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A drag-and-drop editor with 50+ question types, conditional questions, page jumps, scoring and calculations, 415+ browsable templates and theming with my own fonts, logo, colours and custom CSS is a serious authoring environment, and consent forms with electronic signatures are explicitly named as a use case. But we found no public information on randomisation of items, surveys translated from one master, or a stated accessibility standard — the three things my board asks about first. 1 3 8 9 10

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Public links, embedding, email and QR codes, file uploads, payments with amounts driven by form calculations, signatures, and webhooks plus a REST API included even in the free plan cover most study logistics, with follow-up emails, approvals and AI routing after each submission described. We found no public information on managed invitation lists with reminders and unique links, response quotas or closing rules, which panel work normally needs. 2 3 10 12

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Responses can be viewed, filtered, charted and exported as a per-form CSV, with NPS, ratings, scoring and AI steps that summarise, tag and score submissions. We found no public information on cross-tabulation, significance testing, shareable reports, or exports to SPSS or R with labels intact — without those, my dataset goes into another package entirely by hand. 1 3 4 10

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A standard DPA incorporating the EU Standard Contractual Clauses is available to any plan, deletion of forms, single responses or the account completes within 45 days including backups, an EU privacy representative is named, AES-256 encryption with SOC 2 Type 2 is stated, and electronic signatures on consent forms are offered. We found no public information on an anonymous mode that drops IP addresses, automatic retention schedules, field-level masking, or a named data protection officer — so I would be building the anonymity argument myself. 3 4 6 7 10

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EU-based hosting of respondent data is available on the Team plan and above via a support request, granular permissions and access controls come with Team and Enterprise, Okta/Active Directory/SAML single sign-on is offered, custom domains are built in and white-label emails arrive with Pro, while CSV export and a REST API exist and the privacy policy sketches an optional self-hosted agent. We found no public information on an audit log or a fully self-hostable edition, and the default region is the United States. 3 4 6 7 10

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The platform is operated by Restly, Inc., a Delaware corporation, personal data is stored in the United States by default and EU storage applies only to respondent data when requested on a paid plan; the published subprocessor list shows the rest of the chain — email through Postmark, payments through Stripe, SSO through WorkOS — in the US even for EU-hosted submissions. The DPA with SCCs, the EU privacy representative and SOC 2 Type 2 are real counterweights, but as a chain this is only partly European, and the contracting entity is not. 4 5 6 7 8

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The free tier is fully specified — unlimited forms and seats, 1000 responses per month, forms keep collecting past the limit until the count resets on the 1st — and billing period, the 20% annual saving, auto-renewal with 30-day notice and the non-refundable policy are public, along with plan gating for permissions, signatures and white-label emails. We found no public price figures for the paid plans on the captured pages, so I cannot compute a year's cost for my faculty from public information alone. 3 8

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