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Your Place Matters: Participant Information Sheet (Phase 1 - Pre-test survey)

Thank you for your interest in the “Your Place Matters” study which is being conducted as part of the MUST Strategic Research Council project (must-project.fi). The project is being conducted in partnership with the University of Helsinki, University of Oulu, Turku University, Aberystwyth University, SYKE, Monash University Indonesia, Tampere University and DEMOS Helsinki.

The aim of the Your Place Matters study is to explore how contact with nature in different types of environments affects people’s understanding of nature and behaviour. In this phase of the study, we invite you to be part of an online survey which asks you about your empathy with nature and pro-environmental behaviour in [Turku/Tampere/Lappeenranta].

Type of Research and duration

This research will involve your participation in an online survey that will take approximately 20 minutes to fill in. Your participation in this research is entirely voluntary. It is your choice whether to participate or not. Choosing not to participate will not affect you in any way. You may stop participating in the survey at any time that you wish and you can withdraw your participation after the survey has been conducted.

Benefits

Your participation is likely to help us understand prospects to transform urban and regional areas to be more sustainable and climate resilient in the future. You will not be reimbursed for your participation.

Risks

The survey does not include questions about sensitive personal issues. You will not be recognized from the answers you give. Data is anonymized and processed according to EU GDPR. The email addresses you provide will only be used to either invite you to be part of follow-up research (i.e., the soundwalks, MUST platform audio-visual experience or follow-up survey) or to send you a summary of the study results. These email addresses will be stored on an encrypted drive at the University of Helsinki and will be deleted one year after the end of the project (31.12.2027). Anonymised data may be shared with the research project partners – in the EU, United Kindgdom and Indonesia. These data will not be shared with other third parties outside the EU. Please read attached data privacy notice carefully.

Confidentiality

Your survey data will remain anonymous, which means that it is not possible to indirectly identify you in the data based on identifiers in the data set or even by combining them with information available elsewhere.

The only party in the survey project that processes your personal data (name and address information) is Taloustutkimus. This information will not be disclosed to third parties or connected to the responses, and it will be destroyed securely after the survey has ended. You will not receive any ”spam” as a result of your participation. If you will participate the follow-up research and/or will receive a summary of the results, the email address you give us, will be send to researchers at the University of Helsinki.

Your participation in this research is entirely voluntary. It is your choice whether to participate or not. Choosing not to participate will not affect you in any way. You may stop participating in the survey at any time and you can withdraw your participation after the survey has been conducted.

Taloustutkimus saves your answers and keeps them confidential. The analysis of the results combines your responses with the responses of other people who participated in the survey. The data collected from the survey will be published only as general statistical summaries.

The survey does not include questions about sensitive personal issues. You will not be recognized from the answers you give. Data is pseudonymised and processed according to EU General Data Protection Regulations. The University of Helsinki is responsible for analyzing and reporting the results based on anonymized data.

For more information, you can read the attached data privacy notice. For more information on how the information is used and information on your rights you will see:

You may visit https://www.taloustutkimus.fi/en/frontpage/data protection.html

For more information, please contact Taloustutkimus Data Protection Officer: tietosuoja@taloustutkimus.fi

Purposes of Data Processing

Your personal data is collected for the purpose of conducting research within the MUST project. The data collected from this survey will be used for research purposes only and will not be used for any other purposes without your explicit consent.

Types of Personal Data Collected

The types of personal data collected in this survey may include, but are not limited to:

Demographic information such as age, gender, and education level

Contact information such as email address (if provided voluntarily)

Responses to survey questions

Right to Refuse or Withdraw

You do not have to take part in this research if you do not wish to do so. Choosing not to participate will not affect you in any way. You may stop participating in the survey at any time that you wish and you can withdraw your participation after the survey has been conducted.

Purposes of Data Processing

Your personal data is collected for the purpose of conducting research within the MUST project. The data collected from this survey will be used for research purposes only and will not be used for any other purposes without your explicit consent.

Legal Basis for Data Processing

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data in the MUST project is your consent. By voluntarily participating in this survey and providing your personal data, you consent to the processing of your data for the purposes described in this notice.

Data Retention

Your personal data will be retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this notice. After the completion of the research project, your personal data will be securely disposed, unless we are required by law to retain it for a longer period.

Data Security

We take the security of your personal data seriously and have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect it against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

Your Rights

As a data subject, you have certain rights under data protection laws, including the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, and data portability. If you wish to exercise any of these rights or if you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

Who to Contact

If you have any questions, you can ask them now or later. If you wish to ask questions later, you may contact any of the following: Jonathan Carruthers-Jones (jonathan.carruthersjones@helsinki.fi) or Christopher Raymond (christopher.raymond@helsinki.fi).

Thank you very much for your interest in this study!