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The entire content of the QS World University Rankings® is protected by copyright of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. All rights reserved. You may reproduce, distribute, display or transmit the data from the QS World University Rankings® as displayed on topuniversities.com, provided that original source attribution and all copyright and other proprietary rights notices are included alongside any such portion of the content in the same form in which said notices appear on topuniversities.com and the phrase “With permission from QS Quacquarelli Symonds”. Hyperlinks in all notices must be retained. A typical notice beneath a sourced table would appear thus:
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You may not reconfigure the data or content in any way. If reproducing any part of the data, you must maintain the layout and content as displayed on topuniversities.com.
This includes maintaining the hyperlinks associated with each individual university name. Should you need assistance in doing this or have any questions, please contact:
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Under no circumstances should data be re-ordered or combined with other data for supplementary analyses in any context without prior written permission and full disclosure of the intentions of any further analysis.
To obtain permission, contact Ben Sowter and copy the QS Press Office.
The entire content of the QS Asian University Rankings™ is protected by copyright of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. All rights reserved. You may reproduce, distribute, display or transmit the data from the QS Asian University Rankings™ as displayed www.topuniversities.com, provided that original source attribution and all copyright and other proprietary rights notices are included alongside any such portion of the content in the same form in which said notices appear on topuniversities.com, and the phrase “With permission from QS Quacquarelli Symonds”. Hyperlinks in all notices must be retained. A typical notice beneath a sourced table would appear thus:
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Copyright © 2004-2019 QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.
You may not reconfigure the data or content in any way. If reproducing any part of the data, you must maintain the layout and content as displayed on any QS site. This includes maintaining the hyperlinks associated with each individual university name. Should you need assistance in doing this or have any questions, please contact QS Press Office.
Under no circumstances should data be re-ordered or combined with other data for supplementary analyses in any context without prior written permission and full disclosure of the intentions of any further analysis.
To obtain permission, contact Ben Sowter and copy the QS Press Office.
The mission of QS is to enable motivated people around the world to fulfill their potential by fostering international mobility, educational achievement, and career development. To achieve our Mission, we make services available through our website and mobile applications.
2. Contact
[DOMAIN ADDRESS] is a site operated by QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 02563879 and have our registered office at 1 Tranley Mews, Fleet Road, London NW3 2DG..
3. Scope and Intent
3.1 Becoming a Site User. You agree that by using our websites or mobile applications and any other current or future websites or mobile applications (collectively “Websites”), or by accessing, viewing, downloading, or otherwise using any of the information or services on our Websites, you become a QS Website user (“Site User”). If you do not wish to become a Site User, do not use any of our Websites or access, view, download, or otherwise use any of the information or services on our Websites.
3.2 Data Storage Location: All your data are stored in the following location:
Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, Niederlassung Deutschland, Marcel-Breuer-Str. 12, 80807 München, Deutschland.
3.3 Becoming a Registered User. You agree that to use or access certain information, products, or services on the Websites, and/or any other current and future digital products and service offerings we make available via registration, including any products and services provided in collaboration with our partners (all collectively the “Services”), you are required to create an account with QS and become a QS registered user (“Registered User”). You accept that becoming a Registered User via any one of the Websites or Services may automatically provide you access and means to use other Websites or Services available at this time and any new Websites or Services that we create in the future as further defined below. If you do not wish to become a Registered User, do NOT create an account on any of our Websites and do not access, view, download, or otherwise use any of the Services. By creating an account you consent to use electronic signatures and acknowledge your creation of an account as one. You may delete your account at any time by logging into your user profile and deleting your account or by sending an email to dpo@qs.com.
3.4 By becoming a Registered User, you confirm that you are over 16 years of age and work at a university or an institution, or a higher education place.
3.5 By becoming a Registered User, you agree to receive newsletters or up-to-date information or any other marketing or non-marketing information from MoveON Global Hub and the associated websites.
3.6 By becoming a Registered User, you agree that by opting in receive information from schools, colleges, and universities part of the website through the functionalities available in the MoveON Global Hub website and its associated website.
3.7 By becoming a Registered User, you agree that to Media partners and 3rd party permission within either the account creation and/or event registration process you are indicating your consent to receive information from our media partners and other 3rd party opportunities.
