Protecting Your Privacy

Take5Research is committed to ensuring your privacy, and we pledge that our relationship with our visitors will be one of respect and consideration. We follow strict privacy guidelines, outlined below, that comply with ICC/ESOMAR international rules established for conducting market research over the Internet and abide by the ICC/ESOMAR code of conduct for online research.

• Participation for all surveys is completely voluntary, and an individual's decision to participate in a study, answer specific questions, or withdraw from a survey will be respected without question.
• We will not seek out personal information about individuals without their prior knowledge and agreement. Data provided by our recruiting partners may be used to validate certain fields of data provided by individuals during the registration process.  
• We will never misrepresent ourselves and what we are doing. We'll always identify who we are when we ask you to complete a survey.
• All of the information collected in our surveys will be used for research purposes only. An individual's name, address, individual responses, and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed to anyone.
• We will obtain the permission of a responsible adult before interviewing children under age 13, and we'll closely control the topics and nature of questions asked of these children.
• We will not send unsolicited email messages to people who have indicated to us that they do not wish to participate in research studies.
  
• Take5Research is AAPPMPM Compliant (State of Maine): The Maine legislature enacted LD 1183, An Act to Prevent Predatory Marketing Practices against Minors ("AAPPMPM"), to protect the privacy of all minors. It prohibits (1) the collection or use of health-related information and "personal information" for marketing purposes from individuals under the age of 18 without verifiable parental consent, and (2) the sale or transfer to a third party of health-related information or personal information about a minor if that information was unlawfully collected, individually identifies the minor, or will be used for "predatory marketing."

Security

In order to certify that our survey information is kept private, Take5Research has implemented a state-of-the-art, industry-standard firewall security system. This system uses a multi-stage inspection methodology, which ensures that only authenticated users can input their information into the database system and only Take5Research market researchers and database managers are allowed to read it.