QMQ Information Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates ("qmqis" and "We"), do not collect personal information about individual users ("You") except when the same is provided to us on a voluntary basis.

For example, personal information may be gathered from a contest or sweepstakes registration, the registration process for subscription services and in connection with content submissions, postings in discussion areas or other public areas, suggestions, voting/polling activities and transactional areas. Your privacy is important to us at qmqis.

We may request personal information from time to time in order to enable you to participate in and enjoy various qmqis offerings.

We will keep your personal information in secure data storage in order to safeguard it from unauthorized access.

We will keep your personal information for as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the identified purposes or as required by law.

We collect and use personal information about you and your use of our Services and the qmqis Portal ("Information"):

(i) to consider initiating and to initiate, maintain and develop our relationship with you in connection with our offering and servicing of products and services;

(ii) to administer billing and accounting services and security measures in relation to your business with us;

(iii) to monitor your customer history, evaluate your credit standing, to share or exchange credit reports and information with credit reporting agencies and credit bureaus and to collect any unpaid amounts owing to us; (iv) to promote and to market additional products, goods and services offered by us, including by means of direct marketing; (v) to provide personalized features and services;

(vi) to analyze traffic and use of the qmqis Portal Web site in order to determine which features and services people like and don't like so that we can improve what we do;

(vii) to prepare aggregated user statistics or information summaries in order to describe our services to third parties such as prospective business partners and advertisers and for other lawful purposes (a qmqis Portal advertiser will never have direct access to your Personal Information);

(viii) to present Web page advertisements that we hope will be of particular interest to you; and

(ix) to comply with any legal and regulatory requirements, including requirements or requests of government agencies or pursuant to a subpoena or other legal proceeding.

You consent to our collection from, verification with, communication to, any third party and our use of, Information for these purposes.

You authorize these parties to give us the Information. You acknowledge that your name, address and telephone number are not considered confidential Information and may be disclosed by us.

In addition, you agree that we may disclose Information to:

(i) any person who, in our reasonable judgment, is seeking the Information as your agent; or

(ii) a person involved directly or indirectly in supplying the Service to you, including, without limitation, our sales agents, to the extent the Information is required and used only for such purposes, including the efficient supply of Services to you, and provided that person is required to keep such Information confidential; or

(iii) a person retained by us to collect amounts which you owe us or to enforce our rights under these Terms and Conditions, if the Information is required for, and is to be used only for that purpose and that person is required to keep such Information confidential.

We may also use Information in our records for as long as it is needed for the purposes described above and your consent remains valid after the termination of our relationship with you.

You understand and agree that, unless we are notified in writing (letter, email or facsimile) to the contrary, we are further authorized to disclose, on a confidential basis, to any party with whom we have business relations all relevant information relating to your dealings with us and our Service.

We reserve the right to conduct statistical analyses of your behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of canadiancompanies.ca's services, canadiancompanies.ca's proposed services, the canadiancompanies.ca's Portal Website and the Internet and to provide advertisers with information such as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners.

We reserve the right to conduct statistical analyses of your behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of canadiancompanies.ca's services, canadiancompanies.ca's proposed services, the canadiancompanies.ca's Portal Website and the Internet and to provide advertisers with information such as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners.

We are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and you should check the applicable privacy policy of each such third party when providing personal information.

We are also not responsible for any actions of any third party sites which you access through the qmqis Portal and the Internet and you are responsible for checking the applicable privacy policy of such third party sites.

You should also be aware that when personal information is voluntarily disclosed (i.e. user name, e-mail address, etc.) in the discussion areas or other public areas of the qmqis Portal and the Internet, that information, along with any information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from third parties.

Such activities are beyond our control. You should also be aware that non-personal information and data may be automatically collected through the standard operation of our servers or through the use of "cookies". "Cookies" are small text files that are used by web sites to:

Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to disclose your individual identity. This personal information identifies your browser, but not you, to our servers when you visit our site. Cookies cannot extract information from your hard disk.

You should be aware that we can not control or prevent the use of cookies or any information obtained through such cookies by advertisers or third parties. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers permit you to disable the cookie feature.

However, you are advised that cookies may be required for the use of certain features on the qmqis Portal. At your request, we will:

(a) allow you to decline receiving further electronic advertising from us at any time;

(b) provide you with reasonable access to your information that is in our records; and

(c) use reasonable efforts to allow you to update/correct personal information which you state is incorrect to the extent such updating/correction will not compromise our privacy or security interests, subject to the understanding that it may be impossible to completely delete your information without some residual information because of backups.

You may request to decline receiving promotional and/or marketing information from us. Notwithstanding your wish to cease receiving such promotional and/or marketing information, we reserve the right to contact you regarding account status, changes to your agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the personal information collected.

Any submissions to discussion areas or other public areas on the qmqis Portal and the Internet are accepted with the understanding that they are accessible to all third parties.

If you do not want your comments to be viewed by third parties, you are advised not to make any submissions. Occasionally, we may or any of our advertisers may host a contest or promotion where it will be your option to enter and your option to provide the requested information.

Children under the age of majority must get parental or legal guardian permission before providing any information for such contests or promotions.

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and you are advised to check this page periodically for any changes.

Your continued use of qmqis' Services, the qmqis Portal and the Internet will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

We cannot ensure or guarantee privacy for users of canadiancompanies.ca and any use of this Service for the transmission of confidential information, including credit card information, shall be at your sole risk, and we shall be relieved of all liability in connection therewith.

Our Privacy Policy sets out our obligations with respect to the safeguarding, collection and use of your personal information and is subject to modification from time to time by us.

You agree to review the Privacy Policy periodically to become aware of any such modifications and continued access or use of canadiancompanies.ca shall be deemed to be conclusive acceptance by you of the modified Privacy Policy.