About the study

Schwartz Media is undertaking research to learn more about their audience.

This survey is for Schwartz Media audience members including subscribers to The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and 7am listeners. We want to hear from people from all backgrounds.

This survey is being administered by Schwartz Media’s research partner for this study, Patternmakers Pty Ltd (Australia, ABN 97 627 469 649). Patternmakers is a research agency based in Sydney, Australia. It specialises in research related to culture, creativity and community. You can read more about its work here.

Participating in the survey is completely optional. Your survey responses will be anonymous and confidential.

Below, you can read the privacy collection statement for the study.

Privacy collection statement

Introduction

Patternmakers respects and upholds your rights under the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Privacy Act"). As an Australian research organisation, Patternmakers also adheres to the Privacy (Market and Social Research) Code 2014 (“Code”). For more information about the Privacy Act, the Australian Privacy Principles and the Code click here.

The survey will ask about Schwartz Media’s titles, your news habits and journalism preferences, and your priorities. To help interpret responses, the survey will also as you some demographic questions, however it will not ask for any personally-identifiable information like your name or email address.

Your survey responses will be anonymous.

This anonymous data will be collected in Web Survey Creator WebSurveyCreator.com, a survey software platform based in Australia. You can read more about Web Survey Creator’s Privacy Policy here.

At no point, will Web Survey Creator ask for your name, phone number or email address or any personally identifiable information. Please take care in your written answers that you don’t provide personalised information.

The survey is set up to stop the storage of identifying information such as IP address.

If the survey is anonymous, how will I enter the prize draw?

At the end of the survey, you can elect to go in the draw for the chance to win a prize. Running a prize helps us motivate participation and hear from a range of people. Your email address will be stored separately from your survey response, so your survey responses will remain anonymous.

If you choose to enter the draw, and click on the ’Submit’ button, you will be taken to a separate, secure platform called Checkbox Survey at www.checkbox.com, where you will have the option to enter the draw by providing your email address.

Checkbox Survey data is stored securely on servers hosted in Australia. You can read more about Checkbox Privacy Policy here: www.checkbox.com/privacy_policy/ and their data hosting in AWS centres here.

What are the purposes for which Patternmakers use, handle and disclose your personal information?

We will only use and disclose your personal information for the purpose of conducting our research and in accordance with our company’s overall Privacy Policy.

Questions

If you have any questions about this Privacy Collection Statement or our Privacy Policy then we ask that you contact us immediately using the following email: info@thepatternmakers.com.au

Prize draw terms & conditions:

Eligibility: Entry is open to anyone over 16 who completed the Schwartz Reader Survey in September-October 2022. Employees or immediate family members of employees, associated with Schwartz Media or Patternmakers are ineligible to enter.

Entry: The Promotion commences at 01:00AM AEDT 19/09/2022 and entries close at 11:59PM AEDT 19/10/2022 (Promotion Period). To enter, Eligible Entrants must provide their email address at the end of the survey during the Promotion Period. Only one entry per person.

Winning and prize conditions: The total value of the prize draw is AUD$2000. This includes 4 x $500 Mastercard e-gift cards. The winner will be randomly selected at 12:00pm AEDT on 20/10/2022 at 223 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010. The winner will be notified by phone/email within two (2) business days of the draw and prizes must be claimed within seven days after notification.

If there are any unclaimed or unwanted prizes within seven days, a subsequent prize draw will be conducted seven days later, at the same time and place as the original draw. Draws will be repeated as needed until a winner accepts the prize.

Further information: For any further questions, please contact us at info@thepatternmakers.com.au.