ABOUT THIS POLICY

Marketing VF Limited (“we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to respecting and protecting your personal information and privacy. We treat with the utmost care the personal information that you provide to us, or that we collect from you, through our website located at http://www.us.surveycompare.net (“our site”).

This Privacy Policy (together with our Cookies Policy) sets out the basis on which any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you, will be used by us.

Please read this Privacy Policy (together with our Cookies Policy) and our Terms of Use carefully before you use our site, or access any information or services on our site.

By accessing or using our site, you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of this Privacy Policy (together with our Cookies Policy) and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree to such terms, you must not use our site.

ABOUT US

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is Marketing VF Limited.

Marketing VF Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 06951544, whose registered office address is at Ryland House, 24a Ryland Road, London NW5 3EH, United Kingdom.

We are registered under the Act with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under registration number Z1995728.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT, AND HOW WE MAY COLLECT IT

Through our site, we enable individuals, such as you, to find and participate in surveys and other opportunities and offers (“Offers”). These Offers are not organised or run by us, but by other organisations (i.e. our clients). We promote the Offers on behalf of our clients.

When you look for Offers through our site, by completing and submitting our online form, you will provide us with the following personal and other information: Your title, first name, last name, email address, postal address, postal code, occupation, marital status, date of birth, gender, and/or such other information. We will keep a record of this information.

Our online forms may require other information to help us to understand what Offers you are looking for, and to find the right Offers for you.

From time to time, such information may include sensitive personal information. For example: Organisations with which we work may be looking for individuals of a particular racial or ethnic origin to participate in a certain survey or other Offer. To find suitable individuals, we may ask users of our site, online or by email, to provide such sensitive personal information. However, you will not be under any obligation to do so. If you choose to do so, you will be deemed to have given us your explicit consent to process such information for the purpose of finding Offers for you and putting you in contact with organisations organising or running such Offers.

From time to time, we may change our online forms, and the personal and other information that we require.

We may also collect and record your personal information if you:

• Complete and submit other forms on our site.
• Contact us, or we contact you, by email, telephone or post for any reason.
• Post comments, material or other content on our site.
• Participate in promotions or competitions on our site.
• Complete surveys or polls on our site, or that we send to you.

We may monitor and/or record telephone calls for the purposes of quality control and staff training.

Each time you access our site, we may collect and record details of your visit, including (for example): Your IP address, operating system and browser type, the pages and resources that you have accessed, and other technical information. We collect and record this information automatically, through our use of cookies and similar technologies, which are further explained below.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLGIES

Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. Please read our Cookies Policy.

HOW WE MAY USE YOUR INFORMATION

When you look for Offers through our site by completing and submitting our online forms or otherwise, we may:

• contact you by telephone, SMS, email or post with details of the Offers that you selected;
• pass on your personal information to the organisations (i.e. our clients) who run the Offers that you have selected, who may contact you directly by telephone, SMS, email or post with details of those Offers; and
• contact you by telephone, SMS, email or post with details other Offers in which we think you may be interested.

We may also use your personal and other information in the following ways:

• To contact you by telephone, SMS, email or post to ask about your experiences with our site and clients, and request feedback. This might be in the form of survey questions, for example.
• To contact you by telephone, SMS, email or post with information about other products and services (ours and third parties’) in which we think you may be interested.
• To pass on your personal information to selected suppliers of other products or services in which we think you may be interested, who may contact you directly by telephone, SMS, email or post.
• If you consent, to pass your contact details, including your email address, to organisations that have a relationship with you to enable such organisations to update their records.
• To facilitate communication between you and our customers (i.e. suppliers of products and services that are shown on our site).
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To enable you to access and use our site and services.
• To ensure that the content on our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer, and improve our site.
• To notify you about changes to our site or services.

We may also use, and provide our customers with, anonymised aggregated information about our site users.

DISCLOSING/SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business, assets or shares, in which case we may disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business, assets or shares.
• If we, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired by a third party, in which case personal information held by us about our site users, including you, will be one of the transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation; or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our site users, customers, affiliates, suppliers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION

The information that we collect from you may be collected, transferred to, processed and/or stored in countries outside the European Economic Area (the "EEA"). Those countries may not have the same level of legal protection as countries in the EEA. If we do transfer your information in this way, we will take steps to ensure that it is protected to the same levels that apply in the EEA.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have certain rights under the Act.

At any time, you may ask us to stop sending direct marketing communications. You can exercise this right by contacting us at the postal or email address set out below.

You can also use the unsubscribe/opt-out link within our marketing emails.

You also have the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10.00 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties (such as, for example, our customers). If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy and/or cookies policies, and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time, we may make changes to this Privacy Policy.

Any changes that we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page. We recommend that you re-visit this page from time to time to take notice of any changes to this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy should be addressed to the Data Protection Officer, Marketing VF Limited, Ryland House, 24a Ryland Road, London NW5 3EH, United Kingdom, or to the Data Protection Officer at info@surveycompare.net.

Last updated: 23 February 2016