Privacy & Policy

Greetings from dingoresearch.com! Please take a time to read this privacy statement, which governs how the site's visitors (referred to as "you," "your," or "users" generally) can exercise their right to privacy. It gives crucial details about the kinds of information we might gather, the precautions we take to protect it, how the information is utilized, and the conditions under which we might transmit or reveal the information we gather.

In relation to "Personal Data" (which term and its application and reference throughout this Privacy Policy (the "Policy") shall carry the same meaning as defined in the Ordinance), we abide by the data privacy protection compliance requirements under the Personal Data (Privacy), Ordinance Cap 486, of the United States (the "Ordinance").

ADVANCED READING OF THIS POLICY IS REQUIRED BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES YOU AFFIRMATIVELY ACCEPT THIS POLICY AND AGREE TO COMPLY WITH ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS BY USING OUR SITE OR ANY OF OUR SERVICES. DO NOT USE THE SITE OR SERVICES IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY.

Visitors are urged to sign up for our regular newsletters and marketing communications. It costs nothing to sign up. By clicking the "unsubscribe" link included in each of our emails and newsletters, you may choose not to receive them at any time if you so choose. For your convenience, a link to "unsubscribe" is also available on the site's main page and any pages it is linked with...

1. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS POLICY

This policy may be modified at any time. The most recent version of this Policy will be applicable each time you access this site. As a result, before using this Site, make sure to check the date of this Policy (which is at the top of the page) and examine any updates that have been made since your last visit.

2. Information Collected by Us

You provide us with two different pieces of information. The first category is Personal Data that you voluntarily choose to submit, and the second category is anonymous aggregate data that was gathered without your knowledge or that of other Site users ("Passive Information").

a. Personal information. Your first and last name, email address, and phone number are a few examples of Personal Data that you might divulge. You are not required to provide Personal Data in order to access the Site's publicly accessible material. By submitting Personal Data, you consent and agree to enable it to be shared with third parties for commercial marketing reasons and with third party service providers as we believe necessary to accommodate any requests you make for information, goods, and services. By following the opt-out methods outlined above, you can later request that we suppress your Personal Data and stop using it for any further marketing initiatives on our part.

b. Passive Knowledge. We keep track of information on how you use the website, including the links you click, your browser type, IP address, referring URL, and timestamp data. To manage the Site and provide you with a higher level of service, we use this kind of information. In order to gauge interest in and usage of different areas of the Site, we may also utilize this information in the aggregate to conduct statistical analyses of user behaviour and characteristics.

We may take the necessary steps to verify and update the information obtained (including your Personal Data) using generally accepted methods or as may be suggested by the Privacy Commissioner of Personal Data in the United States in order to maintain its accuracy.

YOU CONSENT TO THE USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AS DESCRIBED IN THIS POLICY BY REGISTERING WITH THE WEBSITE. Users take full responsibility for any privacy breaches or other negative effects resulting from their willing disclosure of personal information.

We could provide affiliate and push notification advertising, display advertising, text advertising, and other commercial services to other businesses. If you click on this advertising, register with these third parties, or buy their goods and services, we might get paid.

You expressly consent to and agree to receive commercial text and SMS messages from us if you give us your mobile phone number. YOU CAN OPT-OUT AT ANY TIME BY TEXTING "STOP," AND YOUR CONSENT IS NOT A CONDITION FOR PURCHASE. Maximum 9 messages per month are recurring messages. DATA AND MESSAGE RATES MAY APPLY.

3. THE USE MADE OF THE INFORMATION COLLECTED

We may use the Active and Passive Information we collect in a variety of ways, including to fulfil your requests for information and services, to keep you updated on market trends, news, and opportunities generally of interest to independent contractors and people interested in working from home, as well as for internal business needs like auditing, data analysis, research, information verification, and anti-fraud activities.

4. DATA WE RECOVER USING AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

We may employ automatic data collecting technologies to gather some details about your device, browsing behaviours, and habits as you move around and interact with our site, including:

• Information about your visits to our site, such as traffic information, geographic information, logs, and other communication data, as well as information about the resources you access and use there.
• Details about your internet connection and machine, such as your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

Additionally, we may employ these technologies to compile data regarding your online activity across different third-party websites and other online services over time (behavioural tracking).

