GDPR Contact Form
<span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>PRIVACY AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY</strong></span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Introduction</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>We, Bolt Insight Limited (“Bolt”), hereby inform you that we collect and process personal data in full compliance with the Regulation EU2016/679- General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 and other relevant UK legislations (“UK GDPR”).</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>Bolt Insight Limited is a data controller within the meaning of the UK GDPR and we process personal data. Where we act as a data processor on behalf of a data controller, we provide an additional schedule setting out required information as part of that agreement. That additional schedule should be read in conjunction with this Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy (“Privacy Policy”). We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do so, we will supply you with and/or otherwise make available to you a copy of the amended Privacy Policy.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>Bolt’s contact details are as follows;</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>E-mail: </strong>[email protected]</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Address:</strong> C/O Ida & Co, Building 3 Chiswick Business Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, W4 5YA London, United Kingdom</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Web Site:</strong> www.boltinsight.com</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>What does Bolt do?</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>Bolt runs various market research projects for global brands across industries. We create online surveys to collect authentic responses from consumers that fit the criteria provided to us by brands. We design customized questionnaires to ask for your feedback and opinions on different topics, such as new product ideas, personal preferences and shopping behaviour.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>Bolt may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data or information, which may be filtered or grouped into identity, contact, transaction, and technical data sets. We use this data to serve our legitimate business purpose, given your consent to participate and provide your personal information.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>We offer innovative solutions to analyse data and provide meaningful insights to share with our clients, to efficiently help optimize business operations, product development, and decision-making.</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>What kinds of information do we collect from you?</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”><u>If you engage with a brand that uses our Services (“<strong>Client</strong>”), we may collect;</u></span>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Identity:</strong>Age, gender, location (country, city) and demographics (employment, education, income, number of children and marital status),</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Contact:</strong> E-mail address,</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Technical:</strong>Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and operating system on the devices you use to access our web site,</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Profile:</strong> Your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses,</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Usage:</strong> Information about how you use our web site, products and services,</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Biometric Data: </strong>Raw voice recording during the survey, if you choose to reply by voice (Not used for idenfication purposes)</span></li>
</ul>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>We also collect, use and share <strong>Aggregated Data</strong> such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does <strong>not</strong> directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific web site feature. </span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”><u>If you visit our web site, we may also collect;</u></span>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Identity:</strong> Name, company name, title (only if you fill contact form),</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Technical:</strong>Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and operating system on the devices you use to access our web site,</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Usage:</strong> Information about how you use our website, products and services,</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Marketing:</strong>Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>How does Bolt collect information from you?</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Direct Interactions</strong>: People fill in our research surveys, forms on our website and correspond with us by email or choose to answer our research survey questions by voice. This includes personal data that people provide when they:</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Answer questions in our research surveys</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>participate in gift card draws at end of surveys;</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>request demo of products or services;</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>apply for a job position with us;</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>subscribe to our publications or newsletter; or</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>give us some feedback.</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Automated technologies or interactions:</strong> As people interact with our websites, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>Third parties:</strong> We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:</span>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Technical Data from the following parties: analytics providers such as Google based in Ireland and Hotjar based in Malta.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>What about Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chat Bot?</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>We use AI Chat Bot services in some of our surveys.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>When you participate in AI Chat Bot surveys, the AI Bot asks you questions instead of the real person in the opened chat.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>The data created with the answers given to these questions is deidentified and/or aggregated.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>In these surveys, no data relating to an identified or identifiable natural person is collected or stored.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>All questions asked by the Bot are prepared by Bolt and/or Client, or created by the Bot and are filtered according to content.</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Does Bolt use cookies?</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>Yes, in our surveys and web site;</span>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Technical cookies: Enable core functionality such as survey sessions, website visit sessions, security and verification of identity</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Marketing cookies: To store communication preferences.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>How does Bolt use the information it collects about you?