iwayQ recognizes that your privacy is very important and we take it seriously. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, disclosure, and sharing of your personal information or personal data when you use our Platform. This Privacy Policy applies to activities by iwayq.com. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “iwayQ,” “we” or “us”). Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in our Terms and Conditions.
We collect information directly from individuals, from third-parties and automatically through the iwayQ Platform.
When you create an account and profile on the iwayQ Platform, we collect your name, contact information (including your telephone number), and other information you provide, such as topics that you know about or find interesting. Your name, photo, and any other information that you choose to add to your public-facing profile will be available for viewing to users of our Platform. Once you create a profile, other users will be able to see in your profile certain information about your activity on our Platform, such as the questions and answers you post, your followers and who you follow, topics of interest to you, the information you list as credentials, and your edits to Your Content. For more information about your choices for publicly displayed information, see the section below about Your Choices.
We collect and store the information and content that you post to the iwayQ Platform, including your questions, answers, photos, and comments. This also may be indexed by the search engines and be republished elsewhere on the Internet in accordance with our Terms and Conditions. For more information about what you can change, see the below section on Your Choices.
Your contact information will be used to communicate with you (via email, phone, text message, through the iwayQ Platform or otherwise). When you communicate with us (via email, phone, text message, through our Platform or otherwise), we may maintain a record of your communication. By disclosing your contact information to us, you consent to our use of your contact information to communicate with you.
We use cookies, log files, pixel tags, local storage objects, and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information about your activities, such as your searches, page views, date and time of your visit, and other information about your use of the iwayQ Platform. We also collect and may store information that your computer or mobile device provides to us in connection with your use of our Platform such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, mobile carrier, unique device identifier, location, and requested and referring URLs. We also receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our Platform, even if you have not created an account. For more information, see the “Cookies, Pixels and Tracking” section below and our Cookie Policy.
We collect browsing information – such as IP address and location, date and time stamp, user agent, cookie ID (if applicable), URL, unique advertising or content identifiers (if applicable) and time zone, and other information about user activities on the iwayQ Platform, as well as on third party sites and services that have embedded our pixels (“Pixels”), widgets, plug-ins, buttons, or related services. See the section below about iwayQ Ads and Personalization for more detailed information about how our Pixels may be used by publishers or users of our advertising services (“Ad Services”) on our Platform to enable personalization, as well as your choices related to advertising and personalization. We may also receive information about you from third parties, such as other users, partners (including ad partners), or our affiliated companies.
We do not sell your personal data– such as your name and contact information – to third parties to use for their own marketing purposes.
iwayQ uses the information we collect for the following purposes:
We share information as set forth below, and where individuals have otherwise consented:
We may share your information with third party service providers who use this information to perform services for us, such as payment processors, hosting providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, customer service and support providers, as well as those who assist us in providing the Ad Services.
The information collected about you may be accessed by or shared with subsidiaries and affiliates of iwayQ.com, whose use and disclosure of your personal information is subject to this Privacy Policy
We may disclose or transfer information, including personal information, as part of any merger, sale, and transfer of our assets, acquisition or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event.
We may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law.
We may disclose information where we believe it necessary to respond to claims asserted against us or comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas or warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and protect the rights, property or safety of iwayQ, its users, or others.
Your Content, including your name, profile picture, profile information, and certain associated activity information is available to other users of the iwayQ Platform and may be viewed publicly. Public viewing includes availability to non-registered visitors and can occur when users share Your Content across other sites or services. In addition, Your Content may be indexed by the search engines. See the section below about Your Choices for information about how you may change how certain information is shared or viewed by others.
We may share with users of our advertisers or publishers aggregate statistics, metrics and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in the iwayQ Platform such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. We do not share IP addresses or personal information. We may also allow our advertisers or publishers to use Pixels on our Platform in order to collect information about the performance of their ads or content.
We may share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.
We and our third party providers use cookies, clear GIFs/pixel tags, JavaScript, local storage, log files, and other mechanisms to automatically collect and record information about your usage and browsing activities on the iwayQ Platform and across third party sites or online services. We may combine this information with other information we collect about users. Below, we provide a brief summary of these activities. For more detailed information about these mechanisms and how we collect activity information, see our Cookie Policy.
Please note we do not change system behavior within the iwayQ Platform in response to browser requests not to be tracked. You may, however, disable certain tracking by third-parties as discussed in the iwayQ Ads and Personalization section below.
We may display personalized content (including from third party publishers) and personalized ads (including sponsored content), based on information that we have collected via the iwayQ Platform and through our Pixels, widgets, and buttons embedded on third party sites. We also may report aggregated or de-identified information about the number of users that saw a particular ad or content and related audience engagement information to users of our Ad Services and to publishers of content on our Platform.
Users of our Ad Services may also provide us with information as part of their ad campaigns, including customer list information (e.g., email addresses and demographic or interest data or) with us in order to create customized audiences for their ad campaigns; we only use this information to facilitate the particular user’s campaign (including ad metrics and reporting to that user) or for fraud detection and security purposes, and we do not disclose these customer lists to third parties (other than our service providers) unless required by law. We also do not disclose to users of our Ad Services the names or identities of their customers that were successfully reached as part of such campaigns.
As described in our Cookie Policy, we may also work with third parties such as network advertisers to serve ads on the iwayQ Platform and on third-party websites or other media (e.g., social networking platforms), such as Google AdSense (more info here) and Facebook Audience Network (more info here). These third parties may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you.
The security of your information is important to us. iwayQ has implemented safeguards to protect the information we collect. However, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe, such as choosing a strong password and keeping it private, as well as logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser when finished using our Platform on a shared or unsecured device.
You may update or correct your account information at any time by logging in to your account. You may also make a number of other adjustments to settings or the display of information about you as described in more detail in the following section about Your Choices.
You may, of course, decline to submit information through the iwayQ Platform, in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may also control the types of notifications and communications we send, limit the information shared within our Platform about you, and otherwise amend certain privacy settings. Here is some further information about some of your choices:
You may edit or delete the content that you post at any time. Any content you have posted may remain on the iwayQ Platform and be edited by other users. Any deleted content will be removed from third party sites from which it has been shared via our standard sharing features; however we have no control over deletions or changes to Your Content if it has been shared manually by others. When you make edits to Your Content, other users will be able to see the history of those edits in your profile activity and on content edit logs.
When you join the iwayQ Platform by signing up for an account or creating a profile, as part of the service, you will receive the iwayQ Newsletter containing content that we believe may match your interests. As permitted by law, you are also opting to receive other emails and text messages from us that may be of interest to you as a user of our Platform. But note that you cannot opt out of receiving certain administrative or legal notices from us. If you opt-out of receiving emails and text messages about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you transactional emails and text messages about your account or any services you have requested or received from us.
Third parties may comment on your postings within our Platform. In your profile, under your Privacy Settings, you can adjust whether to allow people to comment on your answers and posts. You can also adjust permissions about who you allow to send you messages on our Platform.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the relevant age without parental consent, we take steps to delete that information.
The iwayQ Platform may contain links to third party sites or online services. We are not responsible for the practices of such third parties, whose information practices are subject to their own policies and procedures, not to this Privacy Policy.
If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this page. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially change how we treat your personal information, we will endeavor to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, such as via prominent notice in the iwayQ Platform or to your email address of record, and where required by law, we will obtain your consent or give you the opportunity to opt out of such changes. By continuing to use our Platform and our services without consenting to the changes or opting out, it will be deemed that you have consented to such changes by your conduct.