Policies and Membership Terms of Agreement
MindField Online is pleased that you have chosen to join our online panel for survey research. It is our intent to offer you an honest way of earning additional income by participating in our online surveys. Below are some brief terms, which you must read and agree to prior to completing our registration process. Your registration confirms your willingness to abide by these terms, the terms to follow, and all eligibility determinations as prescribed by MindField Online, it's clients, or other parties pertinent to our research.
MindField Online is an equal opportunity provider. However, by statute the following persons, their immediate family (spouse, children, sibling, parent, grandparent) or other household members must be considered ineligible for participation in our surveys; employees and management of McMillion Research, LLC and MindField Online; certain affiliates; public relation firms; advertising firms; marketing firms; and marketing research and analysis firms, consultants, and contractors.
How to Register:
Registration is a must and is the initial phase of becoming a MindField Online panel member. Only one registration per person will be accepted and all required information must be provided as a means of validating your membership. After completing the initial required information questionnaire, you will receive an email with our panel participant survey which will allow us to best choose the surveys most suited for you and/or your household members.
Conditions:
Individuals are invited to register to become a member of the MindField Online member community. Eligibility to participate in online surveys varies per project and is determined by MindField Online's clientele. Surveys are targeted towards panel members with similar qualifying criteria as provided during registration. Cash incentives are offered to panel members for completing each survey. McMillion Research, LLC and MindField Online reserves the right to change, add or dissimulate these conditions at their discretion and at any time. The content and stimuli (pictures, videos, question verbiage, etc.) used in our surveys is the property of McMillion Research, L.L.C, our companies, and our clients.
Eligibility:
By law, all registrants must be no less than 15 years old. You must also be a legal resident of the country you designate during the registration process. Upon registering you must create a unique user name , password and a viable, working email address. Registering gives MindField Online permission to send you related emails which pertain to but may not be limited to messages regarding your participation in surveys.
By providing additional information pertaining to the other members of your household, MindField Online may contact you regarding the participation of the other members of your household in other surveys. This will always be explained in the text of the email to make certain the proper household member responds. Their participation will be garnered using your unique user name and password.
Unless it is under the previous terms regarding the other members of your household, no panel member may provide any other person to use their unique user name and password to complete surveys that were not intended for them. If it is determined that individuals other than the panel member or other invited household members are completing surveys using the member's unique user name and password, payments for these surveys will not be made. Such abuse of the terms of agreement may constitute in the removal of your membership and disqualification of any future participation. You are provided an opportunity to provide a commercial service to MindField Online and you agree not to use, disclose, duplicate, sell, or distribute the information contained in our surveys for any purpose.
Disqualification:
MindField Online and McMillion Research, LLC assume no responsibility for any connection losses and/or difficulties; transmission failures either via telephone or computer; technical failures; or any other human, software, hardware, or electronic errors of any type. Anyone abusing or altering any aspect of the websites associated with MindField Online will be eliminated and disqualified from participating in surveys and their membership will be dissolved as well as proper legal action taken as necessary.
MindField Online and/or their clients reserve the right to disqualify a panel member's participation in any survey if it is believed that the information provided was not accurate or was fabricated in any way. Payment will not be awarded in such cases. See Data Quality Statement for more information.
Incentives:
Cash incentives are provided for full participation in most MindField Online surveys. Cash payments are only made if the panel member is in good standing and there were not validation or data quality problems. As part of the membership process you permit MindField Online and/or it's affiliates to contact you to validate your participation and the accuracy of your responses.
Privacy:
All information provided during registration is considered entirely private and confidential and will never be reported on an individual basis, which directly identifies the panel member. No third party is ever sold any information provided to MindField Online. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
Sweepstakes Rules:
The offical sweepstakes rules can be found on the Sweepstakes Page.
