Demoscopic Analytics - Privacy Policy

Demoscopic Analytics, as well as its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "Demoscopic Analytics", "us" or "we"), recognize how important your privacy is to you. We are committed to preserving your personal data and respecting your privacy. Personal data is any information that may be used to identify you as an individual person. In our capacity as data controllers, this Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with Demoscopic Analytics' business activities, such as conferences and events, and client services, as well as on websites, applications, and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, "the Sites").

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Demoscopic Analytics obtains personal data as part of its business activities, including some customer services. Personal data gathered varies and may include information provided by you, such as your name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number, and background information necessary to apply for a job. We may also gather information about the devices you use to connect with our Sites automatically. We automatically collect IP addresses, device identifiers, web browsers, and browsing information via cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies on our Sites. We may also collect information automatically about how you use the Sites, such as what you have looked for and seen. The automatically acquired information may be linked to a unique identifier as well as any other personal information you have submitted.

In the course of its business operations, such as in conjunction with some client services, Demoscopic Analytics may also get personal information about you from third parties, such as data brokers or aggregators. This includes personal information that you choose to make public through social media platforms and other open online venues, as well as demographic, professional, and other information that is readily accessible online. In order to utilize it for our benchmarking and data analytics operations, we may combine it with the information we already have about you or use it separately. We will always attempt to verify that third-parties have given accurate information about how it will use this data, including how it will share it with other parties like Demoscopic Analytics in accordance with the law.

USE OF INFORMATION

Your personal information is used by Demoscopic Analytics to respond to your requests for information, process your registration for conferences and events, personalize the content you see or hear on the sites, assess and improve our services, send you newsletters and alerts, hire and assess job candidates, examine the effectiveness and functionality of the sites, publish your letters to the editor or comments, stop fraud, uphold our terms of service, and adhere to all applicable laws. In certain circumstances, the gathering of personal data may be necessary for the proper functioning of the Sites or we may use it in the course of our business operations, including some client services, such as the provision of specific services or products, such as our benchmarking products. To assess and provide information and services that are most relevant to you, we may combine and/or analyze personal data. Any of your personal information may be kept on file and used to get in touch with you.

To run our Sites and our services and gather data about how you use them, Demoscopic Analytics and its service providers may employ first-party and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies, including web beacons. If you open or click any links in the knowledge, research, or event messages we send you, Demoscopic Analytics and its service partners may compile information about that. These additional tracking methods are covered by the information about cookies that is provided in this privacy statement. By gathering personal information about your online activities over time and across different third-party websites or online services, our sites do not track you. So, despite "do not track" signals sent by web browsers, we continue with our current data collecting and usage procedures.

USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED VIA MOBILE DEVICES

Demoscopic Analytics may work with third-party service providers in conjunction with our mobile applications to analyze user behavior in order to correct bugs, track usage, and enhance the functionality of the apps. For instance, Demoscopic Analytics receives reports on the general usage and browsing habits of certain of our mobile applications, including details on the kind of device being used, the articles that were visited, and other activities carried out inside our apps. Additionally, notifications of specific faults happening in mobile applications are sent to Demoscopic Analytics.

THE LEGAL BASIS BY WHICH WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Our use of your personal information for the aforementioned objectives is justified by:

On our legitimate interests in promoting and preserving Demoscopic Analytics, as well as in establishing and maintaining connections. We recruit and provide our services.
With your consent, such as when you establish a user profile or give information on our Sites.
When particular information is required to meet our legal or regulatory requirements, we must comply with the law.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal information gathered during business operations, including in connection with some client services and third-party service providers, as well as on the Sites may occasionally be transferred to Demoscopic Analytics subsidiaries and affiliates and their staff. Demoscopic Analytics and our third party service providers may also access and host the Sites from any location in the world. Where required by law, we have put in place legal safeguards to ensure your personal information is adequately protected while being processed by Demoscopic Analytics subsidiaries, affiliates, and third-party service providers. This includes the transfer of your personal information to nations other than the one in which you reside. Please get in touch with us at the number below if you'd like additional information about these legal tools, which may include the Standard Contractual Clauses of the EU. You freely consent to the hosting and trans-border transfer of such information by using any of the Sites and giving information on any of them.

