DISQO is an insights platform company that provides market research and advertising measurement services. DISQO is headquartered in Glendale, California. This Privacy Policy covers how DISQO collects, uses, and shares your personal information and to help you understand and exercise your privacy rights.
Notice at Collection. At or before the time of collection, California residents may have a right to receive notice of our practices, including the categories of personal information to be collected, the purposes for which such information is collected or used, whether such information is sold or shared, how to opt-out of those uses, and how long such information is retained. You can find those details by viewing our Supplemental Notice for California Residents.
This Privacy Policy applies to DISQO’s products and services, and DISQO websites including www.disqo.com, portals that you may use to access DISQO Services, and any online interactions (e.g., customer services inquiries, job application submissions, etc.) that you may have with DISQO (individually and collectively, “Service(s)”). By using our Services, you acknowledge and agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. For members of the Survey Junkie community, the Privacy Policy that applies to you as a Survey Junkie member is located here.
Personal information we collect
The categories of personal information we collect depend on how you interact with us, our Services, and the requirements of applicable law. We collect information that you provide to us, information we obtain automatically when you use our Services, and information from other sources such as third-party services and organizations, as described below.
Personal Information You Provide to Us Directly
We may collect personal information you provide to us, including:
- Account Information. We may collect personal information in connection with the creation or administration of your account, such as your name, email address, phone number, address, and any other information that you provide to us or that we otherwise collect.
- Purchases. We may collect personal information and details associated with your purchases, including payment information. Any payments made via our Services are processed by third-party payment processors.
- Your Communications with Us. We may collect personal information, such as email address, phone number, or mailing address when you request information about DISQO or our Services, register for our newsletters, request support, or otherwise communicate with us.
- Surveys. We may contact you to participate in surveys. If you decide to participate, we may collect personal information from you in connection with the survey.
- Interactive Features. We and others who use our Services may collect personal information that you submit or make available through our interactive features (e.g., commenting functionalities, forums, blogs, and social media pages). Any information you provide using the public sharing features of the Services will be considered “public,” unless otherwise required by applicable law, and is not subject to the privacy protections referenced herein.
- Sweepstakes or Contests. We may collect personal information you provide for any sweepstakes or contests that we may offer. In some jurisdictions, we are required to publicly share information of sweepstakes and contest winners.
- Conferences, Trade Shows, and Other Events. We may collect personal information from individuals when we attend or host conferences, trade shows, and other events.
- Business Development and Strategic Partnerships. We may collect personal information from individuals and third parties to assess and pursue potential business opportunities.
- Job Applications. We may post job openings and opportunities on our Services. If you respond to one of these postings, we may collect your personal information, such as your application, CV, cover letter, and/or any other information you provide to us.
Personal Information Collected Automatically
We may collect personal information automatically when you use our Services.
- Automatic Collection of Personal Information. We may collect certain information automatically when you use our Services, such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, user settings, MAC address, cookie identifiers, mobile carrier, mobile advertising and other unique identifiers, browser or device information, location information (including approximate location derived from IP address), and Internet service provider. We may also automatically collect information regarding your use of our Services, such as pages that you visit before, during and after using our Services, items that you search for via the Services, information about the links you click, the types of content you interact with, the frequency and duration of your activities, and other information about how you use our Services.
- User Insights Tools. We may collect information through the use of certain user insight tools, including specifically session replay providers, which allow us to record and replay your interaction with the Services. We use these tools to help us understand how the Services are used, improve functionality and user experience, perform quality control, validate transactions, and detect and prevent fraud. For more information about how we use these tools, or to exercise your opt-out rights, you may contact us as set forth in “Contact Us” below.
- Cookie Policy (and Other Technologies). We, as well as third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on our Services, may use cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies (“Technologies”) to automatically collect information through your use of our Services. Cookies are small text files placed in device browsers that store preferences and facilitate and enhance your experience. A pixel tag (also known as a web beacon) is a piece of code embedded in our Services that collects information about engagement on our Services. The use of a pixel tag allows us to record, for example, that a user has visited, a particular web page or clicked on a particular advertisement. We may also include web beacons in e-mails to understand whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.
Use of cookies
The following types of Technologies are used on this website, for the following purposes. More detail about these Technologies can be found at our Cookie List:
- Web Cookie. Web cookies to track the use of this website from the same browser on the same machine. This information will be stored and used anytime we see the same browser.
