PAREXEL are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998. We therefore have a responsibility to ensure that we comply with the principles of data protection. With your consent, we will store information about you on our secure volunteer database, which is only accessible by relevant members of PAREXEL staff. If you choose to participate in a study then you will be asked to give your consent for your information to be shared with relevant personnel from the company sponsoring the trial and their representatives. Volunteer records may also be disclosed to regulatory authorities for medicines in the UK and elsewhere. Our volunteers are entitled to access information held about them if they so wish.