• This Privacy Policy covers Mintel's treatment of personally identifiable information that Mintel collects when you are on the Mintel site, and when you use Mintel's services. This policy also covers Mintel's treatment of any personally identifiable information that Mintel's business partners share with Mintel or that Mintel may collect on a partner's site.
  
• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Mintel does not own or control, or to people that Mintel does not employ or manage.

• Mintel collects personally identifiable information when you register for a Mintel account, when you use certain Mintel products or services, and when you visit Mintel pages. Mintel may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners.
• When you register with Mintel, we ask for your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Mintel and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• Mintel also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Mintel cookie information and the page you requested.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• Mintel will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
  
• Mintel may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
  
  1. We have your consent to share the information;
     
  2. We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
     
  3. We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Mintel to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.).
     

Cookies

• Mintel may set and access Mintel cookies on your computer.
  
• Mintel uses web beacons to access our cookies within and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Mintel products and services.

• Your Mintel Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security.
  
• In certain areas Mintel uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

• Mintel may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

• If you have questions or suggestions complete a feedback form.