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Privacy Statement
comScore interacts with
current and prospective clients, investors, and the
general public via its Web site, comscore.com. This
Privacy Statement describes comScore’s
privacy-related policies and practices as they relate
to the collection and use of information gathered from
visitors to comscore.com. comScore operates a number of
research panels, each of which are governed by the privacy
policy that appears on the Web site assigned to that
research panel.
Privacy Commitment
Privacy is a critical issue to every Internet user and comScore is committed to assuring that the privacy and
confidentiality of visitors to this site are respected and
preserved. Unless you give us explicit permission, we will not
share your personally identifiable information such as name,
address or e-mail address with third parties for any purpose.
Information gathered from your activity is used for compiling
anonymous statistics only and is not identifiable back to any
individual. Registration information is used for verification
purposes, for sending administrative e-mails to clients regarding
our service, and for sending informational e-mails to prospective
clients, investors, and the general public, if requested.
Collection, Use,
Disclosure of Information
comScore does not collect personally identifiable
information about you unless you choose to provide us
personally identifiable information through an online
form or e-mail communication or you are accessing client-specific,
secure content. We use cookies to ensure authorized
access to client-specific secure content. Our use of
cookies is explained in greater detail below. When accessing
client-specific secure content, you are acting as a
representative of your company and your interactions
with our site in this capacity are governed by our relationship
agreement with your company.
Our site also automatically creates logs regarding
your and other user sessions on comscore.com, such as
features that you use, the actions that you take, and
the information that you access. We generally use this
information in statistical and aggregate formats to
assess the effectiveness of our site and to better understand
your priorities and interests.
comScore does not sell, distribute or disclose
your personally identifiable information collected from
comscore.com to third parties without your consent.
However, we may release information to a third party
if required by a legal process such as a subpoena or
a search warrant. Please note that visitors to comscore.com
are not required to provide us personally identifiable
information to use the public areas of our site. You
can provide us information such as address, e-mail address,
or telephone number if you would like to learn more
about comScore’ products and services.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data stored on a user’s
hard drive that contain information about a user. In
the case of secure content access, if your company is
a client of comScore, we use a cookie that
contains your login information, so we can ensure that
client-specific information is secure from unauthorized
access. We utilize an encrypted cookie to track client
access to client-specific secure content. These cookies
are used only for this purpose and are intended to be
used only by our Web site. Please note that you can
view and delete these cookies using the features of
your browser.
Choice and Data Access
As a representative of your company, you can view and
modify your company profile information in the secure
client area of our site.
Data Security/Integrity
comScore has physical, electronic, and managerial
security functions in place to protect personally identifiable
information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.
Only authorized employees have access to the data you
provided and that access is limited by need. Our employees
who have access to the data you provided have agreed
to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
Children
comScore understands the importance of protecting
children’s privacy in the online interactive world.
This Web site does not intentionally target or solicit
to children 13 and younger.
Notification of Changes
If we materially change our practices in handling personally
identifiable information, as described in this statement,
we will notify you by posting the changes on this Privacy
Statement at least 30 days prior to their implementation.
Contacting Us
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement
as it relates to your use of this site or comScore’
products and services, please submit a privacy inquiry.
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