Clients should be aware that linguistic fingerprinting does not yet exist, and authorship cannot be attributed 100% to any individual.
QED Limited is committed to protecting your privacy. QED will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to anyone.
QED collects individually identifiable information from clients to administer individual accounts, deliver reports, and meet regulatory requirements. All such information is processed in accordance with The Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2001.
You can ask QED, by using the Contact QED button and addressing the email to the QED Data Protection Officer, whether QED is keeping any personal data about you. Once you have provided proof of your identity to QED, you will be provided with a readable copy of the personal data that QED holds on you within forty (40) days. You may challenge the accuracy of that data and, where appropriate, you may have that data erased, rectified, or amended.
QED retains all client submissions for a period of time in-house according to its Data Retention/Destruction Policy. Any information not listed in the Records Retention Schedule will be kept for seven (7) years from the date it was created, unless any one or more of them should be retained for legal or archival purposes. Where material is related to a case that is subject to judicial procedure, the material will be kept for seven years from the date the judicial procedure comes to an end. Where records are kept permanently, duplicated records of any kind will be destroyed, keeping only originals. Any such information that is printed to paper is cross-shredded before being disposed.
Emails and documents with transitory information value will be deleted as soon as no longer needed for reference, but no later than thirty (30) days after date sent or received.
One (1) year: General enquiries and correspondence
Seven (7) years: Project file documentation, client submissions, and financial records
Permanently: Office copies of reports
QED operates a thirty (30) days Records Destruction Review Policy to ensure the timely destruction of records as set out above.
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