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NOTICE: PRIVACY POLICY EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 20,
2006
american-survey.com
Privacy Policy
american-survey.com and its affiliated companies
("we" or "us") operate multiple
websites offering a variety of products and
services (a "site" or the "Sites").
This notice outlines the Privacy Policies associated
with the Sites. By visiting this website, you
are accepting the practices described in this
Privacy Policy.("Privacy Policy")
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of
Personal Information that we collect when you
agree to receive e-mail marketing from us or
one of our partner Sites. It is important
that visitors are fully informed about the use
of their Personal Information. We believe
in 100% permission-based marketing.
If
you are a resident of the State of California
and would like to opt-out
from the disclosure of your Personal Information
to any third party for direct marketing purposes,
please email us at:
privacy@american-survey.com. Please
be advised that where California residents opt-out
from permitting their Personal Information to
be shared, such individuals may still receive
selected offers directly from us, in accordance
with the law..
When you register on our Site and/or any of
our affiliates Sites including, but not limited
to,
www.netsurveypanels.com,
www.joinsurveypanels.com,
www.websurveypanels.com,
www.joinwebsurveys.com,
www.123opinions.com, www.globalsurveypanel.com ,
www.joinpanels.com,
www.nationalopinionsurvey.com,
www.thenetpanel.com,
you hereby agree and acknowledge that you will
join american-survey.com list, your Personal
Information will be placed into american-survey.com
database and that such Personal Information
shall be shared with third parties for marketing
purposes.
Your IP Address
Each time you visit one of the Sites, our web
server automatically recognizes your IP address
and the web page from which you came. Your IP
address is used to help identify you and to
gather broad demographic information about you.
We also use your IP address to help diagnose
problems with our servers, to administer the
Sites and to better serve you in using the products,
services and other features contained within
the Sites.
Cookies and Action Tags
The
first time a user provides an e-mail address
in connection with their activities at a Site,
we assign an identification number to that e-mail
address and deploy a cookie to the applicable
user's PC. Whenever that user comes back to
a Site using the same PC, the cookie allows
the Site to identify the user and to recall
the user's e-mail address. If, at any time,
a user provides other information in connection
with their activities on a Site (such as name,
address, birth date, gender, etc.), we may store
that information, along with the user's e-mail
address, in our user database. We may use the
information stored in our database: (i) to effectuate
the purpose or transaction for which the information
was originally provided by a user; (ii) to pre-populate
information fields in the event a user wishes
to purchase products and/or services or sign
up for and/or subscribe to services, promotions
or other offers in the future; (iii) to ensure
that a user will not be repeatedly exposed to
the same advertisements, offers and/or promotions
while visiting the Sites; and/or (iv) to, in
connection with regular communication with a
user, include offers, promotions or advertisements
that were historically, or are likely to be,
of interest to that user. We also use cookies
to anonymously track and target the interests
of our users to further enhance the experience
on the Sites. To find out more about cookies,
please visit
www.cookiecentral.com. To disable and reject
cookies, click
here.
Action Tags, Web Beacons and other Data Collection
Methods: An action tag or a web-beacon (also
known as a clear gif or a pixel tag) is a method
used to track responses or actions by visitors
who view certain advertisements or other information
on a Site. Action tags are 1x1 pixel images
embedded in a website page that are used to
transparently collect information. We may use
action tags to count the number of times that
visitors click on a particular banner ad or
visit the pages of our Sites and to provide
information about what products are viewed or
purchased. We reserve the right to retain this
cookie and action tag data indefinitely. At
no time will we share cookie-related, action-tag-related
and/or generated information and/or data with
third parties.
