LDL | Department of Linguistics | HKULDL | Department of Linguistics | HKUThank you for joining our online experiment on the online experiment platform.
During the experiment, the participant (you) may be asked to provide personal data or information related to you. The personal data collected during the online experiment are only used in the study which the said online experiment is a part of (hereafter “the study”). All personal data collected are treated in strict confidence.
There are several types of information we (the Language Development Lab) collect from you during the online experiment. This page helps you better understand how we use the personal data, and the fact that we erase them once the study has no need of them.
Note that the online experiment may not collect some or all of the following data if it is not relevant to the study.
Summary
To participate in the online experiment, you must tell us the personal data about your linguistic background that are marked “mandatory”.
These personal data are anonymised, so that no one can tell who is who.
You can choose not to tell us your linguistic background, but by doing so, we might not be able to let you take part in our experiment. We may also be unable to give you compensation and/or reimbursement because of this.
We collect the personal data listed below because they are relevant to the investigation of the sociolinguistic phenomena targeted in the study. They are used in the analysis of the experimental results, which may lead researchers to associate a particular linguistic background with one or more linguistic phenomena.
Steps are taken to anonymise the data so that it is not practicable to ascertain your identity using these data or the research output of the study (or both).
In some experiments, the personal data about your linguistic background are collected not for the purpose above, but for other purposes listed on this page.
As these data are central to the investigation, you are expected to provide these data as a participant. If you do not, you may not be able to complete the experiment and claim eligibility for compensation and/or reimbursement.
Summary
You need to tell us your legal name and the serial number of an identity document to receive compensation and/or reimbursement.
You may need to tell us where to send the compensation/reimbursement, if it is not in the form of cash.
If you withhold, incorrectly provide, or refuse to provide such personal data, you may become ineligible for compensation and/or reimbursement.
These personal data are erased as soon as compensation and/or reimbursement are complete.
We collect the personal data listed below because they are mandatory in the administrative process of compensation and reimbursement. During said process, these personal data are used to ascertain your identity and to issue compensation(s) and/or reimbursement(s). These personal data are stored in a way that association of them with the personal particulars for research purposes is not practicable.
You may also be required to provide the absolutely necessary personal data that is needed for the dispatch of compensation/reimbursement, when it is not in the form of cash. The form of compensation/reimbursement is prescribed by the researcher in charge of the experiment. The personal data required for this purpose can be (but is not limited to):
You must, to the best of your knowledge, accurately provide the entirety of the required portion of such personal data, or whichever part of such data as specified if you wish to receive compensation and/or reimbursement(s). You may choose not to provide the mandatory personal data, or to withhold part of such data, but by doing so you may find yourself ineligible for compensations and/or reimbursements.
After the administrative processes of compensation and/or reimbursement are complete, these personal data are erased immediately. Until then, you may request access or correction of your personal data. Please note, we may not be able to entertain your request if there is insufficient information to locate the personal data being requested. You may also be asked to prove your identity before your request will be entertained.
Summary
The online experiment platform uses web services that may store cookies on and/or obtain metadata from your device.
These metadata, including cookies, ensure the normal functioning of the online experiment platform and preserves data integrity.
If you interact with the online experiment platform, you are assumed to have agreed to the use of cookies and the acquisition of metadata.
You can block the acquisition of metadata and the use of cookies, but this may interfere with the online experiment platform. As such, you may be unable to complete the experiment. You may also find yourself ineligible for compensations and reimbursements which the experiment may entail.
Metadata, such as cookies, are used extensively in the online experiment platform. The online experiment platform comprises content offered by several web services, including Pavlovia and Qualtrics. Access to the online experiment platform inevitably entails the use of these web services, and by extension, the acceptance of the use of various metadata by these web services. The Language Development Lab has no control over how these web services use these metadata, including cookies. If you have concerns regarding these web services, you may read their privacy policies on the respective websites.
In addition to the metadata used by web services, the online experiment may be configured to gather metadata from your web browser or your device. These metadata can be essential to automated functions that ensure data integrity in the research, including (but not limited to) device compability filtering and prevention of duplicate and/or fradulent responses. Nonetheless, these metadata have no use to the study itself and are discarded once the raw experiment data are processed and analysed. These metadata can include:
Note that some experiments may not collect some or all metadata.
Most web browsers, by default, are set to allow the use of cookies and acquisition of metadata. By accessing the online experiment in such configuration, you are assumed to have agreed to the collection of these metadata. You can configure the web browser to disallow them, but if you do so, you may find certain aspects of the online experiment platform do not work properly, which may disqualify you from compensations and reimbursements which the experiment may entail in spite of your participation.
The online experiment platform uses web services provided by these data users of personal data: