Prized Opinion Website Privacy Policy
Last updated on 11th,Feb,2022.
DOITNOW RESEARCH LIMITED. ("DOITNOW," "us", "we”, or “our”), located in the United Kingdom, is the operator of https://prizedopinion.com/, along with our associated websites and services (collectively, the "Site"). DOITNOW values the privacy of our users, members, and others (collectively or individually "Users") who visit and use the Site. This statement governs information you provide to us or that we learn from your use of the Site and tells you how we may collect, use, and in some instances share, this information. By accessing or using the websites, participating in our surveys, or in any other services we provide (collectively, Services), you are agreeing to the practices set within this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our Privacy Policy, then you must not access or use our Services. Our Services, which may be provided through or in connection with third party mobile applications or third party websites, may redirect you to third party mobile applications or websites through which you accessed the Services.
Information Collected
User Provided Information:
You may provide to DOITNOW what is generally called "personally identifiable" information when you register, such as your name and e-mail address. In addition, DOITNOW gives you the option to provide us with certain demographic information about yourself and to upload photographs or other personally identifiable information. For information you provide to DOITNOW when you register or update your account, DOITNOW is the controller and responsible for your data. As described in further detail below in the section Information Collected by Third Parties, you may also be connected with different third parties through their offers and surveys. Where you provide your information to a third party, the third party will serve as the controller of your data.
In order to become a member of the Site you are required to provide information through the registration process. At this time, DOITNOW will ask for identity and contact data, including your first name, last name, email address, zip code, gender, country, username, and password. Additional profile, technical, usage, and marketing and communication data, such as your telephone number, IP address, and general demographic information such as postal code, marital status, education, relationship status, occupation history, ethnicity/race (where permitted by relevant law), health information, employment related information, and non-personally identifiable information on household members, household income, age, etc. may be asked. As a means to ensure consent around user data, you will be asked to provide confirmation that you have obtained consent on behalf of a family member, live-in member and spouse regarding their personally identifiable information.
We may also ask for special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Providing this information, however, is entirely voluntary. As with other personal data collected by DOITNOW, the information will be used to offer appropriate offers and surveys to you.
DOITNOW is able to tailor its efforts to its users by receiving more (and accurate) information about users. You may edit your account information at any time by logging into your account with your username and password and going to the My Preferences drop down under your name on the Dashboard. Any and all changes will be made immediately once you hit Save. Please update this information as you see fit so that DOITNOW maintains accurate information about you. DOITNOW seeks to ensure that any information collected remains relevant for the intent for which it is to be used and, to the extent necessary, DOITNOW takes reasonable steps to ensure that data is reliable, valid, complete, and current.
"Automatically Collected" Information:
When you visit the Site or open one of our HTML emails, we automatically collect and store information about your computer or mobile device along with your online activities. Referred to as “Response Metadata”, this information will be transferred and stored in accordance with the provisions contained in this Privacy Policy. Response Metadata (referred to as “Response Data”) and related information may be shared with survey generators and researchers along with clients and app developers. Response Data may also be provided to unaffiliated third parties for their own internal purposes, such as and not limited to marketing purposes. If you wish to opt-out of having your information shared with these Third Parties, please contact compliance@prizedopinion.com. You may also opt-out by deleting your account in its entirety.
Response Metadata, includes and is not limited to the below:
"Cookies" Information:
When you visit the Site, we may send one or more cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. Cookies are small files which are placed on your computer and allow us to perform analytics, operations of services and assessment of the usage of the Services – including but not limited to user preferences or trends (e.g., the Services may set a cookie on your browser allowing you to bypass engagement with a survey due to your previous completion of a survey). DOITNOW uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Site. These persistent types of cookies can be removed. Each web browser implements different functionality, so please refer to the manuals or technical support resources that are available in conjunction with your web browser to learn the correct way to modify your cookies set-up. If you are using the Site in a jurisdiction where your prior consent is required for us to deploy any particular cookies, you will be asked to accept such cookies before they are deployed. For additional information on cookies, reference Prized Opinion Cookie Policy and DOITNOW Research Cookie Policy.
