EMC Research Privacy Policy

Last modified: October 25, 2023

Introduction

EMC Research, Incorporated (“Company” or ”We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This privacy policy identifies the personal data that we collect about you at our website or through our services. It also describes how we use and protect such information, and the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal data. The use of information collected through our services shall be limited to the purpose of providing the service for which our client has engaged us.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this website.
• Through publicly available sources.
• Through third parties.
• In person.

It does not apply to information collected by us through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this privacy policy.

This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

Through our survey research work, we collect several types of information including:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, or any other identifier (“personal information”);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
• About your internet connection and IP address filtering.

At times, we may collect additional personal data from respondents in our surveys (i.e., age, date of birth). These collected data is then disassociated from the individual personal information and used in aggregate, strictly for statistical, modeling and analysis purposes.

We collect this information from:

• You directly when you provide it to us online or in person.
• You when participating in our online survey or mail studies.
• Publicly available sources, such as voter lists.
• Commercially available lists and other research companies.
• Third parties such as our business partners or our clients.

When you provide your phone number to us online via our Contact page, you agree to receive text messages from EMC Research. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies.

 

How We Use Personal Information

We use personal information for the following reasons:

• To invite individuals to participate in survey research.
• To contact individuals to ask their opinion on various topics and conduct surveys.
• To recontact you to validate survey responses.
• To confirm or gather demographic information to enhance our analysis.
• For statistical modeling purposes.
• To pay incentives for survey participation.
• To present our website and its contents to you.
• To improve the user experience on our website.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

 

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We only disclose personal information that we collect for the purposes stated elsewhere in this policy. We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide to us as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of EMC Research, Incorporated’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by EMC Research, Incorporated about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

 

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, but we may need to disclose personal information under certain circumstances:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of EMC Research, Incorporated, our customers, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

 

Rights to Access and Correct Your Information

You may send us an email at info@emcresearch.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

The following privacy rights may apply under applicable data protection legislation in relevant jurisdiction or local law. You may contact us for further information.  

• Right to be informed: You can ask us to provide you with privacy information about how we use or process your personal information.
• Right of access: You can request us to confirm whether we process your personal information. You can also ask us to access your personal information.
• Right to rectification and erasure: You can ask us to correct your information in case we hold inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
• Right to Opt-Out: You can ask us at any time to opt-out of processing your personal information. You may also object to us processing your personal information for our legitimate interests and in certain other situations based on providing legitimate grounds to do so.
• Right to be notified of data breach: We will promptly inform you if a data breach (leading to the destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, your personal information) occurs which is likely to result in a high risk of adversely affecting your rights and freedoms.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. If you have questions related to this, or regarding how the California Consumer Protection Act might apply to you, please email us at info@emcresearch.com.

 

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers, compliant with strictest standards to ensure privacy and data protection. We also use encryption technology to store and transfer data.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. We will post any updates to our privacy policy on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.

Contact Information

Questions regarding this privacy policy can be sent via email to info@emcresearch.com.