Privacy Policy

Last updated on August 31, 2025.

Welcome to Opinionrealm Online Survey Platform, which is operated by Blaze Research LLC, 11726 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049, United States.

This privacy policy aims to explain to you how we collect, use, share, store, and protect your personal information when you use this platform to participate in surveys of our partners and obtain cash rewards, as well as the relevant rights you enjoy.

We strictly abide by the relevant policies of various states in the United States regarding the market research industry, such as the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), the Colorado Consumer Privacy Act (CPA), the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), the Tennessee Personal Data Protection Act (TDPSA), the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTPA), the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA), the Washington Privacy Act (WPA), as well as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other relevant laws and regulations to fully protect the security of your personal information.

Information We Collect

Personal information

Personal information: The types of personal information or personal data we may collect about you include:

your name;

your contact details, including email address, mailing address, street address, and/or telephone number;

your marital status and/or anniversary;

information about your company or team;

your role within the company or team;

your credit card information or details (stored securely with our third party payment service provider);

your age and/or date of birth;

your demographic information, such as age or gender;

images and recordings of you, including recordings of screen activities;

your preferences and/or opinions;

your identity verification information, including government issued identification documents and biometric data (such as facial scans) collected through third-party identity verification services (such as SumSub);

your professional profile information from LinkedIn, including your employment history, job titles, company information, and professional qualifications;

information you provide to us through surveys;

your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries, and/or browsing behavior;

information about your access and use of this platform, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with this platform, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, and the domain name of your internet service provider;

additional personal information that you provide to us, directly or indirectly, through your use of this platform, through being asked to participate in a survey by a business you are connected with, associated applications, associated social media platforms and/or accounts from which you permit us to collect information;

files and assets (Test Assets) provided to us by you (e.g. prototypes, image files, audio files, video files, PDFs) either through direct upload or accessed through API integrations approved by you; and

any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.

We may collect these types of personal information directly from you or from third parties.

Collection and use of personal information

We may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:

to enable you to access and use this platform, associated applications, and associated social media platforms;

to provide full access to our service by collecting data around how users interact with Test Assets including, but not limited to, clicks, interactions, screen and component transitions, content, and prototype data;

to contact and communicate with you;

to contact you regarding user research participation opportunities;

to verify your identity and authenticity as a panelist through government identification documents and biometric verification (which is not shared with or displayed to our business clients);

to maintain the integrity and quality of our research panel;

to enable our business clients to verify that panelists meet specific professional criteria and job role requirements;

to display relevant professional information to our business clients for research participant selection purposes;

to facilitate the execution of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) or other legal agreements that may be required by our business clients as a condition of participating in research studies, where you have consented to such participation;

to provide our business clients with feedback regarding their products and services, where you have chosen to participate in user research;

to help our business clients target their tests to specific geographic areas;

for internal record keeping and administrative purposes;

for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve this platform, associated applications, and associated social media platforms;

to run competitions and/or offer additional benefits to you;

for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you;

to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have; and

where you apply for employment with us; to consider your employment application;

to verify personal information you have provided to us for use by our business customers and our internal use, including participating in targeted user research opportunities and internal panel management systems and processes.

Additional limits on the use of your Google user data

Opinionrealm’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Disclosure of personal information to third parties

We may disclose personal information to:

third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, verification service providers (such as SumSub), professional advisors, and payment systems operators;

our employees, contractors, and/or related entities;

our existing or potential agents or business partners;

payment systems operators;

sponsors or promoters of any competition we run;

anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;

credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;

courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights;

third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you. This may include parties located, or that store data, outside of the United States; and

third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics or other relevant businesses. This may include parties that store data outside of the United States;

customers or business clients, including through NDAs or other legal documents that you may be required to sign as a condition of participating in research studies.

When we disclose your personal information to third parties, including data processors, we will request that the third party handle your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The third party will only process your personal information in accordance with written instructions from us and we require that the third party either complies with the GDPR or another mechanism set out by applicable EU & Swiss data protection laws for the transfer and processing of personal information. When we refer to ‘processing’ in this clause and this Privacy Policy in general, we mean any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal information, whether or not by automated means, such as collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available personal information.

