Privacy Policy

Texas Jury Study runs paid, virtual focus groups for Texas litigation. Two very different groups of people use the service, and we collect very different information from each:

• Participants — Texas residents who join paid online sessions and give their honest reactions to a case.
• Attorneys and firms — the legal professionals who request a focus group. We refer to them as requestees in some parts of the product.

This policy explains what we collect from each group, what we do with it, who else sees it, and the rights you have under Texas law. It applies to this website and to the sessions we run.

If you sign up as a participant

Participating means being screened for a jury-style panel, so the sign-up form is detailed. We collect:

If you request a focus group

Collected automatically

Standard server logs generated when you use the site, and the authentication cookies described in section 8.

Texas law treats some of what we collect as sensitive personal data, which we may only process with your consent. Two categories on our sign-up form fall into that bucket:

• Race. A focus group is only useful if the panel reflects the jury pool an attorney would actually face, so attorneys can request a panel with a particular demographic mix.
• Citizenship status. Only US citizens are eligible to serve on a jury in Texas, so we ask in order to screen for a realistic panel.

By submitting the participant sign-up form you consent to us processing this information for those purposes. You can withdraw that consent at any time by emailing us, though doing so means we can no longer invite you to sessions.

Your driver’s license number and license image are held for one reason only: to confirm that a participant is a real, unique person before we pay them. We do not use license images to build a facial template or any other biometric identifier, and we do not run them through facial-recognition software.

Focus-group sessions run over Zoom and are recorded in full. The recording is provided to the attorney or firm that requested the session, and one observer from that firm may also attend live in a silent capacity.

That means your voice, your image if your camera is on, and everything you say during a session are captured and shared with the requesting firm. If you are not comfortable with that, please do not accept a session invitation.

• To create and administer your account.
• To match participants to a requested panel using the demographic and eligibility criteria above.
• To invite participants to sessions, and to send reminders and follow-ups.
• To run sessions and deliver results to the requesting firm.
• To verify identity and pay participants.
• To operate the strike and eligibility rules described in our Terms of Service.
• To keep the service secure, prevent fraud and duplicate accounts, and meet our legal, accounting and tax obligations.

What attorneys can and cannot see

This is the most important thing on this page for participants. Attorneys who request a focus group see participants only as a demographic profile — gender, race, county, age bracket, education level and political affiliation.

They do not receive your name, email address, phone number, home address, date of birth, driver’s license number, license image or PayPal username. This separation is enforced in the database itself through row-level security rules, not just in the interface. Note that attorneys and their observer do see and hear you during the session itself and in the recording.

Our staff

Administrators at Texas Jury Study can see participant records in full, because they verify identities, approve accounts, arrange sessions and issue payments. Participants can see their own record and nobody else’s.

Service providers

We use a small number of vendors to run the service. They process data on our behalf, for our purposes only:

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to enforce our terms, or to protect someone’s safety or our legal rights.

• We do not sell your personal information.
• We do not share it with data brokers or use it for targeted advertising.
• We do not run advertising or cross-site tracking on this site.
• We do not use your information to make automated decisions that produce legal effects about you.

We use cookies for one thing: keeping you logged in. These are authentication cookies set by our login provider, Supabase, and they are strictly necessary for the site to work. Clearing them logs you out.

There are no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies and no third-party tracking pixels on this site.

• Traffic to and from the site is encrypted in transit (HTTPS).
• Access to every table in our database is restricted by row-level security rules tied to your role, so the database refuses queries for records you are not entitled to see.
• Driver’s license images and case documents live in private storage that is not publicly reachable. They are opened through short-lived, single-use links generated only for someone already authorised to view them.
• Passwords are hashed by our authentication provider.
• Administrative access is limited to the Texas Jury Study staff who need it.

No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise. If a breach affects your sensitive personal information we will notify you and the relevant Texas authorities as required by law.

We keep your information for as long as your account is active. If you stop participating we keep your record so that we do not re-invite someone who has asked to be left alone and so that we retain proof of payments made.

There is currently no self-service delete button in the app. To have your account and personal information deleted, email info@texasjurystudy.com and we will handle it manually.

Two things survive a deletion request. We keep records of payments for as long as tax and accounting law requires, and we keep a minimal note of accounts removed for conduct reasons so the same person cannot immediately sign up again. Session recordings already delivered to a requesting firm are in that firm’s hands and are governed by the confidentiality agreement they signed.

If you are a Texas resident, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act gives you the right to:

• Confirm whether we are processing your personal data, and see it.
• Correct anything inaccurate.
• Have your personal data deleted.
• Obtain a portable copy of the data you provided to us, in a readable format.
• Opt out of the sale of your personal data, targeted advertising and profiling. As set out in section 7, we do not do any of those things.

To exercise any of these, email info@texasjurystudy.com. We will respond within 45 days. If the request is complicated we may take one further 45 days, and we will tell you before we do.

This service is for adults. You must be 18 or older to create an account, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.

If we change this policy we will update the “last updated” date at the top of this page. If the change materially affects how we handle your information, we will email registered users rather than rely on you noticing.

Questions about this policy, or about anything we hold on you, go to info@texasjurystudy.com.

There is more on how to get in touch, including what to include in your message, on our contact page.