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Discovery Participants/Survey Participants Privacy Policy
Updated and Effective as of: June 1, 2012
Riviera Advisors, Inc. (collectively with its affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions, “Riviera Advisors” or “we” or “us”), a leading human resources consulting company, is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. We routinely review our security features and privacy practices, and enhance them to better protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains in general terms how we collect, store, use, and disclose your Personal Information (as defined below) and certain other information that we receive from you.
You acknowledge your consent to this Privacy Policy if you:
- Use any of the following websites: www.rivieraadvisors.com, www.staroundtable.com, www.candidatesurveys.net and www.recruitconsult.net
- Participate in market research activities, including questionnaires, surveys, and online focus groups, offered, provided, hosted, or administered by us (collectively, “Research Activities”).
We also participate in the Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union (the “Framework”). Information about the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor certification can be found at www.export.gov/safeharbor. Our compliance with the Framework may be limited in certain cases to the extent necessary to meet national security, public interest, or law enforcement requirements.
What is Personal Information?
Personal Information is any information that is identifiable with you. Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, date of birth, gender, mailing address, phone number, email address, identification numbers and, in certain circumstances, your opinions and individual preferences. Personal Information, however, does not include your name, business title, business address, business telephone number, business fax, or business email in your capacity as an employee of an organization, or, depending upon the jurisdiction, publicly available information. However, if you participate in Research Activities in your capacity as an employee of an organization, your responses will not be identified to you without your consent.
How Do We Collect Your Personal Information?
We always will collect your Personal Information by fair and lawful means. For instance, we collect Personal Information from survey participants when they participate in Research Activities (“Discovery Participants”), and other users of our Websites (“Site Users”) when they request information regarding our products and services. We also obtain e-mail addresses of prospective Discovery Participants from our clients as well as providers of address lists who have assured us that such lists are comprised of individuals who have consented to be listed.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We may use your Personal Information (i) to contact you and communicate with you about your your participation in Research Activities, (ii) to conduct Research Activities with you and provide you with the results of such Research Activities, (iii) to validate answers you provide us in connection with your participation in Research Activities, (iv) to notify you about new features on our Websites, or other products or services that we think you may be interested in, (v) to administer and manage our incentives programs and fulfill your requests for incentives, (vi) to allow you to participate in sweepstakes and to notify you if you are a sweepstakes winner, (vii) to update our records of your information, (viii) to provide service and support to you, (ix) to verify the integrity of submitted information, and (x) as otherwise permitted by law or authorized by you.
We may maintain your Personal Information in order to satisfy your requests and/or our business requirements. For instance, we may retain the email address of persons who opted out, or requested to be removed from, one of our surveys in order to ensure that we conform to such wish.
We do not share your Personal Information with, or sell or rent your Personal Information to, third parties, except with your consent or as described in this Privacy Policy. We follow applicable laws and industry best practices with respect to the disclosure of Personal Information to third parties. We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as follows:
- In accordance with market research industry guidelines, we may provide your Personal Information to a third party, including the client who commissioned the Research Activity you participated in, so long as the third party is contractually bound to keep your Personal Information confidential and use it only for research or statistical purposes;
- In connection with market research services, to our authorized and approved agents, contractors, or partners that facilitate such services, including, without limitation, incentive program and sweepstakes prize fulfillment, web hosting, list matching, quality control, and the like; provided, however, such parties may use your Personal Information only to provide services to Riviera Advisors and may not share your Personal Information with any other third parties;
- In response to the request or requirement of any law enforcement agency or governmental authority, to such government agencies or instrumentalities;
- Pursuant to required legal process, to the related compelling party;
- When necessary or desirable to exercise or preserve our legal rights;
- When we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with suspected or actual illegal activity;
- In connection with a change of ownership, such as a merger or an acquisition or a sale of any or all of our business assets; or
- As otherwise authorized by you.
Our Websites may contain links to information on other websites, such as our survey technology providers. We do not have any control over these other websites, and therefore we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how another website uses your information, please consult that website’s privacy statement.
What Other Information Do We Collect And How Do We Use The Information?
If you elect to participate in Research Activities, we also may collect certain demographic information about you, including, without limitation, your income level, interests, hobbies, and product/technology usage. We collect this information so that we can invite you to participate in Research Activities that correspond with your interests and/or background. We also use this information to ensure that our Discovery Participants meet the demographic requirements for each Research Activity.
We also may separately invite Discovery Participants to participate in a program where we will ask you to grant us permission to monitor certain of your conduct, behavior, interactions, communications, and/or exchanges, both online and offline, as part of certain Research Activities. Any information, including Personal Information, that we collect or receive in connection with your participation in any such program will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the applicable terms and conditions provided to you in connection with your invitation to participate in such program.
Additionally, we (or our survey technology provider) may automatically collect a variety of machine readable information about you and/or use certain technologies when you participate in certain Research Activities, as discussed below.
- Log Files. As is true of most websites, our servers collect certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type, your Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, your operating system, and date/time stamp. We use this information for administration of our Websites, gathering demographic information about our Discovery Participants, monitoring compliance with our terms of use, troubleshooting, and investigating security breaches. We do not link this automatically-collected data to your Personal Information.
