Last updated effective: April 13, 2026
This U.S. State Privacy Notice ("Notice") for New Media Technologies, Inc. ("Winning Survey," "Company," "we," "our," or "us") applies to "Consumers" as defined respectively under: the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the "CCPA"); the Colorado Privacy Act ("Colorado Law"); the Connecticut Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring ("Connecticut Law"); the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act ("Delaware Law"); the Florida Digital Bill of Rights ("Florida Law"); the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act ("Indiana Law"); the Iowa Act Relating to Consumer Data Protection ("Iowa Law"); the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act ("Kentucky Law"); the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act ("Maryland Law"); the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act ("Minnesota Law"); the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act ("Montana Law"); the Nebraska Data Privacy Act ("Nebraska Law"); the Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act ("Nevada Law"); the New Hampshire Act Relative to the Expectation of Privacy ("New Hampshire Law"); the New Jersey Act Concerning Online Services ("New Jersey Law"); the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act ("Oregon Law"); the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act ("Rhode Island Law"); the Tennessee Information Protection Act ("Tennessee Law"); the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act ("Texas Law"); the Utah Consumer Privacy Act ("Utah Law"); the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act ("Virginia Law"); and all laws implementing, supplementing, or amending the foregoing, including regulations promulgated thereunder, as well as any additional U.S. state privacy laws now or hereafter applicable to the Company (each a "U.S. State Privacy Law" and collectively, "U.S. State Privacy Laws").
Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Notice shall have the meanings given to them under the relevant U.S. State Privacy Laws or in our Privacy Policy.
Non-Applicability — Human Resources. This Notice does not apply to our job applicants, current or former employees, or independent contractors ("Personnel") in connection with their PI collected in connection with such relationship with the Company; our Personnel may obtain a separate privacy notice by contacting hr@winningsurvey.org.
The description of our data practices in this Notice covers the twelve (12) months prior to the Effective Date and will be updated at least annually. Our data practices may differ between updates to this Notice; however, if materially different, we will provide supplemental pre-collection notice. Otherwise, this Notice serves as our notice at collection.
We may receive or collect your PI directly from you or from your Devices, from Third Party Services, or from other individuals and businesses, as well as public sources.
Generally, we process your PI to provide you our Services and as otherwise related to the operation of our business, including for one or more of the following Business Purposes: Performing Services; Managing Interactions and Transactions; Security; Debugging; Providing Advertising & Marketing Services; Quality Assurance; Processing Interactions and Transactions; Research and Development; and Tax and Regulatory Compliance.
We may also use PI for Additional Business Purposes, such as: disclosing it to our Service Providers, Contractors, or Processors that perform services for us ("Vendors"); to you or to other parties at your direction (e.g., when you participate in Offers requiring prequalification, you direct us to process and disclose your profile information to the Offer sponsor); for the additional purposes explained at the time of collection; as required or permitted by applicable law; to comply with law or legal process; and in Business Transactions.
We may also use and disclose your PI for Commercial Purposes, which may be considered a "Sale" or "Share" under applicable U.S. State Privacy Laws, such as when Trusted Third Parties collect your PI via third-party cookies, and when we process PI for certain advertising purposes. We may make your PI available to third parties for their own commercial use via third-party cookies, market-research programs, sponsored polls, and similar data-monetization arrangements.
As permitted by applicable law, we do not treat deidentified data or aggregate consumer information as PI, and we reserve the right to convert, or permit others to convert, your PI into deidentified or aggregate consumer information. We have no obligation to re-identify information or keep it longer than we need it to respond to your requests.
