Introduction to Panelabs Privacy Policy

Panelabs.com is committed to full transparency in the processing of its users' personal information and to full protection of their privacy.

Our Privacy Policy, which is available on all our panel websites and online questionnaires, is intended to present to all of our users – members of our online panel (panellists) and non-member users – all the data we collect about them from these websites and questionnaires in accordance with the EU regulation 2016/679, "General Data Protection Regulation" (GDPR) of April 27th, 2016.

What is personal data?

Current regulations specify that personal data (PII, or "personally identifiable information") is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. In other words, a piece of data – whatever its nature – becomes a PII when a link can be made between this data and an individual (identified or identifiable).

There are two types of PII:

• Information that identifies an individual either directly (e.g. name and surname) or indirectly (e.g. website username); this information is considered "nominative";
• All other information qthat is not "nominative" and does not allow an individual to be identified, but is associated with "nominative" information enabling identification (e.g.: a comment that a user leaves on a site is not PII of that particular person but becomes so when the user is registered along with his username in a database; the latter frequently associating the comment with the user's email address, or first and last name).

There are many "nominative" details allowing an individual to be identified. Other than first and last name, the main PII are website usernames, email addresses, phone numbers or IP addresses. Sometimes, it may be a combination of several pieces of information that makes them "nominative" and hence permit identification, as for example date of birth (DD/MM/YYYY) combined with post code of residence.

Moreover, data collected from professionals (e.g. customers, prospects, suppliers, partners, etc.) are also considered PII for the purposes of GDPR if they relate to a physical person (an individual) and not to a legal person (a company).

In summary, only information that is completely anonymized and cannot be linked to an identified or identifiable individual – even indirectly from a username – cannot be considered PII.

What do we collect?

Cookies

A cookie is a text file temporarily placed in the memory of your Internet browser. Cookies cannot run programs or introduce viruses into your computer or phone. They are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that deposited them.

www.panelabs.comuses only a technical cookie (PHPSESSID) and third-party audience measurement cookies (Google Analytics) needed for its operation, and do not require your consent.

Technical cookie:

Cookie owner	Purpose of the cookie	Consent prior to depositing the cookie
Panelabs (PHPSESSID)	Functional: optimize your browsing the Panelabs website by retaining your information and preferences from one page to another.	Not requested: technical cookies do not require consent. The PHPSESSID cookie is kept only for the duration of your browsing the site (retention period: session).

Cookie owner	Purpose of the cookie
Panelabs (PHPSESSID)	Functional: optimize your browsing the Panelabs website by retaining your information and preferences from one page to another.

Cookie owner	Consent prior to depositing the cookie
Panelabs (PHPSESSID)	Functional: optimize your browsing the Panelabs website by retaining your information and preferences from one page to another.	Not requested: technical cookies do not require consent. The PHPSESSID cookie is kept only for the duration of your browsing the site (retention period: session).

Traffic measurement cookies:

Cookie owner	Purpose of the cookie	Consent prior to depositing the cookie
Google Analytics (_ga, _gat, _gid)	Audience measurement: generate statistics related to your browsing the Panelabs website which will be analysed to understand and improve your site usage.	Not requested: audience measurement cookies are allowed on this site by default because they are configured to collect data anonymouslyb> with a lifespan of 13 months: : https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-on-the-use-of-cookies-and-similar-technologies/ As a reminder, you can block these cookies technically by means of your browser settings.
Google Tag Manager (_gtm) and UTM parameters (_utm)	Audience measurement: generate statistics related to your browsing the Panelabs website once you will arrive on the website after clicking on a communication campaign link (example: via LinkedIn). UTM parameters (Urchin Tracking Module) are linked to the audience measurement cookies and allow to monitor closely the traffic generated from communication campaigns. Using Google Tag Manager to manage this specific type of cookies allow the Panelabs website to simplify and centralise the communication campaigns management via other websites (example: via LinkedIn).	Necessary: while communication campaigns are ongoing via other websites (ex: via LinkedIn), a banner will automatically display once you will arrive on the Panelabs website (at the bottom of the page), with the possibility of: • Enable all cookies • Block all cookies • Enable / block some cookies Cookies generated from Google Tag Manager will be enabled only after you accepted them.

