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How are you protecting my privacy?

Your participation is completely confidential. Data will be identified by a PIN randomly generated for research purposes. Your contact information and your study data will be stored in separate locations, but will be linked by your PIN. The PIN is the only way to link your contact information to the data that we collect from you. Only you and the researchers will know the PIN. You will not be identified in any research reports or presentations of this research. Data identified only by the PIN may be shared with other researchers doing similar work on other campuses, and/or be combined with data from other campuses in some research reports. Your name and contact information will be accessible only to research staff for the purposes of contacting you to complete the study, and will be stored separately from your data on computers with password protection and in locked file cabinets. The online surveys will be completed using a secure server supporting 256-bit encryption, which provides the highest available level of protection for your confidentiality.

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