This privacy policy applies to www.olsonresearch.com ("Site") owned and operated by Olson Research Associates Inc. ("Olson Research", "Us", "We", "Our"). This privacy policy describes how Olson Research Associates Inc. collects and uses the personally identifiable information you provide on our web site: www.olsonresearch.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personally identifiable information and how you can access and update this information.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
Olson Research Associates Inc. has agreed to notify you of the following:Olson Research Associates is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this policy. Olson Research Associates collects information from our users at several different points on our website.
Use of email addressesFor A/L Benchmarks® customers
Often, we create user accounts on behalf of our customers using previously provided contact information. Our customers can create their
own accounts by providing an active email address and a code they would have obtained via our services previously. We use the email address
to verify their identity and thus we require that it remain active. We require our customers maintain a password for their account.
For Guests
Some of the services of our website are completely open, that is, we don't request any identifying information or charge a fee to view or
use the information. For some of our product information and for any free services, we require a user to provide an email address, name and
company name, phone number and optionally provide other (Position/Title, Fax #, address & Regulatory ID #) identifying information.
We post customer testimonials on the Website. These testimonials may include the customer's name. We obtain our customer's consent prior to posting testimonials. Any personally identifiable information a customer elects to disclose within their testimonial or in a blog (which requires log in using an open ID such as Facebook, Twitter, or registering an account) comment is publicly available and can be used to send you unsolicited messages for which Olson Research is not responsible.
To request removal of your personally identifiable information from our blog or community forum, contact us at webadmin@olsonresearch.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personally identifiable information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
We at Olson Research Associates Inc. and our partners use technologies such as cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users' movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.
Portions of our web site are hosted by third party providers. We do not place advertising on our web sites in as far as we can control. However, these providers may display advertising on the portions of our site that they host. These third party providers may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may be able to opt-out by the following consumer choice mechanisms, please visit:
We automatically gather visitor information on our secure customer web site only. We do not log or store visitor information on our public web site. This logged information from our secure customer site includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, or site functionality.
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, their information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as customer code or regulatory identifiers), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our sign-in form or any customer services page, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'.
To learn more about SSL, follow this link: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html.
You can verify the authenticity of our server's security with Starfield Technologies by clicking on the image at the right:
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to webadmin@olsonresearch.com.
Upon request Olson Research Associates Inc. will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. If your personally identifiable information changes (such as a email address or phone number), or if you no longer desire our web site services, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove personally identifiable information that you have provided to us. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. This can be done at our web site's account information page, by emailing our Web administrator, or by contacting us via postal mail, telephone or fax. Please see "Contacting the Web Site" below.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
In certain situations, Olson Research Associates Inc. may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy we may need to disclose personally identifiable information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
If Olson Research Associates Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personally identifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personally identifiable information.