Back to home Contact us Privacy Policy Registered at 2 Silkwood Office Park, Fryers Way, Wakefield, WF5 9TJ, Allto Market Research is a private limited company registered in England & Wales (No: 4573719) and operates from offices at Victoria Wharf (3rd Floor), 4 The Embankment, Sovereign Street, Leeds LS1 4BA. Allto is the controller of any personal information, which means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information. We are required by law (ie, Data Protection Act 2018) to tell you the things set out in this notice. If you have any questions about this notice or about how we use personal information, please contact our Quality Manager, Kate Thompson, who can be contacted by email at kate@allto.co.uk or by calling 0113 237 5590. Privacy notice In this notice, we explain: • What personal information we collect about you. • How we use personal information and what are our legal grounds for using it. • Do we use personal information to make automated decisions. • How long we keep personal information. • Who we share personal information with. • How we transfer personal information outside the EEA. • What rights you have over personal information. • How we’ll tell you about changes to this notice. • How to contact us. What personal information we collect about you When you complete the ‘Contact us’ form on our website, we will collect the following personal information from you: full name, company name, location, email address and telephone number, plus any information that you include in the enquiry that you submit. ‍ Our website also uses cookies: full details of our cookie policy can be found here. How your data is used At no time will the information you provide be used for any purpose other than research, and you will in no way be adversely affected by taking part. We do not use market research to sell or promote any products/services. Our market research surveys use scientific methods to gather your opinions and we commit, in obtaining your co-operation, to not mislead you about the nature of the research or how the findings will be used. Your responses will be treated as confidential unless you consent to being identified. Personally identifiable information about you will only be used for the purpose of our research study. Our company policy is to securely retain any personally identifiable information for a six month period. After this six month period, the data will be destroyed. Where we ask permission to pass on your data in a way which would allow you to be personally identified, we will ensure that the information is only used for the stated purposes. We will not send you unsolicited mail, pass on your email addresses to others or telephone you at a later date for this purpose. If we wish to recontact you, we will ask your explicit permission for this. How we use personal information and what are our legal grounds for using it We use the information that you give us on the ‘Contact us’ form to respond to your enquiry, which includes passing it on to the relevant members of our staff who can most suitably reply and also to send you any information that you may have requested. Our legal grounds for using personal information in this way are that it is in our legitimate interests to be able to respond to enquiries that we collect via our website. ‍ We use cookies to help us improve the performance and user-experience of our website. Other than as set-out in our cookie policy, we do not collect information via cookies that may identify you personally. ‍ Our legal ground for using cookies on our website is that it is in our legitimate interests to monitor how our website is being used and to make sure that we can improve the way that our website performs. Do we use personal information to make automated decisions You will not be subject to decisions that will have a legal or significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making. How long we keep personal information We keep personal information collected from you via the ‘Contact us’ form for 12 months from the time that you contact us, in case you get back in touch with us so that we can refer back to the previous correspondence that we had with you and tailor communication. ‍ If a dispute arises, we will hold on to your personal information so that we can deal with it and this may mean that we keep it for longer than 12 months. We ensure that any personal information is securely deleted after the periods stated. Who we share personal information with We only share the personal information that you give us with the following third parties and for the following reasons: • With third parties who provide and support our IT systems: We use reputable third parties to provide IT systems and support. They may access personal information to the extent that they need to, in order to provide their services or provide support. The legal ground for this is that it is in our legitimate interests to be able to use reputable third parties to provide appropriate IT systems and resolve any issues; ‍ • With a company that we merge with or transfer our business assets to: If we sell all or part of our business, or merge with another company, we may transfer personal information that we have collected as described in this notice, along with our other business assets, to the company that we are selling to or merging with. The legal ground for this is that it is in our legitimate interests to be able to merge or sell our business; ‍ • With entities, companies or individuals outside Allto Market Research for legal reasons: We will share your personal information with entities, companies or individuals outside Allto Market Research where it is necessary to comply with any law, rule, regulation, legal procedure or governmental request that is applicable to us. The legal ground for this is that sharing your personal information in this way is necessary in order for us to comply with our legal obligations; ‍ • With entities, companies or individuals outside Allto