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| ====== Privacy Protection in the Online Survey ====== | ====== Privacy Protection in the Online Survey ====== | ||
| - | Online surveys are restricted by research ethics and laws. In many countries, violating privacy laws involves the risk of severe penalties. SoSci Survey supports you in creating privacy compliant online surveys. First, SoSci Survey provides features to collect data without violating privacy. Second, the survey servers [[https:// | + | Online surveys are restricted by research ethics and laws. In many countries, violating privacy laws involves the risk of severe penalties. SoSci Survey supports you in creating privacy compliant online surveys. First, SoSci Survey provides features to collect data without violating privacy. Second, the survey servers [[https:// |
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| - | ==== Contract about Processing of Personal Data ==== | + | ==== Contract about Order Processing of Personal Data ==== |
| - | If your study works with personal data, it may be necessary to make a contract about the processing of personal data with us. Our contract | + | If your study works with personal data, it may be necessary to make a contract about the processing of personal data with us. Our DPA (data processing agreement) |
| ==== Important ==== | ==== Important ==== | ||
| - | * Companies have the ability to save call detail records about its employees, which ultimately allows them to match certain IP addresses and questionnaires, | + | * Companies have the ability to save Internet usage detail records about its employees, which ultimately allows them to match certain IP addresses and questionnaires, |
| * If your questionnaire asks for personal information, | * If your questionnaire asks for personal information, | ||
| * To prevent third parties to access this data, you should choose a password that is absolutely safe. Please avoid words which already exist and vary the use of capital and small initial letters. Including numbers and choosing a password of at least 7 characters makes it even more safe. | * To prevent third parties to access this data, you should choose a password that is absolutely safe. Please avoid words which already exist and vary the use of capital and small initial letters. Including numbers and choosing a password of at least 7 characters makes it even more safe. | ||
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| ==== Anonymous Panel Studies ==== | ==== Anonymous Panel Studies ==== | ||
| - | If you are conducting studies with a known set of participants or panel studies where participants are to be repeatedly interviewed, | + | If you are conducting studies with a known set of participants or panel studies where participants are to be repeatedly interviewed, |
| - | However, on conducting panel studies that requires participants to be interviewed repeatedly, SoSci Survey will store an email/user-ID-assignment | + | However, on conducting panel studies that requires participants to be interviewed repeatedly, SoSci Survey will store the assignment between |
| ==== Separate Email Address Collection ==== | ==== Separate Email Address Collection ==== | ||
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| - | ====Disable Timestamps==== | + | ==== Disable Timestamps ==== |
| If collecting very sensitive data, recording of timestamps may be disabled in the project settings. In this case, neither the interview' | If collecting very sensitive data, recording of timestamps may be disabled in the project settings. In this case, neither the interview' | ||
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| This measure further decreases the probability that collected data is de-anonymized by merging with external data (e.g., an Internet provider' | This measure further decreases the probability that collected data is de-anonymized by merging with external data (e.g., an Internet provider' | ||
| - | Please note, that timestamps may still be reconstructed from the server logfiles. If it is necessary | + | Please note, that timestamps may still be reconstructed from the server logfiles. If the recording of log files is to be switched off for particularly sensitive surveys (e.g., in the area of crime research), this is possible, but involves additional costs due to the effort involved. |
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| Data backups of the projects and the datasets are created daily to ensure the safety of the data. | Data backups of the projects and the datasets are created daily to ensure the safety of the data. | ||
| - | SoSci Survey will not pass on any data to third parties. Other parties do not have access to the data. We have concluded agreements with the server host corresponding to §11 BDSG (German data protection law). | + | SoSci Survey will not pass on any data to third parties. Other parties do not have access to the data. We have concluded |
| ==== SSL Encryption ==== | ==== SSL Encryption ==== | ||
| - | Unencrypted data transfer theoretically allows for thrid parties to gain access to the transmitted information. | + | Unencrypted data transfer theoretically allows for third parties to gain access to the transmitted information. |
| - | The servers [[https:// | + | The servers [[https:// |
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| By default, the questionnaires do not use any cookies. Instead, to identify a user on filling out a questionnaire, | By default, the questionnaires do not use any cookies. Instead, to identify a user on filling out a questionnaire, | ||
| - | Cookies do not serve as reliable means to prevent multiple questionnaire submissions. The only way to avoid those is by using personalized questionnaire links using the serial mail or serial number function in Sosci Survey | + | Cookies do not serve as reliable means to prevent multiple questionnaire submissions. The only way to avoid those is by using personalized questionnaire links, which SoSci Survey provides by the mailing |
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