Air Quality Sensors and Data: Citizen Feedback Survey

This takes 3–4 minutes. There are no right or wrong answers — we want your view.

Privacy information — who is collecting this, and what happens to it

Who is collecting this

University of Galway, acting as data controller. Contact liz.coleman@universityofgalway.ie.

Why

To understand public views on air quality monitoring and dashboard data, and to shape future monitoring and reporting.

Legal basis

Consent, under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Taking part is voluntary.

What we collect

Only the answers below. Anonymous by default: no name, address or date of birth. Location is county-level only. Email is requested only if you opt in, and is stored separately from your answers.

What we don't collect

Health data, ethnicity, political opinions or other special category data.

Who sees it

The project team only. Findings are published in aggregated form; no individual response is identifiable. Anonymised aggregates may be shared with project partners and public authorities.

How long

24 months after the project ends, then securely deleted. Contact emails are deleted once results are circulated.

Your rights

Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, and withdrawal of consent at any time without giving a reason. Note that once a response is fully anonymised and merged into the dataset it may no longer be identifiable for removal.

Complaints

Data Protection Commission (Ireland), www.dataprotection.ie — or the Information Commissioner's Office if you are based in Northern Ireland.

Before you start

1. Where are you answering from?

This helps us compare views between areas. We only need a general location.

What kind of area do you live in?

2. How would you describe the air quality where you live?

Air quality where you live
Which of these do you think affect the air in your area? (tick all that apply)

3. How useful do you find the air quality dashboard?

If you haven't used it before, choose the last option.

How useful the dashboard is
What would make the information more useful to you? (choose up to 3)

Choose up to 3

4. How much do you trust the readings from local low-cost sensors?

How much you trust local sensor readings

5. Would you take part in air quality monitoring yourself? (tick all that apply)

Ways you might take part
Do you agree that sensor readings from your area should be published openly for anyone to see?

Anything else?

Please don't include names, addresses or other personal details.

1000 characters remaining

Would you like the results?

The button becomes available once you have ticked both boxes at the top.