Privacy Policy

Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

The following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business:

• Co-Sponsored Events. Depending on your privacy preferences, we may contact you with information about seminars and other events sponsored by us. Some of these events may be co-sponsored with other organizations. In such cases, we may lend our mailing list to a co-sponsor so that all of the communications regarding the event can be processed centrally.
• “Email a Friend” Features. QualifiedRestoration.com contains features that allow you to forward information and personal messages to a colleague. When you use one of these features, we will ask you to provide your name and email address and your colleague’s name and email address. We use this information only to customize and deliver your message.
• Employment Information. In some cases, you may be able to use QualifiedRestoration.com to search for our job openings and to submit a job application. When you use QualifiedRestoration.com to apply for a job, you will be asked to provide certain personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, educational background and employment history. You may also send us your résumé and other information relating to your job search or application. We use this information only for recruiting and employment purposes; we do not use it for marketing purposes. If we hire you, the information you provide during the recruiting process will become part of our employee records.
• Forums. Any information that you place or submit to be placed within any forum on QualifiedRestoration.com may be disclosed to the public.
• External Service Providers. There may be a number of separate services offered by third parties on QualifiedRestoration.com that we refer to as external service providers and that may be complementary to your use of QualifiedRestoration.com. We will only provide your personally identifiable information to an external service provider with your consent. To prevent the disclosure of your personally identifiable information to an external service provider, you can decline such consent or simply not use their services.

Please note that if you choose to use the services of, or disclose information to, an external service provider, then the external service provider’s use of your information is governed by the external service provider’s privacy policy. You should evaluate the practices of external services providers before deciding to use their services.

• Internal Service Providers. We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of our business, product and service operations (e.g., technology, Forums, analytical tools, advertising campaign management) and therefore we may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service providers.

Please note that if you provide additional information to an internal service provider directly, then the internal service provider’s use of your personally identifiable information is governed by the internal service provider’s privacy policy. You should evaluate the practices of internal services providers before deciding to provide information directly to an internal service provider.

• Successors in Interest. Your personal information may be transferred to another law firm that succeeds to all or part of our business, for example, if we reorganize our structure or transfer a significant portion of our assets or personnel to another firm. In such event, your personal information will continue to be protected by this Privacy Policy and the privacy preferences you have expressed to us.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right (and you authorize us) to share or disclose your personally identifiable information when we determine, in our sole discretion, that the disclosure of your personally identifiable information is necessary to identify or contact you, or bring a legal action, including against you if:

• you are or may be violating this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use;
• you are interfering with another’s rights or property, including, without limitation, our rights or property;
• you are violating any applicable law, rule or regulation;
• necessary or required by any applicable law, rule or regulation; and/or
• requested by authorities in the event of any act of terrorism or instance of local, regional or national emergency.

Personally identifiable information and other personal information collected from you may also be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, other transfer, reorganization or bankruptcy (a “Transfer“) involving us and/or our affiliates. We specifically reserve the right to transfer personally identifiable information collected from QualifiedRestoration.com, and any of its databases, together with any personally identifiable information contained therein, to a third party in connection with a Transfer, and nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with our ability to transfer all or part of our business and/or assets (including QualifiedRestoration.com) to an affiliate or independent third party at any time, for any purpose, without any limitation whatsoever.

Please note that, although we use security measures to keep your personally identifiable information anonymous, no security measure is perfect or impenetrable. In addition, due to the existing environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personal information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. Therefore, notwithstanding anything to the contrary within this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use or QualifiedRestoration.com, you use QualifiedRestoration.com at your own risk and we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.