Privacy of Participants

The results of the trial will be made publicly available and reported at a group level only: your contribution will remain anonymous and kept strictly confidential.

The raw data collected will be securely stored in both electronic media and paper forms and accessible only to members of the research group at the University of Otago, Te Runanga o Nga Maata Waka, and the Australian National University, members of the University of Otago Web Office and server administrators, and members of an external New Zealand Data Monitoring Safety Board.

Your name and address details will be kept in a separate database from your assessment scores.

At the end of the trial any personal information will be destroyed immediately except that, as required by the University's research policy, any raw data on which the results of the trial depend will be retained in secure storage for five years, after which it will be destroyed.

If you wish to receive a copy of your own results, they will be made available to you after we receive a signed letter to this effect from you.

This site keeps a web server log. Every time you visit the site, your IP address is collected along with data such as how long you stay at the site and which pages you visit. You cannot be personally identified from this information.

This site is hosted on a secure server and has been designed using HTTPS for pages where confidential information is input. This means that these pages are encrypted. However, we are unable to provide this level of security for emails that you send to us as emails go through email servers managed by other entities whose security we have no control over and we therefore suggest that you do not email us anything of a confidential nature.

The site where the trial takes place resides on a secure server and you are not individually identifiable from the information that you provide to the site. The site where the trial takes place has its own privacy policy.

The privacy policy outlined here does not apply to sites that you may find links to from this site.

This trial has been reviewed and approved by the Multi-Region Ethics Committee of New Zealand Reference Number MEC/07/05/066 and the Australian National University's Human Research Ethics Committee, protocol number 2007/2295.