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Features that protect against a survey being taken more then once from a single computer

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March 12, 2009


RK

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A problem that I have encountered with other surveying programs is that the person taking the survey is able to change the settings on his/her browser to a setting that allows for him/her to take the survey as many times as they wish from that computer. This, obviously, can compromise the validity of the survey. Firefox, for example, gives you the option of always clearing private data when you close the browser. This is a great security feature, but, in many survey programs, allows the user to take a survey as many times as he/she wishes, there by enabling the user, if he/she were to choose, to sway the survey in any direction. So, my question is this: Is there some kind of setting or feature in Survey Gizmo that takes this problem into account? Is there a definite way to keep people from taking the survey more than once at a single computer?

12:30
March 13, 2009


jonathan

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Hey, RK!

It sounds like the security that was used before was cookie based, basically, settings saved into someone else's browser that could be erased. With SurveyGizmo we offer that, plus two other ways to restrict your survey takers. The second is an IP address restriction that prevents someone from taking a survey twice with the same IP address (basically, their “address” on the internet). Finally, you can also use our email invites feature to send out invitations to survey takers, restrict your survey so that only people you have invited can take the surveyand enable the link to act as a “Save & Continue” function, so it saves their information and they can only take it once.


Hope this helps!

Jonathan Turk, SurveyGizmo Account Manager
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12:36
March 13, 2009


RK

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Thanks Jonathan




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