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The information provided on this site is free of charge and for informational purposes only and does not create a business or professional services relationship between you and TQM. Links on this site may lead to services or sites not operated by TQM. No judgment or warranty is made with respect to such other services or sites and TQM takes no responsibility for such other sites or services. A link to another site or service is not an endorsement of that site or service. Any use you make of the information provided on this site, or any site or service linked to by this site, is at your own risk.

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TQM does not accept unauthorized idea submissions outside of established business relationships. To protect the interests of our current clients and ourselves, we must treat the issue of such submissions with great care. Importantly, without a clear business relationship, TQM cannot and does not treat any such submissions in confidence. Accordingly, please do not communicate unauthorized idea submissions to TQM through this website. Any ideas disclosed to TQM outside a pre-existing and documented confidential business relationship are not confidential and TQM may therefore develop, use and freely disclose or publish similar ideas without compensating you or accounting to you. TQM will make every reasonable effort to return or destroy any unauthorized idea submissions without detailed review of them. However, if a review is necessary in TQM's sole discretion, it will be with the understanding that TQM assumes no obligation to protect the confidentiality of your idea or compensate you for its disclosure or use. By submitting an idea or other detailed submission to TQM through this website, you agree to be bound by the terms of this stated policy.