3.8 Single Sign-On Service. QS may offer Registered Users a single sign-on service (“SSS”) that allows QS Users to access two or more Services using a single sign-on process. QS Users acknowledge that the Services covered by the SSS are entirely at the discretion of QS and may change at any time. After the registration, the SSS will allow the QS User to access other Services without going through a separate registration and log-in process each time. After successfully registering on one Service, the QS User will be able to log in via any other Service with his or her sign-in credentials. And if already logged in to one of the Services, the User will be able to immediately use all other Services without additional log-in procedures (subject to the respective Service requiring any further actions). Use of the SSS is covered by the Agreement and the QS User acknowledges that each Service accessed by the SSS may have its specific additional terms and conditions. These additional terms and conditions will be available on the Service and the QS User acknowledges and accepts any such additional terms and conditions as part of his or her use of the SSS.
3.9 You understand and agree that by becoming either a Site User or a QS User, you are entering into a legally binding agreement with QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, 1 Tranley Mews, Fleet Road, London, NW3 2DG, United Kingdom (“we,” “us,” “our,” “QS” and “QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd”), based on the terms of this QS User Agreement and the QS Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference (collectively referred to as the “Agreement”). You acknowledge that you have read and understood the terms and conditions of this Agreement and that you agree to be bound by all of its provisions. You accept that if you are using the Websites on behalf of a company or institutions or school or universities or other legal entity, you are nevertheless individually bound by this Agreement even if your company has a separate agreement with us. You acknowledge that the Websites and Services are designed to be compliant with applicable UK laws and regulations and are intended for use only by users resident in the United Kingdom. If you reside outside the United Kingdom you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with local laws. You understand that by accessing and using the Websites and/or Services your information (as that term is defined in our Privacy Policy), Contributions (defined below), and any other content that you provide that is shared with any one of the Websites and/or Services may also be shared among the entirety of QS and its other Websites and/or Services.
4. YOUR OBLIGATIONS
4.1 Applicable laws and this Agreement
You must comply with all applicable laws, the Agreement, as may be amended from time to time with or without advance notice, and the policies and processes explained in the following sections:
You own the information or you have the right to provide that information in the capacity that you are associated at the institution or university or any legal entity to provide QS under this Agreement and may request its deletion at any time unless you have shared information or content with others and they have not deleted it, or it was copied or stored by other Site Users and/or QS Users. Additionally, you grant QS a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sub-licensable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, process, analyze, use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, any information you provide, directly or indirectly to QS, including, but not limited to, any user-generated content, ideas, concepts, techniques or data to the Websites or Services, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or any third parties.
By providing information to us, you represent and warrant that you are entitled to submit the information and that the information is accurate, not confidential, and not in violation of any contractual restrictions or other third party rights.
If your university has already registered for MoveONLite, QS might have to share your contact details, including your First Name, Last Name and email address, to your university's MoveONLite instance administrator. If you do not agree, discontinue the registration.
4.2 Service Eligibility
To be eligible to use the Websites and/or the Services, you must meet the following criteria and represent and warrant that you: (1) are not currently restricted from the Website and/or the Services, or not otherwise prohibited from having a QS account, (2) are not a competitor of QS or are not using the Website and/or the Services for reasons that compete with QS; (3) will only maintain one QS account at any given time; (4) have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and doing so will not violate any other agreement to which you are a party; (5) will not violate any rights of QS, including intellectual property rights such as copyright or trademark rights; and (6) agree to provide at your cost all equipment, software, and internet access necessary to use the Website and/or Services.
4.3 Sign-In Credentials
You agree to (1) Keep your password secure and confidential; (2) not permit others to use your QS User account; (3) refrain from using other QS User accounts; (4) refrain from selling, trading, or otherwise transferring your QS User account to another party. Further, you are responsible for anything that happens through your QS User account until you close down your QS User account or prove that your QS User account security was compromised due to no fault of your own. To close your QS User account, please log in to your MoveON Global Hub account or contact dpo@qs.com.
4.4 Indemnification
You indemnify us and hold us harmless for all damages, losses, and costs (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) related to all third party claims, charges, and investigations, caused by (1) your failure to comply with this Agreement, including, without limitation, your submission of content that violates third party rights or applicable laws, (2) any content you submit to the Websites or Services, and (3) any activity in which you engage on or through QS, the Websites or the Services.
4.5 Notify us of acts contrary to the Agreement
If you believe that you are entitled or obligated to act contrary to this Agreement under any mandatory law, you agree to provide us with the detailed and substantiated explanation of your reasons in writing at least 30 days before you act contrary to this Agreement, to allow us to assess whether we may, at our sole discretion, provide an alternative remedy for the situation, though we are under no obligation to do so.
