How this survey protects you
Somebody has asked you to answer a survey and told you it's anonymous. You've probably been told that before. Here's exactly what's true this time, in plain terms, so you can decide for yourself.
What they'll see
Counts and charts. How many people picked each option, the average scores, the themes running across the written answers. If they've asked which department or how long you've been here, they'll see the numbers broken down that way too, as groups and never as a list of people.
What they can't see
Who said what. Your answers are scrambled by your own browser before they're sent, and the company running the survey holds the only key that opens them. We don't hold it, which means we couldn't hand your answers over even if somebody asked us to. Nothing attaches your name, your email address or a fingerprint of your device to what you write.
One honest caveat
In a very small group, numbers can point at people. If four people answer and three of them are on your team, arithmetic starts doing work that encryption can't undo. That's why nothing unlocks until at least 3 people have answered, and why whoever set this survey up can raise that floor higher. Most set it to 5 or more. The survey itself will tell you the number before you start.
Two things that help, whatever tool you're using
- Answer on a personal device over a personal network if you can. A work laptop on a work network doesn't leak your answers, but it does make a record that you opened the page.
- Write free text the way you'd write it to a stranger. Don't include the one detail only you would mention. That advice holds for every survey tool there is, not just this one.
If you want the longer version, including how to check a survey's claims for yourself, it's at invizipoll.com/for-employees/stay-anonymous.
Printed by whoever is running your survey. InviziPoll built the tool and holds no key to your answers.