Privacy Policy - QID : QID

General Statement

Boondoc Technologies Inc. (QID)

Effective: August 1, 2025

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) discloses the privacy practices for Boondoc Technologies Inc. (collectively “QID”) with regard to your (“You” or “Your”) use of the website (www.QID.io) (the “Site”). QID is committed to Your privacy.

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE:

Topic	Where to Find	Key Points
Information We Collect	Section 2	Professional credentials, usage data, no PHI
How We Use Information	Section 3	Verification, personalization, education tracking
Sharing Your Information	Section 4	Third parties, opt-out options available
Security Measures	Section 5	256-bit encryption, breach notification policy
Your Privacy Rights	Section 12	Access, correction, deletion requests
How to Contact Us	Section 15	privacy@qid.io for privacy concerns

Introduction:

Boondoc Technologies Inc. (“QID”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in connection with our website, any related subdomains, our platform, and any other websites that we link to this Policy (collectively, our “services”) . QID operates in compliance with Canadian privacy laws, including PIPEDA, provincial health information legislation, CASL, and other applicable privacy regulations.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and is part of, our Terms of Use, which governs your access to and your use of services. This Privacy Policy does not cover information we receive from third parties.

By accessing or using our services, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access our services. Each time you use or access our services, the current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, when you use or access our services, you should check the date of this Privacy Policy (which appears at the top) and review any changes since you last reviewed the Privacy Policy.

1. GENERAL STATEMENT

This Privacy Policy explains how QID collects, uses, and shares personal information in connection with our services. By using QID, you agree to the terms outlined in this policy.

What this policy covers:

What personal information we collect
How we use your information
How information may be shared
How we protect your information
How you can manage your privacy preferences
How to contact us regarding privacy concerns

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect two types of information from users of our services: “personal information,” which is information that can be used to identify you (such as your name or phone number), and “aggregate information,” which is information that cannot be used to identify you (such as frequency of visits to our website and your browser type). Examples of the types of personal information we collect are below.

Professional Information

Name, email, and professional credentials
Institutional affiliations and licensing information
Professional regulatory body membership details and license numbers
Provincial/territorial jurisdiction of practice

User-Provided Information

Profile information voluntarily provided
Communications with QID
Forum posts and contributions

Technical Information

IP addresses and device identifiers
Browser type and settings
Usage patterns and platform interactions

Employment Information

Professional information included in your applicant for employment

Aggregate Information

We collect aggregate information, and may de-identify or aggregate any personal information that we collect from or about you so that you are not identified as an individual,

IMPORTANT: We do not collect personal health information (PHI) as defined by provincial health information acts. We strongly advise against sharing patient data or confidential medical records on the platform. Any case discussions should use de-identified information in accordance with applicable provincial college guidelines.

3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Purpose	Description
Professional Verification & Access	Verifying credentials, preventing unauthorized access, ensuring regulatory compliance
Service Delivery & Personalization	Enhancing user experience, improving functionality, providing relevant content
Continuing Medical Education	Tracking participation and completion of educational activities
Business & Analytics	Research, testing services, measuring effectiveness, developing business intelligence
Marketing & Promotional Collaborations	Information about our services and those of healthcare industry partners that may be professionally relevant, including personalized content delivery through various channels and marketing partnerships within the healthcare ecosystem
Third-Party Sharing	Sharing with partners for various business purposes
Legal Compliance	Meeting regulatory obligations and responding to legal inquiries

Other General Uses:

To provide, operate, improve, maintain, and protect our services.
Provide you with information, support, products or services that you request from us.
To communicate with you and others, for example, to provide you with information, about your account or other products or services and notify you about issues with or changes to services or our policies.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To protect the rights and safety of ourselves and others, including to detect, investigate and prevent activities that violation our Terms of Use or are otherwise fraudulent, illegal or harmful.
To fulfill any other specific purpose for which you provide the information or otherwise consent.

Aggregate Information: We may use and disclose aggreagte information to third parties without restriction, including for commercial purposes. We may also provide aggregate usage information and data to third parties (or allow third parties to collect that information from you), who may use such information to understand how often and in what ways people use our servcies. However, we never disclose aggregate usage or de-identified information to a third party (or allow a third party to collect such information) in a manner that would identify you as an individual person.

