Privacy Policy

1. Who we are and what this policy covers

Resilient Street is a community bushfire-preparedness research app provided by the Resilient Street research team at the University of Tasmania. This policy covers the Resilient Street mobile app and the resilientstreet.com website. The study also has separate participant information and consent materials that explain the research and your rights as a participant.

2. What the app sends to the research team

This data is sent only when the app opens a research survey, including the first consent survey; it is not sent during ordinary offline use. Qualtrics also processes standard connection information, such as IP address, device browser details, and request time, in line with the Qualtrics Privacy Statement.

All of the above is stored against the Participant ID. It is pseudonymous rather than anonymous because the identifier persists, but the research team does not attach your name, email address, or account to it, and it is not an advertising identifier — Resilient Street does not use Apple's IDFA, the Android Advertising ID, or any equivalent. Please do not enter identifying or sensitive information in survey answers unless a survey explains why it is needed.

3. Information kept on your device

Everything you create in the app — including communities and their coordinates, tasks, notes, photos, resource links, scenarios and schedules, preparedness and notification state, caches, and diagnostic logs — is held in the app's local storage and is not sent to the research team.

This data leaves your device only when you use a backup, export, share, or directions action, or when your operating system includes app data in a device or cloud backup. Backup files and shared scenario links are compressed and obfuscated for portability but are not encrypted, so protect them as you would the original data and do not include sensitive information in content you share.

4. Device permissions

• Location and maps: with your permission, the app uses your location while it is open to centre a map and help set a community location. A selected community coordinate is sent to Tasmania's theLIST service to check whether it is in a bushfire-prone area. Location is never included in the usage summary.
• Camera and photos: photos you attach to tasks stay in the app's local data and are not uploaded to the research team.
• Notifications and background scheduling: notification, alarm, restart, vibration, wake-lock, and foreground-service permissions are used only to schedule and restore reminders on your device, never for advertising or research collection.
• Public data downloads: the app downloads map, weather, and emergency-resource data from public services, which receive the ordinary network information needed to answer the request.

You can change app permissions in your device settings; the related features may then stop working.

5. Who receives data

• University of Tasmania research team: authorised researchers analyse the pseudonymous study records.
• Qualtrics: hosts the research surveys and receives the data described in section 2 on our behalf.
• Microsoft Azure and jsDelivr: host the website, public datasets, and presentation files, and may process standard connection logs.
• Mapping services: theLIST, OpenStreetMap, Esri, and the mapping provider on your device or Google Maps receive request details only when you use the corresponding feature.
• Legal and safety requirements: information may be disclosed where required by law or necessary to protect rights, security, or the integrity of the service.

Some of these providers may store or process data outside Australia. We do not sell data, share it with data brokers or advertising networks, or use it for advertising or cross-app tracking. The app contains no ads.

6. Retention, deletion, and withdrawal

• On-device data: remains until you remove it in the app, clear the app's storage, or uninstall the app.
• Exported, shared, or backed-up copies: remain until deleted by you, the recipient, or the relevant service.
• Submitted research data: is kept only as long as the study's approved data-management plan, University of Tasmania policy, and research-ethics requirements allow, then securely deleted or irreversibly de-identified.
• No user account: the app does not create an online account, so there is no separate account-deletion process.

Deleting the app stops any further collection and withdraws you from the study. To ask about access, correction, or deletion, contact the research team using the details below. Because submitted records carry only the Participant ID, we may be unable to match a request to a specific record, and records that have been irreversibly de-identified or combined into aggregated findings cannot be removed.

7. Security

Survey submissions and the app's built-in data requests use HTTPS, although links you add yourself may use HTTP, which is not confidential. Local records are held in the app's operating-system sandbox, while exported backups and shared scenario links are not encrypted. Research records are held in access-controlled University of Tasmania systems, available only to authorised personnel and the service providers listed above. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we use safeguards appropriate to the data.

8. Age requirement and sensitive data

Resilient Street is intended for adults aged 18 and over, and the app does not independently verify age. The app has no health, medical, or financial features, and its built-in fields do not ask for health or financial information. If you believe a person under 18 has submitted data, contact us using the details below.

9. Website privacy

The resilientstreet.com website runs no advertising or analytics trackers and sets no advertising cookies. Its hosting and content-delivery providers may process standard connection logs, such as IP address, requested file, and request time, to deliver and secure the site. This information is not combined with app research data.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the app, research practices, or legal requirements change. The revised policy will be published at this URL with an updated date, and material changes will be communicated before they take effect where required.