CMOR has taken a strong position on the issue of privacy. We believe that a critical part of our role is to balance the need for information with the privacy rights of respondents. As a result, CMOR has developed a Respondent Bill of Rights that describes the principles governing the researchers' responsibility to respondents.
CMOR has also worked extensively on both the state and federal level to bring our message to legislators. We have emphasized our belief that through proper self-regulation and education of the public, we can balance the need for information with the privacy rights of respondents.
CMOR Members
CMOR's membership consists of research companies, their client companies, academic institutions, and other industry associations that share our interests. CMOR provides information about each of its members in the Membership Directory (password protected for "members only") and in our annual printed version of the Membership Directory. This information includes the contact name for the company member, the company name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email and website addresses provided (to protect the privacy of our members, the only email addresses contained in the Membership Directory section of the CMOR website are those of CMOR members who have expressly agreed to the inclusion of their email address on the CMOR website).
If you do not wish to have any of your information included in the Membership Directory (in either the website or printed version), please contact us in writing (including email). If any of the information provided in our Membership Directory is incorrect or out-of-date, please contact CMOR in writing (including email) with the necessary changes.
In addition, members of CMOR receive correspondences regarding CMOR membership, including any services or studies we may be conducting, as well as CMOR or other industry events through postal mail, courier service, email, telephone and fax. If you do not wish to receive any correspondence from us please contact us in writing (including email) at the address below.
CMOR also provides lists of our members (company name only) to prospective members and at industry events and references our members (company name only) in our government affairs and respondent cooperation activities. If you do not wish to have your company's name disclosed to prospective members, at industry events or used in our government affairs or respondent cooperation activities, please contact CMOR in writing (including email) at the address below.
Consumer Sentinel Program
To help put an end to the misleading practice of sham "surveys" conducted under the guise of legitimate research CMOR has joined forces with law enforcement agencies by becoming a member of the Consumer Sentinel Program. The Program allows organizations to provide information regarding fraudulent activities (whether conducted via telephone, mail or the internet) into a nationwide law enforcement database for investigation and prosecution. To ensure that CMOR respects the privacy of those individuals who alert us about activities conducted under the guise of research (i.e. selling under the guise of research and other abuses of the research process), we require affirmative consent before we transfer a complaint to the Consumer Sentinel Program database. Therefore, if you have learned of such of an abuse of the research process, please contact CMOR. In turn, we will contact the alleged offender and, with your consent, can include your complaint with your contact information in the Consumer Sentinel database.
Non-CMOR Members
Any information obtained about or from non-CMOR members via postal mail, courier service, telephone, fax or in person will be used for the purpose for which it was collected or sent to CMOR. In addition, the information may also be used to send material about CMOR, CMOR activities and industry events. (Any information from non-CMOR members obtained via the CMOR website or via email is addressed in the "CMOR Website/Email" section of this privacy policy).
CMOR Seminars/Workshops
Certain information that is provided by registrants for CMOR's Seminars and/or Workshops will be included in the seminar/workshop materials. Such information will be limited to the registrant's full name, title, company affiliation and company location (city and state only). No other registrant information will be included and this information is only provided to seminar/workshop participants.
CMOR Website/Email
CMOR respects a web user's right to privacy and takes every measure to ensure that no personally-identifiable information is collected about visitors to our site unless it is voluntarily provided by a web user through either email or a request for information or other online form. Such information is used to respond to requests or questions and to send informational material about CMOR. Information is not collected or retained for any other purpose and will not be distributed to any outside entity. When web users visit our site and/or download information, we collect and store the domain name from which they accessed our site, the browser used, the date and time the site was accessed, and the pages visited. This information is used only for internal informational purposes and is not shared with any outside organization. Also, we do not use "cookies" * on a visitor's computer hard drive.
All information provided by individuals is used to respond to requests for information and/or questions. It may also be used to send informational material about CMOR, CMOR activities and industry events. Individuals not currently part of a CMOR member company who provide CMOR with their postal and email addresses may receive periodic correspondence from us regarding information about CMOR activities and industry events, as well as CMOR membership services. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please contact us and provide us with your exact name and address, and we will remove your name and contact information from our list. In addition, any information provided will not be sold, shared or disseminated to any outside organization except for CMOR activities and under the purview of this privacy policy.
We use industry standard encryption to protect the transmission of information submitted to CMOR from our secure online forms. In addition, all personal information collected by CMOR from both members and non-members is stored off-line in an internal database and is password protected for security purposes.
Please note: industry standard encryption technology does not apply to email transmissions, therefore if your communication includes sensitive information, and you prefer not to use our secure online forms, please contact us by postal mail, courier, telephone or fax rather than email.
CMOR reserves the right to change this policy at any time by posting a revised privacy policy online.
If you have any questions about CMOR's privacy policy, please contact us.
CMOR
Promoting and Advocating Survey and Opinion Research
110 National Drive, 2nd Floor
Glastonbury, CT 06033
Phone: (860) 657-1881
Fax: (860) 682-1000
Email: info@cmor.org
* A "cookie" is a small text file that a website can place on your computer's hard drive to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an online "shopping cart" to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The cookie transmits this information back to the Web site's computer, which, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Most individuals do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit websites. If you want to know when this happens, or to prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a website attempts to place a "cookie" on your computer.
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