Below is a screen shot of a section from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that discuses the use of children’s data and what steps need to be taken in order to protect it. Because I wish to gain feedback on my project from my target audience, and my target audience is children in primary school, this document was very helpful in informing me what I needed to do in order to safely collect this information. According to the GDPR, children under the age of 13 are not able to provide their own consent, meaning that I would need to gain the consent of the parents or guardians on behalf of the child. Because of this, I have drafted out a contract for the parents/guardians to sign so that I may gain feedback on my project.
My draft contract form
Below is a draft of the contract form which I have created in order to gain permission from parents/guardians to collect feedback from their children on my project. The form outlines what my project is, why I wish to gain feedback from their children, what specific feedback I wish to collect, who will have access to the data collected from the feedback and that at any point during the process the participant is able to pull out from the process and request their information given be retracted.
Having created this draft contract I have sent it to one of my tutors to look over so that they can inform me if I there is anything else that I need to add to the from before I can send it to the parents/guardians of my target audience that I may have missed off. While I wait to receive feedback on the form from my tutor I will continue to work on developing my characters for the animations, ready for when I need to receive the first round of feedback on my project focusing on the style and colour scheme of my project.
Bibliography
ICO, (2018). ‘Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’. [JOURNAL ARTICLE] Published by Information Commissioners Office. Available from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/711097/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-1-0.pdf [Accessed on 26th March 2021]