Date Last Modified: August 2020

Introduction

A Closer Look, LLC (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. The Company’s primary function is to gather data for our licensees and their customers (the “Client”). The Company’s Clients are interested in the experiences mystery shoppers have while shopping at designated retail outlets. Accordingly, a certain amount of demographic data is required of the users of this website and our services generally.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit any website with an address ending in “.a-closer-look.com” or use our other services described in this Privacy Policy (collectively, our “Website(s)”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On the Websites,
• In email, text, chat, and other electronic messages between you and the Company,
• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from the  Websites, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and the Company, or
• When you interact with our advertising or applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you expressly agree to this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy (https://a-closer-look.com/privacy-policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the Company’s Terms of Use. The Company uses industry standard efforts designed to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers, but the Company cannot and does not guarantee that information is 100% secure or confidential.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Websites, including:

• Any adult (age 18 or above) wishing to participate as a Mystery Shopper will fill in completely the registration questionnaire that requests demographic information about you. Any response left blank may cause the Company to reject your registration and deny you participation as a Mystery Shopper. No person under the age of 18 may become a Mystery Shopper.
• In addition to the demographic questionnaire, you will provide us with your contact information such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline. You will be assigned a unique Mystery Shopper username. The demographic information you submit online at the time of registration or update later will be used to determine what mystery shopping events you may be allowed to participate in.
• Services such as our chat feedback program collect your mobile phone number, location data, your answers to questions about the Company’s Clients, and information about your specific mobile device.  
• We may collect information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Websites, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through or use our Websites. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, mobile phone number, device ID, location data, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Websites, providing feedback about our Clients, subscribing to or interacting with our Websites and services, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Websites.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Your search queries on the Websites.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Websites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Websites, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Websites.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, device ID, location data, operating system, and browser type.
• Information about referring web pages that led you to the Website.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To satisfy our obligations to our Clients.  
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To improve and evaluate mystery shopping reports.
• To send communications relevant to your participation as a Mystery Shopper and in our other services.
• To resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms of Use.
• To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about users of our Websites, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We disclose information that identifies you only as set forth below. Please note that it is possible that third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We will prohibit and undertake reasonable measures designed to prevent the retransfer of your demographic data or other information to any third parties other than our Clients. The information you submit will not be used by us for any direct marketing or solicitation of you as a customer, but we do not control what authorized third parties do with it.

We may disclose information that identifies you:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To our Clients, who may then contact you.  
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose information that identifies you:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our Clients, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk reduction, or in connection with an investigation of fraud, security breach, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you via a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@a-closer-look.com.