This is a prototype website only for use as part of the Mosaic research study. If you are a Mosaic study participant, your usage and privacy information are governed by and explained in the research study consent form and related materials you received when you enrolled in the study. If you are not a participant in the Mosaic study, a study team member, or an invited reviewer, you are not permitted to use this website.
Mosaic privacy policy
Consent to allow Mosaic to collect information
If you choose to use Mosaic, you agree to allow Mosaic researchers to collect and store your email address, if you choose to provide one. You can choose not to provide an email address. If you choose to use Mosaic, you also agree to allow Mosaic researchers to collect, store, and study information about how you use the program. As you use the program, it collects information about how much time you spend in the program, which pages you visit, and how you use program features. This information is for research and helps us make decisions about how to make the program better. There is no way to stop the program from collecting this information. So if you do not want us to collect, store, and study this information, then you will not be able to use Mosaic. However, it is important for you to know that when we look at this information, we combine information from across many Mosaic users. You will never be identified in any summary of what we find when we look at this information.
Who is collecting this information
This information is being collected by Dr. Christine Rini at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL, U.S.A.) and People Designs, Inc. (Durham, NC, U.S.A., which is hosting the program and its information on their servers). You may withdraw your consent for us to store information we hold about you at any time by contacting us at christine.rini@northwestern.edu.
Protection and storage
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information we collect is protected from misuse, loss, unauthorized access or disclosure. We have procedures in place that limit where and how it can be stored and who can access it. It will not be transferred from our sites unless we transfer it to an entity that uses security protections that are as strong as ours. We will not disclose your personal information to anybody else unless we are authorized to disclose it (for instance, to another investigator in the study you have joined) or unless we required to do so by law.
Retention period
We will retain your information only for as long as required for the purpose it was collected. If you are using Mosaic as part of a study, then most often this means we will retain it for at least three years after a study ends; the study end date will be on your informed consent form. If you are not using Mosaic as part of a study, then we may store your information indefinitely. When we no longer need to retain your information, we will destroy it using procedures that protect your privacy, in accordance with University policies.
Further information or complaints
Please contact Christine Rini, PhD, at christine.rini@northwestern.edu if you have questions about policies governing our collection, storage, and use of your personal information. If you want to file a complaint with the institutional review board that oversees the study in which you are enrolled, you can find contact information on the informed consent form for the study, or you can contact study staff to get that information.