TAPP is an interdisciplinary research project conducted at the Universities of Maryland (UMD) and Munich (LMU). Data collected through the survey is protected in line with EU GDPR (see here for more information) and the requirements outlined by the UMD research ethics committee (IRB). Data published in reports will be aggregated and will not individually identify you or your responses. In line with the open science movement, we will make selected survey data available for research purposes. No identifying information will be contained in this dataset.

Survey Participation

You will be asked if you would like to participate in future waves of this survey. If you agree to participate in future waves of this survey, you will receive an email with a link to an equally short web survey about three times a year for the next two years.

Participant Rights

If you have any questions about the study or how you can exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at info@privacyperceptions.org and/or the Principal Investigator Frauke Kreuter, Ph.D. (University of Maryland) at fkreuter@umd.edu.\ This research has been reviewed according to the University of Maryland, College Park IRB procedures for research involving human subjects.

If you have questions about your rights as a research participant or wish to report a research-related injury, please contact with reference to IRB No. 1934146-4:

University of Maryland College Park
Institutional Review Board Office
1204 Marie Mount Hall
College Park, Maryland, 20742
E-mail: irb@umd.edu\ Telephone: +1 301-405-0678

For more information regarding participant rights, please visit: https://research.umd.edu/research-resources/research-compliance/institutional-review-board-irb/research-participants