Privacy Policy
Effective On 11/30/2017
Effective On 11/30/2017
This privacy policy applies to https://mindfieldonline.com owned and operated by McMillion Research. This privacy policy describes how McMillion Research collects and uses the personal information you provide on our web site: https://mindfieldonline.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request
If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at:
Email Address:
privacy@mindfieldonline.com
Phone Number:
800.969.9235
Fax Number:
304.343.6522
Postal Address:
MindField Online c/o McMillion Research LLC
1012 Kanawha Blvd. East, Suite 301
Charleston, WV 25301
* Please note in any correspondence that the inquiry is in regard to the Privacy Policy
Information Collection and Use
Registration
To use this website, first complete the registration form and create a user name and password. During registration, you are required to give contact information (such as name, address, date of birth, ethnicity, 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 website.
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 in the product test. We would 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.
Information obtained via Facebook integration is the sole property of McMillion Research as long as the member chooses to associate the information. The member has complete control within the Facebook application of what information is shared and integration with MindField Online. This information is not required for MindField Online membership. All privacy statements, policies, and business related actions with information obtained via Facebook fall under the same distinctions as the remainder of this privacy policy, in full and in part. You can log in to our site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this Web site to your profile page to share with others within your network.
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 https://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, telephone or text, in accordance with your wishes.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
As a 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 only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. 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 Frontier Communications and Suddenlink Communications as our Internet Service Providers (ISP). These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
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 website. In certain situations, McMillion Research may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
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 helpdesk@mindfieldonline.com.
Log Files
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, analytics, and site functionality.
Cookies
We use cookies to remember users' settings and for authentication purposes. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited. Additionally, some cookies are used to help include you in specific client surveys. You can also reject these but it would keep you from receiving those special opportunities.
Tracking Technology
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by McMillion Research and our marketing research partners, affiliates, and online customer support provider. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use cookies or similar technologies in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising click here. Please note you will continue to receive generic ads.
Social Media Widgets
Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button [and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site]. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Links to Other Sites
This website 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 policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy policy applies only to information collected by this Website.
We may share your personal information and/or social-demographic information, including, without limitation, a unique identification number ("UID"), zipcode/postal code, date of birth, 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. If you are eligible for a survey opportunity, the Third Party MR Company will provide your unique identification number and 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. If you have any questions about this data sharing or want to opt-out of the data sharing please contact us at helpdesk@mindfieldonline.com. Your participation in such survey opportunities does not entitle you to any benefits offered by or membership with the Third Party MR Companies.
Co-branded sites
Co-branding is the method of having a user connect with a different website 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 https://mindfieldonline.com. Information provided to the clients is outlined in the Information Sharing and Disclosure section.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
Upon request McMillion Research will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal 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 helpdesk@mindfieldonline.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request to access within a reasonable timeframe.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements
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 website, you can emails 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 website for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in This Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy policy, 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 policy 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 prior to the change becoming effective.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us using one of the following options below:
Email Address:
privacy@mindfieldonline.com
Phone Number:
800.969.9235
Fax Number:
304.343.6522
Postal Address:
MindField Online c/o McMillion Research LLC
1012 Kanawha Blvd. East, Suite 301
Charleston, WV 25301
Data Quality Statement
McMillion Research and MindField Online are members of CASRO and other industry affiliations and therefore have very high standards and expectations with regards to the data we provide our clientele. Unfortunately, not all companies or respondents hold to these high standards so we must put guidelines in place to keep our members honest. Data is reviewed by a quality assurance team and several items are considered before turning data over to our clients who also have a quality process to follow. Everything from the time spent on the survey compared to the average time spent, integrity of the data (straight-lining or pattern responses), conflicting answers, trap questions, and much more are reviewed. Any survey which fails the quality standards are removed from the aggregate data and not rewarded the advertised amount. The panelist will be notified which will be considered a first warning but no further action will be taken at that time. If a second instance is recorded, the panelist will also not be rewarded and will be warned for the second time and participation will be limited for a specific period of time. Upon a third violation, the reward will once again be withheld but more importantly the panelist's membership will be terminated. Please be encouraged to provide thoughtful and accurate data at all times.
If you have any questions regarding the Data Quality Statement, please contact us.
