Settings
Encrypt personal data in your survey
About encrypting personal data LimeSurvey can encrypt personal data before it is written to the database, so that names, email addresses and sensitive answers are unreadable to anyone reading the database directly. It is switched on per field, not ...
Set up an anonymous survey
About anonymous surveys An anonymous survey is one where nobody, including you as the administrator, can tell which answers came from which person. Switch on Anonymized responses and LimeSurvey never writes the link between a participant and their ...
Overview: Survey settings
About the survey settings Everything about a survey that is not a question lives in the panels behind the icons of the left toolbar. The Settings panel, behind the gear icon, holds the survey-wide options in five pages. Changes are saved as you make ...
Survey permissions
About survey permissions Survey permissions give another user of your survey site access to one survey, without access to the rest of the site. Use them for colleagues who edit, translate, invite participants or look at results. The user must already ...
Schedule your survey and control access
About publication and access These settings decide when your survey can be taken and what stands between a visitor and the first question: a start and end date, a listing on your public index page, a cookie against repeated participation, and ...
Notifications and data
About notifications and data These settings decide what LimeSurvey stores with each response besides the answers, whether participants can save and come back, and who gets an email when a response comes in. Open them with the gear icon in the left ...
Participant settings
About the participant settings The participant settings control how people from your participant list and their responses are handled: anonymity, coming back later, answering more than once, registering themselves and the emails they get. Open them ...
Add a privacy policy
About the privacy policy A privacy policy tells participants what you collect, why, where it is stored and how long you keep it. LimeSurvey can show it on the welcome screen with a checkbox that participants must tick before they start, and can link ...
General settings
About the general settings The general settings hold the basics of a survey: its languages, who owns it, who sends its emails, where it sits in your workspace and how its questions are split into pages. Open them with the gear icon in the left ...