Market Research to obtain advice: We also share your personal information with external professional advisors such as lawyers or accountants in order to take advice and for the purposes of legal and tribunal proceedings. The legal ground for this is that it is in our legitimate interests as a business to be able to obtain professional advice from external advisors about issues that may arise within our business. How we transfer personal information outside the EEA We store personal information in the UK. We only transfer personal information outside the EEA where our third-party service providers who we share personal information with (as detailed above) are based outside the EEA, have support services located outside the EEA or host personal information outside the EEA. ‍ We only transfer personal information outside the EEA where we have legal grounds for doing so and where we ensure that personal information is protected to the same standard as it would be in the UK. We do this by entering into data sharing agreements with the recipients of personal information based outside the EEA which comply with the EU Commission’s standard clauses for the transfer of personal information or by ensuring that the third party is signed up to an appropriate Privacy Shield. ‍ If you would like further details about our transfer of personal information outside the EEA, please contact our Quality Manager using the contact details at the start of this notice. What rights you have over personal information You have the right to make a complaint to the UK regulator for data protection issues at the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk). However, we would welcome the opportunity to address any concerns before you approach the ICO and so, if you are happy to do so, please contact our Quality Manage in the first instance and we will try to resolve your issues. You have a number of rights over your personal information: Where our use of your personal information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw your consent at any time; ‍ • The right to ask us what personal information we have about you and to have a copy of your personal information from us; • The right to ask us to correct any errors in your personal information; • The right to ask us to review and explain our legitimate interests to you; • The right to ask us to delete your personal information where (i) our processing of your personal information is based on consent, you withdraw that consent and we have no other legal basis to use your personal information; (ii) we don’t need your personal information anymore; (iii) you have asked us to review and explain our legitimate interests to you and we don’t actually have a valid legitimate interest to do what we are doing; (iv) our use of your personal information is illegal; (v) we have to delete your personal information to comply with our legal obligations; ‍ • The right to ask us to restrict the use that we are making of your personal information where (i) you don’t think the personal information we have about you is correct, so that we can check if it is correct; (ii) what we are doing with your personal information is illegal but you would rather we stop using your personal information rather than delete it; (iii) we don’t need your personal information anymore, but you need us to keep it so that you can exercise any legal rights; and (iv) you have asked us to review and explain our legitimate interests to you, so that we can check whether we actually have a valid legitimate interest to do what we are doing; and ‍ • The right, where our use of your personal information is carried out for the purposes of an agreement with us and is carried out by automated means, to ask us to provide you with a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, machine readable format. If you want to exercise any of your rights over your personal information, please contact our Quality Manager, Kate Thompson (kate@allto.co.uk, 0113 237 5590). How we’ll tell you about changes to this notice We keep this notice under regular review. Any changes we make will be posted here on our website and, if the changes will have an effect on you or the way we use your personal information, we will bring them to your attention by email where appropriate. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Notice. This Notice was last updated in June 2020. How to contact us If you have any questions about this notice or the ways in which we use your personal information, please contact us by email at info@allto.co.uk, by calling 0113 237 5590 or in writing to Victoria Wharf (3rd Floor), 4 The Embankment, Sovereign Street, Leeds LS1 4BA. Respondent Privacy Policy This page aims to help you understand the types of information we might collect about you and how we use it. ‍Allto would like to thank you for taking part in our genuine market research. We take every reasonable precaution to ensure the privacy and security of your information. How we store survey data Online surveys: Allto use in-house software to operate survey questionnaire software and data collection process. The data from the survey is held by Allto on our own servers. Telephone surveys: Allto’s telephone unit is located at our head office and uses the same software suite. The data from telephone unit surveys is held on our own servers. Type of data we collect Personally identifiable information about you, which could include (but is not limited to) your name, address, telephone number or email address. These details could have been provided: 1. Directly by you through your answers to questions on one of our surveys 2. By one of our clients 3. Via a list of contacts which we have purchased In the case of online surveys, we may collect technical details such as the name and version number of the internet browser you are using, your IP address, your operating system, and the time you started/finished our survey. This data is collected purely for quality control purposes. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence How your data is used At no time will the information you provide be used for any purpose other than research, and you will in no way be adversely affected by taking part. We do not use market research to sell or promote any products/services. Our market research surveys use scientific methods to gather your opinions and we commit, in obtaining your co-operation, to not mislead you about the nature of the research or how the findings will be used. Your responses will be treated as confidential unless you consent to being identified. Personally identifiable information about you will only be used for the purpose of our research study. Our company policy is to securely retain any personally identifiable information for a six month period. After this six month period, the data will be destroyed. Where we ask permission to pass on your data in a way which would allow you to be personally identified, we will ensure that the information is only used for the stated purposes. We will not send you unsolicited mail, pass on your email addresses to others or telephone you at a later date for this purpose. If we wish to recontact you, we will ask your explicit permission for this. Your right to withdraw As with all forms of marketing and opinion research, your co-operation is voluntary at all times. No personal information is sought from or about you without your prior knowledge and agreement. The legal basis for processing your data is to enable Allto to provide the service as agreed with its clients for legitimate market research purposes. Your right to request personal data You have the right under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to access any information we hold about you. You also have the right to the following: • To object to processing of your data; • To restrict processing; • To rectify data held • To be forgotten (all personally identifiable data we hold on you to be deleted) We will be happy to respond to any of these requests or any issues you may have. You can make a request by emailing datarequests@allto.co.uk. You can also contact our Data Protection Officers at this email address. We may ask you for proof of identity and address (e.g. copy of your driving license or passport, recent utility bill or credit card bill). This is to check that any information we disclose is only provided to the authorised party.Please be aware we may need to retain your information on our files to resolve disputes or for technical and legal requirements and constraints related to the security, integrity and operation of our surveys. Cookies We use cookies in various parts of our website to keep track of your visit and improve your experience while on our website. We may make use of cookies, which are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit, or certain emails you open and other similar technologies such as flash cookies and web beacons. ‍ Such technologies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide business and marketing information to the owners of the site, to gather personal data such as browser type and operating system, referring page, path through site, domain of ISP (etc), for the purpose of understanding how visitors use this website. Cookies and similar technologies help us to tailor this website to meet the personal needs of customers and potential customers of our business. ‍ This type of information obtained through cookies will not be disclosed outside of Allto Market Research or our authorised third-party data processors. It will not be used for unsolicited communications. ‍ Cookies located on your computer do not contain your name but an IP address. In many cases, after the user’s session is cancelled, the information contained in the cookies is no longer available to us. ‍ Please ensure that your computer setting reflects whether you are happy to accept cookies or not. You can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can simply set it to refuse them, although you may not have access to all of the features of the website if you do so. See your browser “Help” button for how you can do this. Some flash cookies may not be affected by such settings. ‍ You do not need to have cookies to use or navigate through many parts of this website. Remember that if you use different computers in different locations you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences. Please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org for more information about cookies and how to disable them in your browser. Collection of data We will only collect and use personal information in accordance with this policy to the extent deemed reasonably necessary to serve our legitimate business purposes, and we will maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity, accuracy and privacy of the information you have provided. In addition, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that third parties to whom we transfer any personal information provide sufficient protection of that information. Our security measures to protect your data Allto has rigorous security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under their control. Only certain employees have access to the information you provide us and are only granted access for data analysis and quality control purposes. By participating in this survey, you consent to this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not complete or take part in the survey. Further information We are members of the Market Research Society and adhere to its Market Research Code of Conduct. You have the right to lodge a complaint over the way your data has been handled by Allto with the Information Commissioners Office. About us What we do Our clients Our people Client hub Jobs Contact us Back to home Contact us Contact us Start defining your clearest direction, get in touch. By checking this box, you consent to Allto processing and using the above details in line with our Privacy Policy.