Online Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Wilshire Associates Incorporated (“Wilshire®”) uses and protects any information that you give Wilshire when you use this website.

What We Collect

We may collect the following information:

  • name and job title;
  • contact information including email address;
  • demographic information such as zip code, preferences, and interests; and
  • other information relevant to customer surveys.

What We Do With the Information We Gather

We require and use this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service. More particularly, we use information we gather to do the following:

  • maintain internal records;
  • improve our products and services;
  • send promotional email with information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided; and
  • contact you by email, phone, fax, or mail for market research purposes.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How We Use Cookies

A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. Our cookies do not give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites and this privacy statement does not govern such sites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling Your Personal Information

We do not share your personal information with third parties for use in marketing their products and services. However, we may share your personal information in the following circumstances:

  • where we have your permission to do so;
  • with unaffiliated service providers (for example, printing and mailing companies); and
  • with government agencies, other regulatory bodies, or law enforcement officials.

Our service providers are obligated to keep the personal information we share with them confidential and use it only to provide services specified by Wilshire.

Wilshire is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Wilshire may change this policy at its sole discretion; please check this page for policy updates.