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Privacy Policy

JPSYCH is committed to protecting your privacy and confidentiality. As a university-based research program, JPSYCH has a professional obligation to keep any personal information received in the context of research participation confidential. All JPSYCH research complies with university and legal guidelines to protect your privacy and confidentiality.The purpose of this privacy policy is to advise you as to why personal information is sometimes solicited, how it is used, what safeguards are employed to maintain confidentiality, and how to contact JPSYCH with privacy related questions.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Personal information is any information that can be used to identify who you are. This may include your first and last name, email address, home address or telephone number, or email address.

 

INFORMED CONSENT
Informed consent is ALWAYS obtained from participants before collecting personal information. This means that JPSYCH will never collect any personal information without your knowledge and permission.

 

WHY JPSYCH MAY COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION DURING RESEARCH STUDIES?
Wherever possible, JPSYCH studies are conducted anonymously in order to provide the highest degree of protection for participants' privacy. However, some studies require that participants provide an active email address to facilitate communication (e.g., studies that require on-going participation). Participants are free to create an alias email address for the purposes of participating in such studies (e.g., 1234@gmail.com), unless otherwise noted. Additionally, after completing involvement in JPSYCH studies, participants are typically given the option to receive the results of the investigation via email. To protect your privacy, email addresses collected for the purposes of communicating results are NOT linked to participants' responses to psychological questions unless otherwise noted.

HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS KEPT CONFIDENTIAL
Where it is necessary to gather personal information for research purposes, data is kept confidential. Personal information is kept in secure files and access is restricted to researchers who use the data for the purposes of investigation (i.e., only those who have a need to know). Wherever possible, personal information is removed from datasets after it is no longer needed. Additionally, JPSYCH makes reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from loss, theft, unauthorlzed access, disclosure, copying, misuse and alteration.

OTHER WAYS PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AND HOW IT IS PROTECTED

  • JPSYCH EMAIL LIST: The JPSYCH email list currently has over 2200 subscribers, many of whom are previous participants in JPSYCH research. JPSYCH takes great care to protect the privacy of email list subscribers. The JPSYCH email list is NOT connected to participants responses to JPSYCH research. Furthermore, the JPSYCH email list is NOT shared with or sold to any other organization, company, individual or group of individuals (unless required by law).

  • "CONTACT US" FORM: JPSYCH currently has approximately 800 visitors each month, many of whom visit the contact us page to ask specific questions about psychological research on Judaism and mental health. On every page of this site there is a link to this page. The contact us page contains an email form so you can comment, make suggestions, request information and ask questions about JPSYCH research. On this form, your email address is required so we can answer your questions. Additionally, we collect your name as well so we can address our answer in a professional manner. We may also track your browser type and referring URL to better diagnose technical issues you may be having. Information sent via the contact us page is NOT connected to responses to JPSYCH research nor shared with third parties. It is simply used to answer your correspondence.

  • EMAIL: JPSYCH researchers do NOT use encryption in sending emails. Therefore, content of individual email messages is not subject to this privacy policy.
    COOKIES: As with all websites, you may occasionally get cookies from third party links on our site. We do not control these cookies, and these cookies are not subject to this privacy policy. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry. Cookies may also be required by some of the features of our site. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of the site will not function properly if you do so. When you visit our site, you may be directed to other sites outside our service. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. These other sites are not subject to our privacy policy and we are not responsible for the privacy policies for these other sites, nor for the use of any information that these sites may collect.

WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT TO PROVIDE PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you have provided JPSYCH with personal information in the past and then have second thoughts or want to update it, please contact us. Please note that it is not always possible to remove or modify personal information in the database, but we will make reasonable efforts to do so upon request.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Please direct all questions or comments about this privacy policy to David Hillel Rosmarin.

JPSYCH reserves the right to change its privacy policy from time to time as deemed appropriate. Updated March, 2009

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