Privacy Policy

What data we collect when you use this website, and how it is used:

We collect and process your personal data based on your consent, in the following ways:

• We collect personal data about you that you submit through our contact form (name and e-mail address), for the purpose of contacting you.
• Information you submit to us when downloading materials from our website (name, e-mail address, name of your Company) will be used to e-mail you the requested media, and may also be used to send you updates we think you will find relevant.
• Personal information that you submit to subscribe to our newsletter (name and e-mail address), will be used to send you our newsletter.
• We will never share your personal information with a third party without asking your explicit consent in advance.

Cookie policy

A cookie is a small text file which stores information on your computer. It is used on many websites to give you as visitor access to various features like logging in and remembering what you did the last time you visited the site. On this website, we are using cookies to improve your user experience. You can disable cookies by adjusting the settings of your browser.

Google tag

This is used by Google to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, what pages a user has visited, and what site referred the visitor to the web page. We use this to build audiences with Google so we can serve advertising across the web (including Google properties like YouTube and third-party sites) and limit the number of times a given ad is shown to you.

LinkedIn

The LinkedIn Insight Tag allows LinkedIn to record site visit information and user behaviour on the website. We use this to deliver relevant advertising to people on the LinkedIn platform, and third-party websites.

Sugar Market Web Tracking

This tag allows us to view website visitor behaviour, such as the time of the current site visit, referral pages, and pages visited. It allows us to improve the performance/usability of the website and connects website visitor data to contacts on our CRM system.

Consent and opt-out for these tags can be managed in cookie permissions.

Matomo

This website uses the open-source web analysis service Matomo. Matomo uses technologies that make it possible to recognize the user across multiple pages with the aim of analyzing the user patterns (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). The information recorded by Matomo about the use of this website will be stored on our server. Prior to archiving, the IP address will first be anonymized.

Through Matomo, we are able to collect and analyze data on the use of our website-by-website visitors. This enables us to find out, for instance, when which page views occurred and from which region they came. In addition, we collect various log files (e.g. IP address, referrer, browser, and operating system used) and can measure whether our website visitors perform certain actions (e.g. clicks, purchases, etc.).

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user patterns, in order to optimize the operator’s web offerings and advertising. If appropriate consent has been obtained, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, insofar the consent includes the storage of cookies or the access to information in the user’s end device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time.

IP anonymization

For analysis with Matomo we use IP anonymization. Your IP address is shortened before the analysis, so that it is no longer clearly assignable to you.

Hosting

We host Matomo exclusively on our own servers so that all analysis data remains with us and is not passed on.

Types of personally identifiable information being processed

Whenever we at Norstat approach people regarding a survey, we process some personal information (such as e-mail address or phone number, name, age and zip code). The personal information we use to get in touch with respondent is normally either publicly available data from public registers, or lists of customers or users from the client we are collecting the survey data on behalf of – for instance when we are doing customer or employee satisfaction surveys or user experience research.

For members of the Norstatpanel, separate terms and conditions and privacy policy applies.

Purpose of the processing

We process your contact information in order to be able to approach you for participation in the surveys and opinion polls we conduct. Information you give us as part of responding to the survey, will be combined with answers from other respondents, and conveyed to our clients in aggregate form only, for statistical use.

Basis of the data processing

Contact information is used to be able to get in touch with you for survey participation purposes. Market and opinion polls are a legitimate interest because the data collected is an important basis for decision-making for our clients, which range from government bodies, institutions and organizations of all kinds.

While we contact you based on a legitimate interest, participation in our surveys is always voluntary, and data collected from you in our surveys is collected on the basis of consent. You have the right to withdraw consent for processing your personal data at any time.

Sharing information with third parties

Norstat will never share, sell, transfer or in other ways exchange your personally identifiable information with a third party without collecting your explicit consent for this beforehand.

Deletion of data

Information that we process in connection with our surveys is stored in our systems for six months after the data collection is completed. After that, all personally identifiable information will automatically be deleted.

Information security

We always safeguard your personal information using both physical and virtual access control, and encrypting sensitive parts of any information you give us. Norstat AS has an internal control system for IT security that has been approved according to the ISAE3000 assurance standard.

We also comply with the Esomar International Code on Market, Opinion and Social Research and Data Analytics, and are certified on the ISO9001:2015 quality standard.

Your rights as a data subject

We process your personal information in accordance with applicable privacy legislation and the GDPR. You have the right to see what personal data we have stored about you, to have your information amended or deleted, and to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information, at any time.

Data Protection Officer

Norstat has a Data Protection Officer, who is responsible for ensuring that the legislation is being followed. They can be contacted at dpo[at]norstatgroup.com with any questions or concerns you may have.