Quidient respects your privacy and any concerns you have about collection or use of your data. This Privacy Policy applies to www.quidient.com and all subpages thereof (collectively, “Quidient Sites”). This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal information Quidient may collect on the Quidient Sites, how Quidient may use the information, with whom Quidient may share the information, and the choices available to users regarding use of the information. This policy also describes the measures Quidient takes to protect the security of the information and how users can contact Quidient about privacy practices. Internal Quidient policies and procedures may govern Quidient’s internal networks and systems and the processing of personal information relating to Quidient employees and other authorized Quidient network users.

For California residents, please click here for additional information on how we process your personal information.

Information We Collect

The types of personal information Quidient Sites may collect from users includes:

  • contact information (such as name, postal address, telephone number and email address);
  • employment information (such as title, division and employer), including military rank;
  • login credentials for the Quidient Sites;
  • other personal information submitted by current or prospective suppliers and subcontractors, such as Social Security number, diversity-related information (such as ethnicity), federal tax ID number, disability status, and civil and criminal court history;
  • other personal information submitted by job applicants, such as a résumé or C.V., work authorization information, salary history, education history, information about security clearances, citizenship information and, for jobs with U.S.-based Quidient entities, ethnicity, race and gender; and
  • other personal information found in content that users provide.

Information We Collect By Automated Means

When you use Quidient Sites, we may collect certain information by automated means, using technologies such as cookies, web server logs, web beacons, and JavaScript.

Cookies are files websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings on your device. Quidient Sites may use cookies (such as HTTP and HTML5 cookies), Flash cookies, and other types of local storage (such as browser-based or plugin-based local storage). Your browser may tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies and how to restrict or disable certain cookies. You also may be able to delete your Flash cookies or adjust your Flash cookie settings by visiting the Adobe Flash Website Storage Settings Panel and Global Storage Settings Panel. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to use all features of Quidient Sites or other websites and online services.

In conjunction with gathering information through cookies, Quidient’s web servers may log information such as your device type, operating system type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone where your device is located. Quidient also may record information such as the address of the web page that referred you to Quidient Sites and the IP address of the device you use to connect to Quidient Sites. Quidient also may log information about your interaction with the Quidient Sites, such as which pages you visit. Quidient may place tags on web pages called “web beacons,” which are small files that link web pages to particular web servers and their cookies.

Quidient may use third-party web analytics services on Quidient Sites, such as those of Google Analytics, Adobe Omniture, ScorecardResearch, and DocAve Analytics. These service providers help Quidient analyze how users use the Quidient Sites. The information collected for this purpose (including your IP address and other information collected by automated means) will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers.

Both Quidient and others (such as service providers and advertising networks) may collect personal information about visitors’ online activities, over time and across third-party websites. Quidient Sites may not be designed to respond to “do not track” signals from browsers.

The providers of other third-party plug-ins on Quidient Sites, such as embedded videos and social sharing tools, may use automated means to collect information regarding your use of the Quidient Sites and your interactions with the plug-ins. This information is subject to the privacy policies or notices of the third-party plug-in providers and is not subject to Quidient’s Privacy Policy.

How Quidient May Use the Information Quidient Collects

Quidient may use the information described above to:

  • provide products and services;
  • send you promotional materials or other communications;
  • communicate with you about, and administer your participation in, special events, programs, offers, surveys and market research;
  • respond to your inquiries;
  • process employment applications, including by assessing qualifications, verifying information, and conducting reference or other employment-related checks;
  • evaluate potential suppliers and subcontractors and manage relationships with them;
  • provide and administer human resources services for Quidient employees;
  • perform data analyses (including anonymization and aggregation of personal information);
  • operate, evaluate, and improve Quidient’s business (including developing new products and services; enhancing and improving Quidient’s products and services; managing Quidient’s communications; analyzing Quidient’s products, services and communications; and performing accounting, auditing and other internal functions);
  • protect against, identify, and prevent cybersecurity and other security events, espionage, fraud, and other unlawful activity, claims and other liabilities; and
  • comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, and Quidient’s policies.

