Personal data

Lifecycle of a respondent’s data

1. 1

   Collection

   Consent is collected before the interview begins, stating the study's purpose, the voluntary nature of participation, and the right to withdraw.

2. 2

   Separation

   Identifying data (name, phone, address) is separated from response data as soon as fieldwork closes. Analysis only ever runs on the anonymised file.

3. 3

   Access

   Access to respondent-level data is restricted to the project team. Bulk export requires named, logged authorisation.

4. 4

   Retention

   Identifying data is kept only as long as needed for fieldwork quality control (back-checking), then destroyed. The anonymised response file is kept for the duration of the client contract.

5. 5

   Respondent rights

   Any respondent may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their data from MindMap, in accordance with Law 09-08.