The JPMorganChase Institute prides itself on providing valuable data-driven insights to policymakers, businesses, and nonprofit leaders. But these insights cannot come at the expense of individual privacy or client confidentiality. To that end, the Institute has adopted rigorous security protocols designed to ensure our data is kept confidential and secure. These protocols are informed by statistical standards that are designed to keep sensitive data confidential and unidentifiable. We work with technology, data privacy and security experts who help us to maintain industry standards.
There are several key steps the Institute takes to further its commitment to privacy and confidentiality:
- The Institute's policies and procedures require that data it receives and processes for research purposes do not identify specific individuals or entities.
- The Institute requires its researchers to undergo rigorous background checks and enter into strict confidentiality agreements before gaining access to data. Researchers are contractually obligated to use the data solely for approved research, and to not attempt to re-identify any individual or client represented in the data.
- The Institute mandates that any publication based on the Institute’s data only reflect aggregate information or information that is otherwise not reasonably attributable to a unique, identifiable individual or entity.
- The data on which the Institute and its researchers rely are stored on a secure server and only can be accessed under strict security procedures that are designed to prevent the export of data outside of JPMorganChase’s systems. The Institute’s data infrastructure complies with JPMorganChase information technology risk management requirements for the monitoring and security of data.
(Last Reviewed May 15, 2025)