Suscitatio Enterprises, LLC

All involved with this project are deeply concerned with the safety, well-being, and happiness of the members of our Community. We believe that this study will be of aid to the Community as a whole, to help us understand each other and our situation, and to allow us as a Community to answer the analyses of outside researchers in our own words. This study will also benefit the individual respondents by providing an opportunity for reflection and examination of their unique individual experiences.

Participation in this study is completely voluntary; members of the Community who choose to participate should do so in order to further the Community's knowledge, and should use their own judgment to decide whether participation is a positive, safe, and healthy activity based upon their own individual circumstances. Any participant may remove themselves from the study at any time, and may also ask questions of those administering the survey via anonymous e-mail for the duration of this study.

We are concerned with the safety and well-being of our Community members, and therefore acknowledge that for some individuals participation may put them at some form of risk. Having this survey in one's possession, accessing the URL of the online version, or being observed in the process of completing the survey may cause risk or harm to some individuals from those outside the Community. Participants are the sole judges of their circumstances, and we encourage participation by only those Community members who feel that their situation will not be adversely affected, either emotionally, physically, economically, socially, or in any other manner, by any aspect or stage of participation.

The enforcement of privacy and ethical standards while conducting this research is paramount to all involved with this project.  We wish to make the smallest footprint on the Community as possible in the distribution of and collection of data from this survey.  Participants should be cognizant throughout the completion of this survey of the information they are providing and adhere to the guidelines established below.

No response that yields information which could be used to locate or personally identify respondents or other members of the community should be given at any time.  We will vigorously safeguard the privacy of our participants by employing various security measures to ensure complete anonymity.  All form submissions completed online will be processed over a secure server, results stored offline, and no internet protocol addresses (IP) will be intentionally logged or maintained by our staff.  Participants may also choose to safely submit this survey from an anonymous e-mail or by postal mail.  Only raw statistical data collected from this survey in coded form will be made available to the general public once an internal review and analysis has been completed.  After the cessation of this data collection all responses will be stored under lock and key in a secure location, never to be shared with other researchers or persons outside of the administrative body involved in this study, however, the aggregated data from the study, as well as analysis of that data and conclusions drawn from that data will be made publicly available.

A seven digit code may be utilized to remove any survey from final data analysis if chosen by contacting us at research@vampiresurvey.com; Subject:  Exclusion Option: EXC5098; Field 1:  Survey - "VEWRS" or "AVEWRS"; Field 2:  "Date Of Birth / Place Of Current Residence", as provided by the participant for verification.  Additionally, if the participant completes this survey offline or via e-mail we ask that they write a random seven digit series of letters and numbers at the end of the final question under "exclusion option" so that higher regulatory consideration to privacy exclusion may be exercised as mandated by various international standard codes of ethics and institutional review board guidelines.