Survey Terms & Conditions

1. The promoter of this Survey is SlashData Ltd (the “Promoter”), a company incorporated in England with number 05614666 whose registered address is at Belmont  House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY2 6LG - United Kingdom. This Survey, its contents and questions, and the methodology are Copyright of SlashData Ltd, all rights reserved.
2. The promoter reserves the right to amend the Terms and Conditions, pertaining to the end and close dates of each survey.
3. The Promoter may pay Entrants to participate in the Surveys. This payment is the incentive ("the Incentive").
4. To the full extent permitted by law, the Promoter will not be liable for any injury, damages, expenses, or loss whatsoever (whether direct or inconsequential) to persons or property as a result of any person accepting or using any Incentive, including without limitation non-receipt of any Incentive or damage to any Incentive in transit.
5. Each entry must be entered in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. By entering the Survey, each Entrant agrees to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. 
6. The Promoter may at its total and absolute discretion refuse to award any incentive to any Entrant who fails to comply with these Terms and Conditions. 
7. The Promoter values genuine and real responses to the Survey and as such will not accept entries that are not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. All relevant instructions on the Promoter’s survey page form part of these Terms and Conditions. Entrants agree that the Promoter may use their entry and any personal, non-identifying details provided to the Promoter for the purposes of creating research reports, website articles and other research products and that the Promoter retains the right to distribute, share and use their entry and response to this Survey in a non-identifying fashion.

Survey

1. The Survey opens on 30th December 2025 and is set to close on 15th January 2025 (“Survey Period”). Final dates are liable to change without notice.
2. Entry for the Survey is subject to the entrant satisfactorily completing the survey and may include providing a valid email address (the “Entrant”). In order for an entrant to be eligible for the incentive reward, the entrant should first register to take the Survey using a valid email address. In order for the Promoter to analyse and process the results of the Survey, further details, such as the IP address of the Entrant will be collected. However, such IP addresses will not be used otherwise, nor will it be distributed to third parties.
3. Any entry received after the closing date will be deemed invalid. No responsibility is accepted for late, lost, delayed or misdirected entries. The Promoter reserves the right to extend or reduce the Survey Period, at any time during the survey.
4. Individual emails will be sent by the Promoter’s Incentive partner; Tremendous to satisfactorily Entrants giving them 5 working days to claim their incentive.
5. Employees or family members of employees of the Promoter or any person directly or indirectly involved in the organisation are not eligible for an incentive.
6. The Promoter will check and remove, at its own undisputable discretion, responses from Entrants who the Promoter believes are not involved in software development areas without providing notice. Only persons who are involved in software development are eligible to enter as described in the Terms and Conditions.
7. Respondents who are frequently removed from our Surveys may be banned from participating in future Surveys.
8. Please note that it is not always possible for the Promoter to provide Incentives to individuals who are located outside of the European Union or the UK. In these instances, the Promoter will provide a substitute to the Incentive (or an element of the Incentive) for a Incentive of equal value. The Promoter is not responsible for Customs, Tax charges or any other costs that may arise in order for the individual to take receipt of the Incentive. 
9. The Promoter will never charge an Entrant any fee for the value of the Incentive, nor will it demand from the Winner any payment against the value of such Incentive.
10. Although the Promoter will normally cover the Incentive delivery expenses at the Entrant's address, there might be rare occasions where the Entrant may be requested by local authorities to pay local delivery costs. Such costs are not related with the Incentive nor do constitute a fee or income for the Promoter in any way whatsoever. The Promoter is not responsible for those fees or costs.
11. Each Incentive must be taken as stated and no compensation will be payable if a winner is unable to use the Incentive as stated. 
12. The Promoter is not responsible for the failure to deliver a gift card due to any circumstances outside of our control (for example, if someone other than the Entrant accesses the email account of that individual).
13. In no event shall Promoter be liable to any Entrant in connection with this Survey and/or any Incentive related to it for any special, consequential, incidental, punitive or special damages, reliance, or other indirect damages, including any loss of revenue, profits, or information provided by the Entrant by entering the Survey and/or any Incentive related to it.
14. The Promoter shall act in compliance with legislation pertaining to personal data protection, particularly with the Data Protection Act 2018. By entering this Survey, Entrant agrees and acknowledges that if any personal data is provided to the Promoter of the Survey by the Entrant personally, such entrance enables the Promoter to process it for the purposes and in connection to the Entrant’s participation in the Survey as well as with the research and results of it. Security measures are in place to ensure that Entrants’ details are not accessible to any unauthorised company or individual.