If you elect to disable or reject cookies, Services may not function properly. By doing so, you refuse any cookies from the Services and assume all responsibility of lacking or diminished functionality or benefits associated with the Services.
Device Details: technical specifications about your computer or device (e.g., web browser, operating system, type of device, IP address, etc.)
Geographic Location: IP address of your computer or device for approximate geographic location
Time, Duration and Extent of Usage: during usage of service (e.g., time required to complete a survey) along with the Services feature(s) and/or function(s) utilized
Web Beacons: potentially utilized in email communications as a means to understand the behavior of our users, “web beacons” (referred to as “pixel tags” or “clear gifs”) are small transparent graphic images that are implemented along with cookies to enhance and cater Services for our users from a collection of limited information.
"Optionally Collected" Information:
By agreeing to participate and installing optional contextual tracking on your computer and/or mobile device, you are granting us permission to passively collect information about your online behavior. With collection of Mobile Device ID, we are able to collect mobile device identifiers including and not limited to Apple’s Identifier for Advertising ID (IDFA) and Google’s Android Advertising ID (AAID), to aid in our ability to identify you within a mobile application and match you to relevant survey opportunities.
When you use your computer, we may record the identity of the websites you visit, what time you visited those websites, how long you spent browsing or using them, the words and phrases you input into search engines, which search engines you use, the software and applications you use in order to browse online and use the internet. You have the ability to pause or disable the optional contextual tracking.
Additional information may be gathered and retained:
Survey Information
When hosting surveys for our survey partners, DOITNOW may capture the information provided through these surveys. DOITNOW does not own this information. As such, any information you elect to provide to DOITNOW is used in accordance with the survey partner’s privacy practices.
User Feedback
In the instance during which you provide DOITNOW with any comments, suggestions, or feedback related to our Services (referred to as “Feedback’), you understand that we may, although not obligated to do so, retain, utilize, disclose or otherwise commercially use your Feedback in connection with any or all of our Services without any compensation or consideration to you.
How We Use Your Information
DOITNOW uses the information we collect to provide to you all of the features and services found on the Site. When you complete offers and surveys on the Site, DOITNOW will need to identify you so that we can determine you completed any offer or survey and that we can also credit your account accordingly. DOITNOW may also use your email address to correspond with you and notify you of offers or surveys that we deem to be a good fit. We may use your email address for marketing purposes, unless you have expressly notified us that you prefer for us not to use your email address for any specific marketing purposes ("opt-out"). While you may opt-out from such marketing use, you may not opt-out from our use of your email address for nonmarketing or administrative purposes such as automatic notifications of recent account activity or notifying you of major site updates.
Per the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may use the information we collect from you for the following reasons:
Performance of a contract. For example, to match you with the appropriate survey opportunities or offer or fulfill promotional offers.
For our necessary legitimate business interests. For example:
To assess and generate survey data for use with the Services and our third party customers;
With the use of cookies, DOITNOW is able to collect information as a means to: (a) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Site; (b) provide custom, personalized advertisements, content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; and (d) monitor aggregate usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed.
Develop new features and functionality
Enhance the survey experience and overall survey delivers through the Services;
To minimize instances of fraud and other illegal activities;
To monitor and analyze any trends and usage using Google Analytics to provide us with aggregated information about how Users interact with the Site and setting cookies and/or use web beacons for this purpose. The information gathered by the Google Analytics software (including any personal information about you) will be sent to Google where it will be stored and used by Google in accordance with its own privacy policy rather than ours. Please review the Google Privacy Policy http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ or contact Google for more information.
To communicate with you about the various Services;
To furnish, uphold, and improve the Services and our business;
Provision of administration and IT services, network security, and to prevent fraud
To grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy; and
To keep our website updated and relevant.
