About the Former GAMR Research Consent

Why this address still exists

Older material about the GAMR study refers to a consent page at projectgamr.com/consent. This address now provides historical context. There is no research participation form, consent checkbox or participant registration on this page. Opening it does not enter you into the old study or give this website permission to collect data for that study. The present ProjectGAMR website is independently operated and has no affiliation with the former researchers or their institutions.

What the original document described

The publicly available consent component described demographic questions, psychometric tests and player names for supported games. It described linking those names to specified gameplay information, including session timing, levels, actions and ranks. It distinguished information supplied by game companies from World of Warcraft information drawn from the public Armory. These details summarize a historical document; they are not a description of what our current browser games collect or of any agreement you are being asked to accept today.

Participation and data handling in context

The original text described participation as voluntary, limited research participation to adults and set out confidentiality, publication and anonymization commitments. A thesis hosted by Tilburg separately documents an online questionnaire used in 2015 and describes its consent process. Those records help explain why a consent route appeared in the old site. They do not give the current publisher custody of the data, and the presence of an old promise in public source code does not allow us to verify how it was implemented.

Why the old form has not been restored

A consent form makes sense only alongside the people, purpose, procedures and data handling arrangements it describes. Recreating its interface under a different operator would make those responsibilities unclear. We have therefore preserved an explanation rather than a working imitation of the study’s enrolment flow. There is no replacement questionnaire here, and we do not generate a historical GAMR personality, brain-type or gamer-type result. An old results link cannot be used to retrieve a participant profile through the current site.

Where a former participant should start

We cannot identify former participants, locate their records, confirm whether an individual took part, or process requests on behalf of the original researchers. If you need information about that research, begin with the institutional project record and the original publication you followed. Use current official institutional contact channels to establish who can answer a specific question. Do not post player identifiers, passwords, old result tokens or personal research details in public comments while trying to resolve a historical link.

Reading the current website’s policies

The current Privacy page describes the present website and should be read separately from this history. The Editorial Policy explains how we use sources and handle corrections. Neither policy claims to replace the terms of an old university study. When evaluating any new research invitation elsewhere, identify its operator, purpose, data request and contact route before deciding whether to participate. A familiar domain name alone is insufficient context. Here, you can simply read the articles or choose a browser game without enrolling in the former GAMR research.

If you are reading an archived copy, remember that its buttons, contacts and policy references belong to the time it was captured. Confirm the present operator through an official institutional source before treating any historical instructions as a current request for information.