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Effective Date: October 2016
Nielsen cares about your privacy and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose data. This Privacy Statement covers the collection and use of information for this website, http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/ ("this site" or "we"). This site is owned by The Nielsen Company (U.S.), LLC.
By using this site, you are subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Statement. Please note that the information you provide through our Career Center is governed by our Careers Privacy Statement. While it is consistent with this Privacy Statement, the careers privacy statement contains additional information specifically for job applicants.
Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Nielsen Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content—video, audio and text—is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement. By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90% of the world’s population.
Data you give us. When you submit questions, request information, or give us feedback, we may ask you for information like your name, postal address, telephone number and email address so we can respond or follow up. We may also ask you to provide other data relevant to your question or feedback, such as your location, industry and preferred method of being contacted.
Data from your use of this site. We automatically receive certain data when you visit our site, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser data, data collected through cookies, pixel tags and other similar technologies, the date and time of your visit, and the web page you visited immediately prior to visiting this site.
We also collect data about videos or other content you view on this site, like the type and name of the content, and the time viewed.
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We may use the data you provide us:
We may use the information we receive from your use of this site in the following ways:
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We may disclose your information:
This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of any third parties, including those that operate sites to which this site links. Including a link on our site does not imply that we or our affiliates endorse the practices of the linked site.
We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the "Contacting Us" section below.
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If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress or otherwise limit our use of your contact data or other information that you previously provided to us, you may contact us.
Please note that if you contact us as described above, we may not be able to remove your personal information from other parts of our organization (for instance, an internal email to a sales professional) with which we have already shared it, but we will make an effort to do so.
We will retain your data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.
The site is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we request that children not use the site. If we become aware that we have received data from a child under the age of 13, we will make reasonable efforts to delete that information from our records.
The information you provide or the data we collect at this site may be stored and processed in any country where we or our service providers have facilities.
We ask that you not send us or post on our site any sensitive personal data (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, health, criminal background, trade union membership, or government-issued identification numbers).
We may change this Privacy Statement in connection with changes to our business. The "Effective Date" legend at the top of this page shows when this Privacy Statement was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the site. Your use of the site is subject to the terms of the Privacy Statement in effect at the time you use it.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
Please note that online communications are not always secure; so please do not include sensitive information in your inquiry to us.