Our Commitment to Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. We hope the following statement will help you understand how ACNielsen collects, uses and safeguards personal information provided to us on our website.

The Information We Collect and How We Use It

We do not collect personally identifying information at this site from users unless they provide it to us voluntarily and knowingly.

When you visit our site, your browser automatically sends us an IP (Internet Protocol) address and certain other information, including the type of browser you use. We may use this IP address and other information to give you access to the site and otherwise administer the site. In certain parts of the site, we may ask you to provide us with your name, title, street address, company, telephone and fax numbers and certain other personal information so that we can respond to your requests. You are under no obligation to provide us with this information, but without it we cannot provide you the information you request.

The site also may include certain features that allow you to communicate with us by electronic mail or otherwise. If an electronic mail feature is provided and you choose to use it, you will provide us with your e-mail address and some or all of the information described above. We do not solicit any other personally identifying information, so you are responsible if you choose to use these communication features to provide additional personally identifying information to us. When you provide any personally identifying information to us, you communicate that you are knowingly and voluntarily providing us the information.

We try to make sure that the personally identifying information you provide us remains private. Occasionally, we partner with or subcontract with other companies and individuals. Such companies or individuals may have access to personally identifiable information about you, but only as needed to perform their functions. We will not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose the personally identifying information you provide us to anyone outside of ACNielsen Corporation and its affiliated companies, unless disclosure is required by law or desirable to permit us to exercise our legal rights or take action regarding illegal activities, or we have a good faith belief that you are in violation of the terms of service. If all or part of our company is sold, merged, or otherwise transferred to another entity, we may transfer personally identifiable information as part of that transaction.

Cookies and Usage Information

Like many companies, we use "cookie" technology on our site. The cookies we use do not collect any personally identifying information about you or provide us with any way to contact you, and the cookies do not extract any unrelated information about your computer. These cookies may tell us whether you have visited our site before or are a new visitor and what material on our site you have viewed. We collect certain usage information about our site, such as the number and frequency of visitors to certain parts of the site. We may use this information for research or to improve our site. This data is used only in the aggregate and does not include any personally identifying information. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission provides useful information about online privacy on its own Web site, Site Seeing on the Internet.

Children's Privacy

We do not intentionally collect information at our website from those we actually know to be under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

How to Request Access to or Correction of Information We Collect from You

You can access the personally identifiable information that we collect from you through this website and maintain by contacting our webmaster at Webmaster.acnielsen@nielsen.com. You can request that we correct factual errors in personally identifiable information about you by sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your privacy, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Conditions of Use and Changes to This Policy

When you use this site, you consent to the transmission of your personally identifying information to us and to its use as described herein.

This website may be hosted outside your home country, and your email communications to us may be directed to a server that is hosted outside your home country. Communications over the Internet may not be secure.

If you choose to visit our website, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, which is incorporated here by reference, including limitations on damages and application of the laws of the state of Delaware. If you have any concern about privacy of information collected at this website, please send a thorough description to Senior Vice President, Global Communications, ACNielsen Corporation, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-9596, USA, and we will try to resolve it.

We reserve the right to update and make changes to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service and to materially change our practices in handling information, including personally identifiable information. If we do make such changes, we will post notice of those changes either at this location on our website or elsewhere on the website in a prominent location. Subject to applicable law, our use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use. You may request a copy of the Privacy Policy we posted prior to the web updates made to this document.

Please note that this Privacy Policy applies to this site only, and not to other sites, including without limitation the separate sites of ACNielsen Answers, ACNielsen BASES, ACNielsen.Online, NetRatings, ReelResearch, NetDispatch and Strategic Planner.

About ACNielsen

ACNielsen, a VNU company, is the world's leading marketing information company. Offering services in more than 100 countries, the company provides measurement and analysis of marketplace dynamics and consumer attitudes and behavior. VNU and ACNielsen have their corporate headquarters at 770 Broadway, New York, New York 10003.

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