Cookies

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  A. Persistent and Session Cookies
   

  A cookie is a small text file containing information about a Member that is placed by a website on the Member's device. Dynata Global UK Limited places persistent cookies on your computer when you complete the registration form or log into Dynata Global UK Limited websites. Persistent cookies are used to store your email address and encrypted password. We use these cookies to recognize you when you visit our websites so that we may provide you with customized pages based on information in your Member account or profile.

  We also place a session cookie on your computer while you are participating in a survey or viewing the Dynata Global UK Limited websites without logging in. Session cookies are used to maintain your session state across your Web requests. These cookies are used to record when you finish a survey, how much of the survey you complete, the country from where you are viewing the survey, and the language you are using to view the website.

  The table below explains the cookies we use and why:

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  B. Advanced / Tracking Cookies and Technologies
   

  We and our partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers, may also use tracking cookies, tags, and scripts to track certain information about you based on your activity on our site or third parties’ sites. We use this information to conduct internal research on our Member’s demographics, interests and behavior, and to understand and serve you better.

  We and our third party partners use Local Shared Objects (Flash cookies) and Local Storage (HTML5) to provide certain features on our websites, to display advertising based on your web browsing activities, and/or to store content information and preferences. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5. To manage Flash cookies, please click here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

  We provide market research analysis data to our Reward Partners and Marketing Partners on the effectiveness of their websites and advertisements. We do not tie the information gathered by tracking cookies on the effectiveness of websites and advertisements to our Members’ PII.

  Our tracking cookies do not track Members who are at or below specific years of age, as indicated in the terms and conditions document.

  We partner with third parties to display advertising on our websites or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on our websites and other sites to provide you advertising based on your browsing activities and interests. You can opt-out of our technology partners' data collection and ad targeting. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt out by clicking here http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/ . If you are located in the European Union (EU), click here http://www.youronlinechoices.eu . Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads; you will continue to receive generic ads.

  If you delete cookies on your browser after opting out, you will have to opt- out again. You can opt-out of the provision of data from our data partners to us, and out of receiving advanced cookies on your computer by clicking on "My Account" to update your preferences.

  If a cookie is received by a Member directly from a third party, regardless of the Member's participation in the Dynata Global UK Limited programme, opting out with Dynata Global UK Limited will not prevent the Member from receiving that third party's cookie.

  Third Party use of Links: If another person uses your computer login, you should inform them if you have agreed to accept the tracking cookie on the computer as part of your profile, and if that person links to certain online advertisements, then the information may be captured by Dynata Global UK Limited.

  Your access to our websites and/or application will not be affected if you opt-out of tracking cookies placed by third parties.

  The table below shows Advanced Cookies we use:

• Vendor	Cookie expiration	Purpose	Opt-out link
  Doubleclick Floodlight	730 days	Ad effectiveness research	Opt-out
  Quantcast	730 days	Partner datashare	Opt-out
  Dynata Global UK Limited	730 days	Ad effectiveness research	Opt-out using contact form
  Rocket Fuel	730 days	Partner datashare	Opt-out
  Lotame	90 days	Video content engagement measurement to better understand how different audiences consume video content.	Opt-out
  Semasio	180 days	Partner datashare	Opt-out

• C. Clear Gifs / Web Beacons / Web Bugs
   

  Our third party tracking utility partner employs a software technology called clear gifs (also known as web beacons or web bugs), that informs us what content is effective and helping us improve Members’ sites. Clear gifs are tiny graphics which contain unique identifiers that function similar to cookies and are used to track the online Member movements on Websites. In contrast to cookies which are stored on a Member’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on webpages. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our Members’ personally identifiable information.
   

• D. How to Contact Us / How to Lodge Complaints

  Any complaint regarding Dynata Global UK Limited's handling of personal information should first be made in writing to Dynata Global UK Limited's Data Privacy Team at the contact details specified below.
  160 Queen Victoria Street,
  London,
  EC4V 4BF, UK;
  Attn: Privacy Department
  Or at Privacy@Researchnow.com

  We will respond and advise whether we agree with your complaint or not. If we do not agree, we will provide reasons. If we do agree, we will advise what (if any) action we consider it appropriate to take in response.