At Real Talk Insights Inc. we’re committed to safeguarding your privacy. This includes all information we collect from our research participants, clients, and visitors to our website, social media sites, survey links, or other websites relating to Real Talk Insights.

If you participate in any of our focus groups, interviews, surveys, or provide your data to us in any manner, or visit our website, you are confirming that you have read and understand this privacy policy.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT 

Real Talk Insights is a marketing research company and collecting and processing information and data is an essential part of our business. Most of the information we collect about you is information you voluntarily disclose to us in connection with participating in our research projects. We will ask for your consent before we collect personal information or data and you can withdraw your consent at any time.

Our studies include collecting personally identifiable information (PII) about you. This may include your name, address, demographics, purchasing behavior, opinions about products or brand, photos, videos, or audio responses. Your participation is always voluntary and you may decline to participate or to “opt out” at any time. We may obtain personally identifiable information from our clients, partners, or third party vendors for use in connection with our research projects, and that may include your contact information so we can invite you to participate in a study.  

If you use social media to contact us or learn about Real Talk Insights, we may collect your public profile and information you post online.

We may collect certain information from visitors to our website including their IP address and service provider, state or country from which our website was accessed, time and date of the visit, links that directed visitors to our website, and activity while on our website.. We may collect this information using cookies in order to help improve our website experience and performance. You can disable cookies in your browser settings. 

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The data we collect as part of our research projects are used for research purposes only. We don’t use that information for any other purpose without your consent. We do share this information with the client that hired us to conduct the study. In connection with a research projects, we may need to share personal data with third parties for services, such as shipping materials to you, that you have given your consent to receive from us or our clients. In these cases, we require the third party to follow all of the our privacy protection policies.  

Real Talk Insights may be considered a controller or a processor of your data under applicable law.  In cases where we’re the processor, we’ll process your data based on the instructions from the controller.

Real Talk Insights is based in the United States, but also conducts research in other countries. We may transfer the data we collect between countries. In those cases, we require the recipient to protect personal data in accordance with our privacy policy.

We use information that we collect from visitors to our website and our social media sites to improve and maintain those sites, and for Real Talk Insights own marketing. 

Real Talk Insights takes reasonable steps to ensure the personal data is accurate, complete, current and relevant and being used only for the intended purposes. We do not process personal data in a way that’s outside its intended purpose or the consent provided by the individual. We make reasonable efforts to keep the data we collect secure and prevent unauthorized use and disclosure by our employees, clients, or third parties.

We only keep personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed. The length of time may vary based on the purpose, and for compliance with applicable laws.

YOUR RIGHTS

By law, you have certain rights to know some of the details about how we handle your data and have the right to request the following:  

-Access to any personal data we have about you and to receive a copy. 

-Withdraw permission for further processing of your personal data.

-Restrict the how we process your personal data. 

-Inquire where the data originated if we obtained it from a third party. 

-Request your personal data not be provided to a third party provider of services. 

-Update your personal data if it’s incorrect or outdated.

-Delete your personal data.

Some of these rights may not be applicable to information we collect or process in if you are an employee, job applicant, or independent contractor. 

If you would like further information or would like to exercise any of these rights, please email us at info@realtalkinsights.com.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and the date of the most recent update will be listed here. April 12, 2022.