- Adobe Flash Cookie. Adobe Flash cookies to track the use of this website on the same machine from different browsers. This information will be stored and used anytime we see the same device.
- Microsoft Silverlight Cookie. Microsoft Silverlight cookies to track the use of this website on the same machine from different browsers. This information will be stored and used anytime we see the same device.
- Adobe Flash Cookie. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector. In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.
- Log Files. We may automatically gather and store certain information in log files, including, without limitation, data available from your web browser, including, without limitation, IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, pages you visit, referring/exiting pages, operating system, date/time stamp and click stream data.
- Digital Fingerprinting. Generally, digital fingerprinting assigns a unique identifier to your device or computer based upon the device’s or computer’s technical settings, characteristics and IP address. We use digital fingerprinting technology for quality control and validation purposes and fraud detection and/or prevention, among other things.
- Do Not Track. We allow third-party companies to collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit our web site. These companies may utilize cookies, pixels or other technologies to collect and use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., hashed data, click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit the websites of the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info and Networking Advertising Initiative at www.networkadvertising.org/ choices/.
How we use your information
We use your personal information for a variety of business purposes, including to provide our Services, for administrative purposes, and to market our products and Services, as described below.
Provide Our Services
We use your personal information to fulfill our contract with you and provide you with our Services, such as:
- Managing your information and accounts;
- Providing access to certain areas, functionalities, and features of our Services;
- Answering requests for customer or technical support;
- Communicating with you about your account, activities on our Services, and policy changes;
- Processing your financial information and other payment methods for products or Services purchased;
- Processing applications if you apply for a job we post on our Services; and
- Allowing you to register for events.
Administrative Purposes
We use your personal information for various administrative purposes, such as:
- Pursuing our legitimate interests such as direct marketing, research and development (including marketing research), network and information security, and fraud prevention;
- Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
- Measuring interest and engagement in our Services;
- Improving, upgrading, or enhancing our Services;
- Developing new products and services;
- Ensuring internal quality control and safety;
- Authenticating and verifying individual identities, including requests to exercise your rights under this Privacy Notice;
- Debugging to identify and repair errors with our Services;
- Auditing relating to interactions, transactions, and other compliance activities;
- Sharing personal information with third parties as needed to provide the Services;
- Enforcing our agreements and policies; and
- Carrying out activities that are required to comply with our legal obligations.
Marketing and Advertising our Products and Services
We may use personal information to tailor and provide you with content and advertisements. We may provide you with these materials as permitted by applicable law.
Some of the ways we may market to you include email campaigns, text messages, custom audiences advertising, and “personalized advertising” or “targeted advertising,” including through cross-device tracking.
If you have any questions about our marketing practices, you may contact us as set forth in “Contact Us” below.
With Your Consent
We may use personal information for other purposes that are clearly disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or with your consent.
Other Purposes
We also use your personal information for other purposes as requested by you or as permitted by applicable law.
- Automated Decision Making. We may engage in automated decision making, including profiling. DISQO’s processing of your personal information will not result in a decision based solely on automated processing that significantly affects you unless such a decision is necessary as part of a contract we have with you, we have your consent, or we are permitted by law to engage in such automated decision making. If you have questions about our automated decision making, you may contact us as set forth in “Contact Us” below.
- De-identified and Aggregated Information. We may use personal information to create de-identified and/or aggregated information, such as demographic information, information about how you use the Services, information about the device from which you access our Services, or other analyses we create. If we create or receive de-identified information, we will not attempt to reidentify such information, unless permitted by, or required to comply with, applicable laws.
How we disclose your personal information
We may disclose personal information and other information collected to third parties as follows:
- With your consent, other than your consent to the processing and sharing described in this Privacy Policy and specifically this section.
- Under applicable law or in response to a subpoena or an order of a court or government agency.
- To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims of an individual or DISQO.
- To establish or exercise our legal rights.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
- To protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company, our employees, our users, or others; or to enforce this Privacy Policy or other agreements or policies.
- In connection with a corporate change such as a merger, our acquisition by another company, or a partial or total sale of our assets.
- To trusted third-party services providers who require personal information to perform their services on DISQO’s behalf including, without limitation, web hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer services, email delivery services, auditing services, and other similar services to enable them to provide services.