We automatically gather statistics data, which may contain personal information. We may also keep this data on file or link it to personal information we have obtained from other sources or that we have obtained ourselves. By enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to tailor our Site to your specific interests;
• Speed up your searches, it aids us in improving our Site and providing a better and more individualized service.

We may use one or more of the following technologies for this automatic data collection:

• Cakes (or browser cookies). A cookie is a little file that is stored on your computer's hard disk. In order to prevent users from receiving the same content twice and to tailor advertisements and Web page content based on browser type and user profile data, we employ cookies to retain users' preferences and to record session information. We might provide third party marketers access to, sell, or license cookies that we've gathered from your browser and hard disk. Your first and last name, email address, and phone number may be linked to additional information that these authorised third parties gather, such as details of previous online and offline purchases and Web browsing from other websites. By changing the settings on your web browser, you can turn off cookies. Your browser may allow you to establish preferences that allow you to accept, reject, or receive notifications when cookies are set. Because every browser is unique, you might want to look through the "Help" menu of your browser to find out how to modify your cookie preferences. However, keep in mind that using some features on our site might require you to enable cookies. When you point your browser to our Site, our system will issue cookies unless you've changed the settings in your browser to make it refuse them.
• Cookies in Flash. To gather and retain data about your choices and usage of our Site, some parts of it may employ local saved objects (or Flash cookies). The same browser settings that control browser cookies do not apply to flash cookies. Visit Adobe's website's article on Flash player settings to find out how to control your Flash cookie settings.

Web beacons Web beacons, also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs, are tiny electronic files that may be included in our site's pages and e-mails. They allow us, for example, to count visitors who have visited those sites or opened emails, as well as for other related website data (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies and other tracking technologies used by third parties.

On the Site, third parties, such as advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers, offer some of the material or applications, including advertisements. When you visit our website, these third parties may use cookies alone or in combination with web beacons or other tracking technologies to gather information about you. They may link the data they gather to personal data they already have about you, or they may just gather data about your online behaviour over time and across various websites and other online services, including personal data. They might employ this data to deliver you behavioural or interest-based advertising or other specialized content.

These third parties' tracking technology and potential applications are not within our control. You should speak with the accountable provider directly if you have any concerns about an advertisement or other targeted content. See OPTING-OUT for details on how to prevent receiving targeted advertising from certain sources.

5. DO NOT TRACK RULES

We respect "do-not-track" signals so we don't follow people's online movements over time or between different third-party websites.

6. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE AND SHARING

Your right to privacy is respected by us. We will only share your Personal Data and Passive Information with service providers and third-party businesses in the ways described in this Policy, subject to the exclusions therein. The following third parties to whom we disclose information are obligated by law and contractual undertakings to maintain the privacy and security of your Personal Data and to use and disclose it only for the following purposes, which a reasonable person would consider appropriate in the circumstances and are compliant with all applicable laws: (i). You will receive more pertinent advertising emails or offers for products and services that may interest you in addition to I us providing requested services to registered users on our behalf and (ii). These third parties are obligated by law to tell you and, if necessary, get your consent before using your Personal Data for any other purpose. You can choose not to allow us to share your personal information with third parties for the aforementioned uses by adhering to the opt-out instructions below.

We might occasionally merge or be bought out by a different company. We may also establish, buy, or sell business subsidiaries. In the case of a merger or other significant reorganization of the business, we reserve the right to transfer and disclose your personal information to any subsidiary we deem necessary to fulfil your request for information and services.

Additionally, we firmly reserve the right to disclose all of your information, to the fullest extent permissible by law, in the following scenarios: (i) I We believe you are violating or have violated one of our policies; (ii) We believe you have violated the property or other rights of us, our employees, the other users of the Site, or any other third party; (iii) The information is subpoenaed or otherwise required in a court proceeding; (iv) You have provided false or otherwise invalid information to this Site; (v) We believe you may harm, or have harmed, our property or other rights; (i.e. to a successor entity in the event of sale of the business, including merger, bankruptcy or other ownership change). In accordance with the requirements of the relevant law, we may disclose any record or communication to any third party if we, in our sole discretion, think it is appropriate to do so. This includes, but is not limited to, disclosing your email address to other third parties for suppression purposes.

7. OPTING-OUT

To notify you of changes to our Terms & Conditions, this Policy, and other information pertaining to the Site, we may utilize your personal information. When you register as a user, you cannot opt out of receiving these communications unless you do so in accordance with Section 5 of the Terms & Conditions.