4.6 Notifications and Service Messages
For purposes of service messages and notices about the Services to you, QS may place a banner notice across its pages to alert you to certain changes such as modifications to this Agreement.
Alternatively, notice may consist of an email from QS to an email address associated with your account, even if we have other contact information. You also agree that QS may communicate and market to you through email, mobile number, telephone, text, or delivery services including the postal service about your QS User account or Websites and Services associated with QS. Please log in to your QS User account and review your settings to control what kind of messages you receive from QS. You acknowledge and agree that we shall have no liability associated with or arising from your failure to do so or to maintain accurate contact or other information, including, but not limited to, your failure to receive critical information about the Websites or Services.
4.7 Confidentiality
QS offers various forums on our Websites and Services where you can post your observations and comments on designated topics. QS also enables the sharing of information by allowing Site Users and QS Users to post updates, comment on articles, and QS blogs.
Please note that ideas you post and information you share may be seen and used by other Site Users and/or QS Users, and QS cannot guarantee that other Site Users and/or QS Users will not use the ideas and information that you share on our Websites, Services, forums, blogs, posts comments and articles.
Therefore, if you have an idea or information that you would like to keep confidential and/or don’t want others to use, or that is subject to third party rights that may be infringed by your sharing it, do not post it to any QS Services or Websites. QS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR A SITE USER’S OR QS USER’S MISUSE OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION YOU POST IN ANY QS WEBSITES, SERVICES, FORUMS, BLOGS, POST COMMENTS, AND ARTICLES COMMENTS.
4.8 Privacy
You should carefully read our full Privacy Policy before deciding to become a Site User or QS User as it is hereby incorporated into this Agreement by reference, and governs our treatment of any information, including personally identifiable information you submit to us. Please note that certain information, statements, data, and content that you may submit to QS might, or are likely to, reveal your gender, ethnic origin, nationality, age, and/or other personal information about you. You acknowledge that your submission of any information, statements, data, and content to us is voluntary on your part.
4.9 Contributions to Our Websites
By submitting ideas, suggestions, posts, comments, articles ("Contributions") to QS through its Websites or Services, you acknowledge and agree that: (a) your Contributions do not contain confidential or proprietary information; (b) QS is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, concerning the Contributions; (c) QS shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such Contributions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; (d) QS may have something similar to the Contributions already under consideration or in development; (e) you irrevocably assign to QS all rights to your Contributions; and (f) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from QS under any circumstances.
On the condition that you comply with all your obligations under this Agreement, including, but not limited to, the Do’s and Don’ts, we grant you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, non-assignable, non-sublicensable license and right to access the Websites and/or Services, through a generally available web browser, mobile device or application (but not through scraping, spidering, crawling or other technology or software used to access data without the express written consent of QS), view information and use the Websites and/or Services that we provide on QS webpages and under this Agreement. Any other use of QS contrary to our mission and purpose (to enable motivated people around the world to fulfill their potential by fostering international mobility, educational achievement, and career development) is strictly prohibited and a violation of this Agreement. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement, including, without limitation, title, ownership, intellectual property rights, and all other rights and interest in QS and all related items, including any copies made of our websites.
6. OUR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
6.1 Services Availability
For as long as QS continues to offer the Services, QS shall provide and seek to update, improve, and expand the Services. As a result, we allow you to access our websites as it may exist and be available on any given day and have no other obligations, except as expressly stated in this Agreement. We may modify, replace, refuse access to, suspend or discontinue our websites, partially or entirely, or change and modify prices for all or part of the Services for you or all our users in our sole discretion. All of these changes shall be effective upon their posting on our site or by direct communication to you unless otherwise noted. QS further reserves the right to withhold, remove and or discard any content available as part of your account, with or without notice if deemed by QS to be contrary to this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, QS has no obligation to store, maintain, or provide you a copy of any content that you or other Users provide when using the Services.
6.2 Third Party Sites and Developers
QS may include links to third-party web sites (“Third Party Sites”) on the Websites and/or Services. QS also enables third party developers (“Platform Developers”) to create applications (“Platform Applications”) that provide features and functionality using data and developer tools made available by QS through its developer platform.
You are responsible for evaluating whether you want to access or use a Third Party Site or Platform Application. You should review any applicable terms and/or privacy policy of a Third Party Site or Platform Application before using it or sharing any information with it, because you may give the operator permission to use your information in ways we would not.
QS is not responsible for and does not endorse any features, content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from Third Party Sites or Platform Applications.