Except as noted below, Demoscopic Analytics will not knowingly transfer or disclose your personal data to third parties for those parties' own marketing purposes without your consent or as otherwise permitted by law. Additionally, Demoscopic Analytics will take reasonable steps to prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of your personal data. In accordance with our client service agreements, Demoscopic Analytics may grant third party service providers it has hired access to your personal data in order to carry out tasks relating to the Sites and its business operations, including in connection with some client services. We have procedures in place to guarantee that any processing of your personal information by outside service providers complies with this Privacy Statement and safeguards its integrity, confidentiality, and availability. In order to support our contacts with you, such as processing application materials, managing surveys or competitions, or interacting with you, we may also share your personal information with third-party service providers that work on our behalf.

LINK TO THIRD-PARTY SITES

As a service to its users, Demoscopic Analytics may offer information or connections to websites operated by third parties. These links will take you away from the Sites. Demoscopic Analytics is not responsible or accountable for your use of such links, nor do they represent or indicate that Demoscopic Analytics sponsors, approves, or otherwise recommends the third party, the third party website, or any of the content found there. Such usage shall be governed by the terms of service and privacy policies that are present on such websites.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

You may be able to sign in to the sites and link your Demoscopic Analytics account to social network accounts like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube, among others. You might also be able to access a Demoscopic Analytics account through the Sites by utilizing the login information for a specific social network account. By linking your social network account to Demoscopic Analytics or logging in to a Demoscopic Analytics account with your social network account credentials, you grant us permission to view information in your public profile for that social network account. Your email address, actual name, profile photo, gender, and location may all be viewable on your public profile, depending on the social network and your choices. We utilize the information we get from your social network account in line with the terms of service of the social network and this Privacy Policy.

Please go to your social network account's privacy settings to learn more about the data that is shared with Demoscopic Analytics and other related applications as well as how to control the data that is shared through your account, including details on your usage of our sites. Refer to the settings of the provider and the social network account in question if you want to disassociate it from us.

SECURITY

To safeguard against loss, unauthorized access, modification, or destruction of personal data, Demoscopic Analytics has established generally recognized standards of technological and operational security. Access to personal data is restricted to approved Demoscopic Analytics staff and third-party service providers, who are obligated to keep the information secret. Demoscopic Analytics, however, cannot ensure that unauthorized parties won't gain access to your personal data in spite of these security measures.

CHILDREN

The Sites are not intended for or targeted to minors under the age of 16, and Demoscopic Analytics does not knowingly collect or keep personal information about any such individual.

DATA RETENTION

Demoscopic Analytics retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship. If we need to preserve the personal information to defend ourselves against lawsuits, utilize it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or to comply with our information management rules and schedules, we may also keep it after the commercial relationship has ended. Demoscopic Analytics will use commercially reasonable efforts to completely remove all instances of the information upon receiving your request that we delete your personal data.

YOUR RIGHTS

Where permitted by relevant legislation, you may be able to ask for access to the personal information we have gathered about you in order to examine, change, or ask for the data to be deleted. Additionally, you may be entitled to a copy of the personal information we have on file for you and the correction of any errors. You may also ask us to stop processing your personal data in specific situations. Please email us at support@demoscopicanalytics.com if you would like to seek access to, a review of, or a correction of the personal information we have on file about you, or if you have any questions about how we handle your personal information. Before allowing access to your personal data, we will take reasonable measures to authenticate your identity, such as requesting a password and user ID, in order to assist preserve your privacy and security. We shall try our best to swiftly look into, abide by, or otherwise address your requests as might be required by relevant legislation.

Depending on the situation and the request, different regulations may restrict us from granting access to your personal data or otherwise completely complying with your request, such as when revealing your information may disclose the identity of someone else. We retain the right to refuse your requests if they are plainly unjustified, excessive, or otherwise undesirable or unwarranted under relevant law, as well as the right to impose an appropriate price for complying with your request where permitted by current law.

CONSENT

You authorize us to collect, use, and store your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites by using the Sites. We retain the right to sometimes alter this privacy statement. Any such changes will be communicated to you by revising this Privacy Policy. We will request your consent if we make significant changes to this Privacy Policy that expand our ability to use the personal information we have already collected about you. We will do this by sending an email to the address you have on file or by prominently posting information about the changes on our websites.