookies in order to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you access or use the Site. Currently, various browsers offer a “Do Not Track” option, but there is no standard for how “Do Not Track” should work on commercial websites. Due to the lack of such standards, this website does not respond to “Do Not Track” consumer browser settings.
7. International Visitors
This Site is controlled and operated by Quad in the United States. If you choose to access the Site from outside the United States, you acknowledge that you will be transferring your information, including Personal Information, outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing, as necessary to provide to you the products and services available through the Site.
8. Other Important Information
· Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Notice at any time, without notice. We will notify you about changes that significantly impact our use of your personal information by placing a prominent notice on this website or by sending you an email. Please revisit this page periodically to stay aware of any changes to this Privacy Notice. For the avoidance of doubt, disputes arising hereunder will be resolved in accordance with the Privacy Notice in effect at the time the dispute arose.
· Governing Law. This Privacy Notice is governed by Delaware law. Any dispute regarding this Privacy Notice or your use of the Site shall be resolved solely in the state or federal courts located in Delaware.
· Limitation of Liability. By accessing the Site and/or providing us with Personal Information and other data, you expressly and unconditionally release and hold us harmless from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the use and/or misuse of such information. In addition, while we take efforts to ensure the proper and appropriate use of data by our service providers that may receive your information from us, we are not responsible for any injuries, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the use and/or misuse of your information caused by those service providers.
· Third Party Websites. The Site may provide links to, or features from, other third party websites. If you link to or use such third party sites or features, you do so at your own risk. We do not control and are not responsible for the content or practices of any third party website, application, or other product or service.
9. Our Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice or our practices in relation to your Personal Information, you can email us at linda@quadpartners.com , call us at (212)724-2200, or write to us at Attn: Privacy Notice; Quad Partners LLC at 570 Lexington Avenue, 36th Floor, New York NY 10022.