During Market research data collection personal information will need to remain accessible. However once fieldwork has been completed, we are no longer allowed to store any personal data. They need to be anonymized.

Askia provides an automatic anonymization feature that will modify personally identifiable information (PII), so they won’t be accessible to be displayed in any kind of data visualisation, nor exportable as part of a data set.

The anonymization process is associated to the above restrictions features that ensure that only data administrators, with appropriate accreditation, will have access to respondent data (until they are permanently deleted).

By default, all personal data will remain unreadable except by the main fieldwork administrator. Askia strongly advises that restrictions schemes are validated by the client’s Data Protection Officer so that they match the GDPR compliance expectations.

Anonymize data

To enable this important feature, in AskiaDesign , check the option 'Anonymise data'

Restriction

Following your setting of this restriction, you won't be able to access it.

On the Supervisor side, in restriction properties, you can set a restriction to hide or show anonymised data (Management > Tasks > View anonymized interview data):

Without this restriction, a Supervisor will see this in "Modify interview":

Export anonymized data

And the Supervisor can only export anonymized interviews to a QES file:

 An anonymised QES doesn't contain any values for the anonymised questions.

Recordings storage

New paths for recordings can be set in CCA settings:

You can distinguish different types of recordings:

• Agent recordings
• Anonymized recordings