QRzipper™ Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective on June 23, 2024.

We invite you to read this Privacy Policy, which explains our privacy practices and how we treat your personal information when you use our Services. It describes the types of personal information collected and created in connection with your use of QRzippe™, how and why we use such information, who we share it with, and your legal rights. Unless otherwise indicated, this privacy policy (“Policy”) applies to all our websites, domains, apps, products, services, and features (the “Services”) in all geographies in which QRzippe™ offers its Services. When you use QRzippe™, there are expectations for how you must respect and protect the privacy of other Users. These expectations are spelled out in our Terms of Service. Please read it. Violating these rules or other aspects of the Terms of Service may lead to a loss of account privileges, potentially including a permanent ban from QRzipper™.

• 1. What is QRzipper™

• QRzipper™ is a Software as a Service (SaaS) application where a stack of proprietary custom developed programs, frameworks, databases, front-end, back-end tools, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are uniquely assembled to provide users a single all encompassing technology to create and preserve in multimedia files in form of public or personal web pages for a customizable period of time.

  The current popular way of preserving and sharing any information (data) includes usage of social media, web pages and all sort of digital files (text, image, audio and video) saved on cloud-based servers or on local devices.

  Many people believe that storing files digitally is a good and permanent solution, but we at QRzipper challenge that. Social media posts and pages can be canceled or blocked at anytime and for no reason. Storing data on web pages or cloud-based data storage requires usage of multiple independent, pay to use technologies and failure with payment for just one of them may cause permanent all data lost. Storing files on cell phone, camera, laptop, thumb drive or external hard drive has an expiration date as long as we do not lose or physically damage it.

  QRzipper™’s customers can create and manage “Story/Message Pages” which are digital information encapsulations in the form of online digital multimedia web pages. Story/message pages allow users to conveniently connect digital stories and information to any physical item utilizing unique customizable tags, stickers and labels featuring automatically generated encrypted Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Quick Response Code (QR Code) images and files.

• 2. Who provides the Services and controls my information?

• The Services and operated and provided to you by
  QRzipper™, LLC
  27 Charles Str.,
  New Britain, CT
  CustomerService@qrzipper.com .

• 3. What information is collected?

• When we provide the Services, we collect or receive information in several different ways. In many cases you choose what information to provide. Some information is required in order to use QRzipper™ and for us to provide the Services. We use this information for the purposes described further below.

  • 3.1. From you, or with your permission.

  • We collect a variety of information from you when you provide it to us directly, when we request it from you, or when you give us permission to get it from a third party source. Here are some examples of these instances:

    • Contact Details
      • When you sign up for QRzipper™, you provide your name/company’s name, address, phone number, profile photo, email address, and similar information.
      • If you want to join QRzipper™ or to use a service on QRzipper™, you can choose to give us your contact information and ask us to notify you when we do.
      • If you contact our support, you are providing us with your contact information and a description of the issue so we can respond.

    • Network Details. If you decide to invite new Users to join QRzipper™, you can choose to share their email address with us, or share your contacts with us, so we can send an invitation and follow-up reminders to potential new Users on your behalf.

    • Social Data. If you use Facebook to log in to QRzipper™ (or later connect your Facebook account to your QRzipper™ account) you authorize Facebook to share your personal information with us, including your name and email address.

    • Posts, interests, and recommendations.
      • If you want to help your other QRzipper™'s Users/Collaborators get to know you better, you may share information about yourself in your profile, including your interests and skills.
      • If you want to connect and communicate with other QRzipper™'s Users/Collaborators about specific interests, you may share information about your interests.
      • If you want to communicate with other QRzipper™'s Users/Collaborators and share Content (as defined in our Terms of Service), you might post something on QRzipper™.
    • Geographic information (country, date locale and currency locale).
    • Unique identifiers (username, password and PIN).
    • Billing information (last 4 digits of a credit card number and expiry).
    • Session data (date, time started and duration as added or recorded by you).
    • Any information you provide about the person you are creating a website for.
    • Information needed to send invitations. Such as your invitee names and email addresses.
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  • 3.2. From your browser and device.

