Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 1, 2004.
At iPanel online survey®, we believe that you, our members, have an
inalienable right to privacy. We protect your privacy and anonymity by
adhering to these standards:
We recognize that some of the information we request from you is
personal and sensitive, and requires trust on your part. We take your
trust, and our responsibilities, very seriously. Here are our privacy
practices regarding the information you entrust to us.
Who We Are
iPanel online survey® and www.iPanelonline.com are owned and operated by iPanel Online Marktet Research , Inc. Tell me more.
Information We Collect From You
We only collect the personal identifying information (name, address,
phone number, and email address) you voluntarily provide to us during
registration. We also collect information via surveys.
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How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information to communicate with you, to determine
whether you qualify for surveys, and to compile an accurate statistical
"picture" of those who take surveys. Tell me more.
Who We Share Your Information With
We don't share any information that personally identifies you with any
business, client, or business partner. iPanel online survey® does
not sell or rent your personal information to anyone.
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How You Can Control Your Information
You may "opt out" of giving personal information at any time when taking
a survey. You may also update or delete your personal information at any
time. Tell me more.
Privacy For Children Under 14
In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, we do
not accept registrations from children under 14. We do not directly
advertise or market to children. We may survey children under 14 whose
parents are panel members, with their parents' consent.
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How We Secure Your Information
iPanel online survey® has security measures in place to ensure the
confidentiality of your personal information.
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Use Of Internet Technology ("Cookies" And Log Files)
We do not regularly use cookies. We do collect information in our log
files. Tell me more.
Communications From The Site
We send emails to panel members to confirm their registration, to invite
them to surveys, and for special occasions and announcements.
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Legal Disclaimer
In the rare occasion when disclosing personal information may be
required by law, we will do so. Tell me
more.
Links To Outside Sites
The acop.com website contains links to other websites whose privacy
policies may differ from ours. Tell me
more.
Notification Of Changes
We will notify you by email before the policy is changed and give you a
chance to opt out. Tell me more.
Questions And Concerns
We welcome questions or concerns regarding our data-protection practices
and our Privacy Policy. Tell me more.
Enforcement Of Privacy Policy
If you believe we have violated our stated Privacy Policy with respect
to personal information you have entrusted to us, you have several
options. Tell me more.
Who We Are
iPanel online survey® and
www.iPanelonline.com are owned and operated by
iPanel Online Marktet Research , Inc., a
leading international marketing research and marketing consulting
company in the United States, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We
subscribe to the privacy, confidentiality, and ethics policies of these
professional marketing and marketing research organizations:
Council for Marketing and Opinion Research (CMOR)
World Association of Research Professionals (ESOMAR)
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Information We Collect From You
We collect information from you during the registration process and
during the survey process.
During our registration process, we collect your name, address, email
address, and the names, date of birth, and gender of those in your
household. We also collect the IP address of the computer you used at
the time you registered and confirmed your registration.
We also gather information on your household–such as dwelling type,
education level, gender, income, marital status, ethnicity, occupation,
your Internet speed, and computer capabilities–to help us prescreen
members for certain surveys.
Additional information may also be requested when you participate in
surveys, such as your preferences, shopping patterns, and buying
behavior. This information is used to prescreen members for subsequent
surveys and you may be invited to take additional surveys based upon
your previous survey answers. For example, a client may want to do a
survey of women aged 18 to 55 who do shop in a mall. We would send a
short screening survey to determine which panel members meet our
client's requirements.
None of the information collected in surveys is reported by the names or
addresses of members. Your individual information is always placed into
anonymous, statistical summaries that are used in marketing research. No
one outside of Decision Analyst will ever know how you personally
answered any of the questions in our surveys.
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How We Use Your Information
We use information about you, your household, and its members to
determine whether you qualify to participate in a particular survey.
We use your email address to invite you to complete surveys and to
notify you of news regarding the iPanel online survey® Online
panel.
We use your name and address to send you any prize money or incentives
to which you are entitled.
We use personal information gathered during surveys to analyze the
survey results. For example, we might look at the answers of women
compared to men, or the answers of young people compared to older
people, or high-income groups compared to low-income groups.
We use your personal information to verify you are who you say you are
and live where you say you live. Any evidence of false or dishonest
information will result in the permanent loss of your membership.
We may use your contact information, such as email address, registration
data, and IP address to verify the opt-in nature of our email list when
asked to do so by an Internet service provider.
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Who We Share Your Information With
Your answers to our surveys are grouped with the answers of other people
and reported to our clients as statistical summaries.
