Privacy/Confidentiality/Data Security

Throughout your use of this platform, we will be collecting data. These data include your search behavior on the study platform (search inputs, vacancies viewed, vacancies saved, and for which vacancies you clicked the application link). The post-registration surveys will be conducted through Cornell Qualtrics. We anticipate that your participation in these surveys presents no greater risk than everyday use of the Internet. If you sign up with a LinkedIn account, we will record job-related information that you choose to post on your public LinkedIn profile for the purpose of evaluating the study.

Your usage data, survey answers and LinkedIn information (if applicable) will be de-identified at the end of the study and made available to the broader research community. We will remove or code any personal information that could identify you before files are shared with to ensure that, by current scientific standards and known methods, no one will be able to identify you from the information we share. Despite these measures, we cannot guarantee anonymity of your personal data.

After the study has concluded, we may ask you for additional information. You will be free to provide or not provide this information. This will not have any effect on your compensation.

We will do our best to keep your participation in this research study confidential to the extent permitted by law; however, it is possible that other people may need to review the research records and may find out about your participation in this study. For example, the following people/groups may check and copy records about this research:

• ● The Office for Human Research Protections in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
• ● Cornell University’s Institutional Review Board (a committee that reviews and approves research studies) and the Office for Research Integrity and Assurance

Please note that email communication is neither private nor secure. Though we are taking precautions to protect your privacy, you should be aware that information sent through e-mail could be read by a third party. Your confidentiality will be kept to the degree permitted by the technology being used. We cannot guarantee against interception of data sent via the internet by third parties.