The Anonymous Responses collector option lets you choose whether or not to track and store identifiable respondent information in survey results. SurveyMonkey records respondent IP addresses in backend logs and deletes them after 13 months.
If you need your survey responses to be anonymous, you must turn on the Anonymous Responses setting before you send your survey. It’s not possible to make responses anonymous once you’ve already collected responses.
Web Links record the IP addresses of respondents by default.
To turn on Anonymous Responses:
Email Invitations are designed to help you track respondents, so your survey results will include the email address and IP address of each respondent by default. Additionally, the first name, last name, and custom data about your contacts is tracked, if you included this information in the collector.
To turn on Anonymous Responses:
TIP! Even if Anonymous Responses is turned on, you can still track email invitations. This info is tied to the email invitation, not to survey results.
By default, the Facebook Messenger collector doesn't pass any identifying information to SurveyMonkey, it only passes the survey responses.
By default, most collectors record the IP addresses of respondents in survey results. You can turn on Anonymous Responses to prevent IP tracking.
To turn on Anonymous Responses:
When Respondent Authentication is turned on, the survey is never anonymous because the survey taker’s SSO profile information is tracked.
Some integrations automatically create collectors in SurveyMonkey, like the Microsoft Teams integration. Whether a survey is anonymous or not is dependent on the integration's settings rather than the Anonymous Responses collector option.