Terms & Conditions

Welcome to the surveyandpolls Website, owned and operated by Orchid Online Reserch Pvt Ltd. The Terms and Conditions listed here (this “Agreement” or “Terms and Conditions”) govern your membership in the surveyandpolls panel, your participation in the surveys and your use of the Site. In this Agreement, the term "you" or “your” refers to the individual accessing the Site and participating in a survey and/or completing the registration process to become a member of the surveyandpolls Panel.

TERMS OF USE
By accessing this Site you acknowledge and agree that this Site, and this Agreement, will be construed and evaluated according to the laws of the land. If you are providing personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) and are your country's laws governing data collection and use may be applicable. By providing information to surveyandpolls, you are transferring your Personal Information, and you consent to that transfer and to the processing of your Personal Information. Your use of this Site, membership in our Panel and participation in our surveys through the Site are subject to these terms of use incorporated in this Agreement. Our Agreement may be updated or revised from time to time without notice to you. If you do not agree with any of the terms of this Agreement, you may not access or use the Site, join our Panel or participate in any of the surveys through this Site. By using this Site, you are agreeing to be legally bound by and to comply with each of the terms of this Agreement.

USE OF THE SITE
Access to, and use of the Site is subject to these Terms and Conditions, and is limited to your personal, non-commercial use. Any use of the Site in violation of these Terms and Conditions is strictly prohibited. Participation in surveys is always optional and voluntary. You may unsubscribe from your Panel membership at any time, please see our "Opt Out Policy" below. Panel membership, and/or participation in a survey(s) hosted or administered by surveyandpolls, is open to individuals who are eighteen (18) years of age or older and to minors between the ages of thirteen (13) and seventeen (17) who have obtained permission or consent from their parent or guardian. If you are not thirteen (13) years of age, you may not register or attempt to register as a Panel member or participate in any surveyandpolls survey(s). Surveyandpolls reserves the right to refuse to offer or provide Panel membership or other services to anyone, at anytime, in its sole discretion.

PRIVACY
Surveyandpolls use of your Personal Information and your use of the Site are governed by our Privacy Policy which is incorporated herein and subject to these Terms of Use. For more information about our privacy practices, please review our Privacy Policy.

REGISTRATION
In order to participate in surveys from SurveyAndPolls, you will be required to register with the Site and to provide Personal Information in connection with the registration. Each individual may only have one active membership Account (defined below) at any one time. As a condition of membership, you are required to truthfully provide all information requested by SurveyAndPolls and you are strictly prohibited from using any aliases or other means to mask or conceal your true identity. If you provide any information to SurveyAndPolls that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or if SurveyAndPolls has reasonable grounds to suspect such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or if you are maintaining more than one Account, SurveyAndPolls reserves the right to terminate your membership and to prevent you from any current or future access to, or use of the Site including the immediate forfeiture of any SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars accumulated by you prior to such termination.

ACCOUNT AND PASSWORDS
If you register for a membership on the Site to become a member (“Member”), SurveyAndPolls will permit you to create a user name and password to access your account (“Account”). You are solely responsible for the security of your user name and password and you are solely liable and responsible for any use or unauthorized use of your Account. You may never use another panelist’s account without permission. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your Account, and you must keep your Account user name and password secure. You must promptly notify SurveyAndPolls of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your Account.

CASH AND PAYMENT
You can earn rewards for completing surveys. In order to earn SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars, you must first answer a few pre-screening questions that will qualify you to participate in the survey. Only after you qualify for the survey AND if you complete the entire survey, will you get SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars for completing the survey. If you do not qualify for the survey after answering the pre-screener questions, you DO NOT earn any SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars.

The SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars for completing each survey are credited to your Account and are subject to your compliance with all Terms and Conditions. Your Account, including any SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars or other credits in your Account, is non-transferable and non-assignable, and may not be pooled, lent, sold, or exchanged. We may change rules about redeeming SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars or other credits in your Account at any time and such changed rules will apply to SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars already accrued as well as to SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars accrued in the future. You may request SurveyAndPolls Reward Dollars conversion to your local currency for payment out of your Account only as permitted by these Terms and Conditions.