We collect, disclose, and retain the following categories of PI:
| Category of PI | Examples | Recipients | Sold / Shared? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Real name, alias, postal address, email address, online identifier, IP address, account name, unique personal identifier, device advertising ID. | Vendors; Affiliates; Trusted Third Parties; Offer sponsors; government entities as required. | Yes — Sold/Shared to Cookie Operators, Ad Networks, data licensees, and research aggregators. |
| Personal Records | Telephone number, signature, employment, education history, bank account number (for payouts), debit/credit card number (for identity verification only — we do not charge you). | Vendors; Affiliates; reward-fulfillment and payment providers; government entities as required. | No (financial-account credentials are Sensitive PI and not Sold/Shared). |
| Protected Classifications | Age, gender, race/ethnicity (self-reported for survey-qualification purposes), marital status, veteran status, national origin. | Vendors; Affiliates; Trusted Third Parties; survey and research partners. | Yes — Sold/Shared to research panels and aggregators. |
| Commercial Information | Records of Offers completed, Rewards earned, Redemption Prizes received, purchase history from Offers, product-interest signals. | Vendors; Affiliates; Trusted Third Parties; reward-fulfillment providers. | Yes — Sold/Shared to Ad Networks and research aggregators. |
| Internet / Network Activity | Browsing history, search history, interaction with the Winning Survey Sites and Features, clicks, session-replay data, referring/exit URLs. | Vendors; Affiliates; Cookie Operators; Ad Networks; analytics providers. | Yes — Sold/Shared via cookies, pixels, and SDKs. |
| Geo-location Data | Approximate geo-location (from IP address); precise geo-location (from mobile GPS, only if you grant permission). | Vendors; Affiliates; Ad Networks (approximate only). | Approximate: Yes. Precise: No. |
| Sensory Data | Audio recordings of customer-support calls; photos of receipts or ID documents you upload. | Vendors; Affiliates; identity-verification providers. | No. |
| Professional / Employment | Employment status, industry, job title (self-reported for Offer qualification). | Vendors; Affiliates; Trusted Third Parties; research partners. | Yes — Sold/Shared to research panels. |
| Inferences | Profile inferences about preferences, predispositions, behavior, and likelihood of converting on specific categories of Offers. | Vendors; Affiliates; Trusted Third Parties; Ad Networks. | Yes — Sold/Shared. |
| Sensitive PI — Government IDs | SSN (only where required for 1099 tax reporting above $600/year threshold); driver's license, state ID, or passport (for identity verification). | Vendors; Affiliates; identity-verification providers; IRS as required by law. | No. |
| Sensitive PI — Precise Geo-location | Geo-location within a radius of 1,750 feet or less (mobile only, if you permit). | Vendors; Affiliates. | No. |
| Sensitive PI — Health / Demographic | Health-interest data (self-reported in health-vertical quizzes), religious belief, racial/ethnic origin (self-reported for survey qualification). | Vendors; Affiliates; Trusted Third Parties; research partners; with consent. | Subject to "limit use of Sensitive PI" right in applicable states. |
| Sensitive PI — Communications Content | Contents of your communications with us (support chats, emails). | Vendors; Affiliates. | No. |
We collect PI from: (i) you directly, when you register, submit forms, complete Offers, etc.; (ii) automated collection via cookies, pixels, and SDKs when you use the Winning Survey Sites and Features; (iii) third-party sources, including co-registration partners, Offer sponsors, identity-verification vendors, analytics providers, fraud-prevention providers, and data append / enrichment vendors; and (iv) public sources, including government records and publicly available information.
We retain each category of PI for as long as necessary to fulfill the Business Purposes for which it was collected, to comply with legal obligations (including tax-reporting retention under IRS rules, generally seven (7) years), to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. Specifically: Account data is retained for the life of the Account plus up to 7 years after closure; Offer-completion and Rewards-ledger data is retained for up to 7 years; identity-verification documents are retained for up to 2 years after verification completion; marketing contact data is retained until opt-out plus a suppression-list retention period; survey responses may be retained indefinitely in aggregated/de-identified form.
Under CCPA and analogous state privacy laws, our Winning Survey Rewards Program may constitute a "financial incentive" or "price/service difference" program because you may receive Rewards (things of value) in exchange for providing PI (including survey responses, demographic data, and participation in Offers).
Material Terms of the Financial Incentive:
Depending on your state of residence and subject to applicable exceptions and verification, you may have the following rights:
To submit a verifiable consumer request, please:
To "opt out of sale or sharing" or "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information," visit winningsurvey.org/do-not-sell.
Before we process your request, we must verify your identity. For Consumers with a Winning Survey Account, we may verify by asking you to log in to your Account or to respond to a verification code sent to the email or phone associated with your Account. For Consumers without an Account, we may ask you to provide additional PI so that we can match you to the PI we hold. If we cannot verify your identity to a sufficient level of certainty (higher for sensitive requests such as deletion), we may deny the request.