None of your answers to surveys are ever reported in conjunction with
your personal information. No one outside of Decision Analyst will ever
know how you personally answered any of the questions in our surveys.
We don’t share your personal information with any third parties–no
client, no business partner, or other organization. iPanel online survey® does not sell or rent your personal information to anyone.
We may contract with an email service provider to help us send email
invitations to surveys. In such cases, we will have a nondisclosure
agreement with the email service provider to ensure your contact
information is protected and is not misused.
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How You Can Control Your Information
You may "opt out" of giving personal information at anytime when taking
a survey. You may also
update or delete your personal information at any time.
Once you join our panel and receive invitations to complete surveys, you
are under no obligation to complete those surveys. You can simply choose
not to respond.
If you start taking a survey and are asked questions you do not wish to
respond to, you may simply stop taking the survey at any point.
Once you have registered, you may safely
update or delete your membership (and all of your personal data)
online at any time.
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Privacy For Children Under 14
iPanel online survey® and iPanel Online Marktet Research , Inc., in compliance
with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, do not accept
registrations from children under 14.
We do not directly advertise or market to children.
From time to time we may have a survey available for children, but we
will not directly contact any children under 14. For these surveys we
will contact the parents who are members of the panel and ask them to
give consent for the child to complete the screener or survey.
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How We Secure Your Information
We consider the protection of all personally identifiable information we
receive from our website visitors and subscribers as critical to our
corporate mission. Please be assured that we have security measures in
place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any
information we receive from you. As with any transmission over the
Internet, however, there is always some element of risk involved in
sending personal information. In order to try to minimize this risk, we
encrypt all information that you submit using the Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) protocol.
Private data about you and your household (name, email address, street
address, phone number, income, education, family composition, etc.) is
strictly confidential and protected at all times.
Only a few trusted employees at iPanel Online Marktet Research , Inc. have access to
your personal information, and each has signed a binding confidentiality
and nondisclosure agreement.
Contractors who may work with us will also sign a nondisclosure
agreement.
Our site is registered with the iGuard Secure Site Program. iGuard
is an independent third-party agency that authenticates, issues, and
manages digital IDs on the Internet. Please click on the image below for
more information about our site security.
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Use Of Internet Technology ("Cookies" And Log Files)
"Cookies" are pieces of information that a website transfers to your
computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are used by
thousands of websites to make your life as a web user much easier. There
are occasions where we may use cookies. For example, we may use cookies
to track registrations back to any affiliate site that may have referred
you, and we may use cookies to track advertising results.
Like many website servers we gather information in our log files.
Information gathered in log files includes Internet protocol (IP)
address, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and
exit pages, platform type, date and time stamp, and number of clicks
while onsite.
Log-file information is not linked to any individually identifiable
information and is used only to administer our systems, to make
improvements to our website, and to determine the success of advertising
campaigns.
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Communications From The Site
We send an email (generated by an auto-reply system) to all new members
to confirm their registration.
We send emails to members from time to time inviting them to take
surveys.
We regularly send emails to members for special occasions (holidays,
birthday) and to make announcements regarding system updates.
We communicate with users by email on a case-by-case basis to answer
their customer-service-related questions.
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Legal Disclaimer
We make every effort to preserve user privacy. It is possible, in rare
instances, that your personal data might need to be disclosed, if
required by law and if we have a good-faith belief that such action is
necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order,
or a legal process served on our website. If this should ever occur, we
will attempt to notify you in advance so that you can take legal action
to protect your personal information.
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Links To Outside Sites
The acop.com website contains links to other websites. While these
websites might be of interest to you, please note that their privacy
policies may differ from ours. We encourage you to read the privacy
statement of each site you visit.
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Notification Of Changes
If there is a significant change in our privacy policy or practice, or
in how we use personally identifiable information, we will notify you by
email before the policy is changed and give you a chance to opt out.
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Questions And Concerns
For more information, questions or concerns regarding our
data-protection practices and our Privacy Policy, please contact our
Internet Operations Department at:
Internet Operations Department
iPanel Online Marktet Research , Inc
Addr：Suite 705-706 Building A 818 East Longhua Rd Shanghai China 200023
TEL：(8621)63059319
Email：privacy@ipanelonline.com
For more information about Internet privacy and the privacy guidelines
we follow:
Safe Harbor
Overview
Safe Harbor Privacy Principles
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Enforcement Of Privacy Policy
If you believe we have violated our stated Privacy Policy with respect
to personal information you have entrusted to us, you have several
options:
We urge you to contact our
www.iPanelonline.com so we may investigate your complaint.
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