EmployeeSurveyOnline.com Privacy
Statement
EmployeeSurveyOnline.com knows that you care how information about you
is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully
and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy.
By visiting EmployeeSurveyOnline.com, you are accepting the practices
described in this Privacy Notice.
What personal information about clients does EmployeeSurveyOnline.com
gather?
The information we gather from customers helps us personalise and continually
improve the useability and efficiency of EmployeeSurveyOnline.com. Types
of information we gather:
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Information You Give Us: We receive and store information you enter on our Website or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of certain site features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customising surveys and communicating with you. |
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Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Websites, we use ‘cookies’, and we obtain certain information when your Web browser accesses EmployeeSurveyOnline.com. |
Cookies |
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Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser. |
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The ’help’ portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of EmployeeSurveyOnline.com’s special features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on. |
Does EmployeeSurveyOnline.com share information received?
Absolutely not. Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we do not sell it to others.
Is our database secure?
Totally. The database accumulates results from all the organisations with who we work. It allows us to maintain the currency of the percentile calculations that inform your organisation how your results compare to a broad marketplace. The database is maintained in a secure offsite location to ensure the security of the data and the contributing organisations.
How secure is information about me and my organisation?
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We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. |
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We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during survey processing. |
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It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. |
Automatic information
Examples of the information we collect and analyse include the Internet
Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login;
e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as
browser type and version, operating system and platform; the full Uniform
Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our Website,
including date and time; and cookie number.
How we use information
We use information about you for purposes of monitoring and improving
our internal operations, as well as to ensure that we: (i) bill you properly,
(ii) administer your account in accordance with your agreements with us,
and (iii) properly perform the services you have requested. Please note
that we may use the information you give us to conduct a credit check
on you.
Our accountability
By using and purchasing our services, you obtain the protections of, and
consent to the data processing practices described in, this Privacy Statement.
When you purchase our services, you also represent to us that you have
provided notice to, and obtained consent from, any third party individuals
whose personal data you supply to us with regard to: (i) the purposes
for which such third party’s personal data has been collected, (ii)
the intended recipients or categories of recipients of the third party’s
personal data, (iii) which of the third party’s data are obligatory
and which data, if any, are voluntary, and (iv) how the third party can
access and, if necessary, rectify the data held about them.
In addition to the privacy protections that we provide, our employees,
agents and business partners are independently responsible for ensuring
compliance with this Privacy Statement, as described below.
Employee accountability
Only those EmployeeSurveyOnline.com employees that have a legitimate business
purpose for accessing and handling personal information obtained by us
are given authorisation to do so. The unauthorised access or use of such
information by an EmployeeSurveyOnline.com employee is prohibited and
constitutes grounds for disciplinary action.
Additionally, our information management systems are configured in such
a way as to block or inhibit employees from accessing information that
they have no authority to access.
Privacy
EmployeeSurveyOnline.com endorses the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner’s
National Principles for the Fair Handling of Personal Information. This
policy conforms to those principles.
Online privacy
Electronically submitted surveys have a security protocol that prohibits
any third party from identifying who responded or accessing individual
answers. Results are only provided as sample groups and it is not possible
for individual responses to be identified.
Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, EmployeeSurveyOnline.com disclaims
any liability to any person arising out of any action, or failure to act,
in accessing, downloading, uploading, using or relying on or dealing in
any way with any materials from the site or from any other website on
the Internet. You accept all risks and responsibility for losses, damages,
costs and other consequences arising directly or indirectly from using
the site or any other website on the Internet and in relation to any information
or material available from those sites (whether as a result of negligence
by EmployeeSurveyOnline.com or otherwise).
Viruses
EmployeeSurveyOnline.com does not represent or warrant that any files
obtained from or through the site are free from computer viruses or other
defects. Any such files are provided, and may only be used, on the basis
that the user assumes all responsibility for any loss, damage or consequence
resulting directly or indirectly from use of those files.
