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At FriendSurveys.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy and to developing technology that gives you the most powerful and secure online experience. You can travel through most of our site without giving us any information about yourself. But sometimes we do need information to provide services that you request, and this statement of privacy explains data collection and use in those situations. Please read the complete FriendSurveys.com privacy statement.
Last update to this statement: August 5, 2003.
Collecting Your Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you are asked to signup for an account. Personal information collected by FriendSurveys.com often is limited to e-mail address and first name, but may include other information when needed to provide a service you requested.
Use Of Your Personal Information
We use your personal information for four primary purposes: 1) To make the site easier for you to use by not making you enter your personal information more than once; 2) To help us create and deliver content most relevant to you.
FriendSurveys.com will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on FriendSurveys.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of FriendSurveys.com, and, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of FriendSurveys.com, its Web site, or the public.
Please note, that your email address is only used to send you official FriendSurveys.com emails. It can also be visible when sending invitations to non-registered emails, to help the invitee to determine that the email they have recieved is not spam.
Control Of Your Personal Information
When you register, or otherwise give us personal information, FriendSurveys.com will not share that information with third parties without your permission, other than for the limited exceptions already listed. It will only be used for the purposes stated above.
Security Of Your Personal Information
FriendSurveys.com strictly protects the security of your personal information and honors your choices for its intended use. We carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
Your personal information is never shared outside the company without your permission, except under conditions explained above. Inside the company, data is stored in password-controlled servers with limited access. Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where FriendSurveys.com, its subsidiaries, affiliates or agents are located.
You also have a significant role in protecting your information. No one can see or edit your personal information without knowing your username and password, so do not share these with others.
Use Of Cookies
To ensure the proper function of the site, session cookies are created in order to do certain functions on the site, including logging in, create a survey, invite users to a survey, and response a survey. These cookies are not a security risk, and we do not track your use of the site with cookies.
When someone visits the site, a cookie is placed on the customer’s machine (if the customer accepts cookies).
If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the FriendSurveys.com Web site, you will not be able to signup for an account to even begin using the website. Cookie acceptance is vital to the general use of the website. A cookie is also used when selecting the "Remember" item when logging in.
Use Of The Activity Log
FriendSurveys.com has an activity log installed for a number of reasons.
The log tracks what significant actions a user takes on the site. These actions include and are not limited to signing up, logging in, logging out, creating a survey, changing account information, etc.
The reasons for this activity log is to help maintain a higher level of website security, identify problems encountered at any place on the website, and to get a better idea of what functions our users use.
Any information in the Activity Log is treated as personal information, and will be treated as such information, outlined above in this statement.
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