Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to Idealis Research. That’s why we developed a Privacy Policy that covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer and store your information. We will take all reasonable measures to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

What we collect

We automatically collect certain information or data about you when you use this website. We collect:

• your IP address
• details of what web browser version and operating system you used, as well as information about how you use the website, using cookies and page tagging techniques.

We cannot personally identify you from this information and will not associate any data collected on this website with any other personally identifiable information from any source. We do not attempt to collect any personal data about you through this website unless you provide it voluntarily; for example, by sending us an email, filling out our contact form, or submitting information to join our respondent database.

We may, however, use information that we automatically collect from Idealis Research website visitors for previous visitors through advertisements on third party websites, including Google, Microsoft, and Meta. These third-party vendors use cookies on our website to serve ads based on your previous visits.

Why we collect it

The information we collect helps us:

• ensure that content on our website is presented in the most effective way for you and your device
• perform analysis on our website traffic to help us improve our website content and presentation
• conduct marketing activities, including online advertising for previous visitors of our website and pages belonging to third party vendors, including Google, Microsoft, and Meta. These third-party vendors use cookies on our website to serve ads based on your previous visits
• provide information that you may request or invite you to participate in market research studies, when you have consented to be contacted for such purposes
• fulfill our obligations arising from any contracts signed between you and Idealis Research
• enable you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so, and
• notify you about changes in our service.

The information we collect may be viewed by people authorized by Idealis Research to:

• improve the website by monitoring how you use it
• collect feedback to improve our service, for example, our email notifications
• identify potential respondents for market research studies among our panel of volunteers, and
• respond to any feedback you send us.

Where your information is stored

We store your information, where possible, on secure servers in Brazil.

Keeping your information secure

Our website uses the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to protect data transmitted between you and our website servers. We also have security procedures and resources to keep your information secure once we receive it. This is detailed in our Data Protection and IT Security Policies, of which copies can be requested by writing to privacidadedados@idealisresearch.com.

Disclosing your information

The information that we automatically collect from all visitors of the website may be shared with third parties, including Google, Microsoft and Meta for online advertising purposes. We may submit your personal information if we are legally required to do so, or if we need to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements. This may include disclosure to other companies and organizations related to fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We will not share your information with any other organization for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we will not share your data with other websites.

Your rights

You can find out what information we keep about you, request that we make corrections, ask us not to use any of the information we collect, or have us delete the information we keep about you. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please send your request to privacidadedados@idealisresearch.com.

How to disable our use of cookies

You can disable the use of cookies on our website at any time by modifying your browser settings. You can disable marketing by following these links: Google , Microsoft and Facebook.

External websites

Note that, if you follow or click on any link on our website to external websites, our privacy policy will no longer apply. Check the privacy policies of any external websites before you submit any personal data, as we cannot take any responsibility or liability in relation to them.

Revisions to this Policy

We may revise this policy from time to time to improve the way we work, deal with new situations, and ensure that we continue to comply with legislation, regulations, and best practices in the market research industry.