Privacy Policy

Last modified: January 11, 2010

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us at Unconventional Method. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Unconventional Method; collectively, Unconventional Method’s “services.”

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at

Unconventional Method
545 Greenwood Avenue
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
USA

Information we collect and how we use it

Unconventional Method offers a  full range of research services, we may collect the following types of information:

  • Information you provide – When you participate in a survey developed by Unconventional Method, we may ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and a password) or information about your organization (such as organization name, size and location). All personal information will remain confidential and will not be revealed without proper authorization, the exceptions being:

i. Customer Satisfaction Research where the express, expected result of all parties is that the client or client’s agent will receive the information for follow‐up.
ii. Respondent identification information may be used in processing the data, merging data files, and to append client or third‐party data to a survey‐based data file.
iii. Compliance with a court order or other legal demand from a competent and recognized legal authority.

Unconventional Method will ensure that you are informed at the outset if personal information collected will any third party will receive the information. If we use this information in this manner or a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.

  • Cookies – When you visit Unconventional Method, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies both in the course of providing our service and to improve the quality of our service, including for storing survey data and user preferences and tracking user trends.
  • Log information – When you access Unconventional Method services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
  • User communications – When you send email or other communications to Unconventional Method, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
  • Links – Unconventional Method may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our research and content.

Google only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

  • Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
  • Ensuring the technical functioning of our web tools;
  • Protecting the rights or property of Unconventional Method or our users;
  • Improving the quality of our services; and
  • Developing new services.

For further information, please see our Research Code of Conduct.