Privacy Policy

WHO WE ARE

Our website address is: https://www.inquisiminds.com.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 8, 2021.

Inquisiminds, a Virginia limited liability company (“Inquisiminds,” “our,” “we,” or “us”), respects your privacy. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) states how we try to protect the privacy of your personal information that we may obtain from your use of this website (“Site”). If there is any part of this Privacy Policy you do not agree with, or if you do not think this Privacy Policy provides you enough protection, you should not use or visit this Site. By providing your personal information, you are consenting to its collection, use and disclosure according to this Privacy Policy.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT 

Comments

When visitors send or 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.

Contact forms

When visitors use the provided forms on the site, we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. 

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, 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.

Inquisiminds is not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from this Site, including the information or content contained within them. When you use a link to go from this Site to another website or service, our Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link on this Site, are subject to that third party’s own rules and policies.

Communications

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you, that is applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

ANALYTICS

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We will not sell, trade or transfer your information to third parties outside Inquisiminds without your consent, except as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies and log files with third party organizations that help us provide this Site to you (“Service Providers”). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide this Site to you and would be required to abide by this Privacy Policy.

We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request (e.g. court order, search warrant or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. We may also access, preserve, and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you and others, including as a part of an investigation; and to prevent death or imminent bodily harm.

We may share your information if you ask or consent to us doing so.

If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of Inquisiminds or our assets to another organization, the information you provide us through this Site may be among the items sold or transferred. The buyer or transferee’s use of your information will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

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, 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

You can ask us to remove your information from our database and not receive future communications. To do this, please send your request via the email or mailing address posted on the Contact Us portion of this Site. It may take up to two weeks for us to process your request. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You can control the accuracy of information you provide us. We encourage you to review information for accuracy before sending it to us.

You can request that we update or correct previously provided information. In addition, you can request that we delete information or stop using information you provided. Please send your request in writing via the email or mailing address posted on the Contact Us page.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data provided for transactions will be provided to our payment gateways and supporting Service Providers. Data will be shared with analytical software in which to help enhance the security and operations of this Site. 

Children’s Privacy

Inquisiminds does not knowingly collect, solicit or maintain information provided by children under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

The information we collect is used as set forth in this Privacy Policy and is used primarily by Inquisiminds, to contact consumers for marketing and operational purposes. We may also use non-personal statistical or aggregate information to evaluate and decide how to customize the content you see on this Site, improve our services, conduct research, and provide anonymous aggregated reporting for analytical or statistical purposes. The information may also be used to personalize and improve your online experience, complete a transaction, fulfill a transaction, confirm your order, give you updates about your order status, notify winners in contests and sweepstakes, respond to requests, comments, or questions, prevent fraud and to provide customer support.

Privacy Policy Update

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

Data Security 

Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. Only authorized employees and contractors have access to this information. Although this Site uses reasonable efforts to safeguard information, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and Inquisiminds cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through the site. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Information” section below.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or this Site, please contact us by clicking here.