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WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Research Now plc, The Mobile Panel Limited, The Mobile Channel Limited, Research Now Inc. (a US Company), Research Now Pty Limited (an Australian Company), Research Now Technology Hellas EPE (a Greek Company), Research Now GmbH (a German Company), and Research Now Srl (a French Company) (together "Research Now") operate the Valued Opinions websites. This Privacy Policy governs the website located at www.valuedopinions.com. Research Now is a member of various trade associations in the U.S. and Europe, including the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO) Code of Standards and Ethics for Survey Research, the European Society of Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR) Codes and Guidelines for Survey Research, Marketing Research Association, American Marketing Association and the UK-based Market Research Society. Research Now strives to conform to the European Commission Directive on Data Protection, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Fair Information Practice Principles, the CAN-SPAM Act, and other privacy regulations and guidelines in the U.S. and abroad, as applicable. 2. Information Collected on this Website Our research survey websites, including this site (www.valuedopinions.com), provide survey respondents with the opportunity to express opinions and attitudes about the most current issues. We conduct research that involves people from around the world, and we aggregate and anonymize such research (stripped of any personally identifiable information) before sending research results to our clients. In addition, certain survey findings might be published on our websites (in anonymous form) so that our respondents can be among the first to hear about the concerns and interests of people around the world. In order to compile our research studies, we may ask you to voluntarily submit personally identifiable information, which may include:
In addition, you will need to submit your email address and password to login to the www.valuedopinions.com site. By registering on the www.valuedopinions.com site, you agree to receive emails from us, such as other survey invitations and reminders, communications about sweepstakes in which you have been selected as a winner, responses to inquiries that you submitted on our site, and inquiries regarding your status as a Research Now member. If we send you a survey invitation or reminder by email, we will always provide the opportunity to opt-out of receiving future emails by following the "unsubscribe" instructions at the bottom of the email. [See "How We Use the Information You Provide - Email Communications" section below]. We may also ask third parties to send survey invitation emails on our behalf. In such cases, the people who receive those emails can choose to click on a link to be directed to Research Now's registration page on its site. The individual can then decide whether or not to register with Research Now. 3. How We Use the Information You Provide If you have registered on the www.valuedopinions.com site, we will use the information you provide us primarily to contact you about surveys in which we would like you to participate, or to provide you with the results of the surveys. We may also use your personal information to:
Email Communications from Research Now Research Now does not send unsolicited commercial emails. Nevertheless, Research Now voluntarily complies with the key privacy and disclosure provisions of the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act, including:
In addition, all survey invitations sent via email are consistent with the CASRO Code of Standards and Ethics for Survey Research. Survey Results Research Now conducts surveys on behalf of its clients. Research Now's clients include U.S.-based businesses, as well as research organizations based in other jurisdictions who wish to survey people in the U.S. or elsewhere. Clients list the general demographic information (such as age range, ethnic background, and occupation) of individuals from whom they wish to ask survey questions. Based on the client's needs, Research Now contacts individuals who have registered on the site and invites them to participate in an online survey. Answers to the surveys are associated with unique, but non-personally identifiable ID numbers in Research Now's databases. Research Now may aggregate and interpret the answers in reports. 4. Sharing Your Personal Information In order to provide you with the services on our sites, we may need to share your personal information with third parties, our agents, who perform services on our behalf, such as merchandise fulfillment, web hosting, and the like. Research Now may also share your personal data with affiliated companies in the Research Now group of companies (see "Company Background") or with unaffiliated third parties when permitted by law, as described above under "How We Use the Information You Provide". If Research Now acquires or spins off all or part of its business, or in the event of a bankruptcy proceeding, it might convey its business assets, including survey participant data. If a change of ownership occurs, a notice will be posted here, so please check this policy regularly.
5. Accessing the Personal Information You've Provided If you provided personal information during registration or in response to a survey, you may change or modify such information by:
If you choose to stop participating in our research surveys, you may unsubscribe from our survey invitations at any time by sending an email to mailun@valuedopinions.com. Please be aware that even if you unsubscribe, we may maintain certain information in your registration profile for up to five (5) years for ordinary business purposes, such as reporting the aggregate number of registrations and cancellations to our non-affiliated partners. 6. Safety and Security We use a variety of physical, administrative and technical measures to secure the data stored on our servers, including limiting physical access to our central data servers. Our policy is to allow only authorized personnel to access the physical areas where such servers are located. In addition, we use firewalls to protect the servers from outside intrusion. Please be aware, however, that no security measures are guaranteed to protect against unauthorized access. Please note that information submitted on the www.valuedopinions.com site or otherwise sent to Research Now over the Internet may be transferred outside of the United States and outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), where data protection laws are not as strong as within these areas. Additionally, the United States does not place restrictions on the transfer of personal data outside of the United States. If you have any concerns in relation to such transfers, you should not use the Internet as a means of communication with Research Now. 7. Children's Privacy Research Now believes that it's especially important to protect children's privacy online and encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to participate and monitor their Internet activity. Although Research Now is based in the United Kingdom, Research Now complies with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 ("COPPA"). We do not seek to collect any personal information from children under 16 years of age. During the profile registration process, we collect birth date, and if an individual enters a birth date that indicates the individual is under 16, we block the registration and any personal information submitted by the individual is not saved in our database. From time to time, we may ask our adult survey respondents whether they have children residing with them who might have certain interests, such as favorite movies or music. In such event, we do not ask the child or parent to submit personally identifiable information about the child. If you would like to contact us about your information, any information about your child, or to find out how you can have your child's information removed from our database, please see the "Accessing the Personal Information You've Provided" section of this policy. 8. Cookies We may use technology to track the patterns of behavior of visitors to the Site. This can include using "cookies," small text files stored on your computer. A cookie is essentially a numerical user ID assigned to your computer that allows a website to store certain information about your online browsing. When we use cookies, we do so to help us recognize you as a prior user of this site. Among other things, cookies can save your passwords and webpage preferences (including those preferences for the Website). This improves the delivery of web pages the next time you visit the site and allows Research Now to provide you with information specifically tailored to your interests. At the present time the cookie we send to your computer stores only basic information which you enter into the site, which may include your name, address, phone number and email address. It is possible for Research Now to retrieve the information stored in the cookie, however this is not our practice. If you prefer not to receive cookies from our website you can disable their use in your browser settings. By doing so, you may reduce the functionality of the web pages you view. 9. Other Websites The Site contains links to other websites. Research Now is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices or the content of any websites which are linked to the Site. 10. Changes to this Policy Please check this page periodically for changes as Research Now reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of the Privacy Policy and the Site at any time. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any changes to this Policy will mean that you accept such changes. If we are going to use personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify the affected individuals by posting a notice on the www.valuedopionions,com site or via email. 11. How to Contact us
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