Cookie owner	Purpose of the cookie
Google Analytics (_ga, _gat, _gid)	Audience measurement: générer des statistiques liées à votre navigation sur le site Panelabs.com qui seront ensuite analysées en vue de comprendre puis d’améliorer votre utilisation du site.
Google Tag Manager (_gtm) and UTM parameters (_utm)	Audience measurement: generate statistics related to your browsing the Panelabs website once you will arrive on the website after clicking on a communication campaign link (example: via LinkedIn). UTM parameters (Urchin Tracking Module) are linked to the audience measurement cookies and allow to monitor closely the traffic generated from communication campaigns. Using Google Tag Manager to manage this specific type of cookies allow the Panelabs website to simplify and centralise the communication campaigns management via other websites (example: via LinkedIn).

Cookie owner	Consent prior to depositing the cookie
Google Analytics (_ga, _gat, _gid)	Not requested: audience measurement cookies are allowed on this site by default because they are configured to collect data anonymouslyb> with a lifespan of 13 months: : https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-on-the-use-of-cookies-and-similar-technologies/ As a reminder, you can block these cookies technically by means of your browser settings.
Google Tag Manager (_gtm) and UTM parameters (_utm)	Necessary: while communication campaigns are ongoing via other websites (ex: via LinkedIn), a banner will automatically display once you will arrive on the Panelabs website (at the bottom of the page), with the possibility of: • Enable all cookies • Block all cookies • Enable / block some cookies Cookies generated from Google Tag Manager will be enabled only after you accepted them.

Collected information from formulaires

When you are using the www.panelabs.com website, you will be likely to provide us personal information from our contact form:

Collected information	Information purposes	Information receiver	Withdrawal of consent / Removal of information
Full name University, school, laboratory	Identify yourself Personnalise our exchanges (emails and phone calls)	Panelabs.com (MIS GROUP)	Sending an email to the Data Protection Officer of MIS Group (cf. below)
Email address Phone number	Replying to you by email or to calling by phone to provide you the requested information
Message	Request for information, request for quote etc.

Collected information	Information purposes
Full name University, school, laboratory	Identify yourself no Personnalise our exchanges (emails and phone calls)
Email address Phone number	Replying to you by email or to calling by phone to provide you the requested information
Message	Request for information, request for quote etc.

Collected information	Information receiver
Full name University, school, laboratory	Panelabs.com (MIS GROUP)
Email address Phone number
Message

Collected information	Withdrawal of consent / Removal of information
Full name University, school, laboratory	Sending an email to the Data Protection Officer of MIS Group (cf. below)
Email address Phone number
Message

How to access our Privacy Policy?

Our Privacy Policy can be found on all our panel websites and online questionnaires. In it, we explain in detail to our users how their personal data is collected on these sites, and why we collect them. We also explain the security measures we use to ensure that their data is kept in a way that protects their privacy.

For a quick read of our main rules on how we use personal information, please read this excerpt from our Privacy Policy. In the excerpt, the term "our site" refers to the site which belongs to us, which you use and by means of which you may pass your PII to us. It could either be one of our panel websites or our "madeinsurveys.com" website on which all of our online questionnaires are hosted (survey and recruitment questionnaires).

Alternatively, you could read the full version of our Privacy Policy on one of our panel websites such as on our "panelopinion.co.uk" website here.

How are you affected by our Privacy Policy?

Our Privacy Policy, available on all our panel websites and online questionnaires, applies to you when you send us personal data via one of our panel websites and/or online questionnaires, whether you are a member of our online panel (panelist) or a non-member user.

If however your use of our services is limited to our site "Misgroup.io", then simply reading our Legal Notice ("Personal Data" and "Cookies" sections) will be enough to inform you of the rules of use related to collecting your personal information on this site.

Questions about our Privacy Policy?

If you have any questions about our privacy policy to which you cannot find answers in the full version, please contact our Data Protection Officer directly by email at dpo@misgroup.io.

Date of last revision of our Privacy Policy: May 16, 2018