WE PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY

Please read the notice below, and then click your "Consent" to continue. Information regarding your privacy rights also is included in the data protection notice included in your installation kit. EACH PANELIST SHOULD ALSO PLEASE BE SURE TO READ AND SIGN THE DATA PROTECTION NOTICE IN THE INSTALLATION KIT, AND THEN RETURN IT TO US IN THE POSTAGE PAID ENVELOPE PROVIDED IN YOUR INSTALLATION KIT. If the data protection notice is not available, please contact us by e-mail at privacyofficer@intl.netratings.com or by telephone at the Help Desk telephone number included in your installation kit, and we will send one to you.

Thank you for agreeing to join our select group of panelists. We are a world-leading provider of market research, information and analysis, with a long history of carefully honoring the privacy of panelists.

We assure you that we will never disclose individual personal information to our clients. We combine the data you provide us with data from other sources and from thousands of other panelists. We use all of this information to produce reports and analyses concerning computer and Internet activity throughout your country and around the world, on an anonymous basis. Our clients never see any single individual’s personal information.

What kind of information will we collect? During the recruitment and registration process we ask you to provide us with your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, sex, occupation, level of education, annual income and racial origin, as well as other demographic information. Once you have given your consent to this notice and installed our software, we will obtain additional information from you because our software allows us to comprehensively track panelists’ computers and panelists’ activity on their computers, both offline and whilst online on the Internet’s World Wide Web. For example, we track the type, name and use of some of the applications, files and hardware on your computer, the address and content of the Internet sites you visit, the details of any transaction you enter into over the Internet, and the Internet Service Provider you use. We may be able to view the title bars at the top of any "window" that is active on your computer. This might include information such as the name of a website you visit, the name of a document open in a word processing program and, when you have an email open, in some cases will include the subject line of the email. We can never see the content of any email or any other information such as who the email is from or to, and we cannot read any documents open on your computer. We do not report, nor will we ever release, any personalized content collected from you via our software. You may update your profile information at any time; instructions are included in your membership installation kit. You may contact us at any time if you would like to see the information we hold about you, or to ask us to correct or update this information, or to ask us to delete all personal data that we hold about you on any storage media, or to stop your participation in our panel. Please contact us by e-mail at privacyofficer@intl.netratings.com or by telephone at the Help Desk telephone number included in your membership installation kit.

We will use the information you and other panelists provide us to help shape the future of computers and the Internet. We combine the information that you and other panelists give us with data and research tools from other sources. We use this information to perform research and to prepare reports and analyses concerning how computers and the Internet are used in your country and around the world.

We maintain the security of the personal information we hold about you. We may store the personal details we hold about you for as long as needed for the purposes indicated in this policy. We may store this data in your home country and we may transfer it to Nielsen//NetRatings operations in other countries, including, for all panelists, to the United States of America and the United Kingdom, and, for panelists in South America, to Brazil. The data protection laws in countries to which your data is transferred may not provide an equivalent level of protection to those in your home country, but you may rest assured that we will always abide by this Policy, as well as any applicable laws, when your personal data is transferred overseas. Access to your personal data is limited to select members of our Panel Operation and Panel Management Teams. Occasionally, we employ or contract with other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf, such as managing the incentives we provide to panelists or contacting panel members about their membership status. Such companies or individuals may be provided with access to your personal data needed to perform their functions, but are prohibited from using such information for any other purposes. We also may disclose personal data to third parties when disclosure is required by law, or when disclosure is permitted by law and is necessary or desirable to exercise or preserve our legal rights or to take action regarding potentially illegal activities. (You may contact us at any time to see details of the parties to whom this information has been made available.) We have in place appropriate security measures, including encryption methods, to protect the security and confidentiality of personal data whilst controlled by us. We will maintain and improve these measures over time in line with legal and technological developments. The data you provide us whilst online is automatically encrypted prior to transmission. However, although we go to lengths to protect your personal data from unauthorized disclosure, you should be aware that electronic communications via the Internet are not always completely secure.

About Nielsen//NetRatings. Through strategic partnerships between NetRatings, Nielsen Media Research and ACNielsen, the Nielsen//NetRatings audience measurement service collects real-time data from the largest media research sample of Internet users in the industry. In this Policy, Nielsen//NetRatings and "we" means NetRatings, Inc., 890 Hillview Court, Milpitas, California, 95035 U.S.A, and our strategic partnerships: in France: Mediametrie netratings.com, 55/63, rue Anatole-France, Levallois-Perret Cedex 92532 France; in Japan: NetRatings Japan K.K., AS Nanbuzaka 2F, 2-22-21 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan 107-0052; in Latin America: IBOPE netratings.com, Alameda Santos 2101, 01719-002 São Paulo, Brazil; and in the United Kingdom: AC Nielsen Company Limited, AC Nielsen House London Road, Headington, Oxford, England OX3 9RX.

We may change this Notice. We reserve the right to update and make changes to this notice. If we materially change our practices in handling personally identifiable information, we will notify you by posting the changes on the online Privacy Notice at least 30 days prior to their implementation. The online Privacy Notice may be viewed by right clicking your mouse on our software icon in the system tray, or at such other location as we may designate from time to time. Your continued use of our software after the effective date of any changes constitutes your acceptance of all of the changes.

Please ensure that each member of your household also signs the data protection notice included in the installation kit and then return it to us.If the data protection notice missing from the Installation Kit, contact us by email at privacyofficer@intl.netratings.com or by telephone at the Help Desk telephone number included in your membership installation kit, and we will send one to you.

Any questions? Please contact us by e-mail at privacyofficer@intl.netratings.com or by telephone at the Help Desk telephone number included in your membership installation kit.

THANK YOU - WE APPRECIATE AND VALUE YOUR PARTICIPATION!