General survey undertaking, your participation and privacy.
The Australian Institute of Architects (the Institute)is carrying out the survey on behalf of the ACIF Board (as a pro bono undertaking) using their subscription Survey Monkey Account. The information will be analysed and reported by the Institute’s Policy and Advocacy personnel with extensive experience in carrying out sensitive research and research ethics.
The survey is anonymous. We ask you not to provide any names of people, projects, or parties in any of the responses that you provide.
As a further safeguard any potentially identifying information that you may include in your answers will be 'anonymised' or deidentified in the findings report. Once data has been cleaned and checked for duplicate responses, IP addresses will be removed from the exported data.
Once the data has been exported from Survey Monkey, it will be deleted from that environment. The data will be held for five years by the Institute before being destroyed.
There is no specific individual advantage or disadvantage for you or your business that we forecast in completing the survey apart from an estimated twenty minutes of your time (according to the depth of your responses) if both parts are completed.
We are seeking information about recent (past three years) PI claims. If you think this may cause you distress, then you have an option not complete that section of the survey.
While there is no predicted individual benefit for your business from undertaking this survey, you or your business would be contributing to a body of evidence that can be used to advocate to stakeholders such as government, the legal sector or the insurance sector for changes to strengthen insurance and reduce risk.
Your participation is entirely voluntary. You may choose to complete all or part of the survey. However once you have completed the survey we will not be able to remove information as we are not collecting identifying information to permit us to identify and remove a survey record.
Other information.
If you have any queries of a general or technical nature about this survey, please email these to the Australian Construction Industry Forum via: info@acif.com.au