Privacy Policy & Confidentiality Statement

All surveys undertaken by the SESRC for research purposes and conducted by Washington State University (WSU) principal investigators are reviewed for protection of human subjects by the WSU Human Subjects Institutional Review Board (IRB).  Survey procedures for ensuring confidentiality, privacy rights, and consent to participate must be reviewed by the IRB prior to the start of any interviews or the mailing of questionnaires. Assessment/evaluation surveys and surveys for which SESRC serves as the survey vendor may not need to go through the WSU IRB; however, SESRC will adhere to the same confidentiality, privacy, and consent-to-participate protocols required in an IRB review.  In developing survey procedures, the SESRC follows the code of professional ethics and practices of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).  That code states that “Unless the respondent waives confidentiality for specified uses, we shall hold as privileged and confidential all information that might identify a respondent with his or her responses.  We shall also not disclose or use the names of respondents for non-research purposes unless the respondents grant us permission to do so.”

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