Official Sweepstakes Rules
No Purchase Necessary
Void Where Prohibited
Who Can Enter
The Sweepstakes is open to any legal U. S. resident, age 18 or older and who is registered at https://mindfieldonline.com. Employees of MindField Online or McMillion Research or their subsidiaries and members of their households or immediate families are not eligible to participate. By participating in the Sweepstakes, each entrant accepts and agrees to comply with these official rules, including notification via email only. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
How to Enter
MindField Online members obtain entry just for referring friends/family to become a panelist. When a referral joins https://mindfieldonline.com by completing the member registration form and activating their account, the referring member obtains one entry to the sweepstakes. Any disputes as to the identity of the entrant, will be resolved in favor of the holder of the email account from which the entry was sent.
For those not interested in joining the MindField Online internet panels, a sweepstakes entry may be obtained by sending a postcard with the entrant's full name, postal address, phone number, and email address to the postal address below.
One additional sweepstakes entry is obtained each time a panel member responds to a MindField Online survey opportunity and does not qualify for that particular survey opportunity.
For those who are not members of the panel, additional entries may be obtained by sending a postcard with the entrant's full name, postal address, phone number, and email address to the postal address below.
The mail in entries must be clearly postmarked, with no more than one entry postmarked on any calendar day and can be received not later than 5:00 p.m eastern time on the final day of the drawing cycle which occurs every month.
Once submitted, entries become sole property of MindField Online and McMillion Research, LLC. Entries will not be acknowledged, nor will they be returned.
Postal Address:
MindField Online Drawing
1012 Kanawha Blvd. East, Suite 301
Charleston, WV 25301
Sweepstakes Dates
The sweepstakes will begin on the first calendar day of the month and conclude on the final calendar day of the month.
Prizes
The total retail value of all sweepstakes prize is $500.00. All federal, state, and/or local taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner. The winner may be required to complete an affidavit of eligibility.
Odds of Winning
The odds of winning the sweepstakes depends on the number of eligible entries received during the promotional period.
Selection of Winners
A random electronic drawing will take place at 11:59 PM EST on the final calendar date of the month.
Notification
The winner will be notified via e-mail within 24 hours of the prize drawing. Winners must respond to e-mail to acknowledge receipt of the prize within 14 calendar days of notification. If no response is obtained from the winner within 14 calendar days, the prize will be awarded to a replacement winner drawn at random. All decisions are final.
Release of Liability
MindField Online and McMillion Research (sponsor) have no responsibility for any injuries, losses, and/or damages of any kind that result from acceptance, possession, or use of any prize. MindField Online and McMillion Research assume no liability for technical or computer malfunctions of any kind resulting in lost registration forms. MindField Online reserves the right to suspend, modify or terminate the Sweepstakes at any time if it is determined that technical or computer malfunctions have occurred which effect the integrity of the sweepstakes.
Governing Law
These official rules and the obligations resulting from them are to be governed by the laws of the State of West Virginia.
Publicity
MindField Online may wish to publish the name (first name and last initial) and location (city and state) of the winners, without further compensation to the winners. However, MindField Online respects its members' privacy rights. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Statement
Copy of Rules and Prize Winners
For a copy of the official sweepstakes rules, or a list of prize winners, send a self addressed stamped envelope to the postal address below.
Postal Address:
MindField Online Drawing
1012 Kanawha Blvd. East, Suite 301
Charleston, WV 25301
Sponsor
This Sweepstakes is sponsored by McMillion Research LLC, and is located at the postal address below.
Postal Address:
McMillion Research LLC
1012 Kanawha Blvd. East, Suite 301
Charleston, WV 25301
Contact Us
By Phone:
Our toll free number is 800.969.9235, please ask to speak with our Helpdesk.
By Fax:
Our fax number is 304.343.6522.
By Mail:
MindField Online c/o McMillion Research LLC
1012 Kanawha Blvd. East, Suite 301
Charleston, WV 25301
By Email:
To contact MindField Online for more information about our capabilities and services email us at support@mindfieldonline.com.