TEXL.org offers a self-populating survey service that is owned by the University of Exeter. The service allows users to use academically evidenced scales that measure multiple different elements of leadership and management. Each survey designer can choose which scales to use, with its prepopulated response categories. Each survey designer then sends out the blank survey to multiple users to fill in their responses. All data is then benchmarked within and across the platform against other responses to those individual scales to help give your areas of improvement for your management style. Individual survey designers can download the anonymous scale response data for their survey. Where individual ethical consent has been sought and given, individual survey designers can access anonymised data matched with pseudo-anonymised demographic data of participants.

If you were sent a survey link to access TEXL then the TEXL Platform will have initially been provided with your personal contact information (name and email address), necessary for onboarding you on to the platform. This information will have been provided by the Survey Owner. The TEXL platform will keep your personal contact information for the purposes of you accessing the survey sent to you. It will also retain this information when you register on the site. For Participants, we will never share your directly identifiable personal data (such as name and email address), except where you request 360 feedback where we will share your name only with those you request feedback from for purposes of authenticity. If you are a Survey Creator, your name only will be shared to Participants for authenticity. We may use your personal data, as is necessary, to administer and protect this website and inform you of any changes or improvements to it (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, system upgrades, support, reporting and hosting of data).

In addition, we would like to collect some demographic data for use within our platform to help us provide people using the platform with anonymous aggregate comparative information to help people with their own leadership skills. Within the platform results will only ever be broken down by demographics where a minimum of 3 people per group have provided data, thus making the data unidentifiable. Providing this data is optional. The more people who are willing to enter their demographic data the better comparisons the platform can offer. The data will not be shared beyond the use on the platform for anonymous comparative purposes except where explicit additional consent has been provided, in which case your data becomes pseudo-anonymous. We will never provide your demographic data together with your name or email address. The demographic questions ask about: Age (year only); Geographical location for main place of work; Seniority of position in work; Industry; Part-time/full time work; Primarily home/office based; Primarily online/ hybrid/ in person working; Highest level of education; Gender; Ethnicity; Known disability; Nationality; Salary; Department/field of work; If studying then field of study; Number of direct reports if working/ number of indirect reports; Organisation size; Date started working in organisation.

This platform has a primary function – As an educational platform/tool.

This platform also has a secondary function – to allow for research to be performed on your data if you have provided necessary ethical consent for this to occur.

Our lawful basis for processing your data is that this will support education and research that is considered in the public interest. Where you supply us your special category (sensitive) data, we rely on the below secondary processing condition:

1. The processing is necessary for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) of the GDPR

Please note, where your consent has been provided to allow your data to be used for research purposes, this is for ethical purposes only and is not the lawful basis for which the University of Exeter and/or the survey creator relies on for processing your data for data protection purposes. This means, whilst you retain rights, these are limited accordingly to allow for these tasks to function (see below)

The University will only share data that may have the potential to identify you with the survey creator if you have provided your ethical consent for us to do this. This also applies where the survey creator is a part of the University of Exeter. The University will never share your directly identifiable personal data (such as your name or email address).

The TEXL platform will hold your personal contact information (name and email address) within the platform for the life of the platform or until you request for your account to be deleted. We will not share this information outside of the platform. Once the account is deleted, all directly identifiable personal data (name, email etc.) will be removed from the platform. However, data entered on scales and any matched demographic data will remain to ensure consistency of services provided on TEXL. Such data will remain anonymous or pseudo-anonymous as per consent for individual research projects – in neither case will your name or email addresses ever be released.

Initial questions on this should be raised with [email protected]

Further information on your rights can be found here.

You can also find details on our Data Protection Officer here should you have any concerns with how TEXL handles your personal data