6.3 Disclosure of Site User and QS User Information
You acknowledge consent and agree that we may access, preserve, and disclose your registration and any other information you provide if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation, or disclosure is reasonably necessary for our opinion to (1) comply with legal process, including, but not limited to, civil and criminal subpoenas, court orders or other compulsory disclosures; (2) enforce this Agreement; (3) respond to claims of a violation of the rights of third parties, whether or not the third party is a Site User, QS User, individual, or government agency; (4) respond to customer service inquiries; or (5) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of QS, our Site Users, QS Users or the public.
Disclosures of Site User and QS User information to third parties other than those required to provide customer support, administer this agreement, or comply with legal requirements are addressed in the Privacy Policy.
6.4 Interactions with other Site Users and QS Users
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Site Users and QS Users. QS reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members and to restrict, suspend, or close your account if QS determines, in our sole discretion, that doing so is necessary to enforce this Agreement.
6.5 changes to these terms
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
SOME COUNTRIES AND JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED TERMS IN CONTRACTS WITH CONSUMERS AND AS A RESULT, THE CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
DO NOT RELY ON QS, ANY INFORMATION THEREIN, OR ITS CONTINUATION. WE PROVIDE THE PLATFORM FOR QS AND ALL INFORMATION AND SERVICES ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. QS DOES NOT CONTROL OR VET USER GENERATED CONTENT FOR ACCURACY. WE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY EXPRESS WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED OR HARMED BY QS OR ANYTHING RELATED TO QS, YOU MAY CLOSE YOUR QS ACCOUNT AND TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT AND SUCH TERMINATION SHALL BE YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY.
QS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES FOR THE DELIVERY OF ANY MESSAGES (POSTING OF ANSWERS OR TRANSMISSION OF ANY OTHER USER GENERATED CONTENT). BESIDES, WE NEITHER WARRANT NOR REPRESENT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES. ANY MATERIAL, SERVICE, OR TECHNOLOGY DESCRIBED OR USED ON OUR WEBSITES OR SERVICES MAY BE SUBJECT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OWNED BY THIRD PARTIES WHO HAVE LICENSED SUCH MATERIAL, SERVICE, OR TECHNOLOGY TO US.
QS DOES NOT HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO VERIFY THE IDENTITY OF THE PERSONS USING ITS WEBSITES OR SERVICES, NOR DOES IT HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO MONITOR THE USE OF ITS WEBSITES OR SERVICES BY OTHER USERS; THEREFORE, QS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR IDENTITY THEFT OR ANY OTHER MISUSE OF YOUR IDENTITY OR INFORMATION.
QS DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE WEBSITES OR SERVICES IT PROVIDES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS IN FUNCTIONING. IN PARTICULAR, THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITES OR SERVICES MAY BE INTERRUPTED DUE TO MAINTENANCE, UPDATES, OR SYSTEM OR NETWORK FAILURES. QS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY ANY SUCH INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS IN FUNCTIONING. FURTHERMORE, QS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY MALFUNCTIONING, IMPOSSIBILITY OF ACCESS, OR POOR USE CONDITIONS OF THE WEBSITES OR SERVICES DUE TO INAPPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT, DISTURBANCES RELATED TO INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, TO THE SATURATION OF THE INTERNET NETWORK, AND FOR ANY OTHER REASON.
SOME COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY IN CONTRACTS WITH CONSUMERS AND AS A RESULT, THE CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Neither QS nor any of our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, employees, shareholders, or directors (“QS Affiliates”) shall be cumulatively liable for (a) any damages above US $100 or (b) any special, incidental, indirect, punitive, or consequential damages or loss of use, profit, revenue or data to you or any third person arising from your use of the Websites, Services, any platform applications or any of the content or other materials on, accessed through or downloaded from our Websites. This limitation of liability is part of the basis of the bargain between the parties and without it, the terms and prices charged would be different. This limitation of liability shall:
Apply regardless of whether (1) you base your claim on contract, tort, statute, or any other legal theory, (2) we knew or should have known about the possibility of such damages, or (3) the limited remedies provided in this section fail of their essential purpose; and
Not apply to any damage that QS may cause you intentionally or knowingly in violation of this Agreement or applicable law, or as otherwise mandated by applicable law that cannot be disclaimed from in this Agreement.
