Sample Strategies have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the company’s information gathering and dissemination practices. It is important for you to understand what information we collect about you during your site visit or survey participation and what we do with that information. This privacy policy applies to information collected by Sample Strategies, through online surveys conducted on Sample Strategies community and any other information that is collected by Sample Strategies. Your visit to www.sampstrategies.com is subject to this Privacy Policy.
- Personal Information Collection and Use:
We do not collect personally identifiable information about you, except when you provide it to us. For example, if you submit an inquiry to us, sign up on the website etc., you may be asked to provide certain information such as your contact details (name, e-mail address, company, etc.). When you submit your personally identifiable information, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as set forth in this privacy policy. If you would prefer that we not collect any personally identifiable information from you, please do not provide us with any such information. We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to third parties without your consent, except as otherwise disclosed in this privacy policy.The Sample Strategies program processes your personal data for the following purposes:- The creation of a database of individuals willing to take part in research and surveys;
- Contacting you by email to invite you to take part in surveys and when permitted by you, to send you electronic marketing communications keeping you informed about the activities of Sample Strategies;
- Evaluating which individuals registered with Sample Strategies are best suited for and therefore should be approached for specific surveys;
- Providing you with information about rewards/gifts given to you by Sample Strategies as a result of your responding to survey requests;
- Processing the answers to surveys and summarizing the results;
- Undertaking research surveys on behalf of third parties;
- Keeping you informed and obtain your views of Sample Strategies products, services and activities;
- The administration of your membership of Sample Strategies (if you have registered as a member);
- Statutory and regulatory compliance;
- Processing any enquiries raised by you and other communications initiated by you in relation to your dealings with Sample Strategies and any services provided by Sample Strategies;
- Transferring to third parties who provide services or benefits to participants of Sample Strategies;
- We may also use the information you provide in aggregate form for internal business purposes, such as generating statistics and developing marketing plans;
- We may share or transfer such non-personally identifiable information with our affiliates, licensees, agents and partners;
- We may retain other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include, without limitation, customer support and fulfillment companies (e.g., companies that coordinate mailings). Such third parties may be provided with access to personally identifiable information needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for any other purpose;
- In addition, we may disclose any information, including personally identifiable information, we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal proceeding or governmental request;
- We may collect personal information from you when you communicate with us through any media;
- We may also collect personal data that relate to you from third parties;
- Anonymity:
Sample Strategies will, from time to time, assist research organizations in other jurisdictions to survey people in the countries in which it operates. In these circumstances it will either send you a survey to complete, the answers of which will be summarized keeping anonymity confidential and sent to the client or they will prepare questions for you to answer directly. In such circumstances your personal data is not transferred to third parties.We would like to assure you that Sample Strategies provides clients with data files containing anonymous answers to survey questions or a report setting out and interpreting those answers. No personal data in respect of those individuals responding to a survey will be given to clients of Sample Strategies. - Monitoring of Telephone Calls and E-mails:
Your telephone calls and e-mails to us may be recorded and monitored for quality control purposes. We may also intercept communications made to individual members of staff at Sample Strategies when this is required for business purposes. - Security:
This site has the security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. - Log Files:
www.sampstrategies.com records details of individual accesses to its web pages. This information may include details of Internet IP addresses and browser types. We use this information to provide a more relevant site for you. In addition, we use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Access by third parties to full log files may be allowed under controlled circumstances for the purposes of auditing. Abstracted log information not showing individual’s actual Internet addresses is provided to third parties.Cookie Policy:Cookies are files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date).A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.Persistent cookies help websites remember your information and settings when you visit them in the future. This result in faster and more convenient access since, for example, you don’t have to login again. Besides authentication, other website features made possible by persistent cookies include: language selection, theme selection, preferences, internal site bookmarks or favorites, among many others.
Persistent cookies are used to store your e-mail address and encrypted password. Sample Strategies uses this cookie to recognize you when you visit our website so that we may provide you with customized pages based on information in your profile. This cookie is also required to log in and view member-specific information on the Web site.Sample Strategies uses session cookies to maintain your session state across user requests. This type of cookie is used to record survey status, time spent in a survey, country and 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 site or on a third party’s site. This information will include the URL that you just came from, browser you are using, your IP address, operating system, time-stamp etc. We do not associate information stored in our cookies to personally identifiable information that you submit to us while using our website.By the use of the site all site users authorize cookies to be put in place and their use by Sample Strategies and Sample Strategies clients and business partners. The cookies will expire after one year.You can refuse to accept cookies, by adjusting the privacy settings of your Web browser software. You can, however, manage privacy and storage settings for local shared objects or disable their use entirely by visiting the website of Macromedia, the manufacturer of Flash Player, at the following link: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html - Digital Finger printing:
Digital fingerprinting technologies assign a unique identifier or “Machine-ID” to a user’s computer to identify and track the computer. Sample Strategies will not use digital fingerprinting technology to collect personal information, or track the online activities of the user and will not disrupt or interfere with the use or control of a computer or alter, modify or change the settings or functionality of a computer.Sample Strategies will use the technology to assist their clients in ensuring the integrity of survey results. The technology will analyze publicly available information and data obtained from the computer’s web browser and from other publicly available data points, including without limitation the technical settings of the computer, characteristics of the computer, and the computer’s IP Address, to create a unique identifier assigned to the computer. The unique identifier will be an alpha-numeric ID. After creating the unique identifier, Sample Strategies does not retain the information to create the unique identifier - Notification of Changes:
We may revise this privacy policy from time to time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the revised policy here. As we may make changes at any time without notifying you, we suggest that you periodically consult this privacy policy. Please note that our rights to use your personally identifiable information will be based on the privacy policy in effect at the time the information is used. - Comments:
We have taken great measures to ensure that your visit to our site is an excellent one and that your privacy is respected. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact us by email on info@sampstrategies.com or write to the following address:
Sample Strategies
603, Anushka Tower, Garg Trade Center, Rohini, Delhi