</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To optimize our website and surveys’ user experience, visual designs and content for better engagement and higher conversion.</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To contact you about other surveys we provide which may be relevant to you if you have consented to us doing</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To provide you with the marketing information you requested or respond to any sales enquiries you may have made.</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To send you your gift card if you have earned it at end of a survey</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Screen out people from our surveys, who don’t fit the target audience criteria set out by our clients</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Analyse survey responses, segment survey responses into different profile groups to generate insights and share them with our clients</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>(About raw voice recording) To provide convenience for survey respondents by offering voice response options and to enrich the data in reports</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To do quality checks in our surveys: prevent repeated survey completion, disqualify people who are speeding etc.</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To enable us to supply professional services to our</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To process job application, you have made.</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To enable us to invoice you for our services and investigate/address any attendant fee disputes that may have arisen</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>The processing is necessary for the performance of our contract with any 3<sup>rd</sup></span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To use in the investigation and/or defense of potential complaints, disciplinary proceedings and legal</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>To fulfil our obligations under relevant laws in force from time to time.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Persons / Organisations to whom we may give personal data</span></h2>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>For Respondents</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>We may share your personal data with:</span>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Our Clients</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Our Employees</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Our Subcontractors</span></li>
</ul>
<span style=”color: #000000;”><u>For Employees</u></span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>We may share your personal data with:</span>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Our Clients</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Our Suppliers</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Our Other Employees</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Our Shareholders</span></li>
</ul>
<span style=”color: #000000;”><u>For Suppliers and Subcontractors</u></span>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Our Employees</span></li>
</ul>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>If you ask us not to share your personal data with such third parties we may need to cease to act.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>If the law allows or requires us to do so, we may share your personal data with:</span>
<ul>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>The Police and Law Enforcement Agencies</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Courts and Tribunals</span></li>
<li><span style=”color: #000000;”>Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”)</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Requesting Personal Data we hold about you (Subject Access Requests)</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>You have a right to request access to your personal data that we hold. Such requests are known as “Subject Access Requests” (“SARs”). Please provide all SARs in writing marked for the attention of Data Protection Officer, Bolt Insight Limited. To help us provide the information you want and deal with your request more quickly, you should include enough details to enable us to verify your identity and locate the relevant information.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>DPA 2018 requires that we comply with a SAR promptly and in any event within one month of receipt. There are, however, some circumstances in which the law allows us to refuse to provide access to personal data in response to a SAR (e.g. if you have previously made a similar request and there has been little or no change to the data since we complied with the original request). We will not charge you for dealing with a SAR.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>You can ask someone else to request information on your behalf – for example, a friend, relative or solicitor. We must have your authority to respond to a SAR made on your behalf. You can provide such authority by signing a letter which states that you authorize the person concerned to write to us for information about you, and/or receive our reply.</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Putting things right (Right to Rectification)</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>You have a right to obtain the rectification of any inaccurate personal data concerning you that we hold. You also have a right to have any incomplete personal data that we hold about you completed.</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Deleting your records (Right to Erasure)</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>In certain circumstances you have a right to have the personal data that we hold about you erased. In certain circumstances we have the right to refuse to comply with a request for erasure. If applicable, we will supply you with the reasons for refusing your request.</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>The Right to Restrict Processing and the Right to Object</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>In certain circumstances you have the right to block or suppress the processing of personal data or to object to the processing of that information. If you want us to cease to process your information or you object to processing so that we can consider what action, if any, is appropriate.</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Withdrawal of Consent</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>Where you have consented to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Automated decision-making</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>We do not intend to use automated decision-making in relation to your personal data.</span>
<h2><span style=”color: #000000;”>Requests and Complaints</span></h2>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>In accordance with the applicable regulations, you have the right to access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data as we explained above. And also, if you are not happy with our response or you think we have not complied with the UK GDPR in some other way, you can complain to us.</span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>Please send your requests and your complaints to <strong>[email protected]</strong>. You can submit by filling this <strong><u>Complaint Form.</u></strong></span>
<span style=”color: #000000;”>Further information is available on the ICO web site (www.ico.org.uk).</span>