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This Privacy Policy was last updated on January 20, 2004.
At the Contractor Advisory Board®, we believe that you, our members, have an
inalienable right to privacy. We protect your privacy and anonymity by adhering
to these standards:
We recognize that some of the information we request from you is personal and
sensitive, and requires trust on your part. We take your trust, and our
responsibilities, very seriously. Here are our privacy practices regarding the
information you entrust to us.
Who We Are
Contractor Advisory Board® and www.contractorboard.com are owned and operated
by Decision Analyst, Inc. Tell me more.
Information We Collect From You
We only collect the personal identifying information (name, address, phone
number, and email address) you voluntarily provide to us during registration.
We also collect information via surveys. Tell me
more.
How We Use Your Information
We use your personal information to communicate with you, to determine whether
you qualify for surveys, and to compile an accurate statistical "picture" of
those who take surveys. Tell me more.
Who We Share Your Information With
We don't share any information that personally identifies you with any
business, client, or business partner. Contractor Advisory Board® does not sell
or rent your personal information to anyone. Tell me more.
How You Can Control Your Information
You may "opt out" of giving personal information at any time when taking a
survey. You may also update or delete your personal information at any time.
Tell me more.
Privacy For Children Under 14
In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, we do not
accept registrations from children under the age of 14. We do not directly
advertise or market to children. Tell me more.
How We Secure Your Information
Contractor Advisory Board® has security measures in place to ensure the
confidentiality of your personal information. Tell me
more.
Use Of Internet Technology ("Cookies" And Log Files)
We do not regularly use cookies. We do collect information in our log files.
Tell me more.
Communications From The Site
We send emails to panel members to confirm their registration, to invite them
to surveys, and for special occasions and announcements.
Tell me more.
Legal Disclaimer
In the rare occasion when disclosing personal information may be required by
law, we will do so. Tell me more.
Links To Outside Sites
The www.contractorboard.com website contains links to other websites whose
privacy policies may differ from ours. Tell me
more.
Notification Of Changes
We will notify you by email before the policy is changed and give you a chance
to opt out. Tell me more.
Questions And Concerns
We welcome questions or concerns regarding our data-protection practices and
our Privacy Policy. Tell me more.
Enforcement Of Privacy Policy
If you believe we have violated our stated Privacy Policy with respect to
personal information you have entrusted to us, you have several options.
Tell me more.
Who We Are
Contractor Advisory Board® and www.contractorboard.com
are owned and operated by Decision
Analyst, Inc., a leading international marketing research and marketing
consulting company in the United States, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
We subscribe to the privacy, confidentiality, and ethics policies of these
professional marketing and marketing research organizations:
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Information We Collect From You
We collect information from you during the registration process and during the
survey process.
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During our registration process, we collect your name, address, email address,
date of birth, and gender. We also collect the IP address of the computer you
used at the time you registered and confirmed your registration.
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Other information we gather includes: your occupation and employment, job
responsibilities, functions and activities, the type and size of organization
you work for, industry you work in, your Internet speed, and computer
capabilities. All of this information helps us prescreen members for certain
surveys.
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Additional information may also be requested when you participate in surveys,
such as your preferences, shopping patterns, and buying behavior. This
information is used to prescreen members for subsequent surveys and you may be
invited to take additional surveys based upon your previous survey answers.
For example, a client may want to do a survey of contractors who do not shop in
warehouse stores. We would send a short screening survey to determine which
panel members meet our client's requirements.
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None of the information collected in surveys is reported by the names or
addresses of members. Your individual information is always placed into
anonymous, statistical summaries that are used in marketing research. No one
outside of Decision Analyst will ever know how you personally answered any of
the questions in our surveys.
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How We Use Your Information
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We use information about you, your occupation, and the company you work for to
determine whether you qualify to participate in a particular survey.
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We use your email address to invite you to complete surveys and to notify you
of news regarding the Contractor Advisory Board® online panel.
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We use your name and address to send you any prize money or incentives to which
you are entitled.
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We use personal information gathered during surveys to analyze the survey
results. For example, we might look at the answers of women compared to men, or
the answers of people who work at large companies compared to people who work
at small companies, or companies with high revenue compared to companies with
low revenue.
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We use your personal information to verify you are who you say you are, live
where you say you live, and are employed in the position and occupation you say
you are in. Any evidence of false or dishonest information will result in the
permanent loss of your membership.
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We may use your contact information, such as email address, registration data
and IP address, to verify the opt-in nature of our email list when asked to do
so by an Internet service provider.
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Who We Share Your Information With
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Your answers to our surveys are grouped with the answers of other people and
reported to our clients as statistical summaries.
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None of your answers to surveys are ever reported in conjunction with your
personal information. No one outside of Decision Analyst will ever know how you
personally answered any of the questions in our surveys.
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We do not share your personal information with any third parties—no client, no
business partner, or other organization. Contractor Advisory Board® does not
sell or rent your personal information to anyone.
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We may contract with an email service provider to help us send email
invitations to surveys. In such cases, we will have a non disclosure agreement
with the email service provider to ensure your contact information is protected
and is not misused.
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How You Can Control Your Information
You may "opt out" of giving personal information at any time when taking a
survey. You may also update or delete your personal information at any time.
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Once you join our panel and receive invitations to complete surveys, you are
under no obligation to complete those surveys. You can simply choose not to
respond.
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If you start taking a survey and are asked questions you do not wish to respond
to, you may simply stop taking the survey at any point.
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Once you have registered, you may safely
update or delete
your membership (and all of your personal data) online at any time.
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Privacy For Children Under 14
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Contractor Advisory Board® and Decision Analyst, Inc., in compliance with the
Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, do not accept
registrations from children under 14.
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We do not directly advertise or market to children.
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How We Secure Your Information
We consider the protection of all personally identifiable information we
receive from our website visitors and subscribers as critical to our corporate
mission. Please be assured that we have security measures in place to protect
against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any information we receive from
you. As with any transmission over the Internet, however, there is always some
element of risk involved in sending personal information. In order to try to
minimize this risk, we encrypt all information that you submit using the Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
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Private data about you and your occupation (name, email address, street
address, phone number, income, education, occupation, etc.) is strictly
confidential and protected at all times.
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Only a few trusted employees at Decision Analyst, Inc. have access to your
personal information, and each has signed a binding confidentiality and
nondisclosure agreement.
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Contractors who may work with us will also sign a nondisclosure agreement.
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Use Of Internet Technology ("Cookies" And Log Files)
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"Cookies" are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer's
hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are used by thousands of
websites to make your life as a web user much easier. There are occasions where
we may use cookies. For example, we may use cookies to track registrations back
to any affiliate site that may have referred you, and we may use cookies to
track advertising results.
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Like many website servers we gather information in our log files. Information
gathered in log files includes Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type,
Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit pages, platform type, date
and time stamp, and number of clicks while onsite.
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Log-file information is not linked to any individually identifiable
information, and is used only to administer our systems, to make improvements
to our website, and to determine the success of advertising campaigns.
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Communications From The Site
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We send an email (generated by an auto-reply system) to all new members to
confirm their registration.
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We send emails to members from time to time inviting them to take surveys.
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We regularly send emails to members for special occasions (holidays, birthday)
and to make announcements regarding system updates.
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We communicate with users by email on a case-by-case basis to answer their
customer-service-related questions.
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Legal Disclaimer
We make every effort to preserve user privacy. It is possible, in rare
instances, that your personal data might need to be disclosed, if required by
law and if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply
with a current judicial proceeding, a court order, or a legal process served on
our website. If this should ever occur, we will attempt to notify you in
advance so that you can take legal action to protect your personal information.
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Links To Outside Sites
The www.contractorboard.com website contains links to other websites. While
these websites might be of interest to you, please note that their privacy
policies may differ from ours. We encourage you to read the privacy statement
of each site you visit.
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Notification Of Changes
If there is a significant change in our privacy policy or practice, or in how we
use personally identifiable information, we will notify you by email before the
policy is changed and give you a chance to opt-out.
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Questions And Concerns
If you have questions or concerns regarding our data-protection practices and
our Privacy Policy, please contact our Internet Operations Department at:
Internet Operations Department
Decision Analyst, Inc.
604 Avenue H East
Arlington, Texas 76011
Phone numbers:
Toll-free, 1-800-262-5974
International, 1-817-640-6166
Email: privacy@decisionanalyst.com
For more information about Internet privacy and the privacy guidelines we
follow:
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Enforcement Of Privacy Policy
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