We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days and respond substantively within forty-five (45) calendar days of receipt, subject to a single forty-five (45) day extension where reasonably necessary, with notice to you.
You may designate an Authorized Agent to submit requests on your behalf. We will require: (i) a written, signed authorization from you designating the agent; (ii) verification of the agent's identity; and (iii) verification of your identity directly with us (except where prohibited by applicable law).
If we deny your request, you may appeal the denial by emailing support@winningsurvey.org with the subject line "Privacy Appeal" or by submitting an appeal through our privacy-request portal. We will respond to your appeal within the timeframe required by your state's law (generally, 45 or 60 days). If we deny your appeal, we will provide you with an explanation and, where your state's law requires, a mechanism to contact the state attorney general.
We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal and comparable universal opt-out mechanisms recognized under applicable U.S. State Privacy Laws (including California, Colorado, Connecticut, and others). When we detect a GPC signal from your browser, we will treat it as a request to opt out of the Sale and Sharing of your PI, and (where applicable) of Targeted Advertising, for that browser.
We will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising your privacy rights. Specifically, we will not: (i) deny you Services; (ii) charge you different prices or rates for Services; (iii) provide you a different level or quality of Services; or (iv) suggest that you will receive a different price or rate or a different level or quality of Services, because you exercised any of your privacy rights. However, we may charge different prices or offer different levels or qualities of Services if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your PI, consistent with our Notice of Financial Incentive in Section A.7 above.
See Section A.7 above. Our Winning Survey Rewards Program is a financial-incentive program. Participation is voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time by closing your Account.
We reserve the right to: (i) deny a request that we cannot verify; (ii) deny a request that conflicts with our legal obligations (including tax-reporting, record-retention, fraud-prevention, and litigation-hold obligations); (iii) retain PI necessary to complete transactions, detect security incidents, debug, comply with laws, exercise free speech, or other exempt purposes under applicable law; and (iv) redact PI belonging to other Consumers from our disclosures to you. Nothing in this Notice requires us to re-identify de-identified data or to retain PI longer than necessary.
Shine the Light. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents who are Users to request certain information regarding our disclosure of PI to third parties for such third parties' direct-marketing purposes. To make such a request, contact us at winningsurvey.org/privacy-request.html with "California Shine the Light" in the subject line.
CCPA Metrics (calendar year 2025). Pursuant to CCPA regulations, we are required to publish annual metrics regarding privacy requests we received, complied with, and denied, and the median/mean response time. Metrics for the prior calendar year will be updated at this location by July 1 each year:
Residents of these states have the rights described in Section B above, including the right to opt out of Targeted Advertising, Sale, and certain Profiling decisions. If we deny your request, you may appeal as described in Section C.4. If we deny your appeal, you may contact your state attorney general to submit a complaint. We honor Global Privacy Control signals as universal opt-out mechanisms for residents of these states where the law requires.
The Florida Digital Bill of Rights applies only to certain large businesses. To the extent Florida Law applies to us, Florida residents have the rights described in Section B above, including the rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a portable copy, opt out of Targeted Advertising, Sale, and Profiling, and to opt out of the collection or processing of Sensitive PI and the collection of PI via voice or facial-recognition features.
Residents of these states have the rights described in Section B, subject to the particular scope of each state's law (e.g., Iowa and Utah do not provide a right to correct; Virginia and Texas provide a right to appeal). To exercise these rights, submit a verifiable request at winningsurvey.org/privacy-request.html.
Texas Specific. Pursuant to Texas Law, we disclose that we may "sell" Sensitive PI and Biometric Data — Notice: We may sell your sensitive personal data. In practice, we do not currently sell Sensitive PI as that term is defined under Texas Law; if our practices change, this notice will serve as advance disclosure. We also do not currently sell Biometric Data.
Nevada residents may submit a verified request opting out of certain "sales" of covered information under Nevada Law. Submit your request at winningsurvey.org/privacy-request.html.
Residents of Nebraska have the rights described in Section B above to the extent Nebraska Law applies to us. To exercise your rights, submit a verifiable request at winningsurvey.org/privacy-request.html.