This policy explains how Machinery Insights collects and uses personal data through its website, research subscription forms and survey report requests.
Machinery Insights is an independent research initiative based in Barcelona, Spain. For privacy enquiries, access requests or withdrawal of consent, contact research@machineryinsights.org.
Depending on how you use the site, we may process the following categories of data:
We process personal data for the following purposes:
The legal basis for newsletter and survey-summary emails is your consent. The legal basis for technical operation, security, abuse prevention and suppression management is Machinery Insights’ legitimate interest in running the service responsibly and documenting withdrawals of consent.
Survey responses are analysed and published in aggregate. Where a respondent provides an email address to receive a published report, that contact data is stored separately from the survey answers and is not used to identify individual responses in published output.
Personal data is not sold. It may be processed by service providers acting on behalf of Machinery Insights for hosting, infrastructure security, database operation and email delivery. At the time of publication, email delivery is handled through Amazon Web Services.
Newsletter subscription data and survey-report contact data are kept until you unsubscribe, withdraw consent, request erasure, or until Machinery Insights determines the address is no longer active or relevant for the stated purpose. Suppression records may be kept for longer where necessary to ensure that future mail is not sent after an opt-out, complaint or delivery failure.
If a service provider processes data outside the European Economic Area, Machinery Insights will rely on an appropriate legal transfer mechanism where required, such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses or another recognised safeguard.
You may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability or objection where applicable. You may also withdraw consent at any time.
This policy may be updated as the site, its infrastructure or its legal structure evolves. The latest version published on this page is the one currently in force.