If you would prefer not to receive promotional communications from us in the future, you can opt-out by following the instructions provided in each promotional communication, visiting the Site again and clicking on the "unsubscribe" link located at the bottom of the homepage, or contacting us as described in this Policy. After we receive your request to unsubscribe, you may still receive marketing emails from us for up to 10 business days.

You can opt out by visiting the "Double-click opt-out" website or the "Network Advertising Initiative opt-out" page if you do not want to receive advertising from us in the future as a result of the usage of Google Ad Words remarketing codes.

Please be aware that we only have authority over our own marketing strategies, email list, mailing list, and internal policies. The advertising, communication, and business methods used by third parties are not our responsibility. By registering with advertisers and other third-party service providers on the site or making purchases from them, you create a separate relationship with each one of them. We are not a part of any interactions between you and these third parties. Local laws and any applicable agreements you may form will control your interactions with third parties. We implore you to carefully read through any such agreements. Any commitments or relationships you might have with third parties are unaffected by unsubscribing from our services and/or closing your account with us. You must contact third parties directly in order to stop receiving communications from them.

8. PERSONAL DATA ACCESS AND CORRECTIONS

According to the Ordinance, you have the right to find out if we have any personal information about you in our possession, to request a copy of that information, and to learn more about our policies and procedures regarding the privacy of that information. You have the right to request that we correct any erroneous Personal Data in our possession. Emails sent to mails@dingoresearch.com should be used for any requests for data access or correction. In order for us to be able to uniquely identify you, you must make your request from the email address you supplied upon registration. A release form that will be given to you for this purpose must be signed in order to proceed with any such requests. We are allowed to impose a reasonable fee under the Ordinance for handling any request for data correction. Currently, we charge $100 USD.

9. INFORMATION SECURITY

You use this website at your own risk. No data security technique can ensure 100% protection, despite our best efforts and dedication to complying with the Ordinance's data privacy protection compliance standards. We can't and won't guarantee that someone else won't ever see or use your personal information.

However, we do our best to protect your information, including, but not limited to, keeping an eye out for intrusions into our network and data. Additionally, we safeguard your information using industry-accepted norms, such as SSL encryption when communicating sensitive data. Unless we notify you that security precautions are in place before you provide information, communications you may have with us by email or mail might not be secure.

10. LINKS TO EXTERNAL WEBSITES

The Site may link to third-party websites, including those run by advertisers, ad networks, servers, content providers, and application suppliers, with which we have no affiliation. When you visit our website, these third parties may use cookies (alone or in combination with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to gather information about you. They may link the data they gather to personal data they already have about you, or they may just gather data about your online behaviour over time and across various websites and other online services, including personal data. They might employ this data to deliver you behaviourally tailored or interest-based advertising.

These third parties' tracking technology and potential applications are not within our control. You should speak with the accountable provider directly if you have any concerns about an advertisement or other targeted content.

11. COPPA; NO USERS UNDER 18

You are not permitted to use or access the Site if you are under the age of 18. We do not intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 in accordance with COPPA. When we learn that a child under the age of 13 has given us personal information, we take measures to delete it and close the kid's account. YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE.

12. AUTHORIZED USERS

PERSONS RESIDING IN JURISDICTIONS OTHER THAN THE CONTINENTAL U.S., ALASKA, AND HAWAII ARE NOT PERMITTED TO USE THE SITE OR SERVICES. You are not permitted to use the Site if you reside anywhere other than one of the 50 U.S. states.

13. APPROVAL OF GLOBAL TRANSFER

Your personal information may be gathered and/or transferred to countries outside the United States that do not currently have data protection regulations that are essentially equivalent to, or serve the same purposes as, the Ordinance. This implies that the level of protection afforded to your personal data may not be the same as or comparable to that provided in the United States. You agree to the collection and transfer of your Personal Data outside of the United States by using the Site and realize that such collection and transfer may be necessary.

Any jurisdiction where we, our affiliates, subsidiaries, third-party service providers, or agents maintain facilities may transfer, store, or process the information we collect. You agree to any such transfer, storing, and processing of information by using the Site or its services.

14. CONTACT DETAILS

You can email us at contact@dingoresearch.com for further details, if you have any questions or issues about our Policy, or if you want to opt-out as described above.