As such, where required by law, we require your prior opt-in consent at the time of collection for the processing of (i) personal information for marketing purposes, (ii) personal, sensitive, or “special category” information per applicable law.
You may also withdraw your consent or object at any time, on legitimate grounds, to the processing of your personal information by contacting DOITNOW Compliance at compliance@prizedopinion.com. Upon receiving your request, we will apply your preferences on a go forward basis. In some instances, withdrawing your consent to our use or disclosure of your personal information will dictate your ability to access certain services, surveys or promotional offers.
You may also opt-out and advise DOITNOW to terminate sending you any marketing communications by e-mail. This can be achieved by clicking on the unsubscribe link within the marketing emails you receive from us or by contacting DOITNOW Compliance at compliance@prizedopinion.com.
Optional contextual tracking will operate passively in the background and will not affect your connection speed. We will not intentionally use such contextual tracking to collect highly sensitive Personal Information such as passwords, usernames, social security or personal identification numbers, financial information (other than the fact that you may have visited the website or used the app of a financial institution or similar company) or health information (other than the fact that you have visited a health insurance or healthcare provider website or performed searches related to a particular medical condition or health concern).
Information Collected by Third Parties
DOITNOW, by nature of its business, connects you with different third parties through their offers and surveys. In the event that you subscribe to or opt-in to a third party offer or survey, DOITNOW may provide your information to the third party so that we can facilitate the relationship between you and the third party. In many cases you will be asked directly by third parties to give them your personally identifiable information. This may happen when you complete an offer or a survey or when you use their own websites or by other means. DOITNOW is not responsible for any information which you provide to Third Parties. DOITNOW suggests reading those privacy policies associated with those third parties.
DOITNOW may disclose information to our providers who provide services such as website hosting, information technology, data analysis, and infrastructure services, email delivery, auditing, customer service, and other services. DOITNOW may disclose both personally identifiable and automatically collected information to affiliated companies or other businesses or persons to process such information on our behalf, to provide website maintenance and security, to offer certain features on the Site, to assist us in improving the way the Site works and looks, and to create new features. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our Privacy Policy, we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information, and we require these parties to use any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
DOITNOW may share automatically collected and other aggregated non-personally-identifiable information with interested third parties for their use and distribution for their business purposes, including without limitation for the purposes of assisting them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, and promotions.
DOITNOW may share optionally collected information to develop statistics about Internet use and online activity and provide in aggregate for clients regarding trends in consumer behavior and consumer interest for future and/or present products and services.
We may share personally identifiable information with other third party organizations for their marketing or promotional use without your consent, except with respect to any specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-out.
We may disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with laws or to respond to subpoenas, court orders, warrants or other legal demands or to establish or defend DOITNOW from legal claims; or (b) to protect and defend our rights or property, you, or third parties from fraud, abuse or violations of the Terms of Service or illegal acts; or (c) to protect the safety or integrity of DOITNOW, its users, the public or other parties as it is deemed appropriate, in our sole discretion. You hereby consent to our sharing your personally identifying information under the circumstances described herein.
We may also share your personal information and/or social-demographic information, including and without limitation, a unique identification number ("UID"), postal code, gender, marital status, education, ethnicity/race (where permitted by applicable law), employment related information, and non-personally identifiable information on household members, with third party sample/market research companies (individually each a "Third Party MR Company" and collectively the "Third Party MR Companies") for the purpose of identifying survey opportunities that you may be eligible for through the Third Party MR Companies. As such, Third Party MR Companies may share your social-demographic information with their clients or vendors. This includes information shared with an acquirer, successor, or assignee during a reorganization effort, sale, merger, joint venture, transfer, assignment or disposition of part or all of our business, assets or stock including and not limited to bankruptcy. Likewise, if necessary by law or by necessity of good faith, Third Party MR companies may deem the following actions necessary and share your information under certain circumstances:
under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;
to comply in accordance with legal process;
to reply to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
to enforce our terms and conditions;
to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates;
to guard our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and
to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
If you are eligible for a survey opportunity, the Third Party MR Company will provide your unique identification number along with a survey link to us and we will invite you to participate in the survey. We will not share your name, email address, or phone number with the Third Party MR Companies. In connection with the sharing of your information with a Third Party MR Company, your information may be transferred and stored outside of your country of residence, including, without limitation, in the United States. If you have any questions about this data sharing please contact us using the details below or alternatively you can opt-out by deleting your account by navigating to your Preferences in Prized Opinion. Your participation in such survey opportunities does not entitle you to any benefits offered by, or membership with, the Third Party MR Companies. If you have any inquiries surrounding data sharing or would like to opt-out of having your information shared with Third Party MR Companies, please contact DOITNOW Compliance at compliance@prizedopinion.com.
