Our service providers
Other organisations may receive your data when they provide us with services related to the study. Ipsos is the lead independent research organisation (or survey agency) for the study, responsible for leading on the study sampling, recruitment and interviews. Two other independent research organisations – NatCen and Verian – are also doing interviews. All of these organisations follow the rules and Code of Conduct of the Market Research Society, and associated regulations and guidelines. They have lots of experience in carrying out similar studies with children and families.
International email, marketing automation, and customer engagement service providers
In the future, we may use Dot Digital to send you emails about the study. In order to do this, we share your first name, email address and serial number with Dot Digital. Dot Digital will receive your IP address when you visit their site. Your survey responses are never sent to Dot Digital. You can unsubscribe from email newsletters at any time (information on how to do this is provided every time we send this information to you).
We may also use Qualtrics, an online survey platform, to contact you and to ask you to provide feedback about the study. If you complete this form, your details will be shared with Qualtrics.
Providers of ‘administrative’ data
It’s your choice whether we share contact details and personal information with government agencies or agencies acting on their behalf so that we can link data from their records to study data.
The research community via Trusted Research Environments
Study data is made available to the research community from around the world under secure access arrangements. Survey responses linked to administrative data are always securely deposited at UK data sharing repositories called “Trusted Research Environments” (TREs) such as the UCL Data Safe Haven, Secure Lab at the UK Data Service, and UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration. Research data that have been made substantially less detailed are also be released directly to researchers. Research data never includes any names, addresses or other personal details that could directly identify you or your family.
Access to sensitive data or data that could indirectly identify you is managed by the CLS Data Access Committee https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CLS_DAC_Terms_of_Reference.pdf.
Information about how researchers access data from the study, is described on the CLS website at ‘Accessing data directly from CLS’: https://cls.ucl.ac.uk/data-access-training/data-access/accessing-data-directly-from-cls/.
Researchers can apply to CLS Data Access Committee (DAC):
- For CLS to do extra linkages of data from external sources to your survey data.
- For data that has not been deposited at a TRE or which is held in non-digital formats.
- For access to research data deposited in a UK Trusted Research Environment.
Organisations that we communicate our research to
Our surveys sometimes ask you to describe your experiences in your own words. Responses may be quoted in press communications about the research and study data. Other people will not be able to identify you through your responses unless you have agreed to reveal your name.
Public authorities and your stable contacts
In exceptional circumstances, your personal data may be shared securely with public authorities/your stable contacts, if something you tell us indicates that someone is at risk of harm.
Information that we collect from you and other sources, and who we share it with, is summarised in Table 2.