NewCloudTime is an online market research community that is wholly owned by SOBER SAY LTD. We believe consumers like you deserve better products and services, and we built NewCloudTime to help you share information with brands and market researchers, so they better understand consumers. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, use, and share your information when you use our services and your rights with respect to this information. This Privacy Policy applies to the information you provide when you use any of our services, including when you visit newcloudtime.com (the “Website”), participate in any Survey. In this Privacy Policy, we use the term “Services” to collectively reference all of NewCloudTime's services, including the Website, Surveys, and any NewCloudTime sweepstakes or promotions. Please read this policy carefully to understand our information practices. By using this Website or any of our other Services, you are agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
When you use any of our Services, we collect “Personal Information,” which is any information that identifies you, including your name, address, telephone numbers, email addresses, IP addresses, date of birth, reward, loyalty, or incentive account numbers, geolocation information, and the unique identification number we assign to you. In some cases, we also collect Sensitive Personal Information, which is explained below.
Surveys. If you register and participate in Surveys, we collect information in various ways including through inquiry and registration forms. For example, when you sign up for a Survey, you will be asked to provide certain Personal Information, including, but not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, and gender information. If you use services like Facebook or Google to sign up, those services may share some of the information that you have provided to them with us. When you register and participate in Surveys, you may be asked for your personal opinions, as well as demographic information, such as your age, occupation, and household composition. We also collect and use geolocation information through GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular triangulation to provide location tracking services. In addition, you may be asked to voluntarily provide “Sensitive Personal Information,” information that discloses or reveals health and medical conditions including disability status, sexual orientation or sexual life, and race/ethnic origin. You may refuse to answer these or any other questions or discontinue participation at any time.
Other Information to facilitate our Services. You may be asked to provide information about your identity such as a photo, video, a copy of a valid government-issued photo identification (ID) card or document, or a combination thereof. We share this information with third-party identity verification companies to verify your identity and prevent fraud. However, we do not sell or share this information to other third parties for any other purpose. You may refuse to provide this information at any time and choose an alternative method of verification. We may also collect your telephone number to facilitate your use of our Services. For example, we may use your telephone number to identify you or to send you reminders or other information via automated or prerecorded voice or text message. This may include information about Surveys you have participated in, future Surveys, our Services, and other opportunities. By giving us your telephone number, you expressly consent to receive phone calls and text messages from us. The “How to Opt Out” section below explains how to opt out of these communications. If you redeem points, we may ask you to provide information to transfer rewards to your PayPal account. Please contact support if you have any questions.
We may collect certain information passively (information that you do not actively provide to us), including information about: (i) your device or computer and its capabilities, such as the operating system; IP address; device carrier; device type; applications installed, deleted and used; time zone; network status; browser type; browser identifier; location and other information that alone or in combination may be used to uniquely identify your device or computer; and (ii) your activities in connection with our Services. Please read below for more information:
Cookies. Cookies are small information packets sent to and stored by web browsers. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device or computer indefinitely until deleted. We may use session and persistent cookies for several purposes including, without limitation, to provide a better Survey experience, for quality control, for validation, to enable or facilitate Survey participation, tracking of completed Surveys or other completed actions, and for fraud detection and/or prevention. Cookies help us recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information that you previously shared with us, such as your setting preferences. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies through browser settings. However, you must have cookies enabled on your browser to use our Services.
Log Files. We may automatically gather and store certain information in log files, including, without limitation, data available from your web browser, including, without limitation, IP Address, browser type, Internet service provider, pages you visit, referring/exiting pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
Digital Fingerprinting. Generally, digital fingerprinting assigns a unique identifier to your device or computer based upon the device's or computer's technical settings, characteristics, and IP Address. We use digital fingerprinting technology for quality control and validation purposes and fraud detection and/or prevention, including, but not limited to, identifying duplicate or fraudulent respondents.
Digital Advertising. We allow third-party companies to collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit our website. These companies may use cookies, pixels, or other technologies to collect and use non-personally identifiable information collected during your visits (to this and other websites) to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. This is known as interest-based advertising, and the data used may include hashed and/or encrypted data, clickstream information, browser type, time and date, and subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over. To learn more about behavioral advertising practices or to opt out of this type of advertising, see the “Digital Advertising” section below.
We may obtain Personal Information and demographic information from third parties, including information services bureaus. We may use this information for various purposes, including, without limitation, data validation, data append, identity verification, and fraud detection purposes.
We believe consumers like you deserve better products and services, and we built NewCloudTime and the Services to help you share information with brands and market researchers.
Additionally, we may also use information collected through the Services (i) to communicate with you regarding your registration or participation in a Survey or Surveys, our Website, or any sweepstakes or promotions; (ii) to tailor Survey opportunities and Services to you and send notifications of these opportunities to you; (iii) to comply with any legal obligations, including, without limitation, tax obligations and data suppression obligations; (iv) to administer and manage our reward and incentive programs and fulfill your requests for rewards and incentives; (v) to update our records; (vi) for identity verification and fraud detection and prevention purposes; (vii) to help NewCloudTime's clients understand online user behavior; and (viii) as otherwise permitted under this Privacy Policy or as otherwise authorized by you.
In addition, we may use the information collected through our Services for the following business purposes: (i) to identify you as a user of the Services; (ii) to build, maintain, and improve NewCloudTime's products and services; (iii) to create a profile of your interests and preferences; and (iv) to understand online user behaviors.
To help NewCloudTime's clients better understand consumers, we may sell or disclose your information, including all of the information collected through the Services, to market research agencies, advertising agencies, media companies, food and beverage companies, transportation companies, e-commerce companies, technology companies, retail companies, health product companies, consumer services companies, telecommunication companies, advertising networks, social networks, data analytics providers, data aggregators, investment management companies, and asset management companies.
We may also disclose your Personal Information and other information collected to third parties, including NewCloudTime's clients, as follows:
1.With your consent (including if you give consent to the processing and sharing other than described in this Privacy Policy).
2.Under applicable law or in response to a subpoena or an order of a court or government agency.
3.To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims of an individual or NewCloudTime.
4.To establish or exercise our legal rights.
5.If we believe disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activity or suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
6.To protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company, our employees, our users, or others; or to enforce our terms of use or other agreements or policies.
7.In connection with a corporate change such as a merger, our acquisition by another company, or a partial or total sale of our assets, including in bankruptcy.
8.To authorized agents, vendors, subcontractors, clients, and partners, who provide services, including, without limitation, data append services, data validation services, identity verification services, fraud detection and/or prevention services, database-matching services, coding services, data segmentation services, payment processors, reward- and incentive-related services, and market research partners that provide Surveys.
9.As otherwise permitted under this Privacy Policy or as noted at time of collection.
We may provide links to third-party websites and apps. These websites and apps are independent of NewCloudTime and have their own separate privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such third-party websites or apps. We recommend that you carefully read the privacy policies of each site or app.
We may partner with ad networks and other ad serving providers (“Advertising Providers”) that serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated platforms. Some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information Advertising Providers collect about your use of the website and other sites or apps over time, including information about relationships among different browsers and devices. This type of advertising is known as interest-based advertising.
You may visit www.aboutads.info or www.networkadvertising.org/choices to learn more about this type of advertising and how to opt out of this advertising on websites by companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA“) self-regulatory program and the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“).
If you delete your cookies or use a different browser or mobile device, you must renew your opt-out choices exercised through the DAA WebChoices tool. Note that electing to opt out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications. It may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests. Additionally, your browser may offer tools that limit the use of cookies or that delete cookies; however, if you use these tools, our Site may not function as intended.
If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising in mobile apps on your device (by companies that participate in the DAA's AppChoices app), you may download that app onto your device and exercise your choice.
We use reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of data. We regularly update and maintain our security and privacy practices to protect your Personal Information.
Our Services are not intended to be used by individuals under sixteen (16) years of age, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of sixteen (16). If we become aware that we inadvertently collected Personal Information from anyone under this age, we will delete such Personal Information. Parents, guardians, or other persons with parental rights should contact us if they believe that we have collected Personal Information from anyone under age sixteen (16).
If you want to delete or permanently opt out of your NewCloudTime account, writeto Customer Service by selecting “contact us” on our help page. Your account cannot be reinstated once it has been deleted and you will lose any unredeemed points. If your membership has been permanently deleted, but you wish to become a member of NewCloudTime again (to use Services and participate in Surveys), you will need to sign up with a different email address.
Under Nevada law, Nevada residents may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information (as defined in Nevada law) we maintain about them. To exercise this right, please contact us at [email protected]
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA“) provides California residents with certain rights relating to their Personal Information. This section describes your CCPA rights and how to exercise any of those rights.
Only you, or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request, and only twice in a twelve (12) month period. The request must provide requested information that allows us to verify that you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information. You will not be required to create an account to submit a verifiable consumer request. We may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand your request.