Except as otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy, DOITNOW does not share personal information about Users with third parties unless doing so is appropriate to carry out a User’s request or it reasonably believes that doing so is legally required or is in DOITNOW’ interest to protect its property or other legal rights or the rights or property of others.
Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal information. Additionally, you have access to your personal information through your account and you may update, correct, or delete your member information and email preferences at any time. You may also object or request restriction of the processing of your information, request transfer of your personal information or withdraw your consent to processing. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at compliance@prizedopinion.com.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting Users profile access or changes. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE SECRECY OF YOUR UNIQUE PASSWORD AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION AS IDENTIFIED BY DOITNOW FROM TIME TO TIME, ALL INFORMATION THAT YOU POST FOR VIEWING ON THE SITE IS MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE TO ALL USERS OF THE SITE.
How We Protect Your Data
While we aim to protect your personal information from losses, breaches, disclosure, modification, or destruction, through maintenance and security measures, any provided information is subject to unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and exposed to inherent risks associated with Internet usage; resulting in potential compromise to the overall security of your data at any point in time. As such, we cannot guaranty the secure state of your information.
Location of Data
DOITNOW is located in the United Kingdom and if you are accessing or using the Services outside of the United Kingdom, please be advised that your data, including any Response Data may be sent to, stored, and processed in the United Kindgom. Data provided directly to DOITNOW may not be subject to “transfer” rules under the GDPR as no transfer is occurring. If a “transfer” does occur, DOITNOW rlies on Article 49 of the GDPR as the lawful basis for such a transfer. Take note that some countries may not uphold the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the data. We will protect your data as prescribed by this Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you agree to the collection, use, transfer, storage and release of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This includes the export of data outside of your country of residence.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by contacting us.
Child Protection
Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we do not knowingly collect or solicit Response Data nor personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of sixteen (16). Any person who provides their personal information to DOITNOW through the Site represents that they are 16 years of age or older. In the case you are a parent or legal guardian who discovers that your child has provided us with any of the foregoing, you may contact DOITNOW Compliance compliance@prizedopinion.com to delete their information.
How to Opt Out
The Site provides you with the opportunity to affirmatively opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about you. The Site gives you the option to end our use of your information, and to cease receiving or otherwise having access to future communications or services.
Third Party Advertisers
DOITNOW may allow other companies, called third party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Site. These third party ad servers or ad networks may use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear within the Site. They may automatically receive your IP Address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize their advertising content.
If your web browser includes a "Do Not Track" signal when you visit the Site, DOITNOW will not respond to the "Do Not Track" signal, because DOITNOW doesn’t track users across the web except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in.
DOITNOW does not authorize the collection of personally identifiable information by, or provide personally identifiable information to, these third party ad servers or ad networks except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in. Also, please note that if an advertiser asks DOITNOW to show an advertisement to a certain audience or audience segment and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they were trying to reach.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third party ad servers or ad networks. DOITNOW’ Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other ad servers or ad networks or their websites.
Data Security
No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make reasonable efforts to ensure security on our systems. We use secure server software (SSL) and firewalls to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be illegally or improperly accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software.
If DOITNOW learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using the Site or providing personal information to us, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Site. DOITNOW may post a notice on the Site if a security breach occurs. If this happens, you will need a web browser enabling you to view the Site. DOITNOW may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us via email at compliance@prizedopinion.com.
