I've just looked at the link. The pertinent question is "
Please enter your email address (or another unique identifier):
Please note: This email address is just used as a unique identifier that you can use if you wish to withdraw your data from the study at a later date, so you can use any text that is unique to you if you'd prefer not to give a real email address.
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After that, it's asking for basic demographic info (age and gender). It's not asking for your name or anything specific. Asking for age by bands would, perhaps, have been better (e.g., 20-30, 31-40...) but I'm not seeing anything inconsistent with typical academic surveys like this. I didn't dig up the university's privacy policies, but I presume they're pretty typical and consistent with solid practices in academia.
People are certainly espousing legitimate concerns about privacy and identity protection on line -- but this isn't even asking for as much info as you gave MT to register.
Please enter your email address (or another unique identifier):
Please note: This email address is just used as a unique identifier that you can use if you wish to withdraw your data from the study at a later date, so you can use any text that is unique to you if you'd prefer not to give a real email address.
"
After that, it's asking for basic demographic info (age and gender). It's not asking for your name or anything specific. Asking for age by bands would, perhaps, have been better (e.g., 20-30, 31-40...) but I'm not seeing anything inconsistent with typical academic surveys like this. I didn't dig up the university's privacy policies, but I presume they're pretty typical and consistent with solid practices in academia.
People are certainly espousing legitimate concerns about privacy and identity protection on line -- but this isn't even asking for as much info as you gave MT to register.
Good luck with the paper!
