PRIVACY POLICY
You have certain rights in relation to your data, including the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, profiling (including the use of custom and lookalike/similar audiences), and direct marketing. At any time, you can exercise your rights by emailing us at [email protected]. For further details about our processing and your rights, please see below.
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ABOUT OUR SITE
Our site enables people to find and participate in online surveys and other earning opportunities.
The service that our site provides is to connect people with providers of online surveys (e.g. market research companies) and other earning opportunities(“Service Providers”).
HOW OUR SITE WORKS
If you’d like to participate in online surveys and other earning opportunities (“Offers”), please complete and submit our sign-up process (webform). You will be asked to select (by ticking boxes) the specific Offers that you would like to participate in.
Once you have completed the webform, you will receive a confirmation email for each Offer that you expressly selected. The email will come from us, or from the Service Provider that you expressly selected, and it will ask you to confirm your choice by clicking on a link. If you still wish to participate in the Offer, then simply click on the link, which will take you through to the Service Provider’s website.
You will also receive a general welcome email from us.
As our service is all about finding and telling people about Offers, we will also email you about other, similar Offers from time to time, unless you opt out of receiving such emails. At any time, you can unsubscribe from such emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link in an email.
We may ask to send you browser notifications via a pop up box when you get to the end of the sign-up webform. If you allow these notifications, you will receive regular messages from us with our best offers and more information on each partner. All our messages give you the option to unsubscribe by clicking on the notification settings and selecting 'Disable Notifications'.
We don’t work with any Service Providers until we have a legal contract in place. This is to ensure that they keep your data secure and confidential.
ABOUT US
Compare Survey (“CS”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is which is the website that belongs to Fumma LTD, whose registered office address is at Serghides House, Office 102, 61 Archbishop Makariou III Avenue, 6017 Larnaca
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), Compare Survey is the controller in relation to your data.
WHAT WE DON’T DO WITH YOUR DATA
Before confirming what data we collect, and why, here’s what we definitely don’t do with your data, unless clearly set out in this notice:
WHAT DATA WE COLLECT, AND HOW
If you complete our webform (as described above), it will ask you for your contact details and other information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, postal address, postal code, gender and/or date of birth.
From time to time, we change our webforms, and so they may ask you for other information. It will always be clear from the webform what information we’re requesting, and we only request information that is relevant to your request, and the service that we’re providing.
We also store and share Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, as explained below. Every computer or device has an IP address – a unique number – which enables it to communicate with other computers and devices over the Internet.
We may monitor and/or record these calls for the purposes of quality control and staff training. Also, occasionally, we may need to provide Service Providers with limited access to such recordings in order to resolve disputes.
Additionally, we might collect data about you if you:
HOW WE USE YOUR DATA
We use your data (described above) in the following ways.
To enable you to participate in the Offers that you have expressly selected
As explained above, if you submit our webform, you will receive a confirmation email for each Offer that you expressly selected. The email will come from us, or from the Service Provider that you expressly selected, and it will ask you to confirm your choice by clicking on a link.
We will also pass your contact details and other information (as described above) to each Service Provider that you expressly selected to enable them to email you regarding the Offer and confirm your choice.
We store IP addresses in order to stop unwanted traffic (i.e. spam) to our site. For example, if we become aware that spam is coming from a particular IP address (i.e. computer or location), we can block that IP address. From time to time, we also share IP addresses with Service Providers to enable them to verify the country in which people who sign up to our service are based.
To email you about Other Offers – But only if you haven’t opted out of such emails
If you use our service for finding and participating in Offers, then, as an existing user, we would like to email you about similar Offers (“Other Offers”).
You will always be given an opportunity to opt out of such messages before we send them, and we will not send such messages if you have opted out.
We may also send you information about similar products and services in the post – But only if you haven’t opted out
You will always be given an opportunity to opt out of such messages by emailing [email protected], and we will not send such messages if you have opted out.
To create custom and lookalike/similar audiences
We like to work with Facebook, Google and other platforms (“Platforms”) to reach out to you with adverts for Other Offers. We also like to use Platforms to reach out to other people who might like to use our quote request service.
We do this in two ways. In both cases, your data, along with other data, is used to create a custom audience and/or a lookalike/similar audience. Whenever an audience is shared with a Platform, the data is first hashed and pseudonymised, meaning that any data within the audience that could identify a person is replaced with an artificial identifier. So, the process is secure. Also, we don’t share more data than we need to for the purpose of creating the audience.
As we explain below, at any time, you may object to such activity by emailing us at [email protected].
Receiving data from Service Providers
From time to time, Service Providers may return data to us, together with confirmation on whether or not you and other subscribers have started or completed any surveys. They do this in order to enable us to improve our marketing. We may also use such data to create custom and lookalike/similar audiences, as explained above.
Working with suppliers
We work with a number of suppliers, who process data on our behalf. These include cloud storage providers and email service providers. We have appropriate contracts in place with such suppliers to ensure the protection and confidentiality of data.
COOKIES
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. At the bottom of this policy, we have included a table, setting out what cookies we use, and the purposes for which we use them.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
TRANSFERRING YOUR DATA
We may transfer your data outside the European Economic Area (the “EEA”).
Some of those countries (e.g. Canada, New Zealand, USA) have a European Commission adequacy decision, which means they are considered to offer an adequate level of data protection.
Other countries do not have the same level of legal protection as countries in the EEA, or with an adequacy decision. If we do transfer your data in this way, we will take steps to ensure that it is protected to the same levels that apply in the EEA. This may include, for example, ensuring that the organisation receiving the data is registered with the EU-US Privacy Shield (in the case of transfers to the USA), or that we use the EU’s model contract clauses.
STORING YOUR DATA
We have a data retention policy, which clearly sets out how long we keep data for, and for what reasons.
We will keep your data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose/s for which it was collected in the first place, i.e. as set out in this notice.
For example: If you haven’t opted out of receiving Other Offers from us, we will keep your details, and send you emails, until such time as you don’t engage with our emails for a period of 6 consecutive months. Following that period, we will not use the data, save that we will hash/anonymise the same, and retain it for a further 3 years for compliance purposes.
LEGAL GROUNDS
This notice sets out (above) how we use your data. Under the GDPR, controllers must have a valid lawful basis for each processing activity that they undertake. This section sets out our lawful basis for each activity.
| Activity | Lawful Basis under the GDPR | Your Rights |
| To enable you to participate in the Offers that you have expressly selected | Consent | To withdraw your consent, as explained below |
| Using and sharing IP addresses | Legitimate interests | You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests |
| To email you about Other Offers | Legitimate interests* | To object to processing based on legitimate interests. You also have the right to object to direct marketing |
| To create custom and lookalike/similar audiences | Legitimate interests | You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests |
| Receiving data from Service Providers | Legitimate interests | You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests |
*Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR), we send such emails on the basis of the existing customer (soft opt-in) exemption.
In each case where we have identified legitimate interests as the legal basis for our processing, we have conducted a legitimate interests assessment.
YOUR RIGHTS
Under the GDPR, you have a number of rights. In relation to our site, and the service that we provide, those rights are set out in the table above. We further explain these rights, and your other rights, below.
Right of access – You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the personal information that we hold about you, and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Right of rectification – If personal information that we hold about you is not accurate or is out of date and requires amendment or correction you have a right to have the data rectified or completed.
Right of erasure – In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that personal information we hold about you is erased (e.g. if the information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed).
Right to object to or restrict processing – In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal information. For example, if we are processing your information on the basis of our legitimate interests, and there are no compelling legitimate grounds for our processing which override your rights and interests.
Right of data portability – In certain instances, you have a right to receive any personal information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
Right to withdraw consent – In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. You can exercise this right by accessing our Preference Centre.
Exercising your rights
As explained above, you can exercise your right to withdraw consent by accessing our preference centre https://preferences.safe-click.net/.
If you wish to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please email us at [email protected]. Alternatively, you can write to us at the address set out above, or inform us if you speak with us on the phone.
Our lead supervisory authority for the processing set out in this notice is the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). If you are unhappy with how we have processed your data, you have the right to make a complaint to the ICO.
If you are based outside of Ireland, or you have a complaint concerning our activities outside of Ireland, you may prefer to lodge a complaint with a different Supervisory Authority. A list of relevant authorities can be accessed here.
CONTACTING US
If you have any questions regarding this notice, or any questions relating to data protection or privacy, you can contact us at [email protected].
Alternatively, you can write to us at the address set out above.
CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE
From time to time, we may update this notice.
Last reviewed: 26 January 2020