- To Advertising Partners. These third-party advertising partners may set Technologies and other tracking tools on our Services to collect information regarding your activities and your device (e.g., your IP address, cookie identifiers, page(s) visited, location, time of day). These advertising partners may use this information (and similar information collected from other services) for purposes of delivering personalized advertisements to you when you visit digital properties within their networks. This practice is commonly referred to as “interest-based advertising”, “personalized advertising”, or “targeted advertising.”
Links to third party websites
This Privacy Policy applies solely to the Services and not to any other product or service. The Services may contain links to a number of third-party websites that we believe may offer services or useful information. In addition, when you navigate to a third-party website, you may be asked to provide information to that website. The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to those websites. We recommend that you carefully read the privacy policies of each site that you visit for information on their privacy, security, data collection and distribution policies.
Children
Our Services are not designed or intended for use by any individual under the age of sixteen (16) and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of sixteen (16). If we become aware that we inadvertently collect personal information from anyone under this age threshold, we will promptly delete such personal information. Parents, guardians or other persons with parental rights are encouraged to contact us, as set forth below, to discuss this Privacy Policy and their rights to access, review, correct, delete or object to the processing of the personal information of minors.
Updates to this privacy policy
We reserve the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this Privacy Policy simply by posting such change, update or modification on this website. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on this website.
Your privacy choices and rights
Your Privacy Choices. The privacy choices you may have about your personal information are determined by applicable law and are described below.
- Email Communications. If you receive an unwanted email from us, you can use the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of the email to opt out of receiving future emails. Note that you will continue to receive transaction-related emails regarding products or Services you have requested. We may also send you certain non-promotional communications regarding us and our Services, and you will not be able to opt out of those communications (e.g., communications regarding our Services or updates to our Terms or this Privacy Notice).
- Text Messages. If you receive an unwanted text message from us, you may opt out of receiving future text messages from us by following the instructions in the text message you have received from us or by otherwise contacting us as set forth in “Contact Us” below.
- Mobile Devices. We may send you push notifications through our mobile application. You may opt out from receiving these push notifications by changing the settings on your mobile device. With your consent, we may also collect precise location-based information via our mobile application. You may opt out of this collection by changing the settings on your mobile device.
- Phone Calls. If you receive an unwanted marketing phone call from us, you may opt out of receiving future phone calls from us by following the instructions which may be available on the call or by otherwise contacting us as set forth in “Contact Us” below.
- “Do Not Track.” Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.
- Cookies and Personalized Advertising. You may stop or restrict the placement of Technologies on your device or remove them by adjusting your preferences as your browser or device permits. However, if you adjust your preferences, our Services may not work properly. Please note that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on mobile applications. However, you may opt-out of personalized advertisements on some mobile applications by following the instructions for Android, iOS, and others.
- The online advertising industry also provides websites from which you may opt out of receiving targeted ads from data partners and other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can access these and learn more about targeted advertising and consumer choice and privacy by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, the European Digital Advertising Alliance, and the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada.
- Please note you must separately opt out in each browser and on each device.
Your Privacy Rights. In accordance with applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Confirm Whether We Are Processing Your Personal Information (the right to know);
- Request Access to and Portability of Your Personal Information, including: (i) obtaining access to or a copy of your personal information; and (ii) receiving an electronic copy of personal information that you have provided to us, or asking us to send that information to another company in a structured, commonly used, and machine readable format (also known as the “right of data portability”);
- Request Correction of your personal information where it is inaccurate or incomplete. In some cases, we may provide self-service tools that enable you to update your personal information;
- Request Deletion of your personal information;
- Request to Opt-Out of Certain Processing Activities including, as applicable, if we process your personal information for “targeted advertising” (as “targeted advertising” is defined by applicable privacy laws), if we “sell” your personal information (as “sell” is defined by applicable privacy laws), or if we engage in “profiling” in furtherance of certain “decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects” concerning you (as such terms are defined by applicable privacy laws);
- Request Restriction of or Object to our processing of your personal information;
- Withdraw your Consent to our processing of your personal information. Please note that your withdrawal will only take effect for future processing, and will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal; and
- Appeal our Decision to decline to process your request.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please complete our privacy rights webform or contact us as at dataprivacy@disqo.com. We will process such requests in accordance with applicable laws.