  • Like nearly every other online service, we automatically collect technical information when you visit or use QRzipper™ or read a message from us. We collect information from your browser, computer, or mobile device. This provides us with technical information when you use QRzipper™ as a visitor or a User/Collaborator, including:

    • Device data, which tells about the device you’re using, such as what type and model it is, its operating system and version, its unique identifier, crash data (if applicable), and what settings you’ve enabled. Your device and software settings affect what information your device makes available to us.
    • Log data, which is automatically recorded by our servers based on data sent by your app or browser. This typically includes the date and time you visited, the browser or app version you used (and its settings), the URLs you come from and go to, your IP address and protocol, and how you used QRzipper™ (for example, which links you clicked on).
    • Cookie data, which comes from “cookies” (small data files stored on your computer or mobile device) and similar technologies. Cookie data helps us recognize you, reUser your preferences, and personalize your experience. Our third party advertising partners also use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about users for advertising purposes as described below. Some, but not all cookie data is associated with your QRzipper™ account. To learn more about the use of cookie data on QRzipper™ and your choices for limiting it see our Cookie Policy.
    • Pixels, SDKs and other storage technologies, which operate similar to cookies and are used by us, as well as by certain third parties, such as social media networks and advertiser platforms, to collect or receive information from our and other websites and apps to provide measurement services and target ads. To learn more about your choices for limiting the collection of your information by these technologies, see our Cookie Policy.
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  • 3.3. From third parties and public sources.

  • We may collect information from third parties, service providers, partners, and publicly-available sources, such as eg.:

    • Vendors that provide information about Users for advertising analytics, personalization, and measurement.
    • Advertisers that provide us with information about their users or customers to help us personalize advertising or measure the performance of their advertisements.
    • Public sources such as statistical data, maps and other information, that helps us understand our Users and potential areas for expansion.

• 4. How is my information used?

• We use the information we have to help us provide, operate, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. We may also use the information we have for other purposes where permitted by law.

  • 4.1. Establishing and developing services.

    We use information to identify and invite potential new Users/Collaborators to QRzipper™.

  • 4.2. Setting you up on QRzipper™.

    In order to enable us to operate and provide the Services, we use certain information to get you started on QRzipper™:

    • We use information to help Users/Collaborators learn about the people we work with.
  • 4.3. Provide and improve the Services.

    We use both manual and automated systems to analyze and use your Content (as defined in the User Agreement) and other information:

    • To help you publish Content and view and respond to Content from other Users/Collaborators, based on posting selections you make when you create your post.
    • To select top posts in an area and to deliver and tailor your newsfeed.
    • To personalize your experience.
    • To understand the trends, usage statistics, and demographic data of the Users and neighborhoods we serve.
    • To respond to your support requests and comments.
    • To diagnose and resolve problems, analyze trends, and monitor usage and resource needs.
  • 4.4. Advertising

    We use your information to provide and improve advertisements and other commercial offerings both on and off the Services:

    • To measure whether an advertisement was interesting to create your post.
    • To measure whether an advertisement was effective for the advertiser.
    • To help personalize advertisements based on what we think will be of interest to you.
    • To provide and measure the effectiveness of personalized advertising.
    • To improve the personalization of advertisements.
    • We may customize advertising offers you see on QRzipper™ based on information from our advertisers or vendors.
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• 5. Is my information shared with third parties?

• We share information with service providers, affiliates, partners, and other third parties where it is necessary to perform the User Agreement, to provide the Services, or for any other purposes described in this Policy.

  • 5.1. Content shared within the QRzipper™ User/Collaborator.

    QRzipper™ provides Users/Collaborators valuable experiential inspiration, opportunities and savings, through our countless partnerships with global third-party affiliate marketing brands. QRzipper™ seamlessly bridges our Users directly to our affiliate partner for sales transactions to occur. To that end, we make the Content you post on QRzipper™, such as posts, replies, recommendations, messages, and your profile information, visible to other QRzipper™ Users/Collaborators based on the preferences in your settings, the preferences on the Content you provide, and as described in this Policy. You can limit the information visible to other QRzipper™ Users/Collaborators in the privacy section of your settings.

  • 5.2. Publicly-available content

    In limited circumstances, we may make short snippets of Content (as defined in the Terms of Service) available, without your name or other identifying information, to the public (meaning non-Users and search engines).

  • 5.3. Account verification.