Personal Information We Collect From You
By
registering with, or providing personal information,
to a Site, as well as providing permission to
receive marketing offers, users allow us and
our affiliates to make their personally identifiable
information available to third parties in accordance
with the terms of this Privacy Policy. While
on a Site, we may collect “Personal Information”
from you. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy,
Personal Information shall mean individually
identifiable information from or about an individual
including, but not limited to: (a) a first and
last name; (b) a home or other physical address,
including street name and name of city or town;
(c) an e-mail address or other online contact
information, such as an instant messaging user
identifier or a screen name that reveals an
individuals e-mail address; (d) a telephone
number; (e) a Social Security Number; (f) a
persistent identifier, such as a customer number
held in a cookie or processor serial number,
that is combined with other available data that
identifies an individual; (g) age; (h) income
level; (i) hobbies, buying patterns or preferences;
or (j) any other information from or about an
individual that is combined with any of (a)
through (i) above.
To
the extent that user credit card-specific information
is collected by us, any of our affiliates and/or
subsidiaries, said information will be kept
in confidence and will not be shared with any
third parties (other than consumer credit agencies
or third parties in order to process a purchase
of goods and/or services) without the user's
prior informed consent. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, we, our affiliates and/or subsidiaries
reserve the right to share with third parties
the fact that they have credit card information
on file for specific users but they will not
share the specific credit card information with
third parties without the user's prior informed
consent.
How
We Use Personal Information
This
Privacy Policy applies to consumers that have
agreed to receive e-mail marketing from us,
or any of our partner Sites, via e-mail, via
third party partner Sites or otherwise. We may
sell the Personal Information that you supply
to us to any third party and we may work with
other businesses to bring selected retail opportunities
to our users. These businesses and third parties
may include, but are not limited to: (a) providers
of direct marketing services and applications,
including lookup and reference, data enhancement,
suppression and validation; (b) e-mail marketers;
and (c) telemarketers.
We
may also employ other companies and individuals
to perform certain functions on our behalf.
Examples include sending direct and electronic
mail, removing duplicate information from user
lists, analyzing data and providing marketing
analysis. The agents performing these limited
functions on our behalf shall have access to
our users¡¦ Personal Information as needed to
perform their functions for us but we do not
permit them to use your Personal Information
for other purposes.
Additionally,
we purchase and manage e-mail lists generated
by affiliate Sites and organizations. Users
may remove themselves from a specific mailing
list by utilizing the unsubscribe options that
are present and available at the end of each
piece of e-mail that we send.
We will also use your Personal Information for
customer service, to provide you with information
that you may request, to customize your experience
on a Site and/or to contact you when necessary
in connection with transactions entered into
by you on a Site. We may also use your Personal
Information for internal business purposes,
such as analyzing and managing our business.
We may also combine the information we have
gathered about you with information from other
sources. We may use third parties to help us
operate our business and the Sites or administer
activities on our behalf. We also reserve the
right to release current or past user information
in the event that we believe that the user is
using, or has used, our products, services and/or
Site(s): (i) in violation of the terms and conditions
of this Privacy Policy or any other of our operating
rules, policies, price schedules and other supplemental
terms and conditions or documents that may be
published by us from time to time; (ii) to commit
unlawful acts; (iii) if such information is
subpoenaed; (iv) if we are sold or acquired;
(v) or when we deem it necessary or appropriate
including, without limitation, sharing your
e-mail address with other third parties for
suppression purposes in compliance with the
CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to
time, and Federal Trade Commission implementing
regulations. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, we reserve the right to share,
sell, rent, lease and/or otherwise distribute
any and all personal information with/to any
third party for any and all uses permitted by
this Privacy Policy and applicable law. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, we agree not to share the Social
Security Number of California State residents
with third-parties without first obtaining the
consent of such California residents pursuant
to the terms and conditions set forth in the
California Financial Privacy Act (“CFPA”).
In
addition, by registering at any of the Sites,
you agree that such act constitutes an inquiry
and/or application for purposes of the Amended
Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR 310 et seq.),
as amended from time to time (the (“Rule”) and
applicable state do-not-call regulations.
Notwithstanding that your telephone number may
be listed at the Federal Trade Commission’s
Do-Not-Call List, and/or on applicable state
do-not-call lists, we retain the right to contact
you via telemarketing in accordance with the
Rule and the applicable state do-not-call regulations.