If applicable laws grant you an appeal right and you would like to appeal our decision with respect to your request, you may do so by informing us of this and providing us with information supporting your appeal.
International transfers of personal information
All personal information processed by us may be transferred, processed, and stored anywhere in the world, including, but not limited to, the United States or other countries, which may have data protection laws that are different from the laws where you live. We endeavor to safeguard your personal information consistent with the requirements of applicable laws.
If we transfer personal information which originates in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and/or the United Kingdom to a country that has not been found to provide an adequate level of protection under applicable data protection laws, one of the safeguards we may use to support such transfer is the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
For more information about the safeguards we use for international transfers of your personal information, please contact us as set forth below.
Retention of personal information
We store the personal information we collect as described in this Privacy Notice for as long as you use our Services, or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we may consider applicable legal requirements, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, certain risk factors, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.
Supplemental notice for California residents
This Supplemental Notice for California Residents supplements our Privacy Notice and only applies to our processing of personal information that is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended from time to time) (“CCPA”).
The CCPA provides California residents with the right to know what categories of personal information DISQO has collected about them, whether DISQO disclosed that personal information for a business purpose (e.g., to a service provider), whether DISQO “sold” that personal information, and whether DISQO “shared” that personal information for “cross-context behavioral advertising” in the preceding twelve months. California residents can find this information below:
| Category of Personal Information Collected by DISQO |
Category of Third Parties To Whom Personal Information is Disclosed to for a Business Purpose |
Category of Third Parties To Whom Personal Information is Sold and/or Shared |
| Identifiers |
Service providers |
Advertising partners |
| Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) |
Service providers |
N/A |
| Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law |
Service providers |
N/A |
| Commercial information |
Service providers |
N/A |
| Biometric information |
N/A |
N/A |
| Internet or other electronic network activity |
Service providers |
Advertising partners |
| Geolocation data |
N/A |
N/A |
| Sensory data |
N/A |
N/A |
| Professional or employment-related information |
Service providers |
N/A |
| Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)) |
N/A |
N/A |
| Inferences drawn from other personal information to create a profile about a consumer |
Service providers |
Advertising partners |
| Personal information that reveals a consumer’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number |
N/A |
N/A |
| Personal information that reveals a consumer’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account |
N/A |
N/A |
| Personal information that reveals a consumer’s precise geolocation |
N/A |
N/A |
| Personal information that reveals a consumer’s racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership |
N/A |
N/A |
| Personal information that reveals the contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless DISQO is the intended recipient of the communication |
N/A |
N/A |
| Personal information that reveals consumer’s genetic data |
N/A |
N/A |
| Biometric information that is processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer |
N/A |
N/A |
| Personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health |
N/A |
N/A |
| Personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s sex life or sexual orientation |
N/A |
N/A |
The categories of sources from which we collect personal information and our business and commercial purposes for using and disclosing personal information are set forth in “Personal Information We Collect”, “How We Use Your Personal Information”, and “How We Disclose Your Personal Information” above. We will retain personal information in accordance with the time periods set forth in “Retention of Personal Information.”
We “sell” and “share” your personal information to provide you with “cross-context behavioral advertising” about DISQO’s products and services.
Additional Privacy Rights for California Residents
Opting Out of “Sales” of Personal Information and/or “Sharing” for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising under the CCPA. California residents have the right to opt out of the “sale” of personal information and the “sharing” of personal information for “cross-context behavioral advertising.” California residents may exercise these rights by emailing us at dataprivacy@disqo.com or completing our privacy rights webform.
Disclosure Regarding Individuals Under the Age of 16. DISQO does not have actual knowledge of any “sale” of personal information of minors under 16 years of age. DISQO does not have actual knowledge of any “sharing” of personal information of minors under 16 years of age for “cross-context behavioral advertising.”
Non-Discrimination. California residents have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of their rights conferred by the CCPA.
Verification. To protect your privacy, we will take steps to reasonably verify your identity before fulfilling requests submitted under the CCPA. These steps may involve asking you to provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative. Examples of our verification process may include requiring you to login to your account before submitting your request, providing the email address or phone number we have associated with you, opening a link sent to the contact information provided, and following the instructions on the website you are taken to.
Authorized Agent. Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. To authorize an agent, provide written authorization signed by you and your designated agent using the information found in “Contact Us” below and ask us for additional instructions.
