In the Site Administration area, under Settings, Analysts will find configuration options and the Privacy Settings sub-section. Here, Analysts can locate and assign the default visibility of each user role on the site.

These settings will establish the defaults for Study Settings > Privacy in all subsequently created studies, however, they can be overridden at the study level.

For participants, you’ll be able to control whether they have access to the Participant Directory and Profile pages in addition to how they’ll see each other’s displayed identity (e.g. Username only).

On a site where privacy is a concern, it is strongly advised that you keep participant access to these areas disabled. Likewise, you can also reduce the personal identifier visibility settings to Unique ID only.

In addition, you can control how Administrators will appear to participants.

Settings for Client accounts on the site follow the same pattern. You can control what participant identifying information they see in studies, from full participant names and profile photos to just ID numbers.

Analysts and Moderators can always view participants' full details in a Study if they wish, but the online display of participant names can be customized for convenience. For example, it may be convenient to only see people's usernames so as to help reinforce the use of just usernames in public comments.

For instances where there needs to be tighter control over participants' information being available to Moderators, enabling Limit moderator access to PII will surface dedicated privacy controls specific to the Moderator role.

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