Right to Access, Data Portability, and Deletion
You have the right to request access to Personal Information we collected about you in a portable and easily accessible format. Upon receiving and verifying a verifiable consumer request, if we collected Personal Information about you over the past twelve months, the following information will be provided: 1.The categories of Personal Information we collected about you 2.The specific pieces of Personal Information collected about you 3.The categories of sources of your Personal Information 4.The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Information 5.The categories of any third parties with which we shared your Personal Information. If we sold your Personal Information, the following information will be provided: 1.The categories of Personal Information we collect about you 2.The categories of Personal Information we sold 3.The categories of any third parties to which we sold your Personal Information 4.A list of which categories of Personal Information we sold to each third party 5.The categories of Personal Information we disclose about you for business purposes. You have the right to request deletion of your Personal Information that we have collected or maintained. However, this right does not apply if we need to retain the Personal Information to do the following: 1.Provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you 2.Detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity 3.Identify debug or repair errors that impair existing intended functionality 4.Conduct research in the public interest 5.Safeguard the right to free speech 6.Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us 7.Comply with a legal obligation or applicable law 8.Use your Personal Information in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information
You have the right to opt out of the sale of Personal Information. A “sale” is defined by the CCPA to mean the selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating your Personal Information by us to a third party for valuable consideration. You will not be required to create an account to complete the opt-out process. We will not use any Personal Information gathered during the opt-out process for purposes other than complying with your opt-out request. Once your request is received and verified, we will not sell your Personal Information. After opting out, you may opt in again for the sale of Personal Information at any time; however, we will not reach out to request that you opt in for at least twelve (12) months.
Please note that if you opt out, we may not be able to deliver certain parts of the Service, such as Surveys, promotions, and sweepstakes. We will make this clear at the point of opt-out so that you can make an informed decision.
Personal Information We Collect
In the preceding 12 months, we collected the following categories of Personal Information about California consumers.
Identifiers Name, address, IP address, email address, online identifier, account name, unique personal identifier, device identifier, session identifiers, network identifiers, hardware identifiers, mobile advertising identifier, driver's license, passport, government-issued photo identification, tax identification number, bank account information, and other similar identifiers Commercial information Surveys taken, panel participation, payment, and redemption history Legal protected characteristics Race, sex, age, national origin, and disability Internet or network activity Browsing history, search history, information regarding a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement, links clicked, pages viewed, and time spent on pages, mobile network and operating system, browser and operating system, and other applications installed Geolocation Physical location, IP address, Wi-Fi, cellular triangulation Employment information General employment-related information including job position and title, employment status, salary range Education information General education-related information including education level, professional certifications, licenses Inferences from above used to profile Online consumer preferences, characteristics, trends, predispositions, behaviors Image/Biometric Photos, pictures, videos
We collect Personal Information directly from you. As further described in this Privacy Policy, we may also collect Personal Information from the following categories of sources: consumer survey companies, market research companies, financial services companies, payment processing companies, security and verification services companies, online and mobile websites and applications, and information services bureaus.
We use, disclose, and share the Personal Information we collect for our commercial and business purposes (market research products and services). To learn more about the information we use and how we use it, please read the section “How We Use Your Information” above.
We sell or disclose the above categories of Personal Information to the following categories of third parties: market research agencies, advertising agencies, media companies, food and beverage companies, transportation companies, e-commerce companies, technology companies, retail companies, health product companies, consumer services companies, telecommunication companies, advertising networks, social networks, data analytics providers, data aggregators, investment management companies, and asset management companies. To learn more about our disclosure and sale of your information, please read the section “How We Share And Sell Personal Information And Other Information Collected With Third Parties” above.
How to Exercise Your CCPA Rights
To exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the following information and submit the required verifying information as further described below: oOnline at online form oVia email at [email protected]
Verification Process and Required Information
Note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to submit a request or have it fulfilled. We will require you to provide, at a minimum, your name and email address.
Authorized Agent
You may designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA request on your behalf. If you designate an authorized agent to make an access, deletion or opt-out of sale request on your behalf, (i) we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so, and (ii) for access and deletion requests, we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us.
Minor's Right to Opt In
For California residents at least 16 years of age, we shall not collect, use, or share their Personal Data without affirmative authorization that they are opting in for the sale of their Personal Data. In addition, such minors shall be informed of the right to opt out at a later date.
We may change this Privacy Policy and update our privacy practices. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the website.