4. DATA SHARING & THIRD-PARTY PROCESSING

When We May Share Your Information:

Service Providers & Partners

We may share personal information with various third parties, including service providers, business partners, marketing companies, and data analytics firms. These parties may use this information to:

Provide and improve services to QID
Develop aggregate analytics and business intelligence
Market their own products and services, and those of other third-parties, to users
Develop and improve their own services and products
Contact you directly regarding their products or services

Regulatory & Legal Requirements

Regulatory Bodies: When required by law, we may share information with provincial medical regulatory authorities
Legal Compliance & Security: If required by law or to protect platform integrity, we may disclose PII in response to subpoenas, regulatory investigations, or security threats

Marketing Partnerships and Industry Collaborations

QID collaborates with marketing partners and agencies within the healthcare ecosystem to deliver relevant content and opportunities to our professional community. As part of these collaborations:

We may share professional information and demographic information with trusted marketing partners
These partners may incorporate this information into their healthcare marketing initiatives, including to facilitate marketing campaigns for third-parties
Such collaborations enable the delivery of relevant professional content, educational opportunities, and information about healthcare innovations
All data sharing is governed by confidentiality and appropriate use provisions

QID selects marketing partners who adhere to applicable healthcare industry standards and respect the professional nature of our community. While we maintain oversight through contractual safeguards, our partners utilize this information according to their established marketing practices within the parameters of our agreements.

The following table illustrates several examples of the types of information sharing we engage in with our partners:

Professional Information Sharing

Type of Collaboration	Purpose	User Benefits	Privacy Controls
QID Content	Informing you about our platform features and services	– Awareness of new tools – Updates on platform enhancements	Email preferences or contact privacy@qid.io
Educational Partnerships	Sharing information about continuing education and professional development	– Targeted learning opportunities – Relevant professional content	Contact privacy@qid.io
Healthcare Marketing Collaborations	Facilitating connections to relevant healthcare innovations and opportunities	– Information on healthcare developments – Professional resources	Contact privacy@qid.io to adjust preferences
Aggregated Insights	Developing industry understanding through de-identified data	– Improved healthcare ecosystem – Enhanced professional resources	Not applicable (no personal information)

User Preferences:

You may adjust your information sharing preferences by contacting privacy@qid.io
For questions about our marketing partnerships, please contact support@qid.io

Marketing Partnership Standards

QID aims to maintain high standards when we disclose personal information to third-parties for our marketing collaborations. These standards include:

Healthcare Focus:

All marketing partners must operate within or focus their marketing efforts on the healthcare or related professional services sectors
Information is shared only for professional-focused marketing initiatives

Quality Assurance:

Partners must maintain appropriate security measures for professional information
Regular review of partnership activities to ensure alignment with our community standards

Professional Relevance:

Marketing initiatives must be intended to provide value to healthcare professionals
Content and opportunities must be intended to be professionally relevant

Data Stewardship:

Partners must handle information in accordance with applicable privacy laws
Information usage is limited to specified professional marketing purposes

Transparency:

Clear identification of marketing content
Disclosure of material relationships where applicable

These standards help ensure that our marketing collaborations maintain the professional integrity of the QID community while connecting healthcare professionals with relevant information and opportunities.

Other Sharing

To provide information to our representatives, advisors, corporate affiliates and business partners.
In connection with a business transaction, such as, for example, an acquisition, merger, purchase, sale of an asset or line of business, corporate reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, or bankruptcy, including in connection with the evaluation thereof.
When you have otherwise provided your consent to do so.

5. DATA SECURITY & RETENTION

Security Measures

Encryption & Secure Storage: 256-bit or better encryption for data transmission and storage
Access Controls: Role-based authorization.
Breach Notification: Prompt notification (within 72 hours where feasible) of data breaches

Data Retention

Personal data is retained for the duration of your account plus 7 years after account closure to comply with professional regulatory requirements and applicable laws.

6. COOKIES & TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Like most websites, our website may use “cookies.” Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to help us identify you when you come to our website.

Our website collects cookies and may use cookies for reasons including, but not limited to:

Analyze our web traffic using an analytics package.
Identify if you are signed in to the website.
Test content on the website.
Store information about your preferences.
Recognize when you return to the website.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. 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.

QID uses the following types of cookies:

Essential	Required for basic platform functionality	No
Functional	Enable enhanced features and personalization	Yes
Analytics	Help us understand how users interact with our platform	Yes
Targeting	Used to deliver relevant content and measure campaigns	Yes

You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings, though disabling some cookies may affect functionality.

