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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.

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

To display a results report, the established confidentiality threshold must be met. The recommended threshold is 5 respondents; however, this number can be adjusted as needed to any value between 3 and 50 respondents.

If the analyzed group has fewer respondents than the established confidentiality threshold, no results will be displayed.

However, the results of this group 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.

Let’s take an example where the confidentiality threshold is set to 5 respondents.

Maryse is a manager overseeing a team of 6 respondents. Among them is Jean, who also acts as a manager for his own team of 5 respondents.

Maryse will therefore have access to the results of 11 people if all employees have completed the survey (6 respondents reporting directly to her and 5 respondents 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 respondants, or of these 5 respondants, only 4 had answered the survey?

Maryse will be able to analyze options 1 and 2 from the list above, but she will not be able to analyze the results from John's team 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.

There would be two filters applied, and the results would be more accurate. However, if the group analyzed has fewer respondents than the established confidentiality threshold, no results will be displayed. In this case, you will need to analyze the customer service department and the Montreal office separately.


Similarly, the Segments report will only display the data for groups having met the established confidentiality threshold:

In the example above, the departments with a data label "Not enough answers" all had fewer respondents than the established confidentiality threshold.

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