By providing us with personal information, you consent to the disclosure of your personal information to third parties who reside outside the United States and, if you are a European Union (EU) citizen, to third parties that reside outside the EU. Where the disclosure of your personal information is solely subject to the United States privacy laws (and not subject to the GDPR), you acknowledge that we are not required to ensure that those third parties comply with the United States privacy laws.

Our responsibilities as a ‘controller’ under the GDPR

Controllers are defined by the GDPR as natural or legal persons, a public authority, agency, or other body to which personal information or personal data has been disclosed, whether via a third party or not, and who determines the purposes and means of processing personal information. We are a controller under the GDPR as we collect, use, and store your personal information to enable us to provide you with our goods and/or services.

As a controller, we have certain obligations under the GDPR when collecting, storing, and using the personal information of EU citizens. If you are an EU citizen, your personal data will:

be processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner by us;

only be collected for the specific purposes we have identified in the ‘collection and use of personal information’ clause above and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with the purposes we have identified;

be collected in a way that is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purpose for which the personal information is processed;

be kept up to date, where it is possible and within our control to do so (please let us know if you would like us to correct any of your personal information);

be kept in a form which permits us to identify you, but only for so long as necessary for the purposes for which the personal data was collected;

be processed securely and in a way that protects against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage.

We also apply these principles to the way we collect, store, and use the personal information of the United States customers or clients.

Specifically, we have the following measures in place, in accordance with the GDPR:

Data protection policies: We have internal policies in place which set out where and how we collect personal information, how it is stored and where it goes after we get it, in order to protect your personal information.

Right to ask us to erase your personal information: You may ask us to erase personal information we hold about you.

Right to ask us to restrict data processing: You may ask us to limit the processing of your personal information where you believe that the personal information we hold about you is wrong (to give us enough time to verify if the information needs to be changed), or where processing data is unlawful and you request us to restrict the processing of personal information rather than it being erased.

Notification of data breaches: We will comply with the GDPR in respect of any data breach.

Our responsibilities as a ‘processor’ under the GDPR

Where we are a processor, we have contracts containing certain prescribed terms in our contracts with controllers (such as businesses that ask us to help them conduct surveys testing their products and services). Depending on the circumstances, we can be a controller or processor or controller and processor. In addition to:

our contractual obligations with controllers (where we are solely a processor); and

our legal obligations under the GDPR as a controller (where we are both a controller and processor) as a processor we also have the following responsibilities under the GDPR:

not to use a sub-processor without the prior written authorisation of the data controller;

to co-operate with supervisory authorities;

to ensure the security of its processing;

to keep records of processing activities;

to notify any personal data breaches to the data controller; and

to employ a data protection officer and appoint (in writing) a representative within the European Union if required by the GDPR.

Special Provisions under Different Regulations

EU - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Consent and Withdrawal of Consent: EU residents have the right to withdraw their consent at any time when data processing is based on consent. You can operate through platform settings by yourself or contact customer service for assistance. Once we receive your withdrawal request, we will immediately stop the relevant information processing activities and, in the absence of other legal bases for retention, delete the relevant information collected due to consent.

Complaint and Regulatory Cooperation: EU residents have the right to file a complaint with the regulatory authority regarding our data processing activities. If you have any objections to our data processing behavior, you can report it to the relevant regulatory authority. We promise to actively cooperate with the investigation and handling of the regulatory authority and timely feedback the progress and results to you, fully protecting your legitimate rights and interests.

California - California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Sensitive Information Processing: According to CPRA, the processing of sensitive personal information (such as race, religious belief, medical and health information, etc.) of California residents is subject to more stringent restrictions. When processing such information, we will obtain your explicit and informed consent and adopt higher - level encryption technologies and access control measures to ensure information security.

