Survey Privacy Policy

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Survey Privacy Policy

In summary

Boardroom Business is committed to protecting your privacy.

We use the information we collect on our surveys to provide information to support better decision-making by those interested in that information.

The process is intended to be clear. You are given full control over the information you provide and whether and how any identification is linked to that information.

You can access all the information you have provided.

Boardroom Business will not sell, trade, give or rent any personally identifiable information obtained from you to a third party unless you consent unless we are required to do so by law enforcement agencies or other legal action.

Boardroom Business’ commitment to you as a survey participant or customer includes:
1. Allowing you to decide what personally identifiable information we collect.
2. Protection of your privacy.
3. Respect for your requests regarding our contact with you.
Our Chief Information Officer is Anne Lawrence, who may be contacted at anne@boardroombusiness.com.au or further information and to raise any concerns.

Overview of Privacy Policy

Protection of your privacy is of fundamental importance to Boardroom Business. As an independent research business, our commitment to your privacy is absolute. If we do not satisfy our clients about privacy protection, we do not have a business.

The purpose of our surveys is to share information in a confidential and trusting manner for the benefit of participants. The information and commitments in this privacy policy apply to all sites administered by Boardroom Business.

We do not accept advertising on our web sites and will absolutely not use your email addresses for any purpose not connected with the management of our surveys.

Neither general nor custom reports will identify individual responses, although quotations may be made from textual responses if in our opinion this cannot identify the respondent.

Individual responses will not be identified to any party. No identifying information is connected to survey responses unless (when asked) you explicitly agree to share your responses with the survey sponsor.

Information provided by participants is stored securely by Boardroom Business The data is owned by Boardroom Business and is to be used only and expressly for the purposes expressed in the introduction to each survey.

Under no circumstances will data be sold outside the survey for which the data was collected.

We sometimes use the poll daddy survey website and therefore we also refer you to their privacy policy.

More information
If you would like further information about privacy issues, the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner is a good starting point: www.privacy.gov.au

Conformity
Our Privacy Policy conforms with accepted principles of
- Accessibility
- Independence
- Fairness
- Accountability
- Efficiency
- Effectiveness
- Complaints
A complaint is any concern you have about our research activity. Please direct any concerns to our Chief Information Officer Anne Lawrence at anne@boardroombusiness.com.au. Anne will respond within 14 days via return email with a clear explanation of the process to achieve satisfactory resolution.

Our Complaint-handling procedures are designed to be:
- readily available to any individual who participates in our surveys;
- available to any individual about whom a participating organisation holds personal information that we may be using on their behalf;
- promoted with each survey;
- easy to use;
- able to be used by complainants without any charge or fee.
If a resolution cannot be achieved to the satisfaction of the complainant within 60 days of the complaint being brought to the attention of the Chief Information Officer, the complaint will then be referred within 7 days thereof to an Independent Adjudicator. This adjudicator will be agreed through mutual discussion. Failing agreement, the adjudicator will be appointed by the Australian Privacy Commissioner. (http://www.privacy.gov.au).

Further information is available from anne@boardroombusiness.com.au

Business Confidence

The December 2011 Moreton Bay Region Business Confidence Survey report is now available for downloading. Please see our dedicated Moreton Bay survey page for more info.

The November 2011 Gympie Regional Council Business Confidence Survey report is now available for downloading. Please see the Gympie Survey Page for more details.

Testimonial:

"This kind of information will inform businesses as they undertake and review strategies for growth. It is a great initiative by the Boardroom Business team to better inform the local business community and Council, to assist everyone in responding to economic conditions."

Cr LEW BRENNAN, Division 12 Sunshine Coast Regional Council

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