Quidient also may use the information in other ways for which Quidient provide specific notice at the time of collection.

In addition, Quidient may use information collected through automated means for the purposes set forth above, including by (i) customizing users’ visits to the Quidient Sites, (ii) analyzing the manner in which users interact with Quidient Sites and online advertisements, (iii) delivering content tailored to users’ interests and (iv) managing Quidient Sites and other aspects of Quidient’s business.

Interest-Based Advertising

On Quidient Sites, Quidient may collect information about your online activities for use in providing you with advertising about products and services tailored to your individual interests. This section of the Privacy Policy provides details and explains how to exercise your choices.

You may see certain ads on other websites because Quidient participates in advertising networks. Ad networks allow Quidient to target messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means. These networks track your online activities over time by collecting information through automated means, including using cookies, web server logs, and web beacons. The networks use this information to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information Quidient’s ad networks may collect includes data about your visits to websites that participate in the relevant advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on Quidient Sites and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process also helps Quidient track the effectiveness of Quidient’s marketing efforts. To learn how to opt out of this ad network interest-based advertising, click here.

Information Quidient May Share

Quidient does not sell or otherwise disclose personal information Quidient collects about you, except as described in this Privacy Policy. Quidient may share personal information with service providers who perform services on Quidient’s behalf based on Quidient’s instructions. Quidient may share certain personal information with Quidient’s affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

In addition, Quidient may disclose information about you (i) if Quidient is required to do so by law or legal process, (ii) to law enforcement authorities or other government entities, and (iii) when Quidient believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual espionage, cybersecurity or security events, or other fraudulent or illegal activity. Quidient also reserves the right to transfer personal information Quidient has about you in the event Quidient sells or transfers all or a portion of Quidient’s business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, spin-off, dissolution, or liquidation).

Your Rights and Choices

Quidient offers you certain choices in connection with the personal information Quidient collect from you. To update your preferences, ask Quidient to remove your information from Quidient’s mailing lists or submit a request, please contact Quidient as indicated in the “How To Contact Quidient” section of this Privacy Policy. To the extent provided by the law of your jurisdiction, you may request access to the personal information Quidient maintains about you or request that Quidient correct, amend, delete, or block the information by contacting Quidient as indicated below. Where provided by law, you may withdraw any consent you previously provided to Quidient or object at any time on legitimate grounds to the processing of your personal information, and Quidient will apply your preferences going forward.

Data Transfers

Quidient may transfer the personal information Quidient collects about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected, including the U.S. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When Quidient transfers your information to recipients in other countries (such as the U.S.), Quidient will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

How Quidient Protects Personal Information

Quidient maintains administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide on the Quidient Sites against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.

Links To Other Websites

Quidient Sites may provide links to other websites for your convenience and information. These websites may operate independently from Quidient. Linked sites may have their own privacy notices or policies, which Quidient strongly suggests you review. To the extent any linked websites are not owned or controlled by Quidient, Quidient is not responsible for the websites’ content, any use of the websites, or the privacy practices of the websites, even though you may enter that site directly from visiting Quidient’s.

Updates To Quidient’s Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in Quidient’s personal information practices. Quidient will post the updated version on Quidient Sites and indicate at the bottom of the notice when it was most recently updated.

How To Contact Quidient

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like Quidient to update information Quidient has about you or your preferences, please contact Quidient by writing to Quidient at:

Quidient, LLC.
Attn: Legal
7142 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite 140
Columbia, MD 21046
Email: [email protected]

When writing to Quidient, please be sure to include your exact name, mailing address, telephone number, and your specific question, comment, or concern.

