PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: September 2, 2021

This Privacy Policy describes how Wisconsin Opinion Study. (“we,” “us,” “our,” or “Wisconsin Opinion Study”) collects information on its website, www.wisurvey.org (“Website”) and uses that information. Wisconsin Opinion Study is an online opinion research panel for individuals who are no younger than eighteen (18) years of age at the time of enrollment. This Website allows you to enroll in and respond to surveys (“Services”).

THE SERVICES

Once you receive notification of the survey from us, you will opt in on the Website using a code or other identifier to actually participate in the study. With your consent, you will periodically be sent email or sms communications from Wisconsin Opinion Study inviting you to participate in surveys as well as occasional Member Service emails. If you no longer want to receive these communications, you must request that Wisconsin Opinion Study discontinue sending you emails or cancel your membership as described in the “Our Opt-Out Policy” section below. 

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT 

Information You Provide Us.

We collect the following personal information when you provide it to us, including without limitation in the following circumstances:

  • Website Registration Form. Our Website’s registration form requires you to give us enrollment contact information including your full name, mailing address, and email address to participate in our surveys and to enable us to respond to other information requests from you. This information is compulsory to register you as a member of Wisconsin Opinion Study. You can choose not to provide this information, but doing so will make you unable to enroll in the Wisconsin Opinion Study program and ineligible for any rewards. When you complete your first Wisconsin Opinion Study survey, we will ask for your email address or mobile phone number. In addition to using this email address to provide you with any reward, we will enroll you in the Wisconsin Opinion Study program. By providing your email address or mobile phone number, you consent to become a member of this program. No further action is required from you to become or remain a member of the program. As a member of a program, we will email you with future opportunities to take surveys. We reserve the right to exclude you or remove you from the program at any time for any reason in our sole discretion. 
  • Surveys. Wisconsin Opinion Study may invite you to participate in online surveys through the Website. The information requested in these surveys may include, but is not limited to, your opinions, demographics, and activities. These surveys may also request information defined as sensitive (e.g. data directly or indirectly revealing racial and ethnic origins, political, philosophical or religious opinions, trade union affiliation, health or sexual life). We collect the information you provide to us in response to these surveys.
  • Contests. From time to time, Wisconsin Opinion Study may sponsor sweepstakes and contests on this Website and, as a result, may request information from you for participation purposes. The information we request for participation in contests may include your name, email address, mobile phone, or mailing address. Your participation in these contests is completely voluntary and you have the choice of whether to disclose this information. 

We may also augment your personal information with other information about you that we obtain from third parties or publicly, such as voting history, consumer data and responses to surveys run by other organizations.

Information We Collect Automatically.

As you use our Website, we may gather certain information the following information  automatically and store it in secure log files. This information may include but is not limited to internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, internet service providers (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating systems, date/time stamps, and/or clickstream data.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use your data to provide our Services efficiently and effectively. Additionally, we use your personal information:

  • To notify you of new surveys, awards, prizes, or member services;
  • To communicate with you, for example about changes to our Website, to provide customer service, or to provide our newsletter;
  • Research purposes of the Wisconsin Opinion Survey; 
  • As required by law when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website;
  • To enforce or protect the terms of our Website and Services, our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or third parties; 
  • As part of due diligence for, or the consummation of, a transaction involving the merger, sale, divestiture, or other transaction involving the equity or assets of Wisconsin Opinion Study, in which case you will be notified via email or prominent notice on the Website; and
  • To otherwise operate our organization.

