Deletion Protocol of response management data following the rules of EU GDPR (DSGVO)

Another deletion idea concerns the invitation part.  It is now possible to delete all response management data with only one click (and another security click) from questfox.

We are supporters of the highest standards in data security possible in research.  We do not only try to follow the rules. We try hard to make them applicable in a reasonable setting for the researcher. As you are the responsible person to follow the EU standards of deletion we offer this new function to all users to make the process transparent.

In questfox it is possible to keep personal information for invitation purpose is completely apart from response data.  questfox allows you to keep E-Mail invitations together with additional information inside the “INVITE” section. This information is solely used for the invitation process including potential reminders and memos sent to the respondents. The data kept under “INVITE” can not be exported, as it should never be linked to any kind of response data given by the participants.

During the response management process, questfox separates not yet invited people from already successful participants and keeps some of the dropouts in an extra structure to be able to remind them in a different way. Until now it has been the a little difficult to delete all the different response data inside one questfox project. These days are over now.

Owners of the rights to enter INVITE can use this function to delete all invitation data at once.

The data given during the interviews is NOT affected by this procedure. You just delete all the email addresses and links created for this project. Following your data security rules you should apply this function in a defined time frame (e.g. 30 days after the last interview conducted).

The person starting the deletion process will receive an email with the following information.

The response management data for the following project was permanently deleted from the questfox server. This is the deletion protocol for the operation inside of questfox.

• Project Space: Your Project Space
• Project Name: Name of YOUR Project
• Deletation Date: Montag, 21. Januar 2019 07:28
• Amount of Invitation Data Sets deleted from questfox: 4235
• Deleted by: Administrator

With the reception of this e-mail no personal information is kept inside the tool. Do not reply to this e-mail.

Some organizations require to save the deletion protocol in a different environment. You can integrate the email address of an official under CREATE Project Settings. Once there is an email address this account also receives a copy of the deletion protocol sent by email.

Hoping that this function makes your research life easier and the legal aspect of your research is fully covered when using questfox.

questfox feature alert: New deletion functions for pages

Normally we happily announce new features creating fantastic things. This announcement is a little different as it only announces new deletion functions inside of questfox.

Users will be happy to have these new functions facilitating the way you can create projects together with the “copy function” and “copy project as template” functions it makes sense to quickly delete selected questions from a list of question pages.

Select the page you wish to delete and press “DELETE”. After a few seconds your selected pages will vanish from the list as they are gone forever.

Please use this function with maximum care as there is no way of turning this procedure back. Once delete the questions are gone. We hope, that you enjoy that function anyhow. The deletion of selected questlogix will follow soon.

In case of a 404 – qfx Domain quick fix

The modern internet requires SSL certificates on different kinds of domains and pages. Trying to provide secure access to questfox we had some work to do to fix the difference between a website and an operative domain for the software service questfox. We hopefully fixed all the domain issues. In case you may still find a 404 error pointing to the wrong page please be so kind to add the prefix “qfx” in front of the link.

For example instead of
https://questfox.com/quotaManagementStatistics.aspx
integrate qfx into the link like this
https://qfx.questfox.com/quotaManagementStatistics.aspx

This will probably bring you right away to the page you are looking for.

Domain trouble solved

The domains are working again.

This message is no longer needed

We are moving domains and apparently it does not go as fast as promised. Even though we selected sunday night for these works, it is not yet through all the internet.

If you have trouble login into questfox, please try the following link, which will definitively work. We keep you informed when the classic links will work again

https://qfx.questfox.com/admin

Anything that you are about to create here will also work after the change of urls.

By the way: The interviews are not affected at all. It is just a temporary issue for those who create surveys.

#EU DSGVO Imprint and Data Privacy statement texts in questfox

The european law about data security is put in practice since the 25th of May 2018.

As we are offering a tool to save data we also have to prepare ourselves to the conformity of our approach with the hight european standards. As a swiss born company we take this issue very serious.

To help our clients and users to think about data security issues we will develop little helpers to make it easier for you to be legally on the right path.

The first thing we now implemented is a text file in which you can administrate the imprint apart from a privacy statement in which the user can inform the participants about the usage of the data.

Under Edit branding you can define the two seperated texts to be used underneath

In the two HTML Text boxes you can define both IMPRINT and DATA SECURITY POLICY.

In a survey those defined texts will pop-up on the right side of the screen underneath your survey with the names defined in the Edit branding section.

To formulate your individual text, please ask your lawyer or someone who is responsible in your organization. All we can do is help you create surveys under the high european standards.

EU-DSGVO / GDPR & questfox: Important Notice

Datenschutz – questfox is ready for EU-DSGVO / GDPR

EU-DSGVO / GDPR & questfox

Am 25. Mai 2018 müssen nach einer zweijährigen Übergangsfrist die Vorgaben der EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) umgesetzt sein. Die DSGVO wird nicht nur für europäische Unternehmen gelten, sondern auch für viele Unternehmen außerhalb Europas.

Die DSGVO führt hierbei zu deutlich erhöhten Compliance-Anforderungen an Unternehmen. Der Einsatz von Auftragsverarbeitern (Stellen, die personenbezogene Daten im Auftrag des Unternehmens entsprechend dessen Anweisungen verarbeiten) erfordert zwingend den Abschluss von Datenverarbeitungsverträgen.

pangea labs nimmt Datenschutz immer sehr ernst. Die Datenschutzgrundverordnung sehen wir als europäischer Anbieter als große Chance. Wir sind zwar gestresst von den Umsetzungen der Anforderungen, sind aber davon überzeugt, dass es langfristig zu einem Wettbewerbsvorteil führt, wenn die Anforderungen korrekt umgesetzt sind. Die Zeiten der wilden Datensammlung gehen damit zu Ende und wir freuen uns auf Marktforschung im Zeitalter des Schutzes des Individuums.  Wir freuen uns, dass wir so unseren Kunden auch zukünftig die rechtskonforme Durchführung ihrer Forschungsprojekte ermöglichen können.

Die Regelungen der DSGVO haben wir uns sehr zu Herzen genommen und einige Dinge für die Verwendung von questfox geändert. Wir gehen damit teilweise über die Forderungen der DSGVO hinaus, denn wir wollen das Individuum vor dem Zugriff Dritter schützen. Read the rest of this entry »

Text2Click: .NET Framework Regular Expressions available in questfox questlogix

We are on our way to construct a fully automated speech interview. We are no yet there, but moving into that direction step by step.

A small but important milestone is the usage of the .net regular expressions language in online interviews on-the-fly. This feature is integrated into the powerful questlogix feature set in which a user can now integrate a logix on versions of written text.

In the condition settings in questlogix there is a new Operator Logic “contains the following text” which you can select or you can select “contains the following text with regular expression”.

You can then specify a specific word or sentence or even misspelled content (like in the example where adsidas is supposed to mean adidas).

If the condition is fulfilled, any of the available functions in questfox can be launched. You could open a different page, launch a calculation or send an email.

In the example, a misspelled brand will automatically be corrected an marked in a list of brands by launching a calculation. This is a Text2Click feature which helps you to correct open answers

The integration of the more powerful functions in this process using .net regular expressions language, allowing much easier comparisons of complex expressions.

The Microsoft.net Regular Expression Language Quick Reference can be found here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/regular-expression-language-quick-reference

You can now apply those settings inside of questfox.