The Guide to Health project values your participation and has taken every precaution to prevent unintended use of any data that you give us. Our goal is to create an environment that encourages participants to provide us with honest and complete answers to all of the project's questions. Our only goal is to collect the data needed to meet the project's research objectives.

The information you provide on this website is stored in a password protected database on a password protected server that is accessible only to project staff. We take every reasonable precaution to maintain the security and integrity of our database.

Your answers to all of our questions will be kept completely confidential. Only project staff will see your information. Neither your name nor other personal information (e.g., address, DOB, and the like) will be stored with your answers. Instead, your answers will be tracked using a computer-generated, non-person specific numeric project code.

We will use what we learn from this study only to publish or present reports in books, articles, or at meetings, and in other ways the Virginia Tech Department of Psychology decides is in the interest of education, knowledge, or research. Personal information will not be reported. None of the data collected will be shared with persons not directly employed to work on this project. Your information will never be sold or used for any other purposes.