7. LEGAL DISCLOSURES & COMPLIANCE

We may disclose personal information as required by law, including:

Government, law enforcement, or regulatory inquiries
Court orders, subpoenas, or legal disputes
Compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws

Users will be notified of legal disclosures unless prohibited by law.

Provincial Privacy Legislation Compliance:

QID complies with all applicable Canadian privacy legislation, including:

Federal legislation (PIPEDA)
Provincial general privacy laws (e.g., PIPA in Alberta and BC)
Provincial health information laws (e.g., PHIPA in Ontario, PHIA in NS)
Quebec’s distinct privacy framework

8. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

QID is intended only for licensed medical professionals. We do not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under 18. If a minor’s data is discovered, it will be promptly deleted.

9. SALE OF ASSETS, MERGER, ACQUISITION, BANKRUPTCY

If QID undergoes a business transfer, including merger or acquisition, personal information may be transferred to the successor entity. The new entity must provide a level of privacy protection consistent with this Privacy Policy or an equivalent data protection framework.

10. FORUMS & USER-GENERATED CONTENT

Community

User-generated content on QID forums is visible to other registered users. QID reserves the right to moderate content and enforce community standards.

Your Communication with Other Users

When you communicate with other users, you may provide content and information. Keep in mind that users with whom you communicate may, in some cases, be able to save that content or copy it outside of our services, so do not share content with other users that you would not want another user to save or share. We are not responsible for other users’ use of any content or information that you share with such users, or for such users’ actions.

Educational Content and Sponsorship

Educational content may be developed with sponsor involvement
Sponsorship relationships will be clearly disclosed to users
QID maintains editorial oversight of all sponsored content
Users should critically evaluate content and consider disclosed sponsorships

Medical Discussion Guidelines

Patient case discussions must be fully de-identified
No unique identifiers that could identify a patient should be included
Users are responsible for compliance with their own regulatory requirements
QID is not intended to replace proper medical consultation

11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY & EXTERNAL LINKS

QID is not responsible for:

Third-party sites linked from QID
User misuse of personal data shared within forums or discussions, or directly with such users

External Links

Our services may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties, which may include social media features, such as social media buttons or links. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference and convenience only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their content, or the privacy, or other practices of such websites. It is up to you to read and fully understand their privacy policies. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. If you are submitting information to any such third-party through our services, you should review and understand that party’s applicable policies, including their privacy policies, before providing your information to the third-party.

12. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Managing Your Information

Users may update or correct their personal information by:

Logging into their account settings
Contacting support@qid.io for general account assistance
Contacting privacy@qid.io for privacy-specific concerns

Your Rights Include:

Accessing your personal information
Correcting inaccurate information
Requesting deletion of your data (subject to retention requirements)
Receiving a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used format
Withdrawing consent for specific data processing activities

How to Exercise Your Rights:

Opt-out of data sharing with third-party marketing partners: Contact privacy@qid.io (may impact some platform functionality)
Opt-out of marketing: Click ‘unsubscribe’ in emails or contact support@qid.io
Limit tracking: Adjust browser settings to disable certain tracking technologies

Note: For us to process some requests, we will need to verify your identity to confirm that the request came from you. Please note that in some cases, we may not be able to fulfill your requests, in accordance with applicable law

13. INTERNATIONAL USER PROVISIONS

While our services are designed primarily for Canadian pharmacists, we recognize that our users may be located in different provinces/territories or internationally. Users are responsible for:

Complying with their local legal and regulatory requirements and determining whether your use of our services comply with such legal and regulatory requirements
Understanding that data protection standards vary by jurisdiction
Acknowledging that cross-border data transfers may be subject to different legal requirements

14. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically. Users will be notified via email or a website notice of significant changes where required by applicable law. Continued use of the services after notification constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

15. CONTACT INFORMATION

Boondoc Technologies Inc. (Incorporated in Ontario) 63-1344 Summer Street Halifax, NS B3H 0A8 Canada

For Questions About:

Privacy matters: privacy@qid.io
Support and account issues: support@qid.io
Legal and administrative matters: admin@qid.io

Website: www.qid.io

For privacy inquiries or concerns, please contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@qid.io

Effective: August 1, 2025

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