What the assessments record
The two assessments are offered free. What they give back in return is a record of the scores, which is what makes it possible to improve them.
What is kept
- Which tool was used, and its version.
- The purpose you selected, and the unit of analysis or clinical scope.
- The score you gave each item, and the results the instrument computed.
- How many questions were answered, and the date.
- That the assessment was opened — a single count, recorded once the page has been visible for a few seconds, so that the number of reports has something to be a proportion of.
- How far you had got if you left without generating a report — the number of questions answered, and nothing else. It is what shows whether the instrument is too long, and where people lose patience.
What is not kept
- The name of the centre or the organization.
- The name or role of whoever ran the assessment.
- Any note or comment you typed.
- Your IP address, and any cookie or identifier that would let one assessment be linked to another.
- Anything that would join the three records above to one another. There is no session identifier, so an opening, an abandonment and a report are three unrelated counts even when they came from the same visit. That is enough for a rate and not enough for a trail.
Those fields are not transmitted at all. The server keeps a fixed list of what it will write down, and anything outside that list is discarded before it reaches the disk — so a record cannot be traced back to an institution or a person.
What it is used for
To see which items people find unclear, which domains separate strong centres from weak ones, and where the instruments are miscalibrated — and, over time, to publish what the pattern of results shows about the sector. Any publication reports groups, never a single assessment.
How long it is kept
An individual record is kept for one year from the date it was made, and is then deleted. What survives after that is a monthly summary — counts and averages — which carries no individual assessment.
If you would rather it did not
Nothing is sent until you generate a report. If you want a result without contributing one, fill the assessment in and read the scores on screen without pressing Generate report. You can also write to contact@healthcare.med.sa with any question about this.