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Privacy
This online panel is managed by TNS, a professional market research and consulting firm. As an online panel member, we are committed to maintaining your privacy and anonymity. We treat your identity and the responses you provide as completely confidential.
The following privacy policy statement will explain how your personally identifiable information will be treated while you are a panel member. We will routinely review this privacy policy and our security features, and revise and enhance them as necessary.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT
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Your trust in TNS to protect your privacy is a responsibility we honor. Your responses have been, and will always remain, anonymous. All of our research data are reported in as totals or in other aggregated forms, and no individual information is given about panel members. In addition, we do not send unsolicited commercial email messages to persons who have not agreed separately to accept those messages.
We follow the guidelines established by the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO) in their Code of Standards and Ethics for Survey Research.
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How We Gather, Use, and Share Your Information
Your completed Web site registration survey provides us with contact information (e.g., name and email address), demographic information (e.g., age and sex), and other information related to you. We will never disclose your personally identifiable information without your prior permission, and we collect no personal information via online surveys or request forms without your prior knowledge and consent.
We maintain in our secure database the information you supplied when you filled out the registration survey. The demographic information is used to monitor the panel composition to insure that the panel is representative of the general population and is only accessed to determine which individuals are best suited for specific research studies.
We gather information about you as part of our Internet survey and research process. We aggregate and analyze this information in reports for our clients. Your opinions, in the form of your survey responses, are essential in guiding the development and design of our clients' products and services. Although we share your survey responses in aggregated or statistical forms, we never share or disclose personally identifiable information to clients, partners or any other third parties without your explicit consent.
By participating in an online questionnaire or survey, you acknowledge and consent to your personal information (such as the responses to the questionnaire and your name, email address if you have given them) being collected and used by us for market research purposes, market research analysis, internal administration, internal training and/or to fulfill our obligations to you.
We will only use your contact information to email you concerning opportunities to participate in our surveys, validate information you have given, or to provide information about incentive payments. In the relatively few instances where we ask you for permission to pass data on in a form which allows you to be personally identified, we will do all that is reasonable to ensure that the information will be used only for the purposes stated in the registration survey.
Very occasionally, our surveys may ask you for personal information that enables you to be identified, such as your name or email address. When this information is requested, we will clearly state the reason we are asking for it, and ask you for your permission to use it for the purposes stated.
You have the right to see the personal information you have registered. If the information is inaccurate, incomplete or irrelevant, you have the right to request that the information be corrected or deleted. We will do all that is reasonable to comply with your request as quickly as we can.
You consent through your participation in our survey(s) (i) to the processing of personal information by us and conveying such information to other companies inside and outside the EEA in accordance with the above, and (ii) that you are 18 years of age or older.
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Use of Cookies on Our Site
For technical purposes only, our Web site uses cookies (small data files stored on your computer) in connection with the registration and survey forms. Our cookies customize the panel Web site and allow you to easily update your information. These cookies are used only temporarily during the time you are actively completing a survey or filling out the registration forms. Our cookies cannot read data on your hard drive or read cookies created by other Web sites. We do not store or retain your cookie information in any way following the entry of your information. We do not require you to have cookies turned on to participate in our surveys or to visit the panel Web site, and you can refuse cookies by simply turning them off in your browser.
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Opt-In Policy
Our policy requires that you "opt-in" for our service to become a panel member. By "opt-in" we mean that you have affirmatively expressed an interest in receiving information from us, or visited our site and registered.
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Opt-Out Policy
"Opting-out" means that you would no longer want to receive communication from us. We provide you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at any time and in multiple ways:
Replying to an email invitation and including "REMOVE" in the subject line.
Logging in to the panel Web site and clicking on "unsubscribe."
Contacting our Panel Services Manager directly, via email.
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Contacting Us
If you have any questions, please Contact Us.
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