Introduction
PDQ, LLC (“PDQ”) has created this Privacy Policy in order to disclose its use of consumer data collected about you. This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 23, 2020. Any questions regarding this policy should be directed by email to contact@pdqdecide.com. You may also contact PDQ at 201 W Main Street, Suite 105, Durham, NC 27701. The following discloses PDQ’s information gathering and dissemination practices for its marketing website.
Information Collected and Received
PDQ may collect or receive information about each person who registers with the PDQ website including, but not limited to, user name, password, first and last name, email address, street address, gender, occupation, place of work, and interests. PDQ also collects information on the pages you access and other information you may volunteer, such as survey information.
Uses of Information
WE WILL NEVER SELL YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS OR ANY OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANY THIRD PARTY WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION. EVER.
Except as described in this section, we will not disclose your personal information to any third party without notifying you of our intent to share the information and giving you an opportunity to prevent your information from being shared.
From time to time, we may partner with companies based on the interests of our users. These partner companies will never see your email address or any other information that could identify you or be used to contact you directly.
Any exceptions to this policy of sharing your name, address or email address with a partner company will be done only with your permission.
PDQ reserves the right to disclose information when required by law.
We occasionally use other companies to perform services necessary to our operations. In the course of providing these services, those companies may have access to your personal information. By contractual agreement, those companies must treat your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, we will not be liable for any damages that may result from the misuse of your personal information by these companies.
PDQ may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with PDQ’s server and to administer PDQ’s website. Your IP address may also be used to help identify you and your online profile and to gather broad demographic information.
PDQ’s site’s registration form requires users to give PDQ contact information (such as your name and email address) and demographic information (such as your zip code, age, or income level). PDQ uses customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about PDQ and promotional material from some of PDQ’s partners. The customer’s contact information is also used to contact the user when necessary. PDQ may use demographic and/or profile data to tailor the visitor’s experience on PDQ’s site, show the visitor content that PDQ thinks you may be interested in, and display content according to your preferences. The demographic and profile data will be shared with third parties ONLY on an aggregate basis. Furthermore, PDQ shall have the right to retain records of all data pertaining to use of the website including, but not limited to, usage, activity logs, and click-throughs. PDQ may disclose such data to third parties provided it is grouped with other PDQ user’s data and is presented in an aggregate form.
We may also disclose, on an anonymous basis, statements made by our customers.
Security
PDQ uses industry-standard technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged between PDQ and other companies to help ensure its security. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under PDQ’s control. PDQ’s servers are backed up regularly and protected by security systems.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Personal Data
Personal data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Analytics:
The services contained in this section enable PDQ to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of visitor behavior.
Google ReCAPTCHA
Google ReCAPTCHA analyzes website traffic for pdqdecide.com.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Google Privacy Policy – Google Terms of Service
Google Analytics
Google Analytics analyzes website traffic for pdqdecide.com.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Google Privacy Policy – Google Terms of Service
Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)
The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
LinkedIn button and social widgets (LinkedIn Corporation)
The LinkedIn button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the LinkedIn social network provided by LinkedIn Corporation.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Webforms:
Webflow
Webflow gathers information from webforms on pdqdecide.com.
Personal data collected: webform data as specified below.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Contact Us Form
By completing the Contact Us form, the user authorizes PDQ to use these details to reply to requests for information, or marketing communications.
Personal data collected: First and last name, email, newsletter opt-in, and personalized message.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Update Subscription or Opt Out
Learn More Form
By completing the Learn More form, the user authorizes PDQ to use these details to reply to requests for information, or marketing communications.
Personal data collected: First and last name, email, and newsletter opt-in.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Update Subscription or Opt Out
Get Newsletter Form
By completing the Get Newsletter form, the user authorizes PDQ to use these details to reply to requests for information, or marketing communications.
Personal data collected: First and last name, and email.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Update Subscription or Opt Out
Schedule Demo Form
By Completing the Request a Demo form, the user authorizes PDQ to use these details to reply to requests for information, or marketing communications.
