Friendclix-Online Surveys is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our website and services. Friendclix-Online Surveys is bound by market research code of conduct to maintain and preserve the anonymity of members.
Friendclix-Online Surveys collects information in several ways from different parts of our network of websites.
Some personal information is gathered when you register. During registration, Friendclix-Online Surveys asks for your name, email address, zip code, household information and personal interests. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customize your experience. Once you register, you are no longer anonymous to Friendclix-Online Surveys - use to access the various protected areas of the site.
Also, if you contact Friendclix-Online Surveys, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
Whenever Friendclix-Online Surveys collects personal information, we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
Friendclix-Online Surveys collects valuable information which assists in developing new products and services. When you are on our site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Friendclix-Online Surveys alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than Friendclix-Online Surveys -- or its parent company Friendanar Technologies Pvt. Ltd., you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.
Promotions that run on Friendclix-Online Surveys may be sponsored by companies other than Friendclix-Online Surveys or may be co-sponsored by Friendclix-Online Surveys and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you do not want your data to be shared.
Any Sensitive Information (i.e. personal information specifying medical or health conditions, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, various memberships) will be treated with additional care. If Friendclix-Online Surveys intends to disclose such information to a third party or use it for a different purpose than originally collected, then you will be expressly asked permission prior to any such disclosure.
Please be aware that Friendclix-Online Surveys advertisers or websites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those websites linked to Friendclix-Online Surveys are not covered by this privacy statement.
As a general rule, Friendclix-Online Surveys will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the ‘Terms of Service’ or ‘User Agreements’ for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors: Friendclix-Online Surveys may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. If any personal data about you were ever to be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give Friendclix-Online Surveys permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfil your request. In many instances, only your email address will be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt-in to receive information from these third parties, Friendclix-Online Surveys will (with your permission) share your name and email address with them.
Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, Friendclix-Online Surveys may match user information with third party data. Also, Friendclix-Online Surveys discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45% of our users are female) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Other:Friendclix-Online Surveys may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Friendclix-Online Surveys’ Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Friendclix-Online Surveys’ rights or property, other Friendclix-Online Surveys users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Friendclix-Online Surveys may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
frienclix survey complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework established by the US Department of Commerce, Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR) under the enforcement authority of the Federal Trade Commission and European privacy laws.
Compliance applies to the collection, use, and storage of personal information from EU member countries. As such, frienclix survey has certified that it adheres to the Privacy Shield and GDPR principles noted above.
frienclix survey has certified to the Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the policies in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles or GDPR Principles, the Privacy Shield and GDPR Principles shall govern.
In compliance with the US-EU and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles, we encourage you to contact us should you have a Privacy Shield-related (or general privacy-related) complaint. European Union or Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield Policy should contact us by mail, telephone or email
frienclix survey has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU PRIVACY SHIELD, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
Please note that if your complaint is not resolved through these channels, under limited circumstances, a binding arbitration option may be available before a Privacy Shield Panel.
In addition, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is the statutory body that has jurisdiction to hear any claims against frienclix survey regarding compliance with the Privacy Shield. There is a possibility, under certain conditions, for individuals to invoke last resort binding arbitration before the Privacy Shield Panel to be created by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission
This part of the document integrates with and supplements the information contained in the rest of the privacy policy and is provided by the business running friendclix.com and, if the case may be, its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates (for the purposes of this section referred to collectively as “we”, “us”, “our”).
The provisions contained in this section apply to all Users who are consumers residing in the state of California, United States of America, according to "The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018" (Users are referred to below, simply as “you”, “your”, “yours”), and, for such consumers, these provisions supersede any other possibly divergent or conflicting provisions contained in the privacy policy.
This part of the document uses the term “personal information“ as it is defined in The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Categories of personal information collected, disclosed or sold
In this section we summarize the categories of personal information that we've collected, disclosed or sold and the purposes thereof. You can read about these activities in detail in the section titled “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data” within this document. Information we collect: the categories of personal information we collect
We have collected the following categories of personal information about you: .
We will not collect additional categories of personal information without notifying you.
We collect the above mentioned categories of personal information, either directly or indirectly, from you when you use friendclix.com. For example, you directly provide your personal information when you submit requests via any forms on friendclix.com. You also provide personal information indirectly when you navigate friendclix.com, as personal information about you is automatically observed and collected. Finally, we may collect your personal information from third parties that work with us in connection with the Service or with the functioning of friendclix.com and features thereof.
We may disclose the personal information we collect about you to a third party for business purposes. In this case, we enter a written agreement with such third party that requires the recipient to both keep the personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose(s) other than those necessary for the performance of the agreement.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties when you explicitly ask or authorize us to do so, in order to provide you with our Service.
To find out more about the purposes of processing, please refer to the relevant section of this document.
No sale of your personal information
In the past 12 months we have not sold any of your personal information.
We may use your personal information to allow the operational functioning of friendclix.com and features thereof (“business purposes”). In such cases, your personal information will be processed in a fashion necessary and proportionate to the business purpose for which it was collected, and strictly within the limits of compatible operational purposes.
We may also use your personal information for other reasons such as for commercial purposes (as indicated within the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data” within this document), as well as for complying with the law and defending our rights before the competent authorities where our rights and interests are threatened or we suffer an actual damage.
We will not use your personal information for different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without notifying you.
You have the right to request that we disclose to you:
• the categories and sources of the personal information that we collect about you, the purposes for which we use your information and with whom such information is shared;
• in case of sale of personal information or disclosure for a business purpose, two separate lists where we disclose:
• for sales, the personal information categories purchased by each category of recipient;
• for disclosures for a business purpose, the personal information categories obtained by each category of recipient.
The disclosure described above will be limited to the personal information collected or used over the past 12 months.
If we deliver our response electronically, the information enclosed will be "portable", i.e. delivered in an easily usable format to enable you to transmit the information to another entity without hindrance – provided that this is technically feasible.
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information, subject to exceptions set forth by the law (such as, including but not limited to, where the information is used to identify and repair errors on friendclix.com, to detect security incidents and protect against fraudulent or illegal activities, to exercise certain rights etc.).
If no legal exception applies, as a result of exercising your right, we will delete your personal information and direct any of our service providers to do so.
To exercise the rights described above, you need to submit your verifiable request to us by contacting us via the details provided in this document. For us to respond to your request, it’s necessary that we know who you are. Therefore, you can only exercise the above rights by making a verifiable request which must:
• provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative;
• describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We will not respond to any request if we are unable to verify your identity and therefore confirm the personal information in our possession actually relates to you.
If you cannot personally submit a verifiable request, you can authorize a person registered with the California Secretary of State to act on your behalf.
If you are an adult, you can make a verifiable request on behalf of a minor under your parental authority.
You can submit a maximum number of 2 requests over a period of 12 months.
We will confirm receipt of your verifiable request within 10 days and provide information about how we will process your request.
We will respond to your request within 45 days of its receipt. Should we need more time, we will explain to you the reasons why, and how much more time we need. In this regard, please note that we may take up to 90 days to fulfill your request.
Only Friendclix-Online Surveys (or agents working on behalf of Friendclix-Online Surveys and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those Friendclix-Online Surveys services that require registration in order to participate.
Friendclix-Online Surveys does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service.
You may edit your Friendclix-Online Surveys Account Information and your public Friendclix-Online Surveys Profile at any time by using your Friendclix-Online Surveys log-in ID and password..
Your Friendclix-Online Surveys account can be deleted or deactivated. Please contact help@friendclix.com for further instructions about deleting or deactivating your Friendclix-Online Surveys account.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example, on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.