Anonymising responses and protecting privacy
You can maintain the anonymity of your respondents during data collection and control the access to personally identifiable information (PII) within your team to enhance respondent privacy and comply with data protection regulations including GDPR.
Anonymising responses
When you anonymise responses, Conjointly stop tracking technical respondent identifiers during data collection. To enable this, navigate to the Advanced settings tab of your experiment tab, and tick the Anonymise Responses checkbox within the Response quality management module.
By checking this box, your experiment will not record the following respondent details:
- IP address and associated location
- Browser location
- Browser cookies and identification strings
- Type of device used
Please note that the anonymise responses setting is incompatible with certain question types, including video response and email questions, as well as most response quality management features .
GET Variables included in survey links will still be captured, if you are using a GET variable to track respondents, their data may not be truly anonymous.
To learn more about what information we store and how it is used, please refer to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Restricting access to personally identifiable information
What qualifies as PII
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) includes any data that can be used to identify an individual. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- IP addresses
- Cookies
- Browser information
- Referrer data
- Location data (city, region, postal code, country, latitude, longitude)
Survey timestamp information is not considered PII.
Hiding respondents’ PII from team members
Team leaders can disable the exporting or mass viewing of respondents’ PII for their entire team with the following steps:
- Under Team settings, tick the box Hide respondents’ PII.
- Click on .
