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Effective Jan 1, 2010

Registration:

In order to use this website, users must first complete the registration form and provide some personal information including demographic information and contact information. Iowa Opinion Panel uses your demographic information (such as age, gender, etc.) to invite you to appropriate research sessions. We also use the demographic information you submit to interpret the results of our research (e.g., if we did a survey on television watching habits, we might report that 60% of single people watch TV at least 3 days a week). Iowa Opinion Panel uses your contact information (such as name, email address, and postal address) to invite you to participate in Iowa Opinion Panel sessions and to pay you points for your participation. Iowa Opinion Panel will not disclose your identity or any of your personally identifiable information without your authorization.


Cookies:

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information. Iowa Opinion Panel serves session cookies only. Once the user closes his or her browser, the session is ended and the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. We may also use cookies to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Users who reject cookies will have limited use of our site. For example, the user will not be able to participate in a Iowa Opinion Panel research session. Cookies are not linked to any personally identifiable information.

Log Files

We use IP addresses, browser type, referring URLs, operating system, and date/time stamp to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in optimizing the performance of our site and our services. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to any personally identifiable information.

Links

The Iowa Opinion Panel Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Iowa Opinion Panel is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.


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