- Cookies. Like many companies, we use browser cookies on our Websites. Browser cookies are bits of text that are placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit certain websites. We use browser cookies to tell us, for example, whether you’ve visited us before or if you’re a new visitor, and to help us identify features on our Websites in which you may have the greatest interest. Browser cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting our Websites. We and our authorized and approved agents, contractors, and partners also may use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our Websites. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will instruct you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. Remember though, without cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the features on our Websites or participate in certain Research Activities. We also may use Flash cookies (also known as a Local Shared Objects) for a variety of research purposes, including, without limitation, to enhance your online experience, help maintain the integrity of our research data, store certain of your preferences, display content based upon what you view, personalize your visit, track your behavior and activities across multiple visits to our Websites, detect duplicates, and combat fraudulent participation in Research Activities. Flash cookies are similar to browser cookies, except that they can store data more complex than simple text. Flash cookies, by themselves, cannot do anything to or with the data on your computer. In addition, Flash cookies cannot access or remember your email address or other Personal Information unless you provide the information on our Websites. If you want to delete Flash cookies, you will need to access your Flash Player settings management tool available on Adobe’s website at www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html.
- Digital Fingerprinting. As a quality control measure to maintain the integrity of Internet-based research, we may use a digital fingerprinting technology, also known as “machine identification” technology, to gather certain information about your computer, including, without limitation, your IP address, the type of operating system type/version you are using, your browser type, version and parameter values, your computer configuration, the software and cookies residing on your computer, the display settings on your monitor, and the plug-ins residing on your computer. This information is sent to our trusted third-party partner who converts it into a unique serial number for your computer – the digital fingerprint – through use of a proprietary algorithm and determines if it matches any previous digital fingerprint. We use this technology to assist our clients in ensuring the integrity of our research by detecting duplicate Discovery Participants and combating fraudulent participation in Research Activities. Our third party partner also may store Flash cookies (which are discussed above) on your computer solely in connection with its efforts on our behalf to ensure the integrity of our research. We will not use this technology to collect any of your Personal Information, or track your online activities. Also, our use of this technology will not disrupt or interfere with your use or control of your computer, or alter, modify, or change the settings or functionality of your computer. In furtherance of our efforts to ensure the integrity of our research, we may link or associate a unique identifier to you and/or your Personal Information, share your unique identifier with our clients and with other sample or panel providers, and receive or obtain a unique identifier linked to you from a third party, including without limitation, a sample or panel provider or one of our clients. Any unique identifier(s) received or obtained by us and linked to you will be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that this technology that we use is safe, secure, and does not cause undue privacy or data security risks, and is conducted in a professional and ethical manner and in accordance with applicable industry standards and laws. If we discover that this technology is not being used in accordance with the foregoing, we will take prompt corrective action.
The use of browser cookies, Flash cookies, or web beacons by third parties on our Websites is not covered by this Privacy Policy, as we do not have access or control over their use. We recommend that you carefully read the privacy policies of each website that you visit for information on their privacy, security, data collection, and distribution policies.
How Do You Access, Correct Or Update The Information You Provide Us?
We will store your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise permitted or required by law. We will make available to you your Personal Information in our custody or control upon your written request, to the extent required and/or permitted by law. To request access to your Personal Information, please submit your request to us in writing at the applicable e-mail address or postal address shown below in the “How Do You Contact Us?” section of this Privacy Policy. We will attempt to fulfill your request within 30 days. However, we may not be able to provide you with access to all of your Personal Information if doing so would likely result in us revealing Personal Information about a third party or confidential commercial information, or if such Personal Information has been collected for the purposes of a legal investigation. If this is the case, we will advise you of the reason we are unable to accommodate your request.
What Safeguards Have We Implemented To Help Ensure The Security Of Your Information?
We have security measures in place on our Websites that are designed to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our custody or control. We maintain commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of Personal Information. Additionally, only those authorized employees, contractors, and agents who have a need to know Personal Information in connection with the performance of their services are allowed to access this information. In addition, these individuals and or entities are required to be bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to disciplinary actions, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet their confidentiality obligations. In the unlikely event that we suffer a breach of our security systems and an individual or entity gains unauthorized access to any Personal Information stored on our servers, we will immediately investigate such security breach, and will provide prompt notice to any individual whose Personal Information was affected.
Your Personal Information may be collected, stored, processed, used, and transferred by Riviera Advisors affiliated companies or non-affiliated service providers in one or more countries outside your originating country. By using our Websites, becoming a Panel Member, or participating in Research Activities, you freely and specifically consent to the transfer, storage, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information among our affiliated companies and non-affiliated service providers, wherever located. Our service providers are contractually bound to respect the confidentiality of your Personal Information.
While navigating our Websites you may be directed to content or functionality that is hosted by a third party supplier, not on a Riviera Advisors owned domain. For example, this is done on our survey pages which is controlled by another provider.. When information is collected on behalf of us exclusively on one of our Websites, this Privacy Policy will be referenced on such Website and will govern how your information is used. For other websites, the website owner’s privacy policy will be referenced and will govern how your information is used. We recommend that you carefully read the privacy policies of each website that you visit for information on their privacy, security, data collection, and distribution policies.
How Do We Notify You of Changes To This Privacy Policy?
We reserve the right, in our discretion, to modify our privacy practices and update and make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. As we modify our Websites to accommodate changes in our business model, developments in our industry, and take advantage of technological advances, the practices described in this Privacy Policy may change. For this reason, we encourage you to refer to this Privacy Policy on an ongoing basis. This Privacy Policy is current as of the “last revised” date which appears at the top of this page. We will treat your Personal Information in a manner consistent with the version of this Privacy Policy under which it was collected, unless we have your consent via email, telephone or other appropriate means to treat it differently. By using our Websites, continuing as a Panel Member, or participating in Research Activities following any Privacy Policy change, you freely and specifically give us your consent to collect, use, transfer, and disclose your Personal Information in the manner specified in such then-current Privacy Policy.
If you are a Discovery Participant or Site User and have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or, as mentioned earlier, wish to correct, update or delete any of your information, please contact us HERE. You may also write to us:
Riviera Advisors, Inc.
PO Box 41446
Long Beach, CA 90853 USA
We will endeavor to respond to all inquiries via email or regular mail within 30 days of receipt.
