PRIVACY COLLECTION STATEMENT AND INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTSEffective Date [August 31, 2023]
This Privacy Statement is intended to describe our privacy practices when you participate in any of our research or surveys as hosted by Alchemer (“Surveys”).
Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.
Our online opinion research is available for individuals who are no younger than eighteen (18) years of age. By participating in our Surveys, you agree to the use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Statement.WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU WILL BE COLLECTED“Personal Information” (sometimes called “Personally Identifiable Information”) refers to information which, whether alone or when combined with other data and other non-personal information, personally identifies you.
We may collect the following kinds of information when you participate in any of our Surveys:
The Surveys will ask you about your views on certain issues. To help interpret responses, the Surveys will also collect some demographic information including, without limitation, age, race, ethnicity, income, work situation, and marital status. In some cases, we may also ask personal information such as your name, physical address, email address, and/or date of birth. We DO NOT collect your driver’s license number, your social security number or your bank information and will not ask you to provide it. Your participation in any of our Surveys and your decision to answer or not answer any question you see is voluntary and optional. In some cases, your ability to complete the survey may be conditioned upon answers to questions or refusal to answer questions but under no circumstances will participation be construed as compulsory.
This data will be collected and stored via Alchemer at www.alchemer.com. Alchemer’s Privacy Policy is available here.
We may also receive information about you from other sources, including public information or through third-party services and organizations.WHAT ARE THE PURPOSES FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATIONWe will only use and disclose your personal information for the purpose of conducting research, serving our clients and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will not use or disclose your personal information provided for research for the purpose of commercial advertising, targeted advertising, commercial promotions or direct commercial marketing activities without your consent. More specifically, your personal information will not be added to any commercial promotions, commercial advertising or direct marketing as a result of your participation in this Survey.Where applicable, your opinion will not be identified as belonging to you, instead they will be combined with those gathered from other participants and will be analyzed as part of a group.
Personal information collected from our Surveys may be used in connection with research sponsored by third-party entities or research directly undertaken by third-party entities who have contracted with us. We reserve the right to share this information in an individually identifiable form, an anonymous singular summary, or in aggregate form with third parties for this purpose.WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE? We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or for our research and business purposes.
We may share and disclose your information to third party providers and partners for purposes including without limitation:
- To augment participant information with statistical information available from public information and/or third parties, such as voting history, consumer data and responses to surveys run by other organizations;
- For independent auditing and/or verification of respondent data for quality control purposes; and
- To provide administrative or other services to us, such as administering emails, databases, or other internal purposes.
We may also share and disclose your information for other legal purposes such as to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements). We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
We expect our third-party service providers and partners to take appropriate security measures to protect your data in line with our policy and to process your data only for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We use your information for research purposes and do not sell your personal information and take measures to ensure that our data use complies with applicable laws and regulations.HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION? We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE? We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Site and/or our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS? We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
By participating in our Surveys, you represent that you are at least 18. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records.WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE DATA WE COLLECT? Depending on your location, you may have certain rights under relevant data protection legislation such as the right to be informed of the processing of your personal information, to access your personal information, or to delete your personal information, among other things. Where the applicable data protection legislation provides certain rights to data subjects, we will honor such rights in accordance with such data protection law. Note that your rights and choices may vary depending on your location and some of these rights may be subject to some exceptions or limitations. If you wish to make a request, you may submit such request to Alchemer here.DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?Yes, we will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about this privacy statement, reach out
here.