Trust
Privacy & integrity
We work with sensitive data: who collaborates with whom, who turns to whom for advice. That data deserves the utmost care.
Our approach rests on two pillars: the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (2018) and the GDPR.
What that means in practice
- Confidential by design. Personal data is pseudonymized early; the key is stored separately and securely.
- You decide the level of identifiability. By default we report at the level of patterns and teams. If your organization opts for reporting by name, that only happens transparently and with the knowledge of participants, who are told before they take part.
- Only what is needed. We collect no more data than the research question requires.
- Consent and transparency. Participants know in advance what happens and why; anyone who is named is informed as well.
- Honest about what the data says. We are clear about both the reach and the limits of a network picture.
This care is not a brake on the research but its precondition: only data gathered in confidence yields reliable insights.
For the formal, legal details on how we process personal data, see our privacy policy.