01 Who we are
JJA Studies is the participant-facing brand of JJA Recruiting (Jessica Jenkins & Associates), an established research recruiting company that has been operating since 2020. We connect people with paid research studies — focus groups, opinion studies, and community discussion groups — and recruit qualified participants on behalf of research teams.
This policy explains what information we collect when you use our website or sign up for a study, how we use it, who we share it with (spoiler: almost no one), and the choices you have. It applies to jjastudies.com, jjarecruiting.com, and any related signup forms or pages we operate.
02 What we collect
We collect only the information we need to do our job — recruiting qualified participants for research studies. Here's what that includes:
Information you give us directly
When you sign up for a study, we ask for things like:
- Contact information — your name, email address, and phone number, so we can confirm your participation and stay in touch about your session
- Demographic information — your age, gender, location, occupation, and similar details that help us determine whether you're a fit for a particular study
- Study-specific information — answers to screening questions that vary by study (for example, your shopping habits, your views on a particular topic, or your past experience with a product)
- Payment information — when we pay you, we may need basic information like your preferred payment method (Venmo handle, Cash App username, mailing address for a check, etc.) so we can actually send you the money
Information collected automatically
Like most websites, our site collects some basic technical information when you visit:
- Your IP address and approximate location (city/region level)
- The type of device, browser, and operating system you're using
- The pages you visit on our site and how you got there
We use this information to understand how the site is being used and to fix problems — not to track you personally. [Note: this section may need adjustment based on your specific analytics setup. If you're using Google Analytics, Cloudflare Web Analytics, or similar, we should mention it by name.]
03 How we use your information
We use the information you give us for a small number of clearly-defined purposes:
- To determine your fit for studies. We compare your information against the criteria for each study to see if you match.
- To communicate with you about studies. Confirmations, reminders, schedule changes, follow-up, and answering your questions.
- To pay you. When you complete a study, we use your payment preferences to send you your compensation.
- To improve our service. We may look at aggregated, anonymous patterns (like "what percentage of applicants were a fit for last month's studies") to make our recruiting better. We do not analyze your individual information for this purpose.
- To comply with the law. If we're legally required to provide information — such as in response to a court order — we will. This is rare.
04 What we don't do with your information
This is the part we want to be especially clear about, because too many companies bury this in fine print.
We never share, sell, rent, lease, trade, or give away your personal information to anyone, for any reason — including advertisers, data brokers, marketers, or other research companies.
Specifically, we do not:
- Sell your data. Your information is not a product. It's not for sale at any price.
- Share your data with advertisers. We don't run ads on this site, and we don't use your data to target ads anywhere else.
- Trade your data with other research firms. Your information stays with JJA — it doesn't get added to anyone else's participant database.
- Use your data to build a marketing profile. We don't track you across the internet, and we don't build behavioral profiles for any purpose other than matching you to studies.
- Send you unrelated marketing emails. If you signed up for a study, you'll hear from us about that study and (occasionally) about other studies you might be a fit for. That's it.
The only time we share information about you with anyone outside JJA is when one of these is true:
- You're confirmed for a study, and the research team running that study needs your name to check you in (this is the entire point of you signing up)
- You ask us to (for example, you ask us to send your information to a specific person)
- We're legally required to (rare, and we'd push back where we could)
- We use a service provider to do something specific on our behalf, like sending you a payment via Venmo. In those cases, the service provider only gets the minimum information needed to do that one task.
05 How we protect your information
We take the security of your information seriously. The specific measures include:
- Encrypted connections (HTTPS) on all pages where you submit information
- Secure storage of participant information using industry-standard practices
- Access to your information is limited to the JJA team members who actually need it for their work — Wes for participant communication, Jessica for company oversight, and others as their roles require
- We don't store payment account credentials (like passwords or full account numbers) on our systems. Payment platforms handle that.
That said, no system is 100% secure. We do our best, and we'll let you know promptly if a security issue ever affects your information.
06 Your rights and choices
Your information belongs to you. At any time, you can:
- Ask what we have about you. Email us and we'll tell you what information we have on file.
- Update or correct your information. If anything we have is wrong or out of date, let us know and we'll fix it.
- Delete your information. You can ask us to remove your information from our system entirely. Note: if you've participated in a recent study, we may need to keep a minimal record (like that you were paid for that study) for accounting purposes — but the rest can go.
- Opt out of communications. Tell us to stop emailing you about future studies and we will, immediately. No friction, no "are you sure?" pop-ups.
- Decline to provide information. You don't have to fill out our forms. If you don't, we just can't determine if you're a fit for a study — that's the only consequence.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at jessica@jjarecruiting.com. We typically respond within 2–3 business days.
07 Third-party services we use
To run our business, we rely on a few third-party services. They each receive only the minimum information needed to do their specific job:
- Hosting (Cloudflare): Our website is hosted on Cloudflare, which means your visit passes through their systems. Cloudflare is a major internet infrastructure company; their privacy policy is at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
- Form processing: When you submit a signup form, the data is processed through our internal systems and stored in our records.
- Payments: When we pay you, we may use services like Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, or PayPal — depending on your preference. Each of those platforms has its own privacy policy, which you can review on their respective sites.
- Email and scheduling: We use standard business email services to communicate with you about studies.
[Note: this section should be reviewed and updated as your specific tech stack settles. We can list specific tools by name once you confirm what you're using — for example, the screener widget platform, any email marketing tools, etc.]
08 Cookies and tracking
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your browser. We use a minimal set:
- Essential cookies that make the website work properly (for example, remembering that you've visited a page during your current session)
- Basic analytics that count how many visitors the site receives and which pages they look at — this is anonymous and aggregated
We do not use:
- Advertising cookies or pixels (Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, etc.)
- Cross-site tracking cookies
- Cookies that build a behavioral profile on you
You can disable cookies in your browser settings if you want. The site will still work for browsing, but some interactive features may behave differently.
09 Information from minors
Our studies are intended for adults (18 and older) unless a specific study explicitly recruits younger participants with appropriate parental consent. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18 without parental permission. If you believe a minor has provided us information without parental consent, please contact us immediately and we'll delete it.
10 Changes to this policy
If we update this privacy policy, we'll change the "Last updated" date at the top of the page and (for significant changes) email participants who have opted in to receive notifications. We won't make changes that retroactively reduce your rights — anything you signed up under previously stays under those terms.