Statement on data protection and the confidentiality of your responses
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the German Federal Employment Agency’s research institute, is conducting an online survey about its German and English online offering in order to tailor it even more closely to your needs and requirements.
Your participation in the survey is voluntary and your responses will remain anonymous. You can stop participating in the survey at any time until you submit your survey responses (survey data) on the last page. Any data entered prior to this will be deleted without further processing. You can also leave individual questions unanswered.
For the anonymous online survey, all visitors to the IAB website will be able to click on a link on the homepage (survey button) that will take them to the survey website. When this link is clicked, no personal data is passed on or stored. It will not be possible to obtain any identifying personal information about the participants. For technical reasons, each participant’s IP address will be logged on the servers of LimeSurvey, the online survey platform. However, it will not be linked to survey data. The IAB cannot see the IP addresses.
A small amount of statistical data will be requested from you in order to help us to categorise the results. This data will be only be evaluated in aggregated form in relation to groups to which you can be assigned, for example on the basis of your age group or occupation. As no personal contact information is collected during the survey, it will not be possible to identify you. Furthermore, nobody will be able to use the results to find out who participated in the survey or what the answers of the individual respondents were.
In text fields, please do not enter any personal data or any data that could be linked to you, and please do not write anything offensive, illegal or unethical. To exclude any personal identifying information in text fields as far as possible, an automated search and random checks for key terms will be carried out so that any such information can be anonymised and/or deleted by the IAB.
The anonymised data collected in the online survey will be stored until the end of the survey on the server of the service provider engaged by the IAB and mentioned in the introduction, Rhenus :people! Solingen GmbH/TEMA Marketing-Service. No data will be passed on to third parties. The survey results will be used solely to improve the IAB’s internet presence.
What will happen to your responses?
- An internet browser with an encrypted connection will be used for the survey.
- You enter your responses by inputting the relevant information on your computer or mobile device.
- During the online survey, your responses will be anonymised and saved automatically. Personal contact information (email address, home address) will not be collected. No host names or IP addresses will be captured and stored in the survey results. No information about your device or your location will be captured.
- While taking the survey, you can navigate back and forth between the questions.
- Afterwards, all questionnaires will be evaluated by the service provider engaged by the IAB, Rhenus :people! Solingen GmbH/TEMA Marketing-Service.
- The survey will not be evaluated on a person-specific basis. It will not be possible to match the responses to individual participants.
- Information entered in text fields will be analysed and grouped into categories; these results will not contain any personal data either.
- All responses will be deleted once they have been evaluated.
If you have any queries, please contact the IAB’s Media and Communication service department: IAB.MK@iab.de.
We would like to thank you for taking part and for your trust in our work.