The Promoter may need to disclose some personal data such as the Entrant’s email address to its Incentive providers for the purpose of delivering the Incentive. 

By entering the Survey, Entrants verify that:

1. They agree to be contacted by the Promoter in the future by email about current Surveys, becoming a Developer Nation Panelist and Incentives related to them.
2. Entrants’s IP address will be used for the analysis of the results of the Survey and the research based on such results. 
3. They agree to their contact information being stored in the Promoter’s database after the end of the Survey, in order to be used for future Surveys.  

All disputes arising between Entrants on the one hand and the Promoter and/or any of its directors, officers, or employees on the other from or in connection with this Terms and Conditions, the Survey that they are related to, the Incentive Draws and the delivery of Incentives, shall be settled by the Courts of London UK, by application of the English laws. 

Developer Nation Community 

1. Entrants to our Surveys may agree to become a member of the Developer Nation Community by checking the relevant option in the Sign-up registration pop up, as well as by visiting the Developer Nation Community website https://www.developernation.net/signup
2. Members will have a chance to be part of our exclusive research panel program (“Panelists”).
3. Members of the Developer Nation Community (“Members”) and Panelists may choose to unsubscribe from the Developer Nation Community by contacting SlashData Ltd through the email: community@developernation.net. 
4. If subscribers of the Developer Nation Newsletter choose to unsubscribe from the Newsletter at any point, they have the option to do so within the email campaigns they may receive or through their notification settings on the profile here.
5. Members are identified by the email address they provided during the first time they registered to the Developer Nation Community. Members and Panelists should sign-up to any survey using the same email address. The Promoter is not responsible for Members and Panelists who have taken multiple surveys using different email addresses. If members and Panelists choose to change their email subscription they have the option to do so within the email campaigns they may receive or through the “Communication Preferences” settings on their profile here.

Handling Developer Nation Community Members personal data 

1. By registering their email address, Members and Panelists agree to occasionally being contacted by SlashData & the Developer Nation Community for updates regarding Incentive;
2. By joining the Developer Nation Community or Panel Program, Members and Panelists agree that the Promoter may contact them again regarding this Survey and future potential surveys on topics related to software development. Under no circumstances will SlashData contact the Members requiring them to pay any amount, fee or other cost in relation to any Survey or Incentive Draw. 
3. It is acknowledged that the Promoter will process Members’ and Panelists’ personal data for the purposes and in connection to the Member’s and Panelists participation in the Survey, the research and results of it as well as the points earned by the Members and Panelists  for the Surveys they participate in, regardless of the Member’s and Panelist’s choice to receive marketing emails.
4. Members and Panelists  agree that the Promoter may use their entry and any personal, non-identifying details provided to the Promoter for the purposes of creating research reports, website articles and other research products and that the Promoter retains the right to distribute, share and use their entry and response to this Survey in a non-identifying fashion. 
5. All data provided by the Members and Panelists to the Promoter will be anonymised (removing any identifying information) before distribution to any other third party, except for the purposes of providing Incentives through third-party sponsors. 
6. Members and Panelists may save their Survey participation at any point in the Survey and may return to complete the Survey at any time whilst the survey is live, given that they’ve provided a valid email address. 

• It is the 3rd party Community manager’s responsibility to contact the winner for any permission needed in additional communications related to the Survey and the specific Partner/Community Incentive Draw. 
• No communication entailing all or part of Winner’s details is allowed without his/her prior consent.