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survey - consent (as it appeared in the survey)
All questions in the survey are voluntary, and you may choose to skip any that you do not wish to answer. Please keep in mind, however, that this compromises the quality of the research. You may terminate the survey at any time, and have the option of completing it over multiple sessions, at your convenience (please note that the survey will run until January 31, 2007 only). To minimise error, please ensure that you respond to the survey once, and once only. All responses will remain anonymous, and can in no way be linked back to you (your access code will be disassociated from your responses), unless you specifically indicate otherwise on the last page of the survey. Similarly, your provision of your contact information at the end of the survey is completely voluntary, and will only be used for the items you specify (e.g. follow-up, networking and future participation). Participation in this survey poses no risks or benefits to you, other than the time spent completing the survey (about 20 minutes); rather, gathered responses will benefit the scientific community as a whole, and have the potential to improve public health practice wherever issues of privacy are of concern.
Please note that any intellectual property rights in your responses will vest in, and remain the property of Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, and as such, may also be made available to and used by the Public Health Agency of Canada to improve their operations and service provision to the public health community. As an Office of Public Health Practice, Public Health Agency of Canada survey, all data collected, including your personal information, will be protected according to the Access to Information Act (R.S., 1985, c. A-1) and the Privacy Act in Canada (R.S., 1985, c. P-21), as well as the confidentiality, privacy and data protection laws of the UK.
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