PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for using SaySO! We value the trust you place in us. We have written this policy to help you understand what information we collect, how we use it, and what choices you have. Since we’re an internet company, some of the concepts below are a little technical, but we’ve tried our best to explain things in a simple and clear way. SaySO is committed to maintaining the privacy of online respondents and its panel members. Please read the following privacy statement to learn about our information gathering process and dissemination practices.
Whether we are conducting market research online through surveys or other data collection processes, maintaining the confidentiality of personal information shared with us remains our number one priority. Sonrissa has invested time and money to ensure that all information we receive from you through the Sonrissa website (sonrissa.com), SaySO website (sayso.in), and other products and services is stored safely, securely, and in accordance with industry best practices. The protection of your personal information is our commitment to you. This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices that apply to all products and services provided by Sonrissa.
Your privacy and confidentiality of the personally identifiable information we collect is of the utmost importance to us. All of the information that SaySO collects is reported in aggregate, in the form of findings about the group as a whole and not individuals. Personally identifiable information is never reported in a way that could identify an individual without your expressed consent.
Collection & Use of Personally Identifiable Information and other information
When you use our Website, we collect and store your personal information which is provided by you from time to time. SaySO only collects personal information directly from panelists who, of their own free will, decide to give certain information. Our primary goal in doing so is to provide you a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience. This allows us to facilitate you with surveys that most likely meet your interests. Panelists join SaySO voluntarily to voice and share their opinions regarding products and services. SaySO helps facilitate this process.
We collect information such as name, address, email address, phone number, gender, employment status, household income, education level, marital status, household status, ethnicity and type of computer you use. After you register, we will ask you for additional information through our "Imprints", which are used to match you with the most suitable surveys. Completion of "Imprints" is strictly voluntary. When you register with SaySO, you agree: (i) to receive a confirmation email from us confirming your registration; (ii) to receive emails inviting you to participate in surveys with links to the surveys; (iii) to receive emails inviting you to participate in "Imprints" (iv) when applicable, to receive emails inviting you to participate in voluntary sweepstakes/draws that SaySO may sponsor for its members; and (v) to receive email responses to questions, comments or updates to your member profile that you submit to the Web site. You also agree to the establishment of your incentive account which shall be credited after you and/or one of your qualified referrals participate in a survey that is completed and validated by SaySO.
When SaySO facilitates data collection research, we ensure our panel owners use invitations and clients use questionnaires/Survey that clearly identify the research company or panel company and explain the purpose(s) of our contact.
Survey responses are identified based upon a survey respondent identification number assigned to each respondent. No personally identifiable information is associated with such survey responses or provided to clients or third parties without the respondent's prior "opt-in" consent.
We only use your (the panelist's) personal information for the following purposes:
Occasionally, we may contact a panelist for one of these other purposes:
When a panelist participates in any of our surveys that we carry out on behalf of our clients, the survey may ask a panelist for their personal opinions, as well as demographic information, such as their age and household composition. A panelist may refuse to answer certain questions or discontinue participation in a study at any time. If a panelist joins the SaySO panel, they may withdraw their membership at any time by following the opt-out instructions.
Survey Responses: Your responses to survey questions are combined with those of other people and are tabulated only in the aggregate. Only non-identifiable (in anonymous form) and aggregated data will be shared with our clients. Any answers you provide to survey questions will remain entirely confidential.
Course of Business: we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on your behalf. In such cases we will not authorize the third party to keep, disclose or use panelist's information with others except for the purpose of providing the services they have been hired for.
Sale of a Business: We may transfer any information we have about you as an asset in connection with a merger or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all or part of our business or be acquired by that business entity, or as part of a corporate re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business or other change in corporate control. Should such a transaction occur that other business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information.
Legal: SaySO and our service providers may be legally compelled to provide panelist's personal information in response to a subpoenas, search warrant, court order or other legally valid inquiry, process or order, or to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or infringement of law, or as otherwise required by law. We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting online resources users who violate our rules or engage in behavior which is harmful (or illegal) to other users. We may disclose panelist's personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to enforce this Privacy Statement or Terms of use, to protect our rights or property, to protect someone's safety or welfare, to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process
Use of cookies, log files and other technologies on our website
Cookies are small text files stored on one's computer by a website that assigns a numerical user ID and stores certain information about one's online browsing. HTTP cookies, IP addresses, browser user agent information, HTML cookies and/or Flash Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies) may be used at various points of interaction to provide for a better user experience, to identify and validate a panelist, to provide quality control and validation functions, to safeguard your personal information and to protect the integrity of the data collection process. These and other digital fingerprinting technologies are not used to collect data for any means other than the aforementioned reasons. Under no circumstances are these technologies used to prevent SaySO members from deleting or removing cookies. Web and application server logs are used solely for security, support, troubleshooting and maintenance purposes. No personally identifiable information is stored on any cookie that SaySO uses.
In addition to log data, we may also collect information about the device you’re using SaySO on, including what type of device it is, what operating system you’re using, device settings and unique device identifiers. Whether we collect some or all of this information often depends on what type of device you’re using and its settings. For example, different types of information are available depending on whether you’re using a Mac or a Windows PC, an iPhone or an Android phone. To learn more about what information your device makes available to us, please also check the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider.
Your Account Information and Profile are password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. We recommend that you do not reveal your password to anyone. SaySO will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your panel account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
Whenever SaySO handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, SaySO takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
By registering with this Website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. By using the Website and/ or by providing your information, you consent to the collection and use of the information you disclose on the Website in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to your consent for sharing your information as per this privacy policy.
If we decide to make any material changes in our privacy practices, we will post a notice on our Web site notifying members of the change. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we’ll post any changes on this page. If you continue to use SaySO after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy. If you do not agree with the changes made to this Privacy Policy, you may unsubscribe. If the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice or obtain your consent as required by law.
All disputes over privacy shall be governed as set forth in this Privacy Policy or in the Terms and Conditions, including applicable law, arbitration rules and limitations on damages. You should review the Web site periodically for any changes to this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions.
Protecting Your Privacy
SaySO is a proprietary Market research online panel company and a registered trademark of 'Sonrissa'.Whether we are conducting market research online through surveys or other data collection processes, maintaining the confidentiality of personal information shared with us remains our number one priority. Sonrissa has invested time and money to ensure that all information we receive from you through the Sonrissa website (sonrissa.com), SaySO website (sayso.in), and other products and services is stored safely, securely, and in accordance with industry best practices. The protection of your personal information is our commitment to you. This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices that apply to all products and services provided by Sonrissa.
Your privacy and confidentiality of the personally identifiable information we collect is of the utmost importance to us. All of the information that SaySO collects is reported in aggregate, in the form of findings about the group as a whole and not individuals. Personally identifiable information is never reported in a way that could identify an individual without your expressed consent.
Security Standards
SaySO supports and strictly adheres to the industry standards regarding electronic data security uses the most effective technology and practices to protect your privacy. Collection & Use of Personally Identifiable Information and other information
When you use our Website, we collect and store your personal information which is provided by you from time to time. SaySO only collects personal information directly from panelists who, of their own free will, decide to give certain information. Our primary goal in doing so is to provide you a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience. This allows us to facilitate you with surveys that most likely meet your interests. Panelists join SaySO voluntarily to voice and share their opinions regarding products and services. SaySO helps facilitate this process.
We collect information such as name, address, email address, phone number, gender, employment status, household income, education level, marital status, household status, ethnicity and type of computer you use. After you register, we will ask you for additional information through our "Imprints", which are used to match you with the most suitable surveys. Completion of "Imprints" is strictly voluntary. When you register with SaySO, you agree: (i) to receive a confirmation email from us confirming your registration; (ii) to receive emails inviting you to participate in surveys with links to the surveys; (iii) to receive emails inviting you to participate in "Imprints" (iv) when applicable, to receive emails inviting you to participate in voluntary sweepstakes/draws that SaySO may sponsor for its members; and (v) to receive email responses to questions, comments or updates to your member profile that you submit to the Web site. You also agree to the establishment of your incentive account which shall be credited after you and/or one of your qualified referrals participate in a survey that is completed and validated by SaySO.
When SaySO facilitates data collection research, we ensure our panel owners use invitations and clients use questionnaires/Survey that clearly identify the research company or panel company and explain the purpose(s) of our contact.
Survey responses are identified based upon a survey respondent identification number assigned to each respondent. No personally identifiable information is associated with such survey responses or provided to clients or third parties without the respondent's prior "opt-in" consent.
We only use your (the panelist's) personal information for the following purposes:
- To invite the panelist to participate in market research through a questionnaire
- To execute a profiling study to garner more information on the panelist
- To respond to a support based issue
- To validate answers a panelist gave in a recent survey we carried out on behalf of our clients
- To update and ensure that our records of a panelist's personal information is true and correct
- To credit your incentive account for completed and validated surveys
- To compensate you when you request payment of your incentive credit balance
- To enforce this Privacy Statement and/or Terms and Conditions
- To detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity
- To protect our rights or property
- To protect someone's health, safety or welfare
- To comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process
Occasionally, we may contact a panelist for one of these other purposes:
- To gather information to provide any other form of incentive offering
- To ask for a panelist his/her permission to use their personal information for a purpose that was not explained to them when their personal information was first collected.
When a panelist participates in any of our surveys that we carry out on behalf of our clients, the survey may ask a panelist for their personal opinions, as well as demographic information, such as their age and household composition. A panelist may refuse to answer certain questions or discontinue participation in a study at any time. If a panelist joins the SaySO panel, they may withdraw their membership at any time by following the opt-out instructions.
Disclosures of Personal Information
We DO NOT give, sell, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties without your prior consent, except as otherwise set out below.Survey Responses: Your responses to survey questions are combined with those of other people and are tabulated only in the aggregate. Only non-identifiable (in anonymous form) and aggregated data will be shared with our clients. Any answers you provide to survey questions will remain entirely confidential.
Course of Business: we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on your behalf. In such cases we will not authorize the third party to keep, disclose or use panelist's information with others except for the purpose of providing the services they have been hired for.
Sale of a Business: We may transfer any information we have about you as an asset in connection with a merger or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all or part of our business or be acquired by that business entity, or as part of a corporate re-organization, amalgamation, restructuring of business or other change in corporate control. Should such a transaction occur that other business entity (or the new combined entity) will be required to follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information.
Legal: SaySO and our service providers may be legally compelled to provide panelist's personal information in response to a subpoenas, search warrant, court order or other legally valid inquiry, process or order, or to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or infringement of law, or as otherwise required by law. We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting online resources users who violate our rules or engage in behavior which is harmful (or illegal) to other users. We may disclose panelist's personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to enforce this Privacy Statement or Terms of use, to protect our rights or property, to protect someone's safety or welfare, to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process
Use of cookies, log files and other technologies on our website
Cookies are small text files stored on one's computer by a website that assigns a numerical user ID and stores certain information about one's online browsing. HTTP cookies, IP addresses, browser user agent information, HTML cookies and/or Flash Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies) may be used at various points of interaction to provide for a better user experience, to identify and validate a panelist, to provide quality control and validation functions, to safeguard your personal information and to protect the integrity of the data collection process. These and other digital fingerprinting technologies are not used to collect data for any means other than the aforementioned reasons. Under no circumstances are these technologies used to prevent SaySO members from deleting or removing cookies. Web and application server logs are used solely for security, support, troubleshooting and maintenance purposes. No personally identifiable information is stored on any cookie that SaySO uses.
In addition to log data, we may also collect information about the device you’re using SaySO on, including what type of device it is, what operating system you’re using, device settings and unique device identifiers. Whether we collect some or all of this information often depends on what type of device you’re using and its settings. For example, different types of information are available depending on whether you’re using a Mac or a Windows PC, an iPhone or an Android phone. To learn more about what information your device makes available to us, please also check the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider.
Social Networks and Social Media
SaySO may provide integrations into Social Networks to provide a better product to consumers. This integration may require authentication and linking of certain information from these Social Networks. We will identify such information and ask for your permission during this process. For example, you may link your Facebook or Google account to SaySO, which allows us to obtain information from those accounts (e.g., your friends or contacts). The information we obtain from those services often depends on your settings or their privacy policies, so be sure to check what those are.Consent
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in this Privacy Policy, we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.Opportunity to Correct/Update Information
You can correct factual errors, review and/or update your profile or change your personal information you provided while registering at any time from the member's account on the site. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. Security of personal information
Our Website has stringent security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. SaySO takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Whenever you change or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. Once your information is in our possession we adhere to strict security guidelines, protecting it against unauthorized access. Your Account Information and Profile are password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. We recommend that you do not reveal your password to anyone. SaySO will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your panel account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
Whenever SaySO handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, SaySO takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Children's Privacy Protection
SaySO firmly believes in maintaining the security and confidentiality of all visitors to this Web site, regardless of age. Where a parent who is a member of SaySO has indicated in their member profile that members of their household include children, SaySO may, from time to time, request that such parent allow one or more of those children to respond to surveys specifically designed for children. The children of such members may only respond to such surveys on this Web site by using the email address and password of one of their parents with the prior consent of such parent. Surveys specifically designed for children to respond to shall relate to products and services that are age appropriate and shall only collect the following general demographic information about the respondent: the child’s age, gender and where the child resides. Such surveys shall not collect more personal information about the child than is reasonably necessary for marketing research purposes. The child’s survey responses shall be used for the same purposes and shall be subject to the same obligations, restrictions and conditions as any other member survey response. By providing an email address and password for the use of this Web site to any child, the parent has consented to the child’s participation in and response to surveys through this Web site. In the event a parent believes that their child is using their email address and password to access this Web site without authorization, has registered as a member of this Web site using false information, such parent may contact us via email using the Contact Us form.Notification of Changes
Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time without prior notice. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically.By registering with this Website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. By using the Website and/ or by providing your information, you consent to the collection and use of the information you disclose on the Website in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including but not limited to your consent for sharing your information as per this privacy policy.
If we decide to make any material changes in our privacy practices, we will post a notice on our Web site notifying members of the change. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we’ll post any changes on this page. If you continue to use SaySO after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy. If you do not agree with the changes made to this Privacy Policy, you may unsubscribe. If the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice or obtain your consent as required by law.
Unsubscribe / Delete Account
You don't have to participate in every survey; if you don't respond, we will contact you later about another survey. If at any time you decide that you don't want to participate in our surveys anymore, you can unsubscribe and delete your account. After we have received and processed your request to unsubscribe and/or delete account, you will no longer receive emails from SaySO inviting you to participate in surveys.Sweepstakes
From time to time, SaySO may hold a sweepstakes available to its current members, new members or specific sections of its membership. Participation in these sweepstakes is voluntary. Sweepstakes prize winners will be notified of their prizes by email. Prize winnings will be deposited in member’s incentive accounts. As a condition to entering into such sweepstakes, members agree that SaySO may display their name, home town and home state on this Web site under a list of winners for each sweepstakes.Links to Advertisements and Other Sites
This Privacy policy applies to online information collection practices of the Sonrissa website, SaySO website, Online surveys hosted by SaySO or third party survey providers and other products and services provided by Sonrissa. In our Messages or Emails we may provide you with links to other websites for your convenience, but we do not review, control, or monitor the privacy practices of websites operated by others. SaySO is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those websites.Unsolicited Emails
As we are an independent market research company, SaySO will not use your personal information to sell you products or services. SaySo will never spam or send unsolicited commercial emails. Members who spam in order to generate referrals are ineligible for any compensation from SaySO and may result in their permanent disqualification from participation in SaySO. General
By visiting this Web site, you agree that this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions govern your use of the Web site. In this Privacy Statement, we address some common questions and concerns you may have about using the site, the Terms and Conditions and/or the Service. Please note that your use of this website is subject to the Terms and conditions. It is important that you review the terms and conditions carefully for important definitions and discussion of your rights. Your consent to the terms and conditions is mandatory for your participation in the SaySO service.All disputes over privacy shall be governed as set forth in this Privacy Policy or in the Terms and Conditions, including applicable law, arbitration rules and limitations on damages. You should review the Web site periodically for any changes to this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policies or practices, we would like to know about it so we can address them. Please contact us via email using the Contact Us form.