Minimum Payment Amount: YOU CAN NOT REDEEM REWARD DOLLARS UNTIL YOU HAVE ACCRUED AT LEAST THE THRESHOLD AMOUNT SPECFIED FOR EACH ACCOUTN TYPE (THE “MINIMUM PAYMENT AMOUNT”). YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO REDEEM THE REWARDS IN YOUR ACCOUNT, AND WE HAVE NO LIABILITY OR OBLIGATION TO PAY YOU, UNLESS AND UNTIL YOU HAVE ACCRUED AT LEAST THE MINIMUM PAYMENT AMOUNT IN YOUR ACCOUNT. UNLESS AND UNTIL YOU HAVE ACCRUED THE MINIMUM PAYMENT AMOUNT, SUCH ARE DEEMED A CONTINGENT LIABILITY, WHICH IS ENTIRELY CONTINGENT UPON: (1) YOUR ACCRUAL OF AT LEAST THE MINIMUM PAYMENT AMOUNT IN YOUR ACCOUNT, AND (2) YOUR FULL COMPLIANCE WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. UNLESS AND UNTIL YOUR ACCOUNT BALANCE REACHES THE MINIMUM PAYMENT AMOUNT, THE REWARD DOLLARS” IN YOUR ACCOUNT HAVE NO CASH VALUE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH AN INITIAL BALANCE OF 10 SURVEYANDPOLLS REWARD DOLLARS, AND THEN ACCRUE ANOTHER TEN DOLLARS IN YOUR ACCOUNT, FOR A TOTAL OF TWENTY SURVEYANDPOLLS REWARD DOLLARS, YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE ANY PAYMENT, AND WE ARE NOT LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY AMOUNT. IN THIS EXAMPLE YOU WOULD HAVE TO EARN YET ANOTHER FIVE SURVEYANDPOLLS REWARD DOLLARS, FOR A TOTAL OF TWENTY FIVE SURVEYANDPOLLS REWARD DOLLARS ACCRUED BALANCE, BEFORE YOU WOULD BE ENTITLED TO ANY PAYMENT.

Payment Request: You can request the conversion to payment of the amount in your Account, subject to these Terms and Conditions, by clicking the “Request Payment” link under the “My Rewards” tab. As noted above, you may not request payment and the SURVEYANDPOLLS Reward Dollars in your Account have no actual cash value until you have accrued at least the Minimum Payment Amount.

Taxes related to rewards: You are responsible for any and all tax liability arising from or associated with your SURVEYANDPOLLS reward payment, including liability arising from your accrual of SURVEYANDPOLLS Reward Dollars or your redemption of SURVEYANDPOLLS Reward Dollars.

Payment Schedule Requests to redeem SURVEYANDPOLLS Reward Dollars are processed promptly, however your payment will arrive in the account in 10days. All payments are inspected immediately prior to processing. Payment requests belonging to Members who have become inactive or who have duplicate Accounts will not be processed and will be removed.
Fraud Prevention SURVEYANDPOLLS reserves the right at its sole discretion to request further information from Members to avoid fraudulent activity. SURVEYANDPOLLS reserves the right at its sole discretion to place any payment request on hold, for any reason, until the requested information has been provided by the Member. All decisions by SURVEYANDPOLLS regarding fraud or suspected fraud are binding and final.

UNAUTHORIZED USE OF SITE
You are prohibited from taking any action to interfere with the Site or any other individual’s use of the Site. If you do you may not use the Site.
You agree not to:
1. Use spiders, robots or other automated data mining techniques to catalog, download, store, or otherwise reproduce or distribute content available on the Site, or to manipulate the results of any panel, poll, survey or prize draws on the Site;
2. Send to SURVEYANDPOLLS, and/or to or from the Site, any illegal, deceptive, or harmful code, including, without limitation, any virus, spyware, adware, or any other harmful code;
3. Send unsolicited emails, including, without limitation, promotions and/or advertising of products or services;
4. Open, use, or maintain more than one (1) membership account within the SURVEYANDPOLLS Panel;
5. Forge or mask your true identity in any email or posting;
6. Frame a portion(s) of the Site within another website or alter the appearance of the Site;
7. Establish links from any other website to any page of, on, or located within the Site, without the prior express written permission of
SURVEYANDPOLLS;
8. Post or transmit any threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, or inflammatory material or content or any material or content that could otherwise violate any law(s);
9. Intentionally or willfully submit falsified data or commit any other fraudulent act(s) in connection with use of the panel or survey system;
10. Reverse engineer any aspect of the Site or do or take any act that might reveal or disclose the source code, or bypass or circumvent measures or controls utilized to prohibit, restrict or limit access to any webpage, content or code, except as expressly permitted by applicable laws; or
11. Encourage and/or advise any individual, including, without limitation, any SURVEYANDPOLLS employee, to commit any act(s) prohibited hereunder.

