Our Commitment

Harvest Research Center is a market research and data collection company focused on providing high quality consumer data to the full-service marketing research industry. We build and maintain large online consumer panels through the Harvest Rewards for Research program. You can be assured your privacy and the confidentiality of your information is our number one priority. All of the data that Harvest Research Center collects in our research studies report as aggregate information, that is, information about groups - not individuals. Individual information is never reviewed or published, without express written permission of the research participant. All individual information provided is held strictly confidential.

Harvest Rewards for Research Official Policies

Participants in the Harvest Rewards for Research consumer panel earn points for establishing their contact profile and for completing select research surveys. Each participant must complete their entire basic profile to be eligible for the Harvest Rewards panel. Points are tracked by Harvest Research Center and are assigned a value of $0.10 per point. Rewards are redeemed twice a year to those participants who have earned 200 or more rewards points. Current redemption dates are scheduled for June 30 and December 31 and are subject to change. Rewards are redeemed through issuance of a Debit Card to the individual panelist associated with the Harvest Rewards account at the mailing address identified on the account. Participants in the Harvest Rewards for Research panel earn 10 points for completing their basic profile and can earn additional points by completing invitation-only surveys on behalf of Harvest Research Center.

The Information We Gather

Harvest Research Center gathers personal information when individuals register to become member of our panels, after registration we ask panel members to provide us with more personal information so that we may invite them to appropriate surveys. To become a panel member, we ask that you fill out an initial registration survey that gathers some personal and general consumer information. We ask for your email address so that we can send you email invitations to participate in our upcoming surveys. The other information we gather, such as your name, address, gender, birthday, and employment status, is for matching you with the appropriate marketing research projects. Your birthday is used to automatically update your age for us to target age-related marketing groups. We ask you for this information as a means to see if you might qualify for particular projects. All email contact from Harvest Research Center will be sent to your primary email address that you gave to us upon registration. If you become a panel member, your information (name, address, city, state, and zip) is also used for the purposes of incentive fulfillment.

Use of This Information

Harvest Research Center does not sell or transfer the personally identifiable information collected about the members of its panels or the individuals that take surveys for us. Information which is personally identifiable will only be transferred with your prior permission on a case by case basis. If you are a member of the Harvest Research Center panel, your information is stored in our proprietary database so we may call upon it to determine which people match up with specific research studies. If we think your profile makes you a potential candidate for a study, we will email you an invitation to make you aware of this opportunity. From time to time Harvest Research Center may use third-party software for email list management and email distribution. In such cases only a minimum amount of information is transferred to these third parties so as to enable them to perform specific functions on our behalf.

We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with a legal process served on our web site.

Children's Privacy

Harvest Research Center will not knowingly collect any information from any individual under the age of 13 without permission from his/her parents or legal guardian. Harvest Research Center is in adherence to all COPPA rules and regulations.