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Occupational Wholeness

by Dr Farzaneh Yazdani

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GDPR

What this site collects, why, and exactly which cookies it sets.

GDPR Compliance

This site is designed to meet UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 requirements.

  • Explicit, unticked consent is required before any OWQ health-related data is processed.
  • Saving your OWQ results (so you can track change over time) requires a second, separate consent and an email address.
  • Data export and erasure requests are handled through WordPress’s built-in Privacy Tools (Tools → Export/Erase Personal Data), which reach both contact-form and OWQ records.
  • Saved OWQ submissions are automatically anonymised after 24 months.
  • No third-party analytics or advertising cookies are set without prior consent via the cookie banner.

See our Privacy Policy for full details, or contact us to make a data request.

The OWQ questionnaire

Your answers are only saved if you tick the box at the end of the questionnaire and give your email address. If you leave it unticked, your diagram is shown to you once and nothing is kept.

Why we ask for your email. To send you your results, recognise you when you take the questionnaire again so your diagrams can be compared over time, and allow Dr Yazdani's team to contact you if needed about your results or this research. We never use it for newsletters or marketing, and never share or sell it.

How your results are used. Dr Yazdani and her research team analyse saved answers, scores and the optional details you gave to study occupational wholeness. Findings are only ever reported for groups of people, never in a way that names or identifies you.

How long we keep it. Your email is deleted from each saved result 24 months after submission. The answers remain as anonymous research data without your email. You can withdraw at any time and ask us to erase everything by replying to your results email or through the contact page.

Cookies this site sets

Strictly necessary: no consent needed

These make the site work and are exempt from consent requirements. They are not used to track you and are never shared.

  • ch_consent: set by this site to remember whether you accepted or refused analytics, so you are not asked again on every page. Lasts 182 days, then you are asked once more. It holds only a yes/no, the date, and a version number; no identifier of any kind.
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Analytics: only if you accept

We use Google Analytics to see which pages people find useful. It does not load at all until you accept, so if you have not accepted, none of the cookies below exist in your browser.

  • _ga: set by Google Analytics to tell one browser apart from another. Lasts 2 years.
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If you refuse, nothing is sent to Google at all, not even an anonymous, cookie-free ping. Refusing means Google learns nothing about your visit, rather than learning about it without naming you.

We run no advertising, no remarketing and no social media pixels, and we never will without asking you again first.

Changing your mind

Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it. Use the “Cookie settings” link in the footer of any page to reopen the banner and change your answer. You can also delete the cookies above in your browser settings at any time.