Privacy Policy For California Users
If you are a California resident, you may ask DoItNow to disclose what personal information we have about you and what we do with that information, to delete your personal information and not to sell your personal information. You also have the right to be notified, before or at the point businesses collect your personal information, of the types of personal information we are collecting and what we may do with that information. Generally, we cannot discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. we cannot make you waive these rights, and any contract provision that says you waive these rights is unenforceable
This landmark law secures new privacy rights for California consumers, including:
Personal information is information that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked with you or your household. For example, it could include your name, social security number, email address, records of products purchased, internet browsing history, geolocation data, fingerprints, and inferences from other personal information that could create a profile about your preferences and characteristics.
You may request that DoItNow disclose to you what personal information we have collected, used, shared, or sold about you, and why we collected, used, shared, or sold that information. Specifically, you may request that DoItNow disclose:
- The categories of personal information collected
- Specific pieces of personal information collected
- The categories of sources from which the business collected personal information
- The purposes for which the business uses the personal information
- The categories of third parties with whom the business shares the personal information
- The categories of information that the business sells or discloses to third parties
DoItNow must provide you this information for the 12-month period preceding your request. We must provide this information to you free of charge.
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International Users
The Site is hosted in the UK. Please note that your data will be sent to, stored, and processed in the UK which may not have the same data protection laws as the US and other regions, and by providing your personal data you consent to:
the use of your personal data for the uses identified above in accordance with the Privacy Policy; and the movement of your personal data to the UK as indicated above. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE LAWS OF THE UK TREAT YOUR INFORMATION IN A MANNER THAT MAY BE SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT FROM, AND LESS PROTECTIVE THAN, THE TREATMENT REQUIRED UNDER THE LAWS OF OTHER COUNTRIES AND JURISDICTIONS. IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED TO THE UK, YOU SHOULD NOT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH US, OR MAKE USE OF THE SITE.
For Any other information or if you have a request,you can reach us here below:
DOITNOW Research Limited.
APARTMENT 1804 55 UPPER GROUND LONDON ENGLAND SE1 9EY
support@prizedopinion.com
Additional,If you are located in Europe, please note the following requirements of the GDPR:
DOITNOW can provide services to users located in Europe.
1. In the interaction with European service users, DOITNOW is a data controller, so we are an organization that decides the purpose and way of using any personal data we collect.
2. You agree that we have the right to obtain, use and process the information you provide to us so that we can perform our services.
3.The legitimate reason for our processing of your personal information is "legal rights and interests". If we have legitimate and reasonable reasons and do not harm any of your rights and interests, we can process your personal information under the "legitimate rights and interests".
4.We only process your personal data in a legal, fair and transparent way for the legitimate purpose of providing services.
5.We will only request, process and maintain personal information to the extent necessary to provide services.
6.We will save the data in such a way that the data will only be retained during the period when the data subject is allowed to be identified, and the time shall not exceed the necessary time.
7.We will process personal information in a manner that ensures the appropriate security of the information, including preventing unauthorized processing and accidental loss.
For Users From China
The Localization law in China requires that personal data of Chinese residents remain in China.We store all users' data from China in our China Server.And we have China Data Controll Team and only authority people can access China Server.We will not transfer any China users data outside of China.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
DOITNOW reserves the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason. With any changes to the Privacy Policy, DOITNOW will display a "last updated" date found at the top of this Privacy Policy. Each time DOITNOW exercises such right, you shall be required to affirmatively accept the updated Privacy Policy, and if you fail to do so, you will no longer be able to access or use the Site.
Contacting DOITNOW
DOITNOW commits to resolve complaints about our user’s privacy and our collection or use of user’s personal data. EU or UK citizens with inquiries of complaints regarding this Privacy Policy should first contact DOITNOW at:
Email:
compliance@prizedopinion.com
You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues www.ico.org.uk. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.