Privacy Policy
WELCOME
ComEngage, LLC is a full-service marketing research and engagement company located in the United States, with headquarters in Edmonds, WA. As a marketing research and engagement company, ComEngage collects data from study participants so that our clients can understand their customers’ needs and recognize how their products and/or services are received in the general marketplace. This data is collected through online surveys, mobile surveys, phone interviews, focus groups, online discussion boards, and other research methodologies.
To protect confidentiality and respect your privacy, ComEngage will in no way make a participant’s personal information available to any party outside the scope of the research project. Personal information is only used to group responses which will provide feedback to our clients. Individual responses or specific information will only be used for research purposes with your consent. You always have the option to opt-out of or terminate your participation in research.
Information We Gather
The purpose of any research and engagement program undertaken by ComEngage will be entirely communicated to participants with full transparency prior to beginning the study. The information we receive, that you voluntarily provide as part of our research and engagement programs, generally includes certain demographic information (age, gender, and/or income level) that is only used to analyze data, information regarding your personal preferences and attitudes, as well as your specific purchase activities or hobbies. Please note, the information we collect is strictly for use in research and engagement studies and ComEngage will never ask for financial account numbers or personal passwords.
ComEngage may receive personally identifiable information from a third-party (e.g., our client) and/or from third-party providers of phone and address lists. The third-party (client) provides this information so that we can contact you to participate in research projects. In this case, we may be provided, from the third-party, with basic personal information (including name, age, etc.), your contact information (such as email address, phone number), your interests and/or product association, and your connection with the third-party.
ComEngage or our third-party sample provider(s) may assign unique identifiers to a participant’s computer to identify and track the computer. ComEngage works primarily with third-party providers to arrange this technology, or to track the online activities of the user of a computer. This technology will not disrupt or interfere with the regular use or control of a computer. Nor will it modify or alter the settings or functionality of a computer.
ComEngage uses the unique identifier to assist our clients in safeguarding the integrity of survey results (to ensure that one person does not complete a survey multiple times). The third-party provider may use and analyze publicly available information and data obtained from the computer’s web browser and from other publicly available data points, including, without limitation, the technical settings of the computer, the characteristics of the computer or web browser to create a unique identifier assigned to the computer. This technology may utilize both cookies as well as locally shared objects known as “flash cookies”. The unique identifier is an alpha-numeric ID. Additionally, to assist our clients in protecting and ensuring the integrity of survey results, we (a) may link or associate your unique identifier to you and any of your personally identifiable information; (b) may share your unique identifier with sample or panel providers; and (c) may receive or obtain a unique identifier linked to you from a third-party, including, without limitation, a sample or panel provider or a client of ComEngage. Any unique identifier(s) received or obtained by ComEngage and linked to a specific individual will be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
How We Use Your Information
Research and engagement project participant information is used exclusively for research and engagement purposes. ComEngage will never attempt to sell our participants anything; we are only interested in gathering opinions. When you complete a research project, your personal responses are analyzed collectively with other participants’ information and may be reported individually to the client. We support the rights of our participants by limiting the use of personally identifiable information for legitimate marketing research and engagement purposes and actively support industry organizations created to uphold ethical survey research (this support includes making every effort to conform to the organizations’ ethical standards). We will never share our participants’ email addresses or personally identifiable information with anyone except our clients. Access to this data is strictly for purposes related to carrying out the research study, including hosting a survey or processing data. ComEngage will obtain guarantees from our vendors that they will safeguard personal information in consistency with this policy. All vendors, clients, and sub-contractors must sign an NDA, confidentiality or “chain of trust” agreement.
Clients who hire ComEngage to conduct market research and engagement are typically provided with participant level survey data that includes data such as demographic information needed to analyze data (e.g., gender, income level); the participant level data does not include anything that could personally link this data with you or members of your household (e.g., address, phone number, email address, name). On some occasions our clients request contact information or customer IDs of survey participants for record keeping, authentication or other business purposes.
In certain instances, such as to protect someone’s safety, to protect our rights or property, or when required to do so by law (including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements), ComEngage may disclose your personal information to a third-party.
Notice
ComEngage believes you have the right to be informed about personal information collected and provides transparent notice to online visitors and consumers with clear and accurate information about our policies, and our compliance with privacy and data protection. When we collect your personal information, we will give you timely and appropriate notice describing what personal information we are collecting, how we will use it, and the types of third parties with whom we may share it.
Security
ComEngage takes the security of your personal information seriously. Access to research participant personal information is restricted and limited to ComEngage staff members and authorized third parties who have an explicit need to access such information for a legitimate business purpose, such as sending email invitations, hosting an online survey or processing data. We take precautions to protect personally identifiable information in our possession from loss, disclosure, alteration and destruction, misuse, and unauthorized access.
Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation
It is ComEngage’s goal to maintain accurate data and provide mechanisms for you to access, correct or delete your personal data. We’ll keep your personal information only if we need it for the purposes for which we collected it, or as permitted by law. Privacy Shield data will only be used to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized. We may be required to disclose an individual’s personal information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
Access
ComEngage will make available to you your personal information in our custody or control that we have collected, upon your written request, to the extent required and/or permitted by applicable law. Availability will be provided so that you can correct, amend, or delete information where it is inaccurate. Personal information will not be provided in the case where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the individual’s privacy in the case in question, or where the rights of persons other than the individual would be violated.
To request access to your personal information, please contact us in writing at the physical mailing address or the email address provided below. ComEngage will fulfill your request within 30 days or give notice of extension (up to 60 additional days).
Recourse, Enforcement and Liability
ComEngage periodically completes a privacy compliance assessment and will make improvements to our controls and processes based on those results. In the event of any privacy or collection complaints, ComEngage provides recourse mechanisms for dispute resolution, to allow expedient resolution of such matters. We regularly review how we are meeting these privacy promises and provide an independent way to resolve complaints about our privacy practices through the Insights Association.
Exceptions to our Privacy Policy
Any exceptions to this Privacy Policy in terms of what data is collected, how it is collected or how it is used will be explicitly disclosed before the data is collected. Additional consent will always be asked, and respondents can always opt-out if they choose.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
ComEngage will review and update this Privacy Policy periodically to respond to changing legal, technical, and business developments. We will note the date of its most recent revision herein. Please review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of your rights and how ComEngage is protecting your Personal Data.
Contact
If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact ComEngage at:
ComEngage, LLC
Attention: Privacy Officer
123 2nd Ave S, Suite 230 #42
Edmonds, WA 98020
engagewithus@comengage.us
Last modified March 15, 2022