PRIVACY STATEMENT
Effective On 6/2/2004
McMillion Research is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy
Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission
is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the
use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the site
www.mindfieldonline.com. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment
to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and
have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement,
you should first contact Paul L. McNeely, by Email: privacy@mindfieldonline.com,
800.969.9235 or Mindfield Online c/o McMillion Research LLC. 1012 Kanawha
Blvd. East, Charleston, WV 25301. If you do not receive acknowledgment of
your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should
then contact TRUSTe http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as
a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.
Information Collection and Use
Registration
To use this Web site, first complete the registration
form and create a user name and password. During registration, you
are required to give contact information (such as name and email address).
We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in
which you have expressed interest such as participating in our surveys.
You have the option to provide demographic information
(such as income level, gender and zip code). We encourage you to submit
this information since omission of this information may hinder your being
eligible to participate in certain surveys.
McMillion Research is the sole owner of the information collected on Mindfield
Online. McMillion Research collects personally identifiable information from
our users at several different points on our Web site. We do not provide
contact information to third parties without notifying you prior to sharing
the information.
Surveys
We provide you the opportunity to participate in multiple surveys on our
site. We may use a third-party service provider to conduct these surveys;
however, we will not share the personally identifiable information you provide
through a survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice
and choice. For example, if you agree to participate in a product test, we
may need to share your personal information such as your name and mailing
address with our client in order for the client to send you the product that
you will be testing. In these cases you will be notified prior to our sharing
the information and you can choose whether to participate in the product test. We
do not allow our clients to use your information for any other purpose other
than to send you the product to be tested. For reward purposes, a randomly
generated unique identifier will be used for completion tracking.
Referral System
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a
friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend?s name and email
address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email
inviting him or her to visit the site. McMillion Research stores
this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and
tracking the success of our referral program.
Your friend may contact us at privacy@mindfieldonline.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
Communications from the Site
Invitations
When you pre-qualify for a study you will be sent an invitation email from
us. You may not opt out of this email at this time without unsubscribing
from www.mindfieldonline.com.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions
when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily
suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt out of these communications, which are not promotional
in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option
to deactivate your account.
Customer Service
Based on the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will
send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We
will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide
the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate
with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
As data collection facility, we share aggregated demographic information
about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information
does not identify individual users. In cases where we need to link aggregate
user data associated with a specific individual for reward purposes and the
like, we will associate a randomly generated unique identifier.
Personally Identifiable Information
We do not share, sell, or rent personally identifiable information with
third parties without first providing you notice. Such information is needed
for online focus groups and recruitments. If personal information is required,
you will be notified before you participate. Your continued participation
in the study after this notification acknowledges that you agree to the sharing
of your personal information.
Service Providers
We utilize Integration Inc. to provide check writing services for our company. Upon
your request for payment, we will provide Integration Inc. your name, address
and payment amount to be processed. We do not utilize any other third party
service providers other than what has been mentioned here.
Integration Inc. is strictly prohibited from
using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right
to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law
and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights
and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process
served on our Web site
Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ?opt-out? of having your personally identifiable
information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information.
If you no longer wish to participate in our surveys and
receive survey invitations, you may opt-out of receiving them by following
the instructions included
in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at support@mindfieldonline.com.
Log Files
On our web site, we gather certain information automatically
and store it in log files. This information includes Internet protocol
(IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit
pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual
users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users? movements
around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base
as a whole.
We may need to link this automatically collected data
to personally identifiable information for purposes such as investigating
cases of fraud or misuse of the website.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user?s computer for record-keeping
purposes. We currently use cookies on this site. We also may in the future
link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information
you submit while on our site.
We currently use session ID cookies only. We use session cookies to
make it easier for you to navigate our site and maintain your session so
you don?t have to login repeatedly. A session ID cookie expires when you
close your browser.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled
by McMillion Research. Please be aware that we, McMillion Research, are not
responsible for the privacy practices of other such sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable
information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web
site.
Co-branded sites
Co-branding is the method of having a user connect with
a different web site but make it appear to be the same site. In certain
circumstance our clients may prefer to host the questionnaires themselves. If
this is the case, the questionnaires may appear to be from mindfieldonline.com. Information provided to the
clients is outlined in the "Information Sharing and Disclosure" section.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes,
or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or
deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing
our Customer Support at support@mindfieldonline.com or
by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed
below.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive
it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic
storage, is 100 percent secure, however. Therefore, while we strive
to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information,
we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email
us at privacy@mindfieldonline.com.
Business Transitions
In the event McMillion Research goes through a business
transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of
all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information
will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified
via email or prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change
in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in This Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places
we deem appropriate so that you are aware of the information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement
at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material
changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means
of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please
contact us at privacy@mindfieldonline.com, 800.969.9235 or Mindfield Online
c/o McMillion Research LLC. 1012 Kanawha Blvd. East, Charleston, WV 25301.
