SurfMerchants, LLC

41 West Street

Boston MA 02111

617-292-8008

info@SurfMerchants.com 

SurfMerchants is committed to the best practices in maintaining the privacy of your personal information. We hope that this policy addresses all your questions and concerns regarding the privacy of your personal information on SurfMerchants.

Note that by using any SurfMerchants site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. From time to time, as required by law or SurfMerchants business decisions, this Policy may be amended. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. Your continued use of the Site subsequent to changes to this Policy will mean that you accept the changes; therefore, please bookmark this page and review it periodically. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, or any other privacy concern in connection with the Site, please email us at support@SurfMerchants.com.

What information do we collect?

Personal Information

In order to take a SurfMerchants survey, you may be required to have a SurfMerchants user account. To create this account, you must agree to the SurfMerchants Evaluator Terms of Service  and provide the following information:

• An email address that is valid, current and belongs to you
• A password that you will use to access your SurfMerchants account
• Your birth year
• Your gender
• Address
• Phone

Optionally, you may choose to provide additional information in order to receive notifications of Shops available in specific areas.

Our services are not available to children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age.

Site usage data

Additionally, in order to maintain, protect and improve our services, SurfMerchants may collect any of the following information about your use of the site:

• Your web browser, device and IP address

How do we use your information?

Your gender and year of birth are used in the following ways:

• For demographic information that may be used in SurfMerchants reports
• To comply with the requirements of companies offering surveys through SurfMerchants (for example, restricting a survey only to male evaluators aged 35-45).

Your email address is used for payment purposes.

Your email address and/or phone number are used to send Shop notifications, if you have chosen to receive such notifications.

Personal information is never shared outside of SurfMerchants. Companies using SurfMerchants services can set demographic requirements for surveys, but cannot view any evaluator information.

SurfMerchants LLC reserves the right to disclose information submitted by or concerning any visitor or member without consent as we reasonably feel is necessary to protect our systems or businesses. Specifically (but without limitation) we reserve the right to disclose information as required to:

• comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes or enforceable government requests;
• enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations;
• detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud or security issues including (but not limited to) suspected attempts to breach our system security, obtain proprietary information about SurfMerchants systems or code, or obtain information about other site members;

How Your Information is Transmitted, Stored and Protected

We take the privacy and confidentiality of your information seriously. Any confidential information that is transmitted between your computer and the SurfMerchants servers is encrypted with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). Once it arrives at our servers, all confidential information is encrypted in storage. We employ industry standard techniques to protect against unauthorized access of data about you that we store, including personal information.

SurfMerchants LLC operates in the US.