You may unsubscribe from any of our e-mail marketing
programs at any time. In every e-mail communication
we send, there is an unsubscribe hyperlink that
allows the recipient to unsubscribe from the
specific marketing program by simply clicking
the hyperlink provided and following the instructions
that follow. We attempt to process all unsubscribe
requests in a prompt fashion. However, after
unsubscribing, we cannot guarantee that you
will never receive another mailing from us,
because we may obtain your e-mail address in
the future through a different e-mail marketing
program that you have opted into. We can guarantee,
however, that if you should ever receive another
e-mail communication from us, you will be able
to remove your e-mail address via the unsubscribe
hyperlink. We are able to offer our free services,
in part, based upon the willingness of our users
to be contacted by our marketing partners, including
affiliated third party advertisers. By allowing
us to make the information you supply available
to our marketing partners, you will receive
free product and service information that may
be of interest to you. You may, at any
time, notify us that you do not wish to have
your Personal Information disclosed to third
parties for offers and promotions by sending
an e-mail to
privacy@american-survey.com.
How
We Use Demographic Information and Aggregate
Data
We
use demographic information to tailor Sites
to the interests of our users. Demographic information
is shared with third party advertisers so that
they can tailor their advertisements to the
appropriate audience. Demographic information
may also be shared with other third parties.?
We
reserve the right to provide aggregate or group
data about our users for lawful purposes. Aggregate
or group data is data that describes the demographics,
usage, or characteristics of our participants
as a group, without disclosing personally identifiable
information. By opening an account with us,
you agree to allow us to provide such aggregate
data to third parties. By agreeing to the terms
of this Privacy Policy, you hereby consent to
the disclosure of any record or communication
to any third party when we, in our sole discretion,
determine the disclosure to be appropriate.
Additionally, when you open, preview or click
on the advertising portion of our e-mails and/or
those of our marketing partners and/or affiliates,
you have agreed to the terms set forth in our
Privacy Policy and agree that as a function
of opening, previewing or clicking on the advertising
portion of our e-mails, that you will receive
new or additional marketing communications from
us, our marketing partners and/or our affiliates.
Other Websites
Please
be aware that our Sites may contain links to
other websites on the Internet that are owned
and/or operated by third parties. Other websites
accessible through our Sites have their own
privacy policies and data collection, use and
disclosure practices. Please consult each such
website's privacy policy. We do not endorse,
nor are we responsible for the accuracy of,
the privacy policies and/or terms and conditions
of each of the advertisers and/or third parties
accessible through the Sites. The entities that
advertise and/or place banner ads on the Sites
are independent third parties and are not affiliated
with us.
The
information practices of those websites linked
to our Sites are not covered by this Privacy
Policy. These other websites may send their
own cookies to users, collect data or solicit
Personal Information. Additionally, other companies
that place advertising on our Sites may collect
information about you when you view or click
on their advertising through the use of cookies.
We cannot control this collection of information.
You should contact these advertisers directly
if you have any questions about their use of
the information that they collect.
On
behalf of various sponsors, we may provide sponsored
links to third party websites. If you click
on a sponsored link or banner ad, then a "window"
or "frame" containing a third party's
website may appear in the foreground with one
of our Sites in the background. Unless you are
on one of our Sites, any time that you have
moved to a window, you should assume that your
Personal Information is being collected, used
and disclosed in accordance with the windowed
website's privacy policy (if any). If you are
unsure as to whose privacy policy applies, please
contact us by e-mail at
privacy@american-survey.com.
Our
Security Precautions
We
endeavor to safeguard and protect our users'
information. When users submit information at
the Sites, their information is protected both
online and off-line. The privacy of your personal
information is very important to us. The servers
that we store personally identifiable information
in are kept in a secure physical environment.
