Abstract: A method and system is provided for obtaining, verifying, maintaining and using consumer information of interest including consumer demographic information and consumer transaction information. The information is obtained with the consent and participation of the consumers, which ensures that the resulting databases do not include redundant records, thus reducing the amount of database storage required for the databases and enhancing the ability to search and process the information stored therein. Because consumers provide the system and method with access to their transaction service providers, the system and method can provide the clients of the system with the ability to measure the success of their marketing campaigns using the system.

Abstract: A method and system is provided for obtaining, maintaining and using consumer information of interest including consumer demographic information and consumer transaction information. The information is obtained with the consent and participation of the consumers who are compensated for the use of their information by clients of the system and method. The system and method can obtain information directly from the consumers and from a variety of transaction service providers that the consumer interacts with. By having active participation from the consumers, and by compensating the consumers for the use of their data, it is believed that a more comprehensive and better quality data set will be obtained than that available from other consumer information systems.