The studies · Privacy

Privacy, in plain English.

This page describes what the Center collects when you read these pages or answer a study, what happens to it, and how to reach us about it.

What the Center collects on purpose

For a study: the answers you submit, and your name and email only if you choose to give them. Contact details are optional in every study, and no answer is withheld if you leave them blank.

If you arrived from an invitation, the link carries a reference token. It exists so you never have to type who you are.

What the reference token does

The token is a code in the link, not a description of you. The Center holds a list connecting invitation tokens to the people invited, which is how findings can be sent back to respondents first and how duplicate invitations are avoided. That means a response carrying a token is not anonymous to the Center.

If you would rather answer without it, delete everything after the question mark in the address bar before you begin, or open the survey directly. Your answers count either way.

Ordinary technical information

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics product. There is no visitor counter, no advertising pixel, and no third-party tracking script on any page. What exists is the hosting service’s ordinary request log: the network address that asked, the browser and device type, and the page requested. That log is what operates the site. The Center does not use it to identify individual readers. The hosting service also collects network error reports, which describe failed connections rather than what anyone read.

When a study is open, the survey on that page is served by Tally, and what happens inside the form is governed by Tally’s own privacy terms. Tally states that its form statistics are aggregate, with no cookies and no cross-device tracking, and the Center, not Tally, controls the responses. Links in emails from the Center pass through our mail service so we can tell which resources are useful. That is the one place a click is counted, and it is written here before the first email has been sent.

If any of this changes, this page changes first, and the date at the bottom moves.

Who processes it

Surveys are hosted and processed by Tally, which operates the form and stores responses on the Center’s behalf. Email invitations and findings are sent through an email service provider that processes addresses for the same purpose. Website hosting processes the requests that deliver these pages.

The Center does not sell participant information, and does not disclose it to payers, employers, licensing boards, or professional associations. Service providers process information only to operate the study, the site, and the mail.

Three choices stay separate

At the end of a study you may separately choose whether the Center may contact you with follow-up questions, quote you without identifying you, and send you the findings. Each choice is optional. None is preselected, and saying yes to one does not require saying yes to another.

If you are quoted, you would see the quote first. If you change your mind about any of the three, write to us and the change is made when your message is read, not at the end of a process.

How published findings work

Findings are published as aggregates. A response is not identifiable in anything the Center publishes unless you explicitly agreed to be quoted and saw the quote first. Free-text answers are reviewed before publication so that details capable of identifying a practice are removed or generalized.

Please do not send patient information

These studies ask about professional and practice experience. Do not include patient names, dates of birth, record numbers, or any other protected health information in a survey response or in a message to the Center. If something like that reaches us, we delete it.

How long it is kept, and how to have it removed

Four kinds of records exist, and each has its own clock.

Survey responses: Kept as research data after they are de-identified. De-identified means the answers, with the token and any contact details removed.
Contact details: Your name and email, if you gave them, are kept only while at least one of your three permissions stands, and deleted at any time on request.
Invitation tokens: The list connecting tokens to the people invited is deleted twelve months after a study closes. After that, nobody, including the Center, can tie a response back to an invitation. Each study states its close date.
Consent records: The record of who agreed to what, and who asked to be left alone, is kept permanently. An opt-out that expired would mean contacting someone who said no, so this is the one record that must outlive the others.

You can ask what the Center holds about you, ask for a correction, withdraw any of the three permissions, or ask that your contact information and response be deleted. Write to the address below and we will confirm when it is done. Each study restates its own retention period in the documentation you receive with the findings, so the promise travels with the data.

Privacy questions or requests

Center for Integrative Neuroscience, info@integrative-neuroscience.com. A mailing address is available on request, and is included in every invitation email as required.

This page was last reviewed 11 August 2026, and it is dated for the same reason every guide is: so you can tell whether you are reading something current.