Privacy & Data Handling

Participation requests

Request information is intended to help Austin assess the proposed activity, required time, research conditions, compensation, and suitability for participation. The intended reviewer is Austin. Any documents you attach form part of the request. Submitting an application does not guarantee participation, availability, or acceptance.

Online delivery is currently unconfigured. The site displays an explanation when a completed form is submitted; no request is forwarded to a submission receiver. Entries remain in the current form so you can review them or contact the project. The application does not create a stored application record or upload documents to a document store in this configuration.

This application has no automated retention or deletion schedule. If a delivery receiver is configured later, its actual storage, reviewers, retention, and deletion process must be confirmed and this notice updated before applications are accepted through it. For information supplied through the normal contact channel, ask Austin about retention or removal; this website does not automate deletion from that channel.

Owner verification

Your book answer is checked locally in the browser against the existing encrypted edition. The answer itself is not sent to the server. Successful verification sends a derived access proof and creates a browser-session cookie used to authorize protected downloads. The cookie allows access to persist across reloads and tabs in the same browser session. Reset verification clears that session cookie and relocks the owner libraries.

The browser also stores the last verification-question index for that tab so a new question can be selected. This is not a participation application. The application does not create an owner account or a database record of verification answers.

Contact

For questions about information you have supplied, contact austinjames@askthebookexperiment.org through the site’s normal contact channel.