In order to participate, you must be at least 18 years old and click "Accept" at the bottom of this page.

Introduction and Purpose

My name is Justin Samuel. I'm the author of RequestPolicy. I'm also a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley working with Professor Vern Paxson in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. I would like to invite you to take part in my research study of the usage of RequestPolicy.

Procedures

If you agree to participate in my research, RequestPolicy will collect and transmit back to us some data about how you use RequestPolicy. We will not collect information about specific websites you visit. The type of information we're collecting involves how you use RequestPolicy and how RequestPolicy impacts your browsing. For example, we will collect information on how often you add and remove items from your whitelist (but not what those items are), whether you use certain features, which toolbar you have the RequestPolicy button placed in, how long RequestPolicy takes to load your whitelist when the browser starts, and how many items you have in your whitelist.

Benefits

There is no direct benefit to you from taking part in this study. We hope that the research will improve the usability of RequestPolicy as well as other privacy and security software.

Risks

As with all research, there is a chance that confidentiality could be compromised. However, we are taking precautions to minimize this risk.

Confidentiality

Your study data will be handled as confidentially as possible. If results of this study are published or presented, personally identifiable information will not be used. We will not record your IP address on our server when we collect study data. To further decrease risks to confidentiality, RequestPolicy will use SSL encryption when it transmits study data back to our server. Of course, we'll also do our best to keep our server secure. When the research is completed, I may save the data for use in future research done by myself or others. The data may also be used by future RequestPolicy developers other than myself. We will not make public the data that we collect.

Compensation

You will not be paid for taking part in this study.

Rights

Participation in research is completely voluntary. You have the right to decline to participate or to withdraw at any point in this study without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled.

Questions

If you have any questions about this research, please feel free to contact me. I can be reached at support@requestpolicy.com. If you have any questions about your rights or treatment as a research participant in this study, please contact the University of California at Berkeley's Committee for Protection of Human Subjects at 510-642-7461, or e-mail subjects@berkeley.edu. If you agree to take part in the research, please click the "Accept" button below.

I certify that I am 18 years or older. I have read this consent form and I agree to take part in this research.