Code of Practice

The Code is based on these key fundamentals:

1. Market researchers shall conform to all relevant national and international laws.
    
2. Market researchers shall behave ethically and shall not do anything which might damage the reputation of market research.
    
3. Market researchers shall take special care when carrying out research among children and young people.
    
4. Respondents’ cooperation is voluntary and must be based on adequate, and not misleading, information about the general purpose and nature of the project when their agreement to participate is being obtained and all such statements shall be honoured.
    
5. The rights of respondents as private individuals shall be respected by market researchers and they shall not be harmed or adversely affected as the direct result of cooperating in a market research project.
    
6. Market researchers shall never allow personal data they collect in a market research project to be used for any purpose other than market research.
    
7. Market researchers shall ensure that projects and activities are designed, carried out, reported and documented accurately, transparently and objectively.
    
8. Market researchers shall conform to the accepted principles of fair competition.
    
9. Breaches of the Code may result in membership being revoked by the MRSNZ.