Personal data collected: First and last name, email, job title, company name, phone number, current solution, decision stage, contact source, and personalized message.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Update Subscription or Opt Out
Schedule Pilot Form
By Completing the Request a Demo form, the user authorizes PDQ to use these details to reply to requests for information, or marketing communications.
Personal data collected: First and last name, email, job title, company name, phone number, economics data source, economics database type, number of wells, Excel version, and personalized message.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Update Subscription or Opt Out
Other Forms for Marketing Content
By completing any other forms for marketing content, such as case studies, white papers, videos, product information, research, events, or other content related to our product or user research, the user authorizes PDQ to use these details to reply to requests for information, or marketing communications.
Personal data collected: First and last name, email, job title, place of work, phone number, or personal message.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Update Subscription or Opt Out
User Database Management:
This type of service allows PDQ to build profiles by starting from an email address, a personal name, or other information that the User provides to this Application, as well as to track User activities through analytics features. This Personal Data may also be matched with publicly available information about the User (such as social networks’ profiles) and used to build private profiles that PDQ can display and use for improving this Application.
Some of these services may also enable the sending of timed messages, such as emails based on specific actions performed on pdqdecide.com.
MemberStack
Memberstack is an application that authenticates user credentials for members-only portions of pdqdecide.com.
Personal data collected: email.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Update Subscription or Opt Out
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an application that provides webforms and stores information about webforms submitted on pdqdecide.com.
Personal data collected: First and last name, email, job title, company name, interests, address, phone number, and personalized message.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Update Subscription or Opt Out.
Zapier
Zapier is an application that moves information gathered from webforms and stored in Mailchimp to other audiences stored in Mailchimp, and changes the status of records stored in Mailchimp.
Personal data collected: First and last name, email, job title, company name, interests, address, phone number, and personalized message.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Cookies
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. PDQ’s site uses cookies to keep track of your session, shopping cart, and advertising delivery. PDQ may also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your password. PDQ may use an outside ad company to display ads on PDQ’s site. These ads may also contain cookies. While PDQ uses cookies in other parts of PDQ’s web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by PDQ’s ad company and PDQ does not have access to this information.
We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use on our sites and software. We also may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize the services we offer our visitors/customers to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming or other activities.
We may allow third parties, including our authorized service providers, advertising companies, and ad networks, to display advertisements on our site and/or software. PDQ and these companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with these advertisements and connect to the PDQ properties and/or software. Our properties do not provide any personal information to these third parties. This information allows PDQ and these companies to deliver targeted advertisements and gauge their effectiveness.
Links
PDQ may create links to other websites. PDQ will make a reasonable effort to link only to sites that meet similar standards for maintaining each individual’s right to privacy. However, many other sites that are not associated or authorized by PDQ may have links leading to PDQ’s site. PDQ cannot control these links and PDQ is not responsible for any content appearing on these sites.
The Rights of Users
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data process by the Owner.
Specifically, you can do the following:
Details about the right to object to processing
Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, you may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.
You must know that, however, should Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, you can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To understand whether PDQ is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, you may refer to the relevant sections of this document.
How to exercise these rights
Any requests to exercise your rights can be directed to the PDQ through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by PDQ as early as possible and always within one month.
How “Do Not Track” requests are handled
PDQ does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of our third-party services honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.
Amendments
PDQ may amend this policy at any time. If PDQ is going to use personally identifiable information collected through PDQ’s site in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection PDQ will notify users via email and/or by posting a notice on PDQ’s Web site for thirty (30) days prior to such use. This Privacy Policy may not be otherwise amended except in a writing that specifically refers to this Privacy Policy and is physically signed by both parties.
Successors and Assigns
This Privacy Policy inures to the benefit of successors and assigns of PDQ.
Contacts
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact contact@pdqdecide.com. Upon request, PDQ will provide you with access to information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that PDQ collects and maintains about you. This site gives you the following option for changing and modifying information previously provided: (i) email: contact@pdqdecide.com.
Opt-Out
PDQ’s site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from PDQ. To opt-out of receiving our communications, you can (i) send email to contact@pdqdecide.com; or (ii) send postal mail to: PDQ, LLC, 201 W Main Street, Suite 105, Durham, NC 27701; or (ii) update your subscription or opt out completely.