HOW WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may share your information as follows:

  • With service providers that assist us in providing Services offered through the Website, including, but not limited to, the following:
    • services related to technical maintenance, database management, or advertising and marketing research;
    • independent auditing and/or verification of respondent data for quality control purpose;
    • the suppression of member contact information from email communications that a member has not consented to receiving; 
    • administrative or other services, such as administering emails, databases, or other management or marketing functions; 
    • services related to rewards or giveaways for members’ participation in the surveys. For example, when you redeem a reward or giveaway, we will share your name, email address, and other information as necessary for the third party to provide that service;
    • research purposes.
  • To comply with requests from law enforcement and government agencies, to enforce the terms of our Website and Services, and to protect our customers and others;
  • To enforce or protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or third parties;
  • As part of due diligence for, or the consummation of, a transaction involving the merger, sale, divestiture, or other transaction involving the equity or assets of Wisconsin Opinion Study; 
  • Where you direct us to share such information with third parties;
  • In accordance with consent you’ve provided; or
  • With other parties that we provide you notice of at the time we collect the information.

We may use and share anonymized information or de-identified information, which does not identify you personally without restriction.  

THE WEBSITE’S USE OF COOKIES 

A cookie is simply a small text file containing information about the user that is placed by a website on the user’s hard drive. Wisconsin Opinion Study may place persistent cookies, java, scripts or tags on your computer when you access the Website and may place a session cookie on your computer while you are participating in a survey or viewing the Website without logging in. Persistent cookies are used to store your email address and encrypted password. Wisconsin Opinion Study uses this cookie to recognize you when you visit our Website. We may use session cookies to maintain your session state across user requests. This type of cookie may be used to record when you complete a survey, how much of the survey you complete, the country in which you are viewing the Website, and what language you are using to view the Website. We may also use cookies to track certain information about you based upon your activity on our Website or on a third party’s site. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our Website or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our Website or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address. Bader State Research may also occasionally utilize email web beacons to monitor email deliverability. 

From time to time, we may allow a third-party media service to display content on our Website. These third-party media services may use cookies within their content (e.g., to analyze trends, administer some part of the Website, track users’ movements, etc.). The use of cookies by these third parties shall be governed by their respective privacy policies. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. 

OTHER WEBSITES 

This Website may contain links to other internet sites that are not operated or controlled by Wisconsin Opinion Study. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Any interaction on social media or other third-party websites is governed not by this Privacy Policy but by the terms of use and privacy policy of the particular platform or website.

YOUR CHOICES

Our Opt-Out Policy.

If you would like to stop receiving Wisconsin Opinion Study membership emails, Wisconsin Opinion Study mailings or to opt out of membership, you may request that your membership be cancelled by emailing us at info@wisurvey.org. You may also click the unsubscribe link in any email we send you to stop receiving emails from us. 

Cookies.

You can refuse to accept cookies, free of charge, by adjusting the privacy settings of your Web browser software. However, if you do not allow cookies from Wisconsin Opinion Study, you may not be able to use all of the features on this Website. 

HOW TO DELETE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION 

To delete your personally identifiable information from the Wisconsin Opinion Study database and deactivate or terminate your account, please email us info@wisurvey.org. We will delete your data to the extent reasonably possible and/or respond to your request within 30 days of its submission. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. 

DATA SECURITY MEASURES 

This Website has security measures (including online and offline physical, electronic and managerial safeguards) in place designed to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information, including your email address, under our control. As with any transmission over the Internet; however, there is always some element of risk involved in sending personal information online. If you have any questions about the security at our Website, please email us at info@wisurvey.org. 

WE ARE COMMITTED TO CHILDREN’S PRIVACY 

We take children’s privacy seriously. We do not seek to collect, and we do not knowingly collect, individually identifiable information about children under 13 years of age. Wisconsin Opinion Study only enrolls participants who are 18 years of age or older. 

If Wisconsin Opinion Study learns that a child under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information online, in contravention of these measures, Wisconsin Opinion Study will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from its databases and to not use such information for any purpose, and otherwise comply with the requirements of any applicable law. 

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY 

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting an amended version to the Website and updating the effective date accordingly. Such changes shall take effect immediately upon posting. Please refer to this Privacy Policy regularly. 

HOW TO CONTACT US 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Website, you can email us at info@wisurvey.org. If you choose to write us an email, please reference the Privacy Policy in your subject line. We will attempt to respond to all reasonable concerns and inquiries expeditiously.

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