9.1 Mutual rights of termination
You may terminate this Agreement, for any or no reason, at any time, with notice to QS. This notice will be effective upon QS processing your notice. QS may terminate the Agreement and your account for any reason or no reason, at any time, with or without notice. This cancellation shall be effective immediately or as may be specified in the notice. Termination of your QS account includes disabling your access to our Websites and/or Services and may also bar you from any future use of our Websites and/or Services at our sole discretion.
9.2 Misuse of the Services
QS may restrict, suspend, or terminate the account of any Site User or QS User who abuses or misuses the Websites or Services. Misuse of the Websites or Services includes inviting other Site Users or QS Users with whom you do not know to connect; creating multiple or false profiles; using the Websites or Services commercially without QS’s authorization, infringing any intellectual property rights, violating any of the Do’s and Don’ts, or any other behavior that QS, in its sole discretion, deems contrary to its purpose.
9.3 Effect of Termination
Upon the termination of your QS account, you lose access to the Websites and/or Services. The terms of this Agreement shall survive any termination, except “Your Rights” and 4.a-b, and “Our Rights and Obligations” hereof.
10.1 Severability
If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitrator to be illegal, void, or unenforceable, the unenforceable provision will be modified to render it enforceable and effective to the maximum extent possible to effect the intent of the provision; and if a court or arbitrator finds the modified provision invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement will not be affected in any way.
10.2 Language
English language versions of this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, and any other documentation, including additional terms of services, will govern your relationship with QS.
10.3 Notices and Service of Process
You may contact us here.
10.4 Entire Agreement
You agree that this Agreement constitutes the entire, complete, and exclusive agreement between you and us regarding the Websites and Services and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral, or whether established by custom, practice, policy or precedent, concerning the subject matter of this Agreement. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or purchase certain other QS services, third-party content, or third-party software.
10.5 Amendments to this Agreement
We reserve the right to modify, supplement, or replace the terms of the Agreement, effective upon posting on the Websites or Services or notifying you otherwise. For example, QS presents a banner on the site when we have amended this Agreement or the Privacy Policy so that you may access and review the changes before your continued use of the site. If you do not want to agree to changes to the Agreement, you can terminate this Agreement at any time per Section “Termination”.
10.6 Potential Other Rights and Obligations
You may have rights or obligations under local law other than those enumerated here if you are located outside the United Kingdom.
11. SITE USER AND QS USER “DOS” and “DON’TS.”
As a condition to becoming a Site User or QS User, you agree to this User Agreement and to strictly observe the following DOs and DON’Ts:
12. COMPLAINTS REGARDING CONTENT POSTED ON OUR WEBSITES
Accordingly, this Agreement requires that information posted by Site Users and QS Users be accurate and not in violation of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties. To promote these objectives, QS provides a process for submission of complaints concerning content posted by our Site Users and QS Users. Complaints can be sent to dpo@qs.com.
Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd (“QS”) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using any of our websites then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
QS may change this policy from time to time. Changes to our policy will be updated on our Websites and/or Services only. You should check our policy from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any modifications. This policy was last updated on 15th February 2021.
1. What information we collect
We may collect the following information:
Name and job title
Gender and date of birth
Contact information including email address
Demographic information such as postcode, preferences, and interests
Other information required or relevant to registrations for our events and/or products
Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
All data collected by QS is stored in a one or multiple database environments regardless of which QS site you contacted us or registered.
Due to the communications standards on the internet, when you visit our Websites or Services we also automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going to when you leave our Websites or Services.
2. What we do with the information we gather
Data Processing location: All your data are stored and processed in the following location: Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, Niederlassung Deutschland, Marcel-Breuer-Str. 12, 80807 München, Deutschland.
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
By providing information to QS for the purposes of becoming a Site User, creating your QS User account or adding any additional details to your QS User profile, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and QS’s User Agreement that allow QS to process information about you.
Supplying information to QS, including any information deemed “sensitive” by applicable law, is entirely voluntary on your part. You have the right to withdraw your consent to QS’s collection and processing of your information at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, by changing your Settings, or by closing your account, but please note that your withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.
In order to become a QS User, you must provide us the following type of information to create an account: first name, last name, email address, password, gender, contact details, organization details and others. QS may request other information from you during the account creation process that QS uses to provide better, more customized marketing services such as updates, better ads, and more valuable information. You acknowledge that this information is personal to you, and by creating an account on our websites, you allow QS and selected third parties, to identify you and to allow to use your information in accordance with our User Agreement.
We’ll send you information (about the products and services we provide) by phone, post, email, text message and online banner advertising. We also use the information we have about you to personalise these messages wherever we can as we believe it is important to make them relevant to you. We also check that you are happy for us to send you marketing messages before we do so. In each message we send, you also have the option to opt out.
