Privacy notice

Who we are

This research is carried out by Evans Insights on behalf of Bader College at Herstmonceux Castle, part of Queen's University. We are exploring the potential for a programme of heritage conservation and traditional skills courses.

Data controller: Evans Insights
Questions about your data: privacy@evansinsights.com

What we collect, and why

Your survey answers

The answers you give to the survey questions. We use them to shape the course programme — subject areas, level, format, timing, pricing and accreditation. Results are analysed and reported only in aggregate.

We do not ask for your name. However, because we collect the first half of your postcode alongside details such as age band, gender, trade and business size, we treat your responses as pseudonymous rather than fully anonymous, and protect them accordingly. We will never identify you individually in any report.Legal basis: your consent.

Prize draw email address (optional)

If you choose to enter the prize draw, we collect your email address. It is used only to run the draw and contact the winners. It is stored separately from your survey answers and deleted once the draw has taken place.Legal basis: your consent. Entering is entirely optional — you can complete the survey without it.

Advertising measurement

We advertise this survey on Facebook and Instagram, and we need to know whether that advertising works. So when you take part we send a record of that to Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd using Meta's Conversions API. That record contains:

• your IP address and your browser user-agent (as Meta's Conversions API requires);
• the Meta click identifier (fbclid) from the advert you clicked;
• the fact that you started, were screened out of, or completed the survey.

It does not contain your survey answers or your email address. Meta may process this data outside the UK, including in the United States, under the safeguards described in Meta's privacy policy.Legal basis: our legitimate interests in measuring whether our advertising is effective. You can object to this — see “Your rights” below.

Advertising cookies are separate, and optional. Meta's browser pixel sets cookies on your device, and we only load it if you tick the optional box at the start of the survey. If you leave it unticked, no Meta cookies are set — though the server-side record described above is still sent.Legal basis for cookies: your consent.

If you took part through Prolific

Some participants are recruited through the research panel Prolific, who pay them for their time. If you came to us that way, we record the participant, study and session identifiers Prolific gives us, so that your submission can be credited and paid. These are Prolific's own reference numbers — they do not contain your name or contact details, and we do not ask panel participants for an email address or enter them into the prize draw.Legal basis: our legitimate interests in running and paying for the research correctly.

Technical data

We store a hashed (irreversible) version of your IP address and your browser user-agent. We use these only to protect the survey from automated abuse and duplicate prize-draw entries. We do not store your raw IP address.Legal basis: our legitimate interests in protecting the integrity of the research.

Cookies

You can also control cookies in your browser settings, and manage ad preferences in your Meta account.

How long we keep it

• Survey responses: up to 12 months, then securely deleted.
• Prize draw email addresses: deleted once the draw has taken place (closing date: [PRIZE DRAW CLOSING DATE]).
• Anonymised, aggregated findings: the summary conclusions of the research may be kept indefinitely as a research output. These contain no personal data.

Who we share it with

• Bader College / Queen's University — as the client commissioning the research, they receive the analysis and findings. They do not receive your email address.
• Meta Platforms — the advertising measurement record described above, and nothing else. Cookies are only set if you tick the optional consent box.
• Our service providers — Vercel (hosting) and Neon (database) process data on our behalf under contract, and do not use it for their own purposes. Vercel also provides us with anonymous visitor statistics (page views and where visitors came from). These use no cookies and do not identify you.

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for any purpose other than those described here.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

• ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
• ask us to correct or delete it;
• ask us to restrict or object to how we use it;
• withdraw your consent at any time — including your consent to advertising cookies or to the prize draw;
• object to advertising measurement, which we carry out on a legitimate-interests basis rather than consent.

To exercise any of these, email privacy@evansinsights.com.

One important limit, stated honestly: once prize-draw email addresses have been deleted, your survey answers can no longer be linked back to you. At that point we are unable to find, retrieve, or delete your individual response — because we genuinely cannot tell which one is yours.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes to this notice

If we change how we use survey data, we will update this page and the "last updated" date above.

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