PRIVACY POLICY

Opinions, Ltd. (“Opinions”) greatly values the privacy of its customers, employees, survey participants, and visitors to its website. Opinions is committed to protecting all information collected on its website and in any other manner from its customers, contacts, employees, and survey respondents. Therefore, we comply with applicable data privacy legislation regarding the processing of personal data. This Privacy Statement describes how Opinions uses and protects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Statement, together with our Website Terms & Conditions, constitute the entire agreement between you and Opinions relating to the publicly accessible portions of our website.

Personal Data

You may have the opportunity, via our website or other means, to provide us with personal information about you and your interests. This information may include, but is not limited to: (a) your name; (b) your mailing address; (c) your email address; (d) your telephone number; (e) your sex; (f) your date of birth; (g) your country of citizenship; (h) your country of residency; (i) your country of birth; (j) your occupation; and (k) your educational history.

If you choose to share any personal data with us via our website or via email, we may store and use that information to assist you with any questions you may have. We use industry standard practices to review data quality and confirm that the information we have for you is accurate and up-to-date.

Personal information is used to communicate about the services we offer to those who may be interested in them and to perform business analyses, in addition to improving the quality of our website and our services. We may also store data that you voluntarily provide in response to our marketing efforts in order to keep you informed of other opportunities of a similar nature. You will receive general information from us only if you choose to do so by giving your affirmative consent. You have the ability to contact us in the event that you no longer want us to use your personal information for these purposes.

Our legal ground for processing is our legitimate interests which in these cases are to reply to communications sent to us, to enter into a contract between you and us, to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.

Unless you specifically consent to the sharing of your personal data, your information will solely be used for internal purposes.

Services

If you choose to receive services from Opinions, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. We use this information for communication and billing purposes. If we have trouble processing payments from you, then we will use the information that you provide to contact you.

Opinions has not, does not, and will not share or sell your personal information with anyone else without your consent.

Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

We gather personal information for promotional purposes, including to inform you about promotional Opinions events and opportunities, as well as to allow you to participate in promotions and surveys, and to communicate with you about the services we offer and in which you may be interested, to perform business analyses, and to improve the quality of our website and the services we offer.

Opinions uses or may later elect to use personal information you provide to us: (a) for promotional purposes; (b) to provide the products or services that you have requested; (c) to allow you to participate in surveys and promotions; (d) to provide customer service and respond to your requests and inquiries; (e) to protect both you and us against error and fraud; (f) to send information and event or programming alerts; and (g) to record usage of our website.

Transfer and Sharing of Personal Information

Your personal data may be shared for the above stated purposes with one or more of Opinions’ service providers, whether located in the United States, within the European Union, or elsewhere, provided that you have first given your consent.

For network and data storage needs, Opinions may share your information with its data storage vendors and service providers who have agreed with Opinions to store your data in a manner that complies with applicable law, consistent with this Policy and with Opinions’s data protection policies, and only with your consent. Information will not be shared with other persons.

For the avoidance of doubt, Opinions will not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information collected online or offline to any third party.

Security

Opinions uses secure data networks that are protected by firewalls and password-protection systems that are consistent with industry standards and compliant with applicable laws. Opinions’ security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. Only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by Opinions’ contacts. Our database is located in the United States.

However, your personal information can never be entirely secure. As with other types of information, it may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may potentially be accessed, deleted, altered, used, or disclosed by unauthorized persons. You can help us to protect your personal information by: (a) using a secure web browser; (b) not sharing your password with others; and (c) changing your password frequently (if we should ever ask you to create a password). We will alert you of any data breach as soon as it is discovered. It is Opinions’ policy to proactively safeguard against data breaches, alert any affected persons as soon as one is discovered, and promptly investigate the cause of the breach.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Cookies and Server Logs

Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to user’s hard drive to identify previous visits to the site. Cookies and related technologies may involve the transmission of information regarding your access to and use of Opinions’ website either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. We may use cookies to store information about your visit to this website in order to enhance your experience. We may also use cookies and tracking technologies to: (a) track user visits, including individual page visits; and (b) save your password so you do not have to provide it each time you visit this website. The information we gather automatically through cookies, web beacons, and related technologies may include, but is not limited to, records from server logs found on your browser, your IP address, the type of web browser you are using to access the website, the type of operating system you are using, the name of the domain and host from which you access the internet, the date and time you access the website, and the internet address of the site from which you have linked directly to the website. Cookies are text files that can be rejected, disabled, or deleted by you at any time. Your internet browser settings may permit you to disable or delete cookies. By disabling, deleting, or rejecting cookies, you may potentially inhibit part of the user experience on this website and other websites. Server logs are digital files that automatically record a user’s activities. Opinions uses server logs to track usage of this website. Those server logs are used by a third‐party provider to collect information on behalf of Opinions. The collected information could potentially be used to understand more about the use of this website.

Links

Opinions’ website may contain third-party links to additional resources. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. Opinions has no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, Opinions seeks to protect the integrity of its site and welcomes feedback about these links. Creating a text link from your website to our site does not require permission.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we take industry standard measures and other efforts to preserve user privacy, Opinions may need to disclose personal information (including personally identifiable information) to a third party if Opinions is required by law to do so. For example, Opinions may be required to disclose your personal information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process. We may also disclose personal information in response to a verified law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate or address unlawful acts that may endanger the health or safety of a consumer or the general public, or to verify or enforce compliance with the terms of use and policies that govern this website, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

Access to Information and Data Rectification

You have at any time the right of access, modification, correction, and removal of your data collected in our database. You may request this by contacting Opinions by email or in writing at the address mentioned below. Complete removal may not be immediate, however, and in some instances, archival copies may be impossible to delete. Opinions reserves the right to retain any personal information reasonably necessary to appropriately document its business activities and for archival and record retention purposes. We will store your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this privacy policy and as required by applicable law.

Managing Preferences

The accuracy of your information is important to us. Anytime you receive an email from us, you may click the “Update My Preferences” link at the bottom of the email and an email will be sent to the email we have on file for you with a link to update your information. If you need to change anything else, please email us at: Steven @opinionsltd.com or write to us at: Opinions, Ltd. 31 South Franklin Street, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022, United States. Alternatively, can call us at +1 (440) 893-0300.

How You Can Withdraw Consent to Be Emailed or Unsubscribe from Receiving Emails

If you wish to stop receiving emails from Opinions, you may do so by clicking the “unsubscribe from this list” link at the bottom of any email. You may also email us at: [email protected] or write to us at: Opinions, Ltd. 31 South Franklin Street, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022, United States. Alternatively, you can call us at +1 (440) 893-0300.
You have the right under applicable law to ask for a copy of the information Opinions has about you.

Third-Party Service Providers Working on Our Behalf

If you receive emails from us, we may pass your information to our third-party service providers. However, when we use third-party service providers, we only disclose the information that is necessary to deliver the service, and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure, refrain from using it for their own purposes and according to applicable law.

Opinions does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer users’ personally identifiable information to outside parties. Opinions has a strict policy against sharing or selling mailing lists and customer or survey respondent information.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with other rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit our California Privacy Policy.

Updates and Changes

Opinions may change this privacy policy from time to time by posting updated versions of the privacy policy on this website and providing notice of changes via email to those who have provided us with their email address and consented to receiving emails from us. If we make changes to this privacy policy, we will also post a notice of those changes on our website. By continuing to use our website, you agree to the terms contained in this privacy policy and any updates; it is your obligation to review this privacy policy from time to time and to review updates that are posted on this website. The version of this privacy policy that shall be deemed effective as of any given date and time shall be solely the version that is posted on that date and at that time. The information we collect on this website will be treated in accordance with the privacy policy as in effect at the time the information is collected under applicable law.

Contact Us

The controller of your personal data, under applicable data privacy legislation and in regard to the processing of personal information, is:

Opinions, Ltd.
31 South Franklin Street
Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022
United States

Tel.: +1 (440) 893-0300
Fax: +1 (440) 893-9333
Email: [email protected]

Please contact us if you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices.