By information, we mean information about you collected through iWantPoints and our Sites, including “personally identifiable information” such as your name, email address, residential or work address, certain demographic information, as well as information regarding your hobbies, interests and product ownership and other information you provide to us by registering for iWantPoints, participating in our surveys or services, or making requests for information about our services.  Registration for iWantPoints is not required to view non-member areas of the Sites. Registering with iWantPoints requires you to sign in via Facebook. When you register you allow Facebook to send us your contact information such as your email address, your name, your location, and certain demographic information.  

When you register you are automatically on our VIP list and will receive our newsletter which you can opt-out of using the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of each email. In addition, from time to time, we receive e-mail addresses from one of our partners, who may ask us to contact you to offer you a survey or other promotion.

We may collect other “non-personally identifiable information” such as your user name and password (your “Login”), IP address, and your website browsing patterns (discussed in further detail below).  We use such non-personally identifiable information to serve you better and send you surveys or offers that are most relevant to your interests.  We and/or our data partners, where you have given such data partners your consent, may also seek other personally and non-personally identifiable information from you or where such information is otherwise publicly available.   

From time to time we may use third party providers to validate the accuracy of personal information you provide, so that we may offer better statistical sample to our clients.  We may use third parties to provide us with data they have collected about you, and append this data to your demographic profile.  In such cases only a minimum amount of information is transferred to these third parties so as to enable them to perform specific functions on our behalf. 

You may be referred to iWantPoints or our surveys by one of our third party business partners.  In the event that we ask such partner to contact you with additional survey opportunities, we may share certain basic personal information that we understand such partner already maintains (such as your e-mail address and gender) as well as certain basic information regarding your iWantPoints activity (such as the last time you completed a survey).

Any information provided to us will be retained and used solely for the purposes of fulfilling your orders for Amazon Gift Cards, responding to your questions, offering you opportunities to participate in surveys and other offers, performing and carrying out the terms of iWantPoints (including fulfilling any rewards), or communicating with you as a member of iWantPoints. 

We support the rights of our members by limiting the use of their information for legitimate market research purposes and we make every effort to conform to the efforts of the following organizations created to uphold ethical survey research:

    * Marketing Research Association (MRA)

    * Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO)

    * Advertising Research Foundation (ARF)

To further improve the quality, targeting and relevance of our surveys and offers, you may be asked to provide certain demographic data (like your age, gender, zip code, income) and profile data (like occupation, shopping habits and other areas of interest) as certain surveys/offers may be directed to those participants who meet a particular profile. You will be asked to answer certain questions on forms and pages that may or may not be hosted by us. The information we collect on our pages will be used to determine whether you are eligible to participate in the survey and will also be maintained by us to enable us to provide you with more relevant surveys in the future.

From time to time, we may collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of the Site and the Service, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Site, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they "click" on. We collect this information from you by “passive” means through the use of technologies such as "cookies" and IP addresses, which are discussed in greater detail below. We may also group this information into aggregate visitor data in order to describe the use of the Sites and iWantPoints to our existing or potential business partners or other third parties, or in response to a government request. However, please be assured that this aggregate data will in no way personally identify you, other list members or any other visitors to the Sites.

An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the web. Web servers, the computers that "serve" web pages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to third parties and to track the use of the Sites. When visitors request pages from the Sites or click on a link in a mailing sent through iWantPoints our servers log the visitors' IP addresses. We reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify a visitor or member when it will enhance the users experience or if we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with the Sites’ policies or to protect the Company, the Sites, the Sites’ visitors, iWantPoints, our Internet Service Provider partners, the members or others.

Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies for a number of purposes:

On Our Sites:  Most commonly, we use cookies to make web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you’re using our Sites.  The use of cookies is an industry standard -you'll find them at most websites. We use cookies on the Sites to verify a member's login status.  By showing how and when visitors use the Sites, cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Information such as the total number of visitors to the Sites and pages viewed is most easily tracked with cookies. We may use the information from cookies to make improvements and updates to the Sites and to tailor our services to our visitors', members' and survey participants' needs. 

You have the option of disabling the installation of new cookies and deleting existing cookies using your browser preferences. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent and to accept/reject such cookie(s) individually. However, please be aware that some features of the Sites will not function properly or may be slower if you refuse cookies.

Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly in HTML files and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

We may use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications. We may also use them to confirm payment to our third party partners. If you no longer wish to receive our communications sent by email, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication.

Except for the situations listed here in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties.

To provide iWantPoints to you, we may sometimes use other businesses to perform certain specialized services such as data processing or other technology services. In such instances, we may provide your personal information to those businesses, but they are not permitted to retain or use your information for any other purpose.

We may use digital fingerprinting technologies to assign a unique identifier or “Machine-ID” to a user’s computer to identify and track the computer. iWantPoints works principally with a third party provider to deploy this technology (the “Technology”) and does not use it to collect personally identifiable information, or track the online activities, of the user of a computer; and will not disrupt or interfere with the use or control of a computer or alter, modify or change the settings or functionality of a computer. We use the unique identifier to assist our clients in ensuring the integrity of survey results. The third party provider analyzes 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, and the computer’s IP Address, to create a unique identifier assigned to the computer. The unique identifier is an alpha-numeric id. After creating the unique identifier, we do not retain the information analyzed by the Technology to create the unique identifier.  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 our clients and with other 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 iWantPoints. Any unique identifier(s) received or obtained by iWantPoints and linked to a specific individual will be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

As the Company develops, we may buy other businesses or their assets or sell all or parts of our business assets. Customer information is generally one of the business assets involved in such transactions. Thus, in the event that the assets of the Company in whole or in parts are acquired by a third-party, customer information, including any visitor information collected through the Sites or iWantPoints, would be one of the transferred assets. In the event of a corporate change in control or sale of all or parts of our business assets our users will be notified and given the opportunity to opt-out of any such transfer of their personally identifiable information to the new corporate entity or asset purchaser.

The Company reserves the right to disclose member information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the Company's rights or property, other visitors, list members, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. The Company also reserves the right to disclose visitor or list member information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.  We may also use personally identifiable information to monitor compliance with the Sites’ Terms and Conditions.

Survey Electronic Notification

We may send you targeted and relevant surveys/offers by email.

Service Notification

We will send you service-related announcements, which are not promotional in nature, on occasions when it is necessary to do so. For example, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we may send you electronic notification.

Customer Service

Based upon the information you provide us, we will communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, to fulfill incentive requests, and to manage your account. We may communicate with you by electronic communication or telephone.

The security of your information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it; however, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Protecting the security of your personal information is very important to us. When we store information that you have provided to us when registering for iWantPoints, that information is protected by security measures that include "firewalls" (a combination of computer hardware and software that helps keep unauthorized visitors from accessing information within our computer network), "intrusion detection systems" (a combination of computer hardware and software that helps detect any unauthorized visitors) and other tools such as data encryption and physical security, where appropriate. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data repository can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Company strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information.

Please be aware that when you are on the our site, or when you receive an email message from us through iWantPoints, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There may be links to other sites from the Sites’ pages or from the email message we send to you that take you outside our Sites. These other sites may send their own cookies to visitors, collect data, or solicit personal information. The privacy policies of these other sites may be significantly different from this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot guarantee the security of any of your personal information collected there. Note that when you link to a third party site from the Sites, you may see pre-populated data fields with your personal information; however, that information is not available to the third party unless you take certain actions on the third party's site, such as submitting a form.

We use single sign-on service(s) that allow you to sign into iWantPoints using your third-party social networking login credentials such as your Facebook or Twitter accounts. These services allow you to link your existing social network profile to your iWantPoints account. Once linked, you will be able to post content on the third-party site from iWantPoints and interact with your friends. If you choose to use such a sign-on service, iWantPoints may also access certain profile information from your third-party social network profile such as location, email, name, etc.

We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 on the Sites or through the Service without permission from a parent or legal guardian. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide any information to us. If we become aware that we have collected information from a child under the age of 13 without the permission of a parent or legal guardian, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.

The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice on the homepage of the Sites for a reasonable period of time after such changes are made, that this Privacy Policy has been updated, and by changing the "Effective" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check this page periodically for any changes.