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Privacy PolicyPrivacy & ConfidentialityWe care about young people. We take care to make sure your child(ren) have a fun and safe time at PanelPolls.com. Privacy Policy Overview ChildResearch.com Conducts Marketing Research only Communication With Children and Young People How Surveys are Completed We Do NOT have Open "Chat Rooms" Parental/Guardian Consent Required for a Child to Participate What Information We Collect and How It Is Used Data Security Cookies Privacy Policy Overview The Child-Research Kids Online Opinion Panel and the Child-Research.com website are managed by ChildResearch.com (a division of Touchstone Research, inc.) an opinion research firm committed to the highest standards of excellence and integrity. We at ChildResearch.com have a great deal of admiration for today's kids and govern our business and actions with sensitivity and respect. In online research, as with all other forms of research, we govern our actions by the highest standards. We strive to have a positive impact in all our dealings with children and to make their participation in research studies an enjoyable and meaningful one. We follow special procedures to protect the privacy of the child, obtain parental consent, verify recruitment qualifications, adhere to laws and regulations and enhance the security of our clients. We have strict procedures for online research with children that ensure that no identifiable personal data is obtained without prior parental approval. Data is only reported in aggregate form--not personally identifiable. We do not, and will not sell personal data for other marketing efforts. The safety and privacy of children and their families is of paramount importance. We adhere to all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding research with children and protect the privacy and other rights of all participants in our research projects. We comply with all the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Act (COPPA). The complete Privacy & Safety Policy is detailed below and describes our steps to ensure a family-friendly and safe site for kids. If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy that aren't addressed below, you can contact us by calling: 1-800-409-2665, or simply click here, or write: ChildResearch.com 175 North Main Street Branford, CT 06405 Attention: PanelPolls.com Privacy Policy ChildResearch.com recommends that concerned parents and guardians go with their kids to Nickelodeon’s excellent guide to safe online behavior at: http://www.nick.com/blab/safety/index.jhtml. This is a well-written guide that kids will understand. Here are some other links containing useful information: . http://www.safesurfin.com/kids.htm . http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/kidz.htm ChildResearch.com Conducts Marketing Research only ChildResearch.com conducts online opinion surveys of various kinds among children and their families. We are an independent consumer opinion company, we do not make or sell any other product or service and are not affiliated with any sales organization. ChildResearch.com does not sell anything to Panel members or their parents or guardians. PanelPolls.com surveys are not sales efforts, no Panel member (children or their parents or guardians) at PanelPolls.com or any other ChildResearch.com Panel will ever be asked to buy anything because of their participation in a research Panel Communication With Children and Young People All communication from PanelPolls.com/ChildResearch.com directed at children is done via email, using an email address supplied by a parent or guardian. Children receive email invitations to complete surveys and participate in other Panel activities. These invitations are emailed to the parent unless the parent has given us permission to email their child directly and has provided us with the child's email address (most Panel communication is done through the parent). How Surveys are Completed The Child-Research Kids Online Opinion Panel surveys are conducted on the Child-Research.com website, we have not but it is possible that we may in the future occasionally conduct surveys at other sites operated by one of our clients or partners. If we do, we will notify Panel members and that site will adhere to ChildResearch.com standards and policies. We Do NOT have Open "Chat Rooms" We don't host public "chat rooms", so parents don't need to have any concerns about someone not associated with ChildResearch.com trying to contact their kids in a chat session. If we want to have instant dialogue with our Panel members we most often will use our Talkback(SM) feature with built-in security and privacy protection. We do not have any current plans for chat-based surveys in which several kids or parents can discuss issues in real time with an adult moderator but if we do conduct that type of research we will inform the parent and their child may only participate with the parent's permission. If we do conduct these interactive chat-based surveys we will follow these policies: 1. During these surveys the moderator will remind kids not to disclose their names, addresses, or other personal information. Moderators will avoid asking questions that would require a participant to divulge personally identifiable information, and will warn any participant who volunteers such information to stop. 2. Only ChildResearch.com employees, or sub-contractors of ChildResearch.com who have agreed to abide all ChildResearch.com privacy standards will be allowed to participate in these survey sessions. The dialogue (without personally identifiable information) from these survey sessions may be read by clients or sub-contractors of ChildResearch.com both in real time and after the fact. Parental/Guardian Consent Required for a Child to Participate ChildResearch.com requires the consent of parents or legal guardians before any communication with children. A parent or legal guardian must first register their child as Panel members. Before collecting personal information from a child, ChildResearch.com obtains verifiable parental consent from the child's parent or legal guardian. Participation is by invitation only - - addressed to parents or guardians by email or telephone and they have registered their child at Child-Research.com. Parents or guardians may choose to remove their child from the Panel at any time by using the Add/Modify Children link on the home page of PanelPolls.com or permanently remove their entire household by using the Cancel My Registration link on the home page of PanelPolls.com, or do either via email by using the Contact Us link at PanelPolls.com or by calling 800-409-2665. What Information We Collect and How It Is Used This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the PanelPolls.com website. We collect three kinds of information: 1. The opinions of children and their parents or guardians about issues of interest to us or our clients. Opinions are always reported in aggregate only - 52% of kids thought this-or-that, or 77% of children ages 7-9 were aware of something-or-other. This information will be shared with our clients without identifying the identity of any child, parent or guardian. 2. Background information about the children, their parents or guardians, and their households. During the process of registering at Child-Research.com, parents or legal guardians are asked a number of questions about their children, themselves and their households. This information is used as background information, so that we can target surveys we conduct and to better interpret survey findings. Background information is reported in aggregate only - for instance, we might report that, 28% of participants are from the East. 3. Personally identifiable information from the parents or guardians of the children who are registered members at Child-Research.com. When an adult parent or guardian registers a child at Child-Research.com, we collect personal information in order to communicate by mail, email or telephone with that adult, and in order to communicate by email with the child. We will never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us without first obtaining explicit permission from the parent or guardian to do so, a nd giving them an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses except ChildResearch.com may share information with a fulfillment (mailing) house in order to send gifts or prizes to participants, or to vendors or subcontractors engaged in data management/processing for ChildResearch.com. Any fulfillment house or other vendor managing a ChildResearch.com program will agree to be bound by the privacy rules and restrictions contained in this notice. The types of personal information that we collect are: . Parent's or Guardian's Name . Child's name . Address . Email addresses for both the parent and child . Phone number Data Security To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Your Child-Research Kids Online Opinion Panel Account Information and Profile are password-protected. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also, remember to sign out of your Child-Research Kids Online Opinion Panel account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe. Whenever ChildResearch.com handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, ChildResearch.com takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy. Cookies Cookies may sometimes be used. Cookies are small information files that are placed on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies that Child-Research.com places on your computer can be accessed only by ChildResearch.com and we cannot access cookies from any other Web site. Child-Research.com uses cookies to determine the type of operating system and browser that you and other visitors to our site are using. Some of the surveys we design will work best with certain kinds of browsers or may require certain other software to be installed, so we use this information to determine whether a Participant's computer is capable of displaying those questionnaires. Cookies may be disabled on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus of your browser. Doing so will not prevent a child, parent or guardian from participating at Child-Research.com, or from using any of the services available on Child-Research.com, although some pages may not display properly. |
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