We’ll only market other organisations’ products and services if you have said it is OK for us to do so.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing information or withdraw your permission at any time.
3. Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we safeguard and secure the information we collect online via electronic and managerial procedures.
To protect any data you store on our servers, QS also regularly audits its system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, since the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to QS. There is no guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
4. Links to other websites
Our websites may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
5. What we use cookies for
QS use cookies to check whether or not you are logged in and to identify which of our high availability servers you are looking at. We also use cookies to help collect analytics data to constantly improve your on-site experience. It is your legal right to opt-out of this data collection if you so wish.
Like most websites, we use cookies and web log files to track site usage and trends, to improve the quality of our service, to customize your experience on our Websites and Services, as well as to deliver QS and third-party advertising to Site Users and QS Users both on and off our Websites and Services. A cookie is a tiny data file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, this small file resides on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and allows us to recognize you as a Site User or QS User when you return to our Websites or Services using the same computer and web browser. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases doing so may impact your ability to use our Websites or Services.
In the course of serving advertisements or optimizing the services to our Site Users or QS Users, we may allow authorized third parties to place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Any information provided to third parties through cookies will not be personally identifiable but may provide general segment information (e.g. your industry or geography or information about your professional or educational background) for the enhancement of your user experience by providing more relevant advertising. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Our Websites and Services do not store unencrypted personally identifiable information in the cookies.
6. Analytics
We might use analytics packages in order to constantly improve your browsing experience on QS websites. To opt out of Analytics data collection, you will need to remove all cookies from your browsers.
7. Right to access personal information
Under the law any individual has a right to ask for a copy of the personal information held about them. This means that you can ask for the information that the QS holds about you. This is known as the right of ‘subject access’.
Although you should submit a request in writing, if you would like to speak to someone in person, you can contact the Data Protection Officer using the following details:
8. Rights concerning the processing of your personal information
i) Right to restrict processing of personal information In some situations, you have the right to require us to restrict the processing of your personal information. We may restrict your personal information by temporarily moving the information to another processing system, making the information unavailable to users, or temporarily removing published information from a website. We may also use technical methods to ensure the personal information is not subject to further processing and cannot be changed. When we have restricted processing of personal information, this will be clearly indicated on our systems. You can require us to restrict processing in the following circumstances:
iv) Right to erasure of personal data (“the right to be forgotten”)
In the following circumstances, you have the right to require that QS securely deletes or destroys your personal information:
If you think any of the above situations apply, we may ask you for an explanation and further information to verify this.
v) Right to object to processing
vi) Exercising your rights concerning the processing of your personal information
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights concerning the way in which we process your personal information, please contact:
vii) Your right to complain to a national data protection regulator (data protection supervisory authority)
If you think we have processed your personal information unfairly or unlawfully, or we have not complied with your rights under GDPR, you have the right to complain to a national data protection regulator.
Complaints about how we process your personal information can be considered by the UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO can be contacted using the following details:
Information Commissioner’s Office- Website: www.ico.org.uk.
If you live in a country or territory located in the European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA), and you think that some, or all, of the issues you are concerned about have taken place in your country of residence, you can complain to your national data protection regulator.
For contact details of national data protection regulators in the EU and EEA, please use the following link:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en
You should be aware that from 25 May 2018 onwards, the EU or EEA regulator you first contact may not be the regulator that deals with your complaint. They may refer your complaint to another data protection regulator, and a number of regulators may work together to determine the outcome of your complaint. The overall handling of your complaint will be dealt with by a “lead supervisory authority”, which will be allocated during the complaint handling process.
If you live outside the EU or EEA, and the data protection issue you are concerned about relates to the processing of personal data in the country you live in, you may be able to complain to your national data protection or privacy regulator. Details of some national data protection or privacy regulators are detailed in the above link. Alternatively, you may be able to find details of your national privacy or data protection regulator by searching the internet.
If you have a concern about how we have processed your personal data, many data protection/privacy regulators will ask that you contact us first, outlining your concerns, allowing us to try and put the issue right, prior to contacting them with your complaint or concern.
As a Site User or QS User, you have certain obligations to other Site Users and QS Users. Some of these obligations are imposed by applicable law and regulations, and others have become commonplace in user-friendly communities of like-minded members such as QS:
Any violation of these guidelines may lead to the restriction, suspension or termination of your account at the sole discretion of QS.
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