Information for respondents

In times when the issue of data protection is becoming increasingly important, we assure you that your data is in safe hands with us. We handle your data confidentially. This applies both to your individual study results and to the information you provide to us as part of the study. We strictly adhere to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in all matters. In addition, we expressly advocate the recognized standards of the industry, which guarantee absolute anonymity, especially for the respondents. Below we inform you in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR about the processing of your data if you participate in a survey.

Responsible body

The controller responsible for the data processing carried out by conducting the survey:

prolytics market research GmbH

Am Brambusch 24

44536 Lünen

Tel. (0231) 56 48 - 0

E-mail: info@prolytics-mr.de

Contact details of the data protection officer

The appointed data protection officer of prolytics market research GmbH is

Prof. Thomas Jäschke

DATATREE AG

Heubesstrasse 10

40597 Düsseldorf

Tel. (0211) 931 907 00

E-mail: dsb@datatree.eu

Purpose and duration of data processing

To conduct a survey, we first collect your surname, first name and contact details. We receive this data from clients to whom you have given your consent to the processing of your data for the purposes of surveys and market research or who have a legitimate interest in the processing of your data for the purposes of conducting surveys and market research studies. We also process data that we have received from public sources or that we have obtained at random. At the beginning of the survey, you will be asked for your consent to conduct the interview. You can deny this or cancel the survey at any time. Your data will then not be processed any further. The legal basis for data processing is your consent (Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR). If we collect data by random sampling, we consider this to be a legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR), as some of the data is publicly accessible, so that a restriction of the rights and freedoms of the data subject cannot be assumed.

In the course of the survey, we process all data resulting from the survey. These survey results are then anonymized. We delete any reference to individuals. The clients are provided with anonymized data sets. We delete personal data that we have received from our clients for the purpose of conducting the survey in consultation with the client, but no later than three months after the end of the survey.

We process the data exclusively for the purposes of the surveys and market research. We explicitly exclude the transfer of personal data to third parties through sale, exchange or similar. There is also no automated decision-making (Art. 22 GDPR) based on your survey results.

Recipients

We commission the following subcontractors to conduct the interviews:

Technical service providers for hosting, maintenance, care of our IT as well as for the programming and provision of our survey software, provision and operation of software for the automated sending of e-mails.

Partner institutes that conduct interviews.

Transcription office for the transcription of oral question rounds/interviews

The service providers were commissioned in accordance with the criteria of Art. 28 GDPR. There are corresponding agreements on order processing. Other recipients are the clients of the surveys or market research (see above).

Your rights as a data subject

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR)

We must provide you with information as to whether we are processing your personal data. In the case of such processing, we must, among other things, explain the purposes of the processing, which categories of personal data are processed, to whom data may be transmitted and for how long the data will be stored.

Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), objection (Art. 21 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)

If you discover that we are processing personal data that is incorrect or incomplete, you may of course request rectification. You can also object to the processing for specific reasons and, if justified, request the restriction of processing.

Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

In the event that personal data is processed by us without justification or after the purpose has ceased to exist, you can request its erasure. Please note that erasure may not always be possible due to the existence of legal obligations to provide evidence/retain records. You also have the right to receive all information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

For a better understanding and easier readability of personal rights, we have summarized them here in parts. If required, please refer to the original text: Link to http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-con-tent/de/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016R0679 or contact our data protection officer directly.

You can exercise your data protection rights at any time and without incurring any costs. Please use the following contact option for your request: info@prolytics-mr.de

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia (LDI NRW)

Kavalleriestr. 2-4

40213 Düsseldorf

Telephone: (0211) 384 24-0

E-mail: poststelle@ldi.nrw.de

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