Privacy Policy

Privacy policy
Springboard Research Limited and Springboard Holdings Limited (Springboard) takes the privacy of our users seriously. We fully comply with all aspects of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR (EU) 2016/679).

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our users while providing a personalised and valuable service. This Privacy Policy statement explains the data processing practices of Springboard including what personal data we collect from you and how we use that data.

Personal Data That We Collect
Your personal data (any information which identifies you, or which can be identified as relating to you personally for example, name, address, phone number, email address) will be collected and used by us. We’ll only collect the personal data that we need.

Springboard collects personal data to operate effectively and provide you the best experiences with our services. You provide some of this data directly, such as when you subscribe to our Benchmark Services, submit an enquiry or download an insights report. We also receive personal information from you every time you email us or send us your details.

We collect information automatically about your visit to our website. The information obtained in this way, which includes demographic data and browsing patterns, is only used in aggregate form. For more information on this please see our cookies section below.

Occasionally Springboard may seek, through a variety of means, the opinion about Springboard products or product related issues, of our customers, prospective customers and occasionally others who have been in contact with us. We may for example, conduct online surveys which ask you for personal information and demographic information (such as name, address, telephone number, email address, company size and areas of interest). We may use this information to enhance our marketing efforts and send you relevant information about our company and promotional material, but only if you have consented for us to do so.

If at any time you do not wish to receive communications from us and wish to be removed from our mailing list, you can do so by following one of the options listed in the ‘How to Access & Control Your Personal Data’ section below.

How We Use Personal Data
We’ll only use your personal data on relevant lawful grounds as permitted by the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

Personal data provided to us will be used for the purpose or purposes outlined in any fair processing notice in a transparent manner at the time of collection or registration where appropriate, in accordance with any preferences you express.

Your personal data may be collected and used to help us provide you with our products and services. This may involve communications for purposes such as informing you about your service or when we have maintenance scheduled on our Analyser system.

If you choose to hear from us we may send you information based on the things you’ve told us about as well as regular Benchmark Insights. We’ll only send these to you if you agree to receive them and we will never share your information with companies outside of Springboard for inclusion in their marketing.

Reasons We Share Personal Data
We occasionally share data with our partners, but only with your consent to do so or to complete one of our services to you. Our partners include KDMC who support our installation process and MarketMakers who ascertain interest in our new services.

In most circumstances an individual will be informed if their data is shared with 3rd parties, how, why and with whom. Under certain circumstances Springboard must disclose an individual’s data or refuse to comply with the rights outlined above. These circumstances are:

Carrying out a legal duty or as authorised by the Secretary of State.
Protecting vital interests of an individual or other person.
The individual has already made the information public
For monitoring for equal opportunities purposes
Providing a confidential service where the individual’s consent cannot be obtained or where it is reasonable to proceed without consent. (e.g. where we would wish to avoid forcing stressed or ill individuals to provide consent.)

How to Access & Control Your Personal Data
The following are your rights under GDPR;
The right to be informed – Individuals have the right to be informed about the collection and use of their personal data. The right of access – Individuals have the right to access their personal data and supplementary information.

The right to rectification – The GDPR gives individuals the right to have personal data rectified. Personal data can be rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to erasure – The right to erasure is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’. The broad principle underpinning this right is to enable an individual to request the deletion or removal of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing.The right to restrict processing – Individuals have the right to ‘block’ or suppress processing of personal data

The right to data portability – The right to data portability allows individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services.

The right to object – Individuals have the right to object to: processing based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling); direct marketing (including profiling); and processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – The GDPR has provisions on: automated individual decision-making (making a decision solely by automated means without any human involvement); and profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain things about an individual). Profiling can be part of an automated decision-making process.
If you do not wish to be included in Springboard’s mailings a facility to unsubscribe is available at the end of each email. You can also request to remove your contact or other information held by us by emailing hello@spring-board.info.

Alternatively, you can send postal mail to the following address:

Springboard
Libra House
Sunrise Parkway
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
UK MK14 6PH

For attention of: The Data Protection Officer
If you wish to request your personal information held by Springboard please visit our website request form.

Cookies

This site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. Some of these cookies are essential to make this site work properly. Other types of cookie help us to provide you with a valuable experience when you browse our site, allow us to improve our site or the way we provide our service to customers.

You can accept or decline cookies at any time by accessing the preference panels from your browser’s main menu (usually found under ‘Edit’, ‘Tools’ or ‘Options’). However, if you choose to remove cookies parts of the site may not work properly or your use of the site may be impaired.

UK Emails

All emails between staff at Springboard Research Limited and the intended recipient are for use of the recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected the email please notify the author by replying to the email. If you have ​received the email in error you may not copy or use the contents attachments or information in any way and you should delete it immediately. The email has been prepared using information believed by the author to be reliable and accurate but Springboard Research Limited makes no warranty as to accuracy or completeness. In particular Springboard Research Limited does not accept responsibility for changes made to the email after it was sent. Any opinions expressed in the document are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Springboard Research Limited. We make every effort to keep our network free from viruses. However, you need to check the email and any attachments for viruses as we can take no responsibility for any computer virus which may be transferred by the email.

US Emails

All emails between staff at Springboard Research Inc and the intended recipient are for use of the recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected the email please notify the author by replying to the email. If you have ​received the email in error you may not copy or use the contents attachments or information in any way and you should delete it immediately. The email has been prepared using information believed by the author to be reliable and accurate but Springboard Research Inc makes no warranty as to accuracy or completeness. In particular Springboard Research Inc does not accept responsibility for changes made to the email after it was sent. Any opinions expressed in the document are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Springboard Research Inc. We make every effort to keep our network free from viruses. However, you need to check the email and any attachments for viruses as we can take no responsibility for any computer virus which may be transferred by the email.

Remarketing
When visitors come to this, third parties (such as AdRoll) may place cookies on their browsers for targeted advertising purposes, using hashed identifiers derived from email addresses for the purposes of cross-device tracking for targeted advertising. This data includes IP addresses, cookie identifiers, and a pixel for tracking and remarketing purposes only. By accepting the cookies on this site, you are accepting the terms stated in Adroll’s privacy policy.

If you wish to opt out from future remarketing via third party (personalised) advertising, please see Adroll’s opt-out article, here.

Online purchases (eCommerce)
Springboard uses a third party (Stripe Inc) to process all payments on the Springboard Website. As a processors of your dataStripe has been audited by a PCI-certified auditor and is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1. (Payment Card Industry Standard) This is the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry. To accomplish this, they make use of best-in-class security tools and practices to maintain a high level of security at Stripe. To read their privacy policy please go to https://stripe.com/privacy-center/legal.

Other Important Privacy Information
Please note that the Springboard site contains links to other websites and that Springboard is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those websites. This Privacy Policy may vary from time to time so please check it regularly. Any significant changes to this policy will be clearly indicated on this site. Regardless of any changes we make to our Privacy Policy statement, we will always use your personal information in accordance with the version of the Privacy Policy in place at the time you provided your information, unless you give your consent for us to do otherwise.

You must provide us with your consent to the collection and use of your personal information for the purposes set out in this statement. If you have any queries about these practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer by email at dpo@spring-board.info.