    We may share your personal information with our verification partners, such as telecommunications providers (if you choose to verify your account by providing your telephone number) and Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions (please contact Lexis at mailto:ccpa@lexisnexisrisk.com for questions about how they may use your information), to verify your account.

  • 5.4. Legal and safety reasons.

    We may retain, preserve, or share your personal information if we have a good-faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond, based on applicable law, to a legal request (e.g. a subpoena, a search warrant, court order, or other request from government or law enforcement); (b) detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; (c) protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety; (d) enforce our User Agreement or any other agreements we have with you; (e) prevent physical injury or other harm to any person or entity, including you and Users of the general public. For example, we may share your personal information with disaster relief agencies, first responders, and other individuals to facilitate disaster or emergency response efforts.

  • 5.5. Advertising

    If you click on or reply to an advertisement or other offer, we may share your reply with the advertiser, and we may log your interaction as part of tracking the overall effectiveness of the advertisement. We may also pre-populate replies to ads you click on with your contact details, but those details are not shared with the advertiser without your consent.

    The Services are supported by third party advertising networks. Our advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about our Users and their devices over time across QRzipper™ and different websites and services. We may also share with our advertising partners advertising identifiers of our Users to help them personalize the ads they see. Where permissible according to applicable law, we may share certain limited personal information about you in hashed form, such as a hashed email address, with our advertising partners and other companies that help us serve ads. We do this to tailor or target advertising or to identify similar audiences to advertise to. Our advertising partners may be able to associate this information with you based on your advertising identifiers or other personal information they have about you. Our advertising partners use the information they collect to provide our Users with personalized ads on QRzipper™ and on different websites and services, and to measure the effectiveness of the ads.

    For more information about third party use of cookies and similar technologies and about how you can limit the use of your information for personalized online advertising, see our Cookie Policy. Our systems are not currently configured to accept browsers’ “Do Not Track” signals, as no industry-wide standard for handling them has been adopted.

  • 5.6. Third party partners.

    QRzipper™ may partner with third party companies to offer Users the ability to book a range of different services. These offers may be integrated into QRzipper™, or QRzipper™ may contain links to other websites or apps featuring the offers. In order to tailor these offers to you, we may share limited information with such third parties. When you engage with one of these offers, you may share additional information directly with the third party partner. If you engage with third party partners through QRzipper™, the third parties may share with us certain information about you to allow us to coordinate, assess, and improve the services provided to you. This may include information about a booking you make with the third party, including type of service, name and address of provider, and the time of booking. These third parties have their own privacy policies, which will apply to your activity if you click on or interact with their offers featured on QRzipper™ or other websites or apps.

  • 5.7. Service providers.

    We may also share your personal information with service providers and/or data processors to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. These service providers are contractually required to use it only to provide their service to us, and are contractually prohibited from using it for their own purposes.

• 6. How long is my information kept?

• We retain your information in our server logs, our databases, and our records for as long as necessary to provide the Services. We may need to retain some of your information for a longer period, such as in order to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes or defend against legal claims, or to enforce our Terms of Service . If you decide not to verify your account and would like us to delete the information you provided, contact us.

• 7. How is my information protected?
  • 7.1. Account security.

    QRzipper™ uses technical and organizational measures intended to keep your data secure, including using https on our web pages to reduce the risk of unauthorized interception of your communications during your visits to the website. However, the internet is not a fully secure environment and we cannot guarantee that your personal information won’t be intercepted or improperly accessed. Please ensure that you keep your password safe and do not share it with anyone.

  • 7.2. Other services and websites

    In using QRzipper™, you may come across links to websites and services operated by third parties (for example, if Users/Collaborators shares a link to a video on YouTube, or if an advertiser provides a link to a contest or sweepstakes). These third parties have their own privacy policies, which will apply to any personal information they collect. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for such external sites’ privacy and security practices.

• 8. Other information

• Comments
  When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

  Media
  If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

  Embedded content from other websites
  Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. text, videos, images, audio, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
  These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

  Who we share your data with?
  If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

  How long we retain your data?
  If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

  What rights you have over your data?
  If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

  Where we send your data? Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

• 9. Amendments to this Policy.

• We may make changes to this Policy from time to time, so please review it periodically. If we materially change our Policy, we will take steps to notify you in advance of the change, for example by emailing you.