PDI is founded on the principle of making your everyday online activities more valuable. We know that you care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously.
By participating in surveys you are accepting the practices outlined in the policy.
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- You can request to update or change profile information at any time
- You can opt-out of PDI Opinions and request to discontinue the services anytime
- We only store profile information you choose to provide. We use the latest technologies and best practices to protect all personal information from unauthorized physical and electronic access and interference
- We don’t permit businesses to access your personal information, unless you decide to make this information available
What information do we collect?
Information you directly provide us;
- the email address and password you provide when registering an account;
- profile information
- Any responses you submit during activities
- the content of any customer service correspondence
- your login details for other associated apps you’ve registered with
- any banking details you provide when requesting a redemption; or
- any other information you directly provide on PDI Opinion
Information about your use and interaction with PDI Opinion; and
- your IP address, geolocation and data stored in PDI Opinion cookies;
- your activities on PDI Opinion, such as when you accept or skip an invitation, your participation in activities and your progression through a particular activity;
- your other account activity, such as when you login to your account, when you send us customer service correspondence and when you opt-in to an application;
- information about the device you’re using to access PDI Opinion; or
- your transaction history, including your account balance, the payments you receive from participating in activities and any rewards you have requested
Information collected through the platform, applications, third parties or other websites
- details about yourself, which are stored on other websites;
- the names, email addresses and other details of contacts or friends you have stored on other websites; and
- any other data that may be stored on other websites or held by third parties
How do we use the information we collect?
1. PDI Opinion’s use of information
- Sending you emails or notifications to alert you of activities for which you may qualify (if you have opted in to receiving such notifications);
- Using responses from an activity, which has been provided to a business in a de-identified way, for further analysis or use, including publication of the de-identified results;
- Help detect and prevent fraudulent activity;
- Maintain the data quality of activity responses;
- Improve and personalize your PDI Opinion experience;
- Maintain, operate and improve PDI Opinion; and
- Promote our services on affiliated third party websites using banner ads or other materials
2. Businesses’ use of information
- Profile information to help determine the target audience for an activity; or
- The responses you submit during an activity
- you are providing this information directly to the business and not PDI Opinion;
- your information will be dealt with in accordance with the relevant business’ Privacy Policy and not PDI Opinion’s Privacy Policy; and
- you are always free to decline providing contact details to a business
How do we use the information we collect?
3. Targeted advertising
We may use the information we collect (for example, email address and PDI Opinion cookies) to send you targeted advertising on third party sites. The purpose of this retargeted advertising could be to provide you with a relevant experience through a third party site or to encourage you to login to your account.
Information you can use
3. Targeted advertising
- invite your friends to join PDI Opinion;
- communicate with your friends and contacts about PDI Opinion;
- view and access your online accounts through the site;
- complete some of your profile information using information stored on another website;
- help detect and prevent fraudulent activity;
- improve the accessibility of the site; and
- participate in retargeting activities
Accessing and controlling your information
If you:
- want to obtain access to any personal information that we hold about you;
- object to profiling, including profiling for marketing purposes;
- believe any of your personal information that we hold is inaccurate, incomplete or it is not necessary to hold it; or
- want to delete your personal information from our records,
you can contact us using one of the channels listed in the ‘Contact Us’ section. We will use reasonable efforts to resolve your request within 30 days.,
We will provide you with our reasons if we refuse your request and, if you disagree, you are entitled to ask us to make a note of the request with your information.
You may also request that your personal information be restricted from processing where one of the following applies:
- we are verifying the accuracy of personal information , which you believe to be inaccurate;
- the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of personal information;
- we no longer require the personal information but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; and
- you have objected to processing and we are verifying whether there are legitimate grounds to refuse the objection
Disclosure to third parties
- you have expressly consented;
- such disclosure is permitted by the Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy; or
- required to do so by law
Accessing and controlling your information
1. Banking details
2. Overseas staff handling your data
The response data for some activities may be stored and/or analysed and aggregated by staff residing in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Greece and India. Our staff, including contractors, are required to maintain the same privacy and data protection standards as required under the General Data Protection Regulation.
3. Overseas third parties
Some activities may originate from businesses based outside of your country of residence and accordingly, you agree to allow your activity response data to be provided to these businesses. When this happens, we may need to use third party hosting facilities located outside of your country of residence to ensure your information is constantly accessible and backed up in secure data storage facilities. We will ensure all third party hosting providers used are not permitted access to your information.
4. Data matching
- to seek your consent to add the information held by third parties to your PDI Opinion account; and
- to determine if you qualify for an activity (for example for businesses who want to deploy a survey to individuals already on their database)
If the third party does not hold information about you, we ensure that the information we shared with them is destroyed.
How do we use the information we collect?
We are committed to providing a secure online environment to use PDI Opinion and have invested considerable resources to protect your information from loss, misuse, corruption and unauthorized access. More precisely, we have invested in:
- A secure server software (SSL) technology to encrypt the transfer of all personally identifiable information
- Firewalls that protect against unauthorized access of all of the data we collect and store
Due to the nature of the internet, it’s possible that information stored on our servers and data transmitted online can sometimes be accessed by unauthorized third parties. While we make significant investments to ensure that this risk is minimized, we cannot guarantee the information you provided us will never be compromised. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you acknowledge and accept these risks.
Closing your PDI Opinion account
Using PDI Opinion and maintaining an account is completely opt-in and you may close your PDI Opinion account at any time. You’re always able to dissociate your account from any application or website you’ve previously linked to your personal account. Upon dissociating your account, we’ll provide you the option of having all associated data deleted from our records