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Anonymous but tracked form answers


Hi,

I'd like to explain the use case we have:

At our organization, we want to send an initial form to session participants, followed by a second form a few months later, and compare individual responses to track changes over time. However, we don't want to collect participants' identities.

In my view, this would require attaching an individual ID to each participant's responses across both forms, ensuring continuity without identifying the respondents. This might involve collecting participants' emails on Typeform ends, for instance, but without giving us access to those emails.

Is this possible with Typeform?

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john.desborough
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@Nicolas1789 - are you using a CRM to send out the emails? If so you could assign each of the recipients an id number that you capture in a field in the CRM and then when you send out the email, add the id number to the url string as a hidden field that will be passed into and recorded by the typeform. 

(you need to add that hidden field to the typeform) 

suggest you connect the typeforms to the same Google Sheet - each one will will be on a separate tab - so that when the responses are submitted for both forms, you can use a third tab to do a consolidation of the results using vlookups on the id number. 

that way, in your data sheets, you have no personal identifiers ie no email address. 

just a thought

 

des


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  • October 7, 2024

We thought about that, but technically someone from the organization can still have access to identity respondent going through our CRM - that’s why I mentioned the fact that this anonymous identity / matching between two forms answers should be managed by a third party (typeform here). 


john.desborough
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@Nicolas1789 - that’s not a function available in Typeform natively. it will have to happen outside of Typeform.. 

you should be able to restrict viewing of fields in CRM by/to specific users - if only an admin can see the field with the id in it, then the google sheet method is as close as you can get. 

 

des


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