How do I make surveys anonymous?
There are a couple of ways to collect anonymous responses:
- Through the use of the Web Link collector.
- Or by configuring the Email Invitation collector to not save the email addresses in the Analyze section.
Web Link Collector:
This method does not track names or emails. For complete anonymity, configure the options under the [Change Settings] button to not save the IP addresses in the Analyze section.
- As responses come into the Analyze section, it will be marked as a Normal Response in the Response Type field. There will be no name or email associated with it.
- The IP collection can be turned off at any time, even after the data collection has begun.
- If IPs are turned on again later, only new responses going forward will store them.
Email Invitation Collector:
With this collection method, SurveyMonkey sends out the survey on your behalf. To keep the email/name hidden on the response, choose to not save the email on the response.
- The email address status of Responded or Not Responded is tracked in the Edit Recipients list of the collector.
- However, the email will not be visible under the Analyze section with the response.
 Check Respondent Status:
In the Edit Recipients section of the Email Invitation Collector, you can click on the email address contained in the list. The following will happen and you cannot disable this: - A prompt opens allowing you to Analyze or Remove that response. If you click the [Analyze] button, it will open the response.
- However, the "email" field will be blank on the top.
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