Data Collection & Privacy Best Practices

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Since Surview is an online portal which provides survey creation features to users by creating an account. Each user may have different goals and requirements to make surveys. Following suggestions will be useful to include in your survey to put potential respondents at ease.

Inform Respondents How You Handle Responses

It is good to disclose your privacy practices to your respondents. Doing this helps to increase response rates by putting potential respondents more at ease.

You can disclose your privacy practices on the introduction page of your survey or in the body of any email message containing the link inviting recipients to take your survey. If you are conducting a survey for an organization which already has its own privacy policy, you may wish to link to it if it is relevant. Alternatively, you can just describe your privacy practices in full on the introduction page of the survey itself.

You can use Skip Logic to disqualify respondents who don’t consent to your terms or agree with your privacy policy or practices.

Privacy statements should detail at least the following things:

  • What personal information you are collecting: Identify whether you are collecting the responses anonymously, or if you’re tracking respondents by email address, name, etc. Outline the types of personal information the survey asks for.
  • How you plan to use the responses: Why are you conducting your survey?  What are you going to do with the survey results?
  • Whether responses will be disclosed to anyone else: If you don’t want anyone to have access to your data, do not share your Surview account with others and ensure that your survey is configured such that survey results are not public.
  • How respondents can access their responses: Can respondents access their responses to correct their responses, or request that any personal information collected about them be deleted?
  • How respondents can contact you: Include your email address.

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