Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 1 October 2019
PRIVACY POLICY
We collect certain information through our website, located at https://andinorms.nl (our “Website”), including through the products and services provided at the Website. This page (this “Privacy Policy”) lays out our policies and procedures surrounding the collection and handling of any such information that identifies an individual user or that could be used to contact or locate him or her (“Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII”).
This Privacy Policy applies only to our Website and to the products and services provided through our Website. It does not apply to any third party site or service linked to our Website or recommended or referred by our Website, through our products or services, or by our staff. And it does not apply to any other website, product, or service operated by our company, or to any of our offline activities.
- PII We Collect
We collect the following Personally Identifiable Information from users who buy our products or services: name, e-mail address, and country of residence.
We also use “cookies” to collect certain information from all users, including Web visitors who don’t buy anything through our Website. A cookie is a string of data our system sends to your computer and then uses to identify your computer when you return to our Website. Cookies give us usage data, like how often you visit, where you go at the site, and what you do.
- Our Use of PII
We use your Personally Identifiable Information to create your account, to communicate with you about products and services you’ve purchased, to offer you additional products and services, and to bill you. We also use that information to the extent necessary to enforce our Website terms of service and to prevent imminent harm to persons or property.
We use cookies so that our Website can remember you and provide you with the information you’re most likely to need. For instance, when you return to our Website, cookies identify you and prompt the site to provide your username (not your password), so you can sign in more quickly. Cookies also allow our Website to remind you of your past purchases and to suggest similar products and services. Finally, we use information gained through cookies to compile statistical information about use of our Website, such as the time users spend at the site and the pages they visit most often. Those statistics do not include PII.
- Protection of PII
We employ the following data security tools to protect Personally Identifiable Information: SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client and data storage in ISO 270001 certified storage facilities in Amsterdam by Siteground. Unfortunately, even with these measures, we cannot guarantee the security of PII. By using our Website, you acknowledge and agree that we make no such guarantee, and that you use our Website at your own risk.
- Contractor and Other Third Party Access to PII
We give certain independent contractors access to Personally Identifiable Information. Those contractors assist us with secure payments online. All those contractors are required to sign contracts in which they promise to protect PII using procedures reasonably similar to ours. (Users are not third party beneficiaries of those contracts.) We also may disclose PII to attorneys, collection agencies, or law enforcement authorities to address potential AUP violations, other contract violations, or illegal behavior. And we disclose any information demanded in a court order or otherwise required by law or to prevent imminent harm to persons or property. Finally, we may share PII in connection with a corporate transaction, like a merger or sale of our company, or a sale of all or substantially all of our assets or of the product or service line you received from us, or a bankruptcy.
As noted above, we compile Website usage statistics from data collected through cookies. We may publish those statistics or share them with third parties, but they don’t include PII.
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not share PII with third parties.
- Accessing and Correcting Your PII
You can access and change any Personally Identifiable Information we store through your “Profile” page.
- Amendment of This Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a new version on this page or on a successor page. The new version will become effective on the date it’s posted, which will be listed at the top of the page as the new Effective Date.
Help on the ANDI Norms Template Editor
On the results page, there is a button that allows exports of the data and the norms directly to an MS Word file. This file contains a draft of a test report that can be edited by you to get it into its final form. The ANDI team has developed this to save valuable time of error-prone copying, pasting, and deleting that is common practice among non-ANDI users.
The standard report format provided by ANDI Norms can be copied and adjusted while retaining full functionality. This is accomplished with templates. A template is ordinary text, such as "The T score was 37." But how do we get the correct value for this patient instead of 37? This is done by using special codes, in this case, we would write "The T score was {{T}}." So, we have double curly brackets. The {{T}} part will now by replaced by the actual T score for this patient. Other options are {{IQ}}, {{W}}, {{z}}, {{p}}, all of which echoing the headers of the results table. Also available are {{raw}} for the raw score on the test, {{perc}} for percentile, and several other test variables.
You need to do one more thing, namely to tell the system of which test you want the T-score to be shown, as there may be many in the results table. This is done by preceding each variable with the test code. For example, the code for the AVLT trials 1 tm 5 total score is: AVLT__total_1_to_5. So, the full coded sentence above would be "The T score was {{AVLT__total_1_to_5.T}}.", where we use the dot notation to glue the T to the varialbe, much like web addresses. Now, the system knows you the AVLT T score.
For more complex descriptions, several aspects of a test can be mentioned, such as
On the 'AVLT Total trial 1 to 5' ({{AVLT__total_1_to_5.description}}) the score is
{{AVLT__total_1_to_5.select T }} (T-score: {{AVLT__total_1_to_5.T}}).
One can avoid having to repeat the longish test code by using the #with construction, as follows:
{{#with AVLT__total_1_to_5}}
On the 'AVLT Total trial 1 to 5' ({{description}}) the score is
{{select T }} (T-score: {{T}}).{{/if}}
{{/with}
Now, everything between {{#with AVLT__total_1_to_5}} and {{/with}} will automatically
be interpreted as belong to the AVLT__total_1_to_5 test.
You may have noticed the {{select T}} construction. Here, select is a so called 'helper'. The select
helper selects an adjective from very low to very high according to well established standards based on the T score.
So, if T is 35, {{select T}} would be replaced by 'low'. Actually, the default language is Dutch, so it would say
'laag'. For English, write {{select_en T}} to get 'low'. You can also specify your own adjectives and even alter
the criteria for when to call something 'low', 'average', etc.
Another helper that is used a lot is {{round T}}. By default, T is a precise value with many decimals, which are usually unwanted in a report. By writing {{round T}}, we get a nice rounded value.
A common practice for a clinician is to have a long document with short sentences and paragraphs for each test, say for a hundred common tests. If a test battery contains only twelve tests, all not-used sentences are removed and only the relevant ones retained. In a template this is accomplished automatically by using the #if construction. We could, for example, write:
{{#if AVLT__total_1_to_5}}
On the 'AVLT Total trial 1 to 5', the T score is {{round AVLT__total_1_to_5.T}}).
{{/if}}
Now, this sentences would only be shown ('printed') if the AVLT__total_1_to_5 test was actually in the results
table. If not, it is simply ignored. So, if you write out a well-crafted paragraph for a test and put it between
and {{#if}} and an {{/if}}, it is only shown if the test was in fact used. This can also be done with a 'comment',
which is a clinical observation you can add in the extra columns in the Scores page. If you write
{{#if comment}}({{comment}}).{{/if}}, the text with comment will only be shown if there is in fact
a comment present. E.g., you write {{#if comment}}(learning curve: {{comment}}).{{/if}}, to show the
learning curve of the AVLT, but only for cases where you actually recorded it. If the cell in the column is blank
the whole bit would be ignored.
You can define an unlimited number of templates, e.g., in different languages like Dutch, English, Polish, etc. Notice, however that names and descriptions and other language-specific aspects are only available in Dutch and English. In the future, we are likely to expand the number of languages supported, if there is a demand for this.
There are many more possiblities than covered, which will be documented in a user manual (to be written). The template system used by ANDI Norms is based on the Handlebars template library, which includes excellent documentation.