We have security measures in place to protect
the loss, misuse and alteration of personal
information under our control. Currently, we
use Secure Socket Layer Software (SSL) to protect
data and secure any transactions. SSL encrypts
information, including Social Security Numbers,
credit card numbers, names and addresses as
they are transmitted over the Internet. Please
be advised that, although we take every reasonable
technological precaution available to protect
your data, no data transmission over the Internet
can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore,
we cannot warrant that your information will
be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data
at or through our Site is at your own risk.
However, access to your information is strictly
limited, and not accessible to the public. All
of our users' information, not just the sensitive
information mentioned above, is restricted in
our offices. Only employees who need the information
to perform a specific job are granted access
to personal information. Our employees are dedicated
to ensuring the security and privacy of all
user information. Employees not adhering to
our firm policies are subject to disciplinary
action. In compliance with applicable federal
and state laws, we shall notify you and any
applicable regulatory agencies in the event
that we learn of an information security breach
with respect to your Personal Information. You
will be notified via e-mail in the event of
such a breach. Please be advised that notice
may be delayed in order to address the needs
of law enforcement, determine the scope of network
damage, and to engage in remedial measures.
Users
under eighteen (18) years of age are not allowed
to participate in sweepstakes or game promotions
that we offer. No information should be submitted
to, or posted at, any Site by visitors under
eighteen (18) years of age without the prior
consent of their parent or guardian. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, children thirteen (13) years
of age and younger are not permitted to access
the Sites and we do not knowingly collect Personal
Information from such children. We encourage
parents and guardians to spend time online with
their children and to participate and monitor
the interactive activities of their children.
Users
may receive e-mail confirming their registration
with our Site(s) as well as promotional marketing
of commercial products and services.
Removal of Your Information/Opting Out
At
your request, we will remove Personal Information
that you have provided to us. You may do so
by e-mailing
privacy@american-survey.com. However, deleting
your Personal Information or otherwise opting-out
of receipt of communications from us or third
parties will only change or delete the data
in our database for purposes of transacting
future business on a Site and for managing future
communications from us and third parties. These
deletions will not change or delete Personal
Information already collected as part of a particular
transaction in our database, which may have
already been shared with third parties, all
as provided above in this Privacy Policy. You
will need to contact third parties who may contact
you directly to change your preferences or your
personal information that they may be using
to contact you.
We
provide users the option to opt-out from receiving
information sent via electronic mailings on
behalf of third party advertisers. Users may
unsubscribe from receiving e-mails at any time
by following the instructions contained at the
end of every e-mailing. Unsubscribe requests
can only be processed if you have registered
with us in the first instance. If you have not
registered with us and wish to opt out of receiving
e-mails from a particular sender, please consult
that sender's opt out policies or contact that
sender.
Information
sent on behalf of third party advertisers is
prepared several days in advance, so users may
continue to receive e-mail from us for up to
ten (10) days following the unsubscribe procedures
detailed above. If, after that point, a user
is still receiving e-mail from us, the user
should contact us at
abuse@american-survey.com.
No
Liability for Unauthorized Changes
IN
NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF A SITE
OR FOR THE UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATION OF TEXT
OR ADVERTISEMENTS PROVIDED BY US, OUR MARKETING
PARTNERS OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTIES.
Your
Acceptance of These Terms
By
using this Site including, without limitation,
signing up for offers and/or continuing to receive
information from us, you agree to the terms
of our Privacy Policy. We reserve the right,
at our discretion, to change, modify, add and/or
remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any
time. All Privacy Policy changes will take effect
immediately upon their posting on the Site.
Please check this page periodically for changes.
Your continued use of the Site or acceptance
of our e-mails following the posting of changes
to these terms will mean that you accept these
changes and agree to continue receiving e-mails
from us. If you do not agree to the terms of
this Privacy Policy, please unsubscribe.
Contacting us about privacy questions or concerns
If you have any questions about this Privacy
Policy, the practices of any Site or your dealings
with this Site, please e-mail us at
privacy@american-survey.com, or send a letter
to: american-survey.com,
250 West 57th Street, Suite 1101, NY NY 10107 |