Confidentiality of the Cultural Audit

The cultural audit makes it virtually impossible for anyone to connect an individual with the responses he or she submitted.

How this is accomplished

The way Character First! protects this information is simple. When a person submits answers to the survey, the system records who has finished (so that one person cannot submit the survey twice), but it does not associate a person’s identity with his or her survey answers.

Thus even the staff of Character First!, including the database administrator, cannot disclose your identity.

Furthermore, the supervisor who set up your company’s survey cannot read any of the results until at least two people have submitted answers. The results will always be the average of two or more participants, and will not reflect on any one person.

A note on e-mail reminders

If you receive an email reminding you to take the survey, note that this message is being sent out by the web server and not by your supervisor. Your supervisor does not have the ability to see which users have or have not completed the survey (assuming you do not sign your name to a written answer).

And again, even our database administrators, programmers, or anyone who might access the database will not be able see which recipients have posted which answers. This information is simply not recorded.