Privacy Policy

Data Protection Officer
Opinions Market Research
Maria Fernanda Herrera Delgado
12 Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin 2
Ireland D02 X540

phone: +353 (0)1 901 9697
Lead Supervising Authority
Ireland - Data Protection
Ms Helen DIXON
Data Protection Commissioner
Ireland

phone: +353 57 868 4800
fax: +353 57 868 4757

Data Retention

We maintain appropriate technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect Personal Data and other information disclosed or collected by us against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. We will review, monitor, and evaluate our privacy practices and protection systems on a regular basis. We also take measures to delete your Personal Data or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you when this information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process it, unless we are required by law to keep this information for a longer period.

Use of Data

We ask you to provide certain Personal Data when you register for an account through our website, including your name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, occupation, education, and gender.

We collect Personal Data you provide in the context of a panel, when you participate in a survey or focus group, in connection with the receipt and redemption of rewards and incentives. Such information includes a unique panellist/respondent identification number we assign to you when you sign up for an account and the responses you provide when completing the survey. In this context, you may choose to provide sensitive Personal Data about yourself, such as Personal Data that discloses or reveals health and medical conditions, sexual orientation or sexual life, political opinions/views, race/ethnic origin, religious and philosophical beliefs and trade-union membership. Where required by law, we obtain your explicit consent to the processing of your sensitive Personal Data.

When you participate in our research, we may ask you for your personal opinions, as well as demographic information, such as your age and household composition. Your location is shared through your IP address. We may also collect content that you submit or upload when participating in a survey, such as photos and video. You may refuse to answer certain questions or discontinue participation in a study at any time.

Sale of Data

All your answers will be treated in strict confidence and results will only be reported in aggregated form.

Contacting Individuals

When Opinions.ie Market Research conducts online research, our invitations and questionnaires clearly identify us and explain the purpose(s) of our contact. When we contact you, we generally do so for one of the following purposes:

  1. To invite you to participate in the survey research (including surveys, polls and focus groups)
  2. To conduct a research interview with you
  3. To validate answers you gave in a recent survey we conducted
  4. To ensure that our records of your personal information are correct
  5. To send you updates about the community
Occasionally, we may contact you for one of the other purposes:
  1. To notify you if you have won a prize draw that we sponsored (if a relevant incentive);
  2. To ask for your permission to use your personal information for a purpose that was not explained to you when we first collected your personal information.

If you join our online research panel, you may rescind your membership at any time by following the opt-out instructions that we include in every e-mail that we send. We never knowingly invite children under the age of 16 to participate in research studies without taking measures to ensure appropriate parental consent.