A survey on how you feel about your neighbourhood

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GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF THE SURVEY
This survey aims to gain more insight into how you feel in your neighbourhood. More specifically, we examine which aspects of the neighbourhood are related to well-being and which neighbourhood-level practices can increase the well-being of adults in Flanders.

INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Your personal data will be collected and processed as part of your participation in this survey. This processing will be done in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (AVG/GDPR). The following categories of personal data will be processed during this survey: basic personal data (including age, gender, financial data, physical characteristics, leisure activities, family composition, home characteristics, occupation) and how you view your neighbourhood. Data falling under the heading of ‘special categories’ of personal data (including data about ethnic origin and health) will also be processed.

Use of your personal data
Only personal data necessary for this survey will be collected and processed. Your data will be pseudonymised as part of this survey. This means that data that can identify you such as your name or your contact details will be separated from other survey data and replaced by a unique, random code. Consequently, the data can no longer be directly linked to a specific person. Only the researcher can use the unique code to link the data back to a specific person. However, this will only happen in exceptional cases, for example, if you exercise your right to examine or correct your data. You will also not be identified in any scientific output of this survey, such as publications.

The legal basis for processing your data is the public interest. This means that the survey will lead to an increase in knowledge and insight that will benefit society (directly or indirectly). Stopping participation in the survey means that the previously collected data can still be legally included in the survey and should not be deleted by KU Leuven.

The researchers will store your data for 10 years at a secure storage location of KU Leuven after the conclusion of the survey.

Your rights
You always have the right to ask for more information on the use of your data. You may also exercise the right to examine and the right to correct (rectify) your data insofar as these rights do not render the purposes of the survey impossible or seriously impede it. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact the researchers using the contact details below.

Other recipients of your data
As part of this survey, we are collaborating with Statbel, a recognised fieldwork agency, and the InterMutualist Agency. The survey data will, therefore, be shared with these institutions, which will link specific microdata to your data. They will then pseudonymise that data and provide it to KU Leuven researchers, who will then analyse the pseudonymised data. These institutions are bound by an agreement ensuring the security and protection of your data.

Re-use of your data
There is a possibility that your pseudonymised data may be reused for scientific research by researchers or academic partners collaborating with or receiving data from KU Leuven (including - under certain conditions - a master's or doctoral student).

Being able to make data available is essential for validating research results and advancing scientific knowledge. In the event of the re-use of your data, the necessary contractual arrangements will always be made to protect the personal data and determine the responsibilities and liabilities of the parties in accordance with the relevant legislation.

In the context of re-use, your personal data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area, provided that appropriate measures have been taken to protect your personal data in accordance with the relevant legislation. Notably, such data will, in principle, only be transferred in pseudonymised form, and all parties involved in the research will be obliged to respect the confidentiality of personal data.

Transparent information will be provided about any re-use of your data. This will be done through an announcement on our website (https://eenzaamheidendebuurt.be/team/). Any re-use will always be in accordance with applicable legislation and KU Leuven's policy on the subject. This policy means, among other things, that an independent body will monitor the protection of your personal data and rights.

Please note that your pseudonymised data may also be made available on certain data platforms for further scientific research with strictly secured and controlled access. This may be, for example, for publications of results. The data platform provides an access policy and undertakes to regulate access to data in accordance with the applicable legislation.

Contact details
KU Leuven acts as the data controller for this survey. More specifically, only the researchers associated with the research project of KU Leuven, VUB and Thomas More will have access to your personal data. Should you have specific questions about this survey, including the processing of your personal data, please contact them.

Professor Tine Van Regenmortel: martine.vanregenmortel@kuleuven.be
Jasper De Witte: jasper.dewitte@kuleuven.be
Wouter Schepers: wouter.schepers@kuleuven.be

For further questions and concerns about the processing of your personal data, please contact the KU Leuven Data Protection Officer for Scientific Research (dpo@kuleuven.be). When doing so, please clarify the survey in question by mentioning the title and names of the researchers.

If, after contacting the data protection officer, you would like to submit a complaint about how your information is being handled, please contact the Belgian Data Protection Authority (www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be).