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EQ.el's Privacy Policy

EQ.el is a pioneer in the field of the Future of the Workplace and has more than 9 years of experience in helping leaders and employees from different industries Upskilling themselves and get ready for continuous success in the ever-changing environment, such as Healthcare, Professional Services, Banking, and Education.

At the center of this application are the "Five-Lands" questionnaire and its feedback report. The questionnaire is already based on a large sample (of about a thousand responses) and statistically validated. Our First mission is, of course, to provide you with a comprehensive report and insights. Our second mission is to keep on improving the questionnaire and the application through the statistical study of users' responses.

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The privacy of our users is a top priority in all our Assessment Processes and Upskilling Programs. The following Privacy Statement applies to all the information collected or submitted through both our web-based questionnaire and our mobile application ("The Five-Lands Journey") available on iPhone (Apple App Store) and any other Android devices (Google Play). The following also describes how we collect, handle, and use your personal information when you use our services.

Information We Collect

We collect the following information in order to provide and improve the application and our services:

Account Information: We collect the information you provide to us when you sign up for your account – your name, email address, and password.

Other Personal Information: We collect, and associate with your sign up account information, the additional personal information that you provide to us when during registration.

Your Questionnaire Responses and Results: We store your questionnaire responses and the results of their processing.

Automatically Collected Information: We do not collect usage and log information. Neither do we collect device, connection, or geo-location information.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information mentioned above to operate and improve our application and for customer support.

Account Information: Your email will serve us for two purposes alone, at your request – for password recovery and for sending your personal "Five Lands" pdf reports.

Other Personal Information: As mentioned above, our mission is to provide you with a comprehensive report and insights, as well as to keep on improving the application and our services.

To make that possible, we ask you during registration to provide us with some demographic and additional personal information (related to your profession and career). We store this information for the purpose of statistical analysis and research alone.

At times, in order to improve the questionnaire and the application, we may use this information for anonymous statistical analysis and research.

Your Questionnaire Responses and Results: Your personal responses and results will be used to generate and display your personal "Five Lands" on-screen report (when performed via "The Five-Lands Journey" application) and to generate and send to your email your personal "Five Lands" pdf reports, at your request.

At times, to improve the questionnaire and the application, all the questionnaire responses and results of our users may be used for anonymous statistical analysis and research.

Information Disclosure Required by Law: We may disclose your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal requirements; to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or abuse, violations of our policies; or to protect our rights and property.

Sharing of Personal Information: We may share anonymized, aggregated statistics with third parties. However, at any circumstance (except for information disclosure required by law) will we share personal information with any third-parties. To be more specific, we will not use any personal information collected by this application for marketing communications, online postings, affiliates, third-party advertisers, or business partners.

Third-Party Providers or Services: "The Five-Lands Journey" is a stand-alone application, and so are our online web-based questionnaires. None of those are connected to any Third-Party Services such as social networks. However, we may employ third-party companies, or individuals, in the following circumstances: Developers required for maintenance and further development of this application; Statistics professionals required for anonymous statistical analysis and research.

Interactions with Other Users: neither "The Five-Lands Journey" application nor any of our other services provides any interaction between users.

Firebase

"The Five-Lands Journey" application uses Firebase for back-end infrastructure purposes and Firebase Realtime Database to host users and data. Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform developed by Firebase, Inc. in 2011, then acquired by Google in 2014. As of October 2018, the Firebase platform has 18 products, which are used by 1.5 million apps. Among its security features is data security with 2048-bit SSL encryption for all data transfers.

Security Notes

We use administrative, technical, and procedural security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other types of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Information for European Union Customers

By using Overcast and providing your information, you authorize us to collect, use, and store your information outside of the European Union.

International Transfers of Information

Information may be processed, stored, and used outside of the country in which you are located. Data privacy laws vary across jurisdictions, and different laws may be applicable to your data depending on where it is processed, stored, or used.

Code of Conduct and Policies

Read more about our Code of Conduct and Policies in general.

Your Consent

By using our services (our online questionnaire, or our "Five-Lands Journey" application), you consent to our privacy policy. 

By filling-in the Five-Lands Questionnaire, as part of an EQ.el process that you participate in – either via the online web format or the application – you also state that you willingly provide your personal information for the purpose of being analyzed and scored by EQ.el, with the intent of being provided with a feedback, defined in the the process that you participate in.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may update our Privacy Policy. Please review this page periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

If you have any request or question regarding you personal data and its usage, or if you have any questions or suggestions about our Services, Application, Privacy Policy and other Policies, please contact us at ilan@eq-el.co.il.

 *  This Privacy Policy includes paragraphs from "App Privacy Policy Generator" and from the Overcast Privacy Policy.

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