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Welcome to qMindset! qMindset.com (the "Website") is owned and operated by qMindset Initiative ("qM", "we", "us", or "our"). By using this Website, you agree to these Terms of Use. We may change the Terms of Use from time to time. By continuing to use the Website after we post any changes, you accept and agree to the Terms of Use, as modified.

The following are the terms of an agreement between you and qMindset. By accessing, or using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these terms and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Please review these Terms carefully before using the Services because they affect your rights. By using any of the Services, you accept these Terms and agree to be legally bound by them.

These Terms and Conditions of Use (the "Terms of Use") apply to the web site located at www.qMindset.com, and all associated sites linked to www.qMindset.com, its subsidiaries and affiliates, including qMindset sites around the world(collectively, the "Website").

You may not use contact information provided on the Website for unauthorized purposes, including marketing. You may not use any hardware or software intended to interrupt, or interfere with the proper working of the Website.

These Terms are effective as of the Effective Date above. If you have not reviewed the Terms of Use applicable to a Service since the Effective Date, please review these updated Terms carefully before using any Service.

qMindset reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes.

All materials on this Website (including, without limitation, text, design, graphics, logos, icons, images, audiovisual clips, downloads, interfaces, code, and software, as well as the selection and arrangement thereof), is property of qM (including its subsidiaries) or licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws. You may access, copy, download, and print the material contained on the Website for your personal and non-commercial use. You must comply with all such laws and applicable copyright, trademark or other legal notices or restrictions. You shall not remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other legal notices marked on the Content.

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We may provide third party content (including advertisements) or link to third party websites on the Services. We do not necessarily endorse or evaluate third party content and websites, and we do not assume responsibility for third parties’ actions or omissions. You should review the terms of use and privacy policies of third parties before you use their services.

You may only use a crawler to crawl this Website as permitted by this Website’s robots.txt protocol, and qMindset may block any crawlers in its sole discretion. All other use of this site is prohibited.

We may expressly authorize you to redistribute certain Content on a personal, non-commercial basis. We will mark or identify the Content that you are authorized to redistribute and describe ways you may redistribute it (such as via email, blogs, or embedded players). You must obtain our written permission for commercial use of the Content or the Services. If you wish to license Content from the Services, please contact us.

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The Services may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, and / or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication Service" and collectively "Communication Services"). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Communication Services, you WILL NOT:

qM reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication Services (e.g. DISQUS forums managed by qMindset) and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. qM reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.

This Website contains links to other websites, which may be operated by qM or its affiliates or third parties.

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A link to another website does not constitute an endorsement of that site, or of any product or service offered on that website, by qM or its licensors.

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QM RESERVES THE RIGHT, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION, TO TERMINATE OR LIMIT YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE. QM ALSO RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DISCONTINUE OPERATION OF THIS WEBSITE AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON.

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qMindset ("qM", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to respecting the privacy rights and concerns of all users of the qM service provided on or through our websites, including www.qmindset.com (collectively, the "Website").

Your privacy is important to qMindset. So we’ve developed a Privacy Policy that covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information.

As such, we have established and implemented this Privacy Policy to inform visitors to the website and users of the qMindset Features how we use and protect the information we collect through the website and through our software applications. By visiting the website or using any of the qMindset Features, you consent to qMindset's collection, use, storage, deletion and disclosure of information relating to you as set forth in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date set forth above and is only applicable to the website and not to any other website or third party software applications that you may be able to access from the qMindset Features, which may have their own data collection and use practices and policies. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it on a regular basis.

Personal information means information that can be used to identify and contact you. You do not need to submit personal information to access our website, and qMindset gives access to all content without the need of account creation (as of September, 2016). By maintaining such a system, we do not collect any personal information (as no account creation is necessary).

The qM Features may contain direct links to websites operated by our business partners and other third party entities. These third party websites may collect information about you when you visit them or otherwise communicate with them. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of third party websites linked to the qM Features or third party offer and/or newsletter opt-ins provided through the qM Features. Although we encourage such third parties to adopt and follow their own privacy policies, we are not responsible for their collection and use of your personal information. You should refer to the privacy policies and statements of other websites or contact the respective webmasters of those websites to obtain information regarding their information collection, use and disclosure policies.

When you have clicked on an advertisement or third party logo or URL displayed on our website or accessible through the qM Features which links you to a different website, our Privacy Policy no longer applies and you must read the privacy policy of the third party to see how your personal information will be handled on their website.

The qM Features may also have message boards, forums and/or chat areas, where users can exchange ideas and communicate with one another. When you post to a message board, forum or chat area, please be aware that the information you post is made publicly available on-line and you do so at your own risk.

We offer features that are supported by third parties (such as forum platform operated by DISQUS). The usage of these third party features require the creation of accounts and the potential sharing of personal information. qM never collects any kind of personal data from third parties.

Private or personal information shared with qMindset via e-mail, Skype, or any other communication channels is also handled with care, qM never shares this information with any third party.

"Cookies" are small bits of electronic information that a website sends to a visitor's browser and are stored on the visitor's hard drive. Like many websites, we employ cookies in certain areas of the qM Features to allow us to provide information which is targeted to your interests and to make your online experience more convenient. Our Website may use third parties such as network advertisers to serve advertisements on our Website and may use traffic measurement services to analyse traffic on our Website. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to our Website and other websites you have visited. Third party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. Our Website’s third party ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their own cookies and other technologies on your computer and track certain behavioral information regarding users of your computer via an IP address or other device identifier. Advertisers use cookies to collect non-personal information when you click on or move your cursor over one of their banner advertisements. You may not realize this information is being collected. Advertisers use this information to monitor the performance of their advertisements. In some cases, we may have access to information from cookies used by these advertisers on the qM Features and this information may permit us to identify other sites that you have visited that are also associated with such advertisers.

The website uses Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits and uses the site features and what pages are being viewed or searched for. To understand how Google uses your data when visiting and using the website features, please visit www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners.

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