PROFILE UPDATES & CONTACT INFORMATION
You agree to promptly notify SURVEYANDPOLLS of any changes in or to information contained in your Member profile. Panel members agree to review and update, as necessary, membership profiles no less frequently than once every twelve (12) months. A Panel member may update, correct, and/or delete information contained in his or her membership profiles by accessing his or her membership Account. You are solely responsible for maintaining accurate and complete contact information and promptly updating such information.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
You may not copy, modify, alter, distribute, publish, sell or otherwise use any material on the Site in whole or in part, unless you have obtained the prior written consent of SURVEYANDPOLLS. All pages and content within the Site and any related surveys, including but not limited to, text, graphics, audio, video, photographs, surveys, logos or other materials are the intellectual property of SURVEYANDPOLLS and/or its clients, licensors, partners, and/or representatives. You are hereby expressly prohibited from modifying, copying, reproducing, creating derivative works of, republishing, displaying, uploading, posting, transmitting or distributing, in any way, the content available on the Site, without the prior written consent of SURVEYANDPOLLS.

SECURITY
You shall not violate or attempt to violate the security of the Site. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. SURVEYANDPOLLS reserves the right to investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who have participated in such violations.

INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless SURVEYANDPOLLS, its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries and each of their respective divisions, members, managers, shareholders, directors, officers, employees and agents (“Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, judgments, awards, fines, penalties and costs and/or expenses of any kind, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, arising out of, resulting from, in connection with, or caused by, whether directly or indirectly, your breach or violation of these Terms and Conditions or use of the Site.

COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS
You acknowledge and agree that you will comply with all applicable international, national, Federal, state, and/or local laws, codes, regulations, rules and/or requirements regarding your use of, and/or access to the Site; membership to, in, or with the Panel; and/or participation in the surveys.

SEVERABILITY
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be held or declared to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed null and void and shall not affect the application and/or interpretation of these Terms and Conditions. The remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall continue in full force and effect, as if the invalid or unenforceable provision was not a part of these Terms and Conditions.

DISPUTES; ARBITRATION
Any disputes and/or claims arising out of or related to this Agreement, the Site, the SURVEYANDPOLLS Panel or any surveys relating to this Agreement shall be informed to Orchidea Research.
XIX. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
SURVEYANDPOLLS reserves the right to, without any notice and at its sole discretion, terminate this Agreement and your membership of the SURVEYANDPOLLS Panel immediately if it has reason to believe that you are in breach of this Agreement at any time. You can terminate your participation in this Agreement at any time by unsubscribing from the SURVEYANDPOLLS Panel.

INACTIVITY
Your Account may be set to inactive if we receive a bounce-back error message or similar message when sending emails to you or if we see no activity in your account for a six (6) month duration. If we see no activity in your account for six (6) or more months, we may give you 30 days’ notice, and if you do not remedy the situation during that 30 day period, we will cancel your account and you will forfeit any SURVEYANDPOLLS Reward Dollars in your Account.

OPT-OUT POLICY
By becoming a Member, you agree to receive emails from SURVEYANDPOLLS inviting you to participate in surveys. Participation in any survey(s) is strictly voluntary. You may opt-out from any further participation, at any time, by sending us and email at panelsupport@orchidearesearch.com

ACCOUNT CANCELLATION
You may cancel your Account any time by visiting your Profile Page and clicking on the "Delete Account" link within your personal profile. If you cancel your Account, you will forfeit any SURVEYANDPOLLS Reward Dollars in your Account. In addition, any requested or pending payments for you will be removed and forfeited.

AGREEMENT
By accessing the Site and agreeing to become a SURVEYANDPOLLS Panel Member and/or agreeing to participate in SURVEYANDPOLLS surveys you signify your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

CHANGES TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
SURVEYANDPOLLS shall have the right at any time to (a) change these Terms and Conditions, and to (b) change the Site, including eliminating or discontinuing any content or feature of the Site, restricting the hours of availability, or limiting the amount of use permitted. Such changes, modifications, additions, or deletions shall be effective immediately which may be given by means including, but not limited to, posting on the Site, or by electronic mail, or by conventional mail. Your use of the Site after such notice shall be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such changes, modifications, additions, or deletions. You are expected to review these Terms and Conditions periodically to ensure familiarity with the most current version.


QUESTIONS regarding these Terms and Conditions should be directed to:
panelsupport@orchidearesearch.com
panelmanager@orchidearesearch.com


Last Updated on 10/28/13