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PINECONE
RESEARCH
Updated July 2010
Your information and our business. Thank you for agreeing to join our select group
of panellists. PineCone Research provides our clients information about
consumer preferences with respect to products and product concepts. Our
clients use this information to decide which products to bring to
market, where and at what price. By participating in our panel, you will
be among those whose opinions will factor into the decisions by our
clients.
Your personally-identifiable information remains confidential. In
joining our panel, you will be providing to us some personal information
about you and others in your household. This information is retained in
our database and used only as necessary to produce reports and analyses
concerning new products and new product concepts throughout your country
and around the world on an anonymous basis. Your personally-identifiable
information is never disclosed in any report we provide to our clients.
Is our information correct? By responding to this survey at our
website, you will be giving us certain personal data including your
name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, sex,
occupation, level of education, and household annual income This is your
profile information. You may update your profile information at any time
by logging into the PineCone Research Website. You also will be
requested from time to time to provide additional personal information
through on-line surveys conducted in conjunction with certain product
analyses. You also may update this information at any time by contacting
us by email at scott@pineconeresearch.co.uk. You also may contact us at
this email address at any time if you would like to see the information
we hold about you, or to ask us to correct or update this information,
or to ask us to delete all personal data that we hold about you on any
storage media, or to stop your participation in our panel.
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We will use the information you and other panellists provide us to
help identify future products and services. We combine the
information that you and other panellists give us with data and research
tools from other sources. We use this information to perform research
and to prepare reports and analyses concerning consumer preferences in
your country and around the world with respect to new products and new
product ideas.
We maintain the security of the personal information we hold about
you. We may store the personal details we hold about you
indefinitely. We may store this data in your home country, or we may
transfer this data to Pinecone operations and other organizations that
process the data we hold about you on our behalf in other countries,
including the U.S.A. We also may disclose this data to third parties
when disclosure is required by law or when we deem it necessary to
establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We also may transfer this data if Pinecone or its assets are acquired by
or merged with another company. (You may contact us at any time to see
details of the parties to whom this information has been made
available.) The laws of these other countries regarding the use and
transfer of personal data may not be similar to those of your home
country. But you may be assured that any transfer of this data outside
your home country will be done in full accordance with applicable law.
This data will be controlled by, and will be accessible electronically
only to select members of the administrative staff. We have in place
certain security measures to protect the security and confidentiality of
personal data whilst controlled by us. We will maintain and improve
these measures over time in line with legal and technological
developments.
About Pinecone. PineCone is a business owned by a subsidiary of
Nielsen, a global market research company. Nielsen headquarters are located at 770 Broadway, New York, New York
10003 U.S.A.
We may change this Notice. We reserve the right to update and
make changes to this notice. If we materially change our practices in
handling personally identifiable information, we will notify you by
posting the changes on the online Privacy Notice at least 30 days prior
to their implementation. The online Privacy Notice may be viewed by
clicking on the link at the bottom of any page in the PineCone website,
or at such other location as we may designate from time to time. Your
continued participation in our surveys after the effective date of any
changes constitutes your acceptance of all of the changes.
Any questions? Please contact Michelle Rosenacker by e-mail at:
Michelle.Rosenacker@nielsen.com
THANK YOU – WE APPRECIATE AND VALUE YOUR PARTICIPATION!
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