Right to Information Awareness: According to CCPA, California residents have the right to know the categories, sources, usage purposes, and sharing objects of the personal information we collect. When collecting information, we will clearly and explicitly inform you of the relevant content through pop up prompts, special information collection description pages, etc.

Information Sharing and Sale Notification: We strictly abide by the CCPA regulations and do not sell your personal information. If we share your personal information with third - parties, we will inform you of the sharing purpose, recipient, and category of shared information at the time of collection, and ensure that the third party complies with strict data protection obligations.

Exercise of User Rights: California residents have the right to request us to delete their personal information, obtain a copy of their personal information, and object to information processing activities according to CCPA and CPRA. We have set up special channels such as online forms and customer service hotlines to facilitate you to exercise these rights. After receiving the request, we usually process and reply within 45 days, and in special cases, it can be extended to 90 days.

Other State Regulations - VCDPA, CPA, UCPA, TDPSA, CTPA, OCPA, WPA, etc.

Response Time and Process: Residents of these states have specific regulations in terms of access, correction, deletion, etc. of personal information. For example, some states stipulate a shorter response time. We will strictly follow the regulations of each state, optimize the internal processing process, ensure that your requests are processed within the specified time, and respond to your needs in a timely manner.

Sharing and Sale Restrictions: The restrictions on the sharing and sale of personal information vary in different state regulations. Before sharing or selling personal information, we will carefully review the relevant legal provisions to ensure that we obtain legal authorization and consent and protect the security of your personal information.

Your rights and controlling your personal information

Choice and consent: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By providing personal information to us, you consent to us collecting, holding, using and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you are under 16 years of age, you must have; and warrant to the extent permitted by law to us that you have, your parent or legal guardian’s permission to access and use the Site and they (your parents or guardian) have consented to you providing us with your personal information. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of this Site or the products and/or services offered on or through it.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party (such as from a business you are connected with, where that business would like you to participate in a survey or interview), we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Restrict: You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below, or use the functionality provided on your member dashboard (if you are a member) to control how we process your personal information. If you ask us to restrict how we process your personal information, we will let you know how the restriction affects your use of our Site or our Sub-brand Sites or products and services.

Access and data portability: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you. You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Where possible, we will provide this information in CSV format or other easily readable machine format. You may request that we erase the personal information we hold about you at any time. You may also request that we transfer this personal information to another third party (data portability). However, we may be required to retain certain personal information where we have a legal obligation to do so, including personal information relating to executed contracts (such as NDAs or other legal agreements).

Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details below (or use the functionality on your member dashboard, if you are a member). We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

Complaints: If you believe that we have breached the US Principles of Data Privacy or an article of the GDPR and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint.

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Storage and security

We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures such as the pseudonymization and encryption of personal information, to safeguard and secure personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorized access, modification and disclosure.

We cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that the personal information we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

Cookies and web beacons

We may use cookies on this platform from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, they do allow third parties, such as Google and Facebook, to cause our advertisements to appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. If and when you choose to provide our Site or our Sub-brand Sites with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

We may use web beacons on this platform from time to time. Web beacons (also known as Clear GIFs) are small pieces of code placed on a web page to monitor the visitor’s behavior and collect data about the visitor’s viewing of a web page. For example, web beacons can be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page.

Links to other websites

Our platform may contain links to other websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Use of artificial technologies

We may use AI Technologies in our operations and services, including third-party AI Technologies, when legally permitted and necessary. We use AI for various purposes including generative AI. We ensure our AI providers handle personal information in compliance with privacy laws. We won’t input your data into AI platforms that train on that information. AI-generated information about individuals is treated as personal information, with your rights outlined in this privacy policy. We commit to transparency by informing you of AI use in significant decisions and maintaining human oversight, implementing data security measures, and risk mitigation when using AI, such as regular performance reviews.

Amendments

We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary this Privacy Policy. We will notify you if we amend this Privacy Policy, by contacting you through the contact details you have provided to us. Any amended Privacy Policy is effective once we notify you of the change.

For any questions or notices, please contact our Privacy Officer at:

support@Opinionrealm.com