Our sign up HUD will ask general demographic information about you such as age, income, zip code, television viewing habits, one email address, etc. It will not ask personal information such as your RL name, address or phone number.

This First Opinions Panel database of members will be made available to reputable online consumer research services used by Fortune 500 and other major companies.

The purpose of the consumer research company is to decide which First Opinions Panel members match the target attributes for each specific research project of their corporate clients.

This research company has the right to contact you via email only to invite you into focus groups or surveys when they deem that the target attributes of that project match the self-descriptions you gave in your sign up.

You will also be required to join the First Opinions Panel group via the Group tab in SL. This is so the First Opinions Panel itself may contact you via Group Instant Message within Second Life.

To participate in the First Opinions Panel, you must
1.	Be at least 18 years of age.
2.	Agree to provide accurate responses to the questions we ask about you.
3.	Agree not to use more than one avatar when responding to our questions.
4.	Understand and agree that applying to the First Opinions Panel does not guarantee that you will be asked to participate in the panel or any specific projects.
Additionally, you agree to the following:
5.	EMAIL ADDRESS: To provide an email address to receive invitations to focus groups, research projects and information related to the First Opinions Panel.
6.	BEHAVIOR: Disruptive behavior is not permitted. We reserve the right to limit the access of, or expel, any participant who engages in conduct that we deem disruptive.
7.	The selection of which panel participants are invited to join a given research project is based on how you match their target demographics and is at the sole discretion of the sponsoring corporation and/or their consumer market research company.
8.	COMPENSATION: It is understood that your primary purpose in applying to the First Opinions Panel is an opportunity to provide quality feedback to marketing officials on topics related to your interests and background which are provided by you during the panel registration process. Upon your successful completion of each research project to which you are invited, you may be eligible for a token payment of one hundred Linden dollars (L$100). All payments to you are the sole responsibility of the research company and not of the Social Research Foundation or First Opinions Panel.
9.	These terms and conditions may be amended at any time without prior notice to you. You can review the current terms and conditions at http://www.socialresearchfoundation.org.
10.	You will be asked to click a button agreeing to these terms and conditions during the sign up process.

PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to us.

We will provide our membership database to market research companies strictly to match you to the targeted attributes of research projects on behalf of their corporate clients.

The analysis of your responses will be presented soley in AGGREGATE, e.g. "x% of our respondents to question #1 said 'Yes'.

Under no circumstances will your INDIVIDUAL responses or attributes be disclosed SEPARATELY from the aggregate results."

Under no circumstances will they disclose your individual email address, personal profile or responses to other companies, including clients, or use them for solicitations of products or services other than participation in the First Opinions Panel.