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How does the privacy of results work in Amélio?
How does the privacy of results work in Amélio?

This article explains how the privacy of survey results works in Amélio and how users can control access to survey data.

Updated over a week ago

Amélio places great importance on the confidentiality of respondents. All reports in Amélio are generated according to the confidentiality rules implemented in the application.

➡️ Confidentiality of results

In order to display a results report, the group being analyzed must have at least 5 respondents.

If the group does not have at least 5 respondents, the results for that group will be hidden when the user attempts to analyze the specific group.

However, the results of this group of 4 or fewer respondents will be included in the overall results as well as in the parent groups (see examples in this article).

➡️ How are the reports generated?

The results reports include the results you have access to based on your user permissions. Here are three examples of default roles that are used in most organizations:

  1. Company Administrator: Has access to all results

  1. HR employee: Has access to all results

  1. Manager: Has access to the results of his team and his dependents.

For example, Maryse has the role of manager and has a team of 6 employees. John is one of her employees and manages a team of 5 employees.

Maryse will therefore have access to the results of 11 people if all employees have completed the survey (6 employees reporting directly to her and 5 employees reporting to one of her employees).

Using the filters in her reports, Maryse will be able to analyze...

1. The results of her 11 employees combined and;

2. The results of her direct team, i.e. the employees who report directly to her and;

3. The results of John's team.


What if John had a team of only 4 people, or of the 5 employees, only 4 responded to the survey?

Maryse will be able to analyze option 1 and 2 from the list above, but she will not be able to analyze the results from John's team only since the report will not be able to generate results knowing that there are 4 or fewer respondents.

John, on the other hand, will not be able to see any results.

➡️ Filters in reports

By default when you first open a report, it will display data for all employees you have access to. Dynamic filters are available in each report to segment the results you want to see.


When a filter is applied, the results regenerate to reflect only the group you wish to analyze. A combination of filters can also be applied to see a specific segment, for example, we could try to understand the results of the customer service department for the Montreal office.

Therefore, there would be two filters applied and the results will be more accurate.

If the group analyzed has less than 5 respondents, then no results will be displayed. It will be necessary to analyze the customer service department and the Montreal office separately since the reports will prevent too precise a segmentation of the results.


Similarly, the Segments report will display data only for groups with at least 5 respondents:

In the example above, the departments in the red box all had 4 or fewer employees or a group of 5 or more employees, but for which there were not at least 5 respondents.

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