Updated: 2022-04-05

 

CCPA Privacy Policy

This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS supplements the information contained in Quidient, LLC’s (“Quidient”) Privacy Policy and only applies to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”) when you visit a Quidient website or subscribe to a Quidient service (collectively, “Services”). Quidient adopts this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws.  Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

Information Quidient Collects

Quidient may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). Quidient may collect the following categories of personal information from consumers:

  • Category A – Identifiers

Examples: Name, postal address, Internet Protocol address, email address, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

  • Category B – Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))

Examples: Name, signature, Social Security number, address, telephone number, fax number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, physical illness, mental illness or disabilities.

  • Category C – Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law

Examples: Age, ethnicity, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, physical illness, mental illness or disabilities, gender, veteran status.

  • Category D – Commercial information

Examples: Records of personal property.

  • Category F – Internet or other similar network activity

Examples: Access history and information on your interaction with our application.

  • Category I – Professional or employment-related information

Examples: Occupation, employer information.

  • Category J – Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))

Examples: Education level, school attended.

Quidient may obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from Quidient’s clients or their agents. For example, from information Quidient’s clients provide to Quidient related to the Services for which the clients engage Quidient.
  • Directly from you. For example, through information Quidient asks from you when Quidient’s clients or their agents subscribe and engage Quidient’s Services.
  • Directly and indirectly from you when using Quidient’s Services or visiting Quidient’s website. For example, usage details collected automatically during your interaction with our platform or website.

Use of Personal Information

Quidient may use or disclose the personal information Quidient collects for one or more of the following business purposes:

  • To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided.
  • To provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning Quidient’s Services.
  • To improve Quidient’s Services to you.
  • For testing, research, analysis, and product development.
  • As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of Quidient, Quidient’s clients, or others.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Quidient’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Quidient is among the assets transferred.

Quidient will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

Quidient may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When Quidient discloses personal information for a business purpose, Quidient enters a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use the personal information for any purpose except performing the contract.

Quidient may disclose the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

  • Category A: Identifiers.
  • Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
  • Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
  • Category D: Commercial information.
  • Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
  • Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
  • Category J: Non-public education information.

Quidient may disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

  • Quidient’s clients or their agents for which you have engaged in a business contract.
  • Service providers.
  • Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with our Services.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Quidient has not sold any personal information.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that Quidient disclose certain information to you about Quidient’s collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once Quidient receives and confirms your verifiable consumer request, Quidient will disclose to you:

  • The categories of personal information Quidient collected about you.
  • Quidient’s business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom Quidient shares that personal information.
  • The specific pieces of personal information Quidient collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that Quidient delete any of your personal information Quidient collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once Quidient receives and confirms your verifiable consumer request, Quidient will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

Quidient may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for Quidient or Quidient’s service providers to:

  1. Complete the transaction for which Quidient collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of Quidient’s ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform Quidient’s contract with you.
  2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
  6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
  7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with Quidient.
  8. Comply with a legal obligation.
  9. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided the personal information.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by email at [email protected].

Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows Quidient reasonably to verify you are the person about whom Quidient collected personal information or an authorized representative.
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows Quidient to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to the request.

Quidient cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if Quidient cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.  Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with Quidient. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

Quidient endeavors to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of receipt.  If Quidient requires more time (up to 90 days), Quidient will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.  If you have an account with Quidient, Quidient will deliver our written response to the registered email associated with the account.  If you do not have an account with Quidient, Quidient will deliver a written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures Quidient provides will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt.  The response Quidient provides will also explain the reasons Quidient cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, Quidient will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

Quidient does not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless the request is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded.  If Quidient determine that the request warrants a fee, Quidient will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

Quidient will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, Quidient will not:

  • Deny you use of Quidient’s Services.
  • Provide you a different level or quality of Services.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

Quidient reserves the right to amend this Privacy Notice at Quidient’s discretion and at any time. The date this Privacy Notice was last updated is identified at the bottom of this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting the Quidient website and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, Quidient’s Privacy Policy, the ways in which Quidient collects and uses your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, you may contact Quidient via email at [email protected].

Updated: 2022-03-28