Security and Permissions

Top-Notch Survey and Data Security

The security of your surveys and data is our top priority. That’s why we’ve equipped Checkbox Survey with multiple layers of security and given you complete control over your survey’s functions and access.

Checkbox Online Survey Security and Permissions

View More ScreenshotsCheckbox permissions can be configured at multiple levels and include options such as start and end dates, total response limits, and limits per respondent.

Survey admins can also choose to make a survey public, password protected, controlled by an access list, open to all registered users, or available by invitation only. All permissions options are explained in the Survey Launch Wizard.

Survey admins can also choose from options such as allowing respondents to pause and resume or anonymizing all responses, regardless of whether respondents are logged into Checkbox as registered users..

Multiple Levels of Security

Surveys can be created with a variety of access types, including public, password protected, registered users only, or custom access control list (only specified users and groups). Administrators can also disable the ‘password reset’ option or set surveys as anonymous, even forregistered users.

Role-Based Permissions

With Checkbox Survey’s User Management functionality, role based permissions can be used to give administrative users access to only what they need. For example, each Survey Administrator can edit their own surveys and grant other users permissions to them if they choose, while System Administrators can edit any survey.

Survey-Level Security

Checkbox Survey allows you to configure an array of security options for each survey, including respondent permissions (public, password protected, registered users, or access control list), behavior of the browser back and forward buttons, survey start and end date, and the maximum number of times the survey can be taken.

Application-Level Security

Checkbox allows you to set permissions independently for features, including survey manager, folders, reports, libraries, and invitations. To facilitate the configuration of security, Checkbox Survey comes preconfigured with security settings for many common user roles (e.g. survey administrator and report administrator). And with Active Directory/LDAP support, integrating with existing security infrastructure is effortless.

Set Response Limits

Surveys can be configured to limit the total number of responses, the number of responses per respondent, and the survey start and end dates.

Cookie or Cookieless Sessions

Checkbox supports cookie-based authentication and cookie-less authentication. The cookie name can also be changed to allow for multiple