Effective as of August 3, 2023
Last update as of November 12, 2026

Introduction

This Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how Probolsky Research (“we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, shares, and safeguards your information. This Privacy Policy applies to individuals who access this website (“Site”) and any of our online and, where required, offline services (collectively, “Services”).

From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. If we do, we will post an amended version on this webpage. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically.

This Privacy Policy covers the following topics:

Personal Data We Collect
How We Use Your Personal Data
How We Share Your Personal Data
Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms
Security
Third Party Links
Children’s Privacy
Your State Privacy Rights and Additional Disclosures
Notice to California Residents
Accessibility
How to Contact Us

1. Personal Data We Collect

We collect personal data from you through your use of the Site and Services. Personal data is information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. We collect the following types of personal data:

Personal Data You Provide

Depending on how you interact with our Site and Services, we will collect the following personal data that you voluntarily provide to us for the following purposes:

Join Email List: To join our email list, you will provide us with your name and email address. You also may provide us with your mobile phone number.
Chat: If you use our chat feature, you may provide your name, email address, phone number, and any information you choose to provide in your message. Our chat feature is provided by Text, Inc. Text, Inc. may collect, record, and store the information you provide in the chat. Please review Text, Inc.’s privacy policy here.
Surveys: If you participate in our surveys, we will collect demographic and geographic information, which may include gender, age, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, political party preference, preferred language, employment information, education information, geography, survey mode, and voter propensity.
Book a Meeting: If you book a meeting, you will provide us with your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide. Our scheduling services are provided by Zoom. Zoom may collect, record, and store the information you provide when booking a meeting as well as your IP address, device and browser info, and cookie or device identifiers. Please review Zoom’s privacy policy here.

To review or request changes to any of your personal data, please contact us at privacy@probolskyresearch.com.

Personal Data as You Navigate Our Site

We automatically collect certain personal data through your use of our Site, such as the following:

Usage Information: For example, the pages on the Site you access, the frequency of access, and what you click on while on the Site.
Device Information: For example, hardware model, operating system, application version number, and browser.
Mobile Device Information: Aggregated information about whether the Site is accessed via a mobile device or tablet, the device type, and the carrier.
Location Information: Location information from Site visitors on a city-regional basis.

Personal Data We Collect About You from Other Sources

In some cases, we may receive personal data about you from other sources. This includes public resources, data brokers and vendors, panel providers, and customers.

2. How We Use Your Personal Data

In addition to the purposes stated above, we may use all the personal data we collect in accordance with applicable law such as to:

Maintain and improve our Site and Services;
Protect the security and integrity of our Site and Services;
Advertise or communicate with you, including sending you information about our products, services, events, and offers;
Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, and to otherwise fulfill our legal obligations;
Monitor compliance with and enforce this Privacy Policy and any applicable agreements and policies;
Defend our legal rights and the rights of others;
Fulfill any other purposes for which you provide it;
For any purpose that is reasonably necessary to or compatible with the original purpose for which we collected the personal data as disclosed to you; and
Comply with applicable law.

3. How We Share Your Personal Data

We may share the personal data that we collect about you in the following ways:

With vendors who perform data or Site-related services on our behalf (e.g., email, hosting, maintenance, backup, analysis);
To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
With vendors to prepare, deploy and analyze advertising content;
In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise, or defend our or a third party’s legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention;
With any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal data where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal data;
With any other person or entity as part of any business or asset sale, equity transaction, merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, or in preparation for any of these events;
With future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and other companies under common control or ownership;
With any other person or entity where you consent to the disclosure; and
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the personal data or for any other purpose we deem necessary, including to protect the health or safety of others.

4. Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms

We do not engage in “sales,” “shares,” or “targeted advertising” as those terms are defined under applicable laws and therefore our Site does not recognize the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal. For more information and to download and use a browser supporting the GPC browser signal, click here: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/orgs. If you choose to use the GPC signal, you will need to turn it on for each supported browser or browser extension you use.

Some internet browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Given that there is not a uniform way that browsers communicate the “Do Not Track” signal, the Site does not currently interpret, respond to or alter its practices when it receives “Do Not Track” signals.

5. Security

We maintain commercially reasonable security measures to protect the personal data we collect and store from loss, misuse, destruction, or unauthorized access. However, no security measure or modality of data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Although we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

6. Third Party Links

The Site may contain links that will let you leave the Site and access another website. Linked websites are not under our control. We accept no responsibility or liability for these other websites.

7. Children’s Privacy

The Site and Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal data from children under 13.

8. Your State Privacy Rights and Additional Disclosures

Depending on the state in which you reside, you may have certain privacy rights regarding your personal data. For example, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, and other states have passed privacy laws. If you are a California resident, please see our “Notice to California Residents” section below. For other state residents, your privacy rights may include (if applicable):

The right to confirm whether or not we are processing your personal data and to access such personal data and the categories of personal data we are processing or have processed;
The right to obtain a copy of your personal data that we collected from and/or about you in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the information to another controller without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means;
The right to obtain a list of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data or, depending on the jurisdiction, if we do not maintain this in a format specific to you, a list of third parties to which we have disclosed any consumer’s personal data or categories of third parties;
The right to delete personal data that we collected from and/or about you, subject to certain exceptions;
The right to correct inaccurate personal data that we maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions;
The right, if applicable, to opt out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of (1) targeted advertising; (2) the “sale” of your personal data (as that term is defined by applicable law); and (3) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you;
If we are required by applicable law to obtain your consent to process sensitive personal data, the right to withdraw your consent; and
The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights.

We operate primarily as a processor on behalf of our clients and, therefore, may not be subject to various state laws. In our role as a controller, we do not sell personal data, engage in targeted advertising or profile in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning individuals. To exercise your rights, please email us at privacy@probolskyresearch.com or call us at 1-800-492-9556. If legally required, we will comply with your request upon verification of your identity and, to the extent applicable, the identity of the individual on whose behalf you are making such request. We will process authorized agent requests in accordance with applicable law. If we refuse to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at privacy@probolskyresearch.com.

9. Notice to California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), requires that we provide California residents with a privacy policy that contains a comprehensive description of our online and offline practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, sale, sharing, and retention of personal information and of the rights of California residents regarding their personal information. This section of the Privacy Policy is intended solely for, and is applicable only as to, California residents. If you are not a California resident, this section does not apply to you and you should not rely on it.

The CCPA defines “personal information” to mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household. Personal information does not include publicly available, deidentified or aggregated information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. To the extent applicable, we will not attempt to reidentify data that has been deidentified or aggregated. For purposes of this “Notice to California Residents” section we will refer to this information as “Personal Information.”

Notice at Collection of Personal Information

When we conduct a survey, assessment, or poll for our clients, we act as a “service provider” under the CCPA, which means that our collection and processing of personal information from California residents is on behalf of our clients. You should contact the client to determine whether they are a “business” under the CCPA. If they are a business under the CCPA, then you should direct any CCPA request to them.

In the interest of transparency, the below CCPA disclosure includes the personal information that we collect as a “service provider” on behalf of our clients, in addition to the personal information that we collect as a “business” on our own behalf.

We currently collect and, in the 12 months prior to the last updated date of this Privacy Policy, have collected the following categories of Personal Information:

Identifiers (name, postal address, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address)
Unique personal identifiers (cookies)
Personal information described in California’s Customer Records statute (California Civil Code § 1798.80(e)) (telephone number, education, employment, employment history, medical information, or health insurance information as well as the categories listed in “Identifiers” category above)
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (race, color, sex/gender, sexual orientation, age (40 and older), national origin, ancestry, military or veteran status, political affiliations or activities)
Internet or other electronic network activity information (browsing history; search history; and information regarding consumer’s interaction with website, application or advertisement)
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, video information
Professional or employment-related information (including employment history)
Education information
Inferences drawn from above information to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

We collect Personal Information directly from California residents and from advertising networks, public resources, data brokers and vendors, panel providers, and customers. We do not collect all categories of Personal Information from each source.

In addition to the purposes stated above in the section “How We Use Your Personal Data” we currently collect and have collected the above categories of Personal Information for the following business or commercial purposes:

Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes
Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, and providing customer service
Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality of a service and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service
Advancing our commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction

Sale, Share, and Disclosure of Personal Information

The CCPA defines “sale” as the transfer of Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration. We do not currently sell or share Personal Information to third parties and have not done so in the 12 months preceding the last updated date of this Privacy Policy.

We disclosed the following categories of Personal Information to service providers or contractors for a business purpose in the 12 months preceding the last updated date of this Privacy Policy.

Identifiers (name, postal address, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address)
Personal information described in California’s Customer Records statute (California Civil Code § 1798.80(e)) (telephone number, education, employment, employment history, medical information, or health insurance information as well as the categories listed in “Identifiers” category above)
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (race, color, sex/gender, sexual orientation, age (40 and older), national origin, ancestry, military or veteran status, political affiliations or activities)
Internet or other electronic network activity information (browsing history; search history; and information regarding consumer’s interaction with website, application or advertisement)
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, video information
Professional or employment-related information (including employment history)
Education information
Inferences drawn from above information to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

We disclosed Personal Information for the following business or commercial purposes:

Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes
Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, and providing customer service
Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality of a service and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service

We collect, but do not knowingly sell or share, the Personal Information of consumers under 16 years of age. We do not use Sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations.

Retention of Personal Information

We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect it, such as to provide you with the service you have requested, and for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, contractual, or reporting requirements that apply to us.

Your Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights with respect to your Personal Information:

The right to know what Personal Information we have collected about you, including the categories of Personal Information, the categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling or sharing Personal Information (if applicable), the categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information (if applicable), and the specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you;
The right to delete Personal Information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions;
The right to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you;
If we sell or share Personal Information, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing;
If we use automated decisionmaking technology (ADMT) for significant decisions, the right to opt out and access certain information regarding our use of ADMT. We do not use ADMT for significant decisions and, therefore, do not provide this right;
If we use or disclose sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations, the right to limit our use or disclosure; and
The right not to be retaliated against for exercising privacy rights the CCPA confers.

How to Submit a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct

You may submit a request to know, delete, and/or correct by emailing us at privacy@probolskyresearch.com or by calling us at 1-800-492-9556.

If you submit a request to delete online, you may be asked to confirm separately that you want your Personal Information deleted.

If you are submitting a request on behalf of a California resident, please submit the request through one of the designated methods discussed above. After submitting the request, and if the request is not subject to an exemption or exception, we will require additional information to verify your authority to act on behalf of the California resident.

Our Process for Verifying a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct

We will comply with your request upon verification of your identity and, to the extent applicable, the identity of the California resident on whose behalf you are making such request.

We will verify your identity either to a “reasonable degree of certainty” or a “reasonably high degree of certainty” depending on the sensitivity of the Personal Information and the risk of harm to you by unauthorized disclosure, deletion, or correction as applicable. To do so, we will ask you to verify data points based on information we have in our records concerning you.

Shine the Light Law

We do not disclose personal information obtained through our Site or Services to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Accordingly, we have no obligations under California Civil Code § 1798.83.

10. Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring this Privacy Policy is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you wish to access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format, please contact us as described below.

11. How to Contact Us

To contact us for questions or concerns about our privacy policies or practices please email us at privacy@probolskyresearch.com.