Who we are
Department Q LLC
250 Prairie Center Drive, Suite 207
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Our website address is: https://www.departmentq.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Contact forms
You may use our forms to contact us. Note that we retain contact form submissions indefinitely for customer service purposes, and may use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes. We do not sell your information. Contact information that you provide may be indefinitely stored, used by us and shared with our partners as needed.
As a reminder, users should carefully protect the personal information that they submit on the site —Do not include information such as passwords, usernames, location, images, and videos — so that third parties can’t manipulate their accounts or assume their identities. Do not to disclose any sensitive information in the public domain.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Analytics
We use Google analytics. See their privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Our web host or other plugins may also collect traffic and visitor data for security and analytics.
Who we share your data with
By default, our company does not share any personal data submitted through our website with anyone unless requested by you. However, contact information that you provide may be indefinitely stored, used by us and shared with our partners as needed.
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.
Contact information that you provide may be indefinitely stored, used by us and shared with our partners as needed.
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.
Contact information
You may contact us through the contact-us page at departmentq.com,
https://www.departmentq.com/#contact-section
Additional information
How we protect your data
We employ standard industry security measures around contact submissions, email and digital communications including encryption and multi-factor authentication whenever possible. It’s impossible for the company to completely guarantee that user data will be immune from malicious attack or compromise; as such, the users should understand that their transmission of personal data is always at their own risk.
What data breach procedures we have in place
We use documented standard industry procedures to deal with data breaches, either potential or real, including internal reporting and ticket management systems, contact mechanisms, and regular security reviews.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
This website is for information purposes only and nothing on this website should be taken as creating a client relationship.
Our privacy policy and any information you provide to us will be subject to the laws of the United States of America, regardless of the country from which the data originates.