Privacy Policy
The Stafford Institute is committed to protecting your privacy. We strive to conduct relevant and meaningful social research in a professional and ethical manner. We safeguard the information we study and collect in order to insure an excellent product, and in so doing, maintain high standards that mean your information is kept strictly confidential.
The types of personal information collected in our research events and studies include name and address, as well as demographics like age, gender, and income. We also collect your opinions and reactions in qualitative form. This might mean that we quote your exact words in response to a question. This sometimes includes your recorded voice and photographic likeness.
The Stafford Institute uses your information to study patterns in demographics, behavior and culture. Specifically, we use your information to compile studies that include maps, graphs, tabular data, and qualitative information like preference and opinion. Our clients hire us to provide an understanding of particular issues in particular geographic areas. Any information by which you can be identified like you name address of phone number will only be used as geo-demographic data, for instance, to show patterns of demographics, behavior or opinion from one region to another.
We may contact you for permission to use your information in additional contexts, for instance permission for our client to use your quotation in another context, such as a research article or professional presentation.
The Stafford Institute will NEVER sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with our professional colleagues who are acting on our behalf to complete the activities described above.
We assure you that the answers or input you may provide on all survey forms, questionnaires, audio- or video-tape, internet or phone surveys will remain completely anonymous, and any personally identifying information will not be retained by or distributed to any other company or organization by The Stafford Institute.
If you have additional questions or concerns, please contact us.
CONTACT US AT THE STAFFORD INSTITUTE
The Stafford Institute
611 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Suite 146
Washington DC 20003
(202) 546-9335
fax (301) 292-7302
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