NAPCO Research Survey Consent Form

Standards for Conduct and Use of Surveys

1. NAPCO shall not disclose trade secrets or other confidential proprietary information of survey respondents which would ordinarily be withheld from competitors or others.

2. Participation in or responding to the survey is voluntary.

3. Price or cost data to be provided shall be at least three months old at the time of response.

4. Non-price forward-looking data will not be requested or provided.

5. There shall be at least five providers reporting data upon which each disseminated statistic is based and no individual provider’s data shall represent more than 25% on a weighted basis of that statistic.

6. Information disseminated shall be sufficiently aggregated such that it will not allow recipients to identify the data provided by individual respondents.

7. NAPCO will maintain and preserve the confidentiality of the original information collected.

8. Data will be collected and analyzed by a party independent of those furnishing information.

9. Participants in a survey shall not have access to the raw data submitted and compiled.

10. All surveys shall comply with applicable guidelines and regulations of the United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.

The purpose of this survey is to help identify and benchmark credit risk management practices within the wholesale power industry.  Please answer the questions as they relate to the wholesale credit function within your company. 

Any questions that you cannot obtain information on or that do not apply to your company’s operations, please leave blank or write “N/A” (not applicable) if space is available.  Please note, that specific information as associated with your company is kept confidential from other participants.

Should you decide to take part in this study, you will be given a link that leads to a survey form.

A defined role of Data Protection Officer (DPO) is required under the GDPR if an organization is a public authority, if it performs large scale monitoring or if it processes particularly sensitive types of data on a large scale. The DPO is required to have an appropriate level of knowledge and can either be an in-house resource or outsourced to an appropriate service provider.

Based on these criteria, NAPCO does not require a Data Protection Officer to be appointed.

Feel free to ask us questions or raise with us some concerns, any time. It is your right. 

E-mail address: info@napcocredit.com

By signing this form, I hereby declare that I have read this electronic informed consent, or the contents have been read to me. I have had the time and opportunity to ask questions to the facilitators and researchers of this study and my questions were answered to my satisfaction.

I understand that my participation in this study is purely voluntary and I can withdraw my participation anytime. I also understand that should I decide to withdraw, the information I have provided will permanently be deleted from the records of the researchers and/or sponsors, without my relationship with them being affected.