Who We Are

This Policy describes C+R Research, Inc.'s information collection practices for www.crresearch.com. C+R Research is located at 150 N. Michigan Ave, 34th Floor, Chicago IL 60601. This policy ONLY covers information collected offline or elsewhere by C+R Research.

For the Policy describing C+R Research, Inc.’s information collection practices covering information collected online, please click here: Privacy Policy.

What We Collect

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, it describes how we use personally identifiable information about you (information such as physical addresses, email addresses, names, and phone numbers that could be used to uniquely identify you as an individual).

By accepting this privacy policy, providing us with information and participating in our research project, you consent to have your information used as described in this Privacy Policy.

How Is This Information Collected?

We collect information directly from you - for example, when you provide information to a designated representative during a telephone conversation, in-person interview or focus group discussion.

What Do We Do With The Information?

We use the information we collect:

1. To design new products or services, to improve existing products, and to developing advertising programs;

2. To contact you regarding any problems or questions we have relating to your participation in the research project, or, in our discretion, notify you of changes to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, or other policy or terms that affect you and your participation in the research project;

3. To respond to your requests;

4. To register visitors for offline activities such as in-person product evaluations, in-person shopping missions, ethnographic observational activities, group discussions, telephone interviews, on-site taste tests, or any other offline activities for related purposes;

5. To send information that we believe you may be interested in, such as information about upcoming webinars, white papers or other of our services, including by email, postal mail, phone, or text message.

When Do We Share Information?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) unless we provide users with advance notice.

This does not include third parties providing services on our behalf - such as companies that host our group discussions, facilitate our in-person scheduling, host our taste tests, help us analyze site data, provide marketing or analytic assistance, etc. so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

When required by law or law enforcement - including at the request of governmental authorities, in response to a subpoena or complaint, to verify or enforce compliance with our policies if we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability or to protect or enforce the rights, interests, or safety of the Site, our users, or others.

Corporate Change - we may sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose user information, including PII, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets or of a business group, or other fundamental corporate change.

Security

To help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and help ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

Your Rights

You have the following rights, which apply in certain circumstances and subject to certain restrictions, in relation to your personal data:

the right to access your personal data;
the right to request the rectification and/or erasure of your personal data;
the right to restrict the use of your personal data;
the right to object to the processing of your personal data;
the right to receive your personal data, which you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to require us to transmit that data to another controller;
the right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at privacy@crresearch.com.

Modification To This Policy

We reserve the right to modify, alter, or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back from time to time.

How To Contact Us

C+R Research, Inc.
150 N. Michigan Avenue, 34th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
312 828-9200
privacy@crresearch.com

Cookie Policy

Use of cookies

As you browse crresearch.com, advertising cookies will be placed on your computer so that we can understand what you are interested in.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Google

In order to better understand our users, their behavior and to serve them relevant ads about our products we may employ Google Analytics Cookies, and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie).

We have implemented the following: Demographics and Interests Reporting

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Opting out:

Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on. We use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site.

We also use Hubspot to facilitate our email marketing. Hubspot does track your activity on the site.

Cookie	Name	Purpose
Cookie Preference	NA	This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on our site. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
HubSpot	hubspotutk	Hubspot cookies are used to identify you as you interact with the site. By enabling the cookie we can pre-fill certain forms and understand your browsing history.
Universal Analytics (Google)	ga gali gat gid	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Opting out of cookies may impede your ability to use certain features of our site including check-out and viewing of on-demand webinars.