American Shopper Privacy Information
Effective Date April 1st 2009
American Shoppers Survey is owned and operated by Cogent Online Pty Ltd an Australian company
American Shoppers Survey respects the privacy of its members.
American Shoppers Survey manages your data for the purpose of marketing third party products and services to its subscribers.
American Shoppers Survey sends marketing and research information and offers to members that have consented to receiving material from American Shoppers Survey.
American Shoppers Survey intends to only send relevant targeted messages to subscribers that wish to receive them. Our aim is to remove any person who is subscribed in error in the fastest possible timeframe.
If you have been subscribed in error, have been subscribed by other individual/s without your consent or wish to have mailings to your address stopped for any reason American Shoppers Survey will unsubscribe you within the shortest possible time from notification.
How do I unsubscribe or change my information?
You can unsubscribe from our mailing lists by the following methods:
- Clicking the hyperlink located at the bottom of all American Shoppers Survey, or American Shoppers Survey branded mailings.
- Replying to any American Shoppers Survey, or American Shoppers Survey branded mailing with a written request to unsubscribe. N.B this process is manual and it may take several days for updates to occur.
- Sending written notification to:
Customer Information and Privacy Officer
American Shoppers Survey
Level 2, 62-64 Riley Street East Sydney NSW 2010 Australia
How is personal information collected?
American Shoppers Survey collects personal information as provided by participating subscribers directly to American Shoppers Survey or to participating website/companies that may include email address, name, telephone numbers, date of birth, occupations and areas of interest. Data is collected at the time of opt–in by active participation of the end user.
Interests are added in some cases where they can be reasonably assumed from the style of content of the participating website at which the user has subscribed.
What personal information is collected?
American Shoppers Survey collects name, physical address, email address, phone numbers, job and industry function information and lifestyle information as provided by the end user.
American Shoppers Survey collects IP address for validation and diagnostic purposes. We may also use cookies to track, personalize or simplify your user experience. Responses to American Shoppers Survey campaigns such as positive opens and click throughs may also be collected in order to better target future mailings.
Will American Shoppers Survey release my personal information to third parties?
Data is used only for the purpose of providing relevant marketing material to subscribers and will only be disclosed to American Shoppers Survey staff and agents for that purpose.
Information is aggregated and provided as group statistics for advertisers to make purchasing decisions and analyze results from campaigns. Online Advertisers do not have access to any individual’s personal records.
Physical mail advertisers are supplied with you personal details for accurate addressing and contact.
Personal information may on occasion be transferred to relevant agents for the purposes of de–duplication, correction or suppression.
Who owns American Shoppers Survey data?
Data collected from American Shoppers Survey websites remain the property of Cogent Online Pty Ltd.
How to contact American Shoppers Survey
Under the Australian Privacy Act you have the right to view or change any personal information that American Shoppers Survey holds about you. If you wish to contact American Shoppers Survey in relation to any privacy issues please feel free to using the following contact details.
Data Export Disclosure
American Shoppers Survey data is collected and stored in servers that reside in both Australia and the United States of America and may therefore be surrendered to the appropriate authorities in either nation if required.
American Shoppers Survey is designed to comply with the Australian SPAM Act and the USA CAN SPAM act.
Customer Information and Privacy Officer
Cogent Online Pty Ltd, Level 2, 62-64 Riley Street East Sydney NSW 2010 Australia
If you feel the above policy has been abused please contact abuse@cogentads.com
Cogent Online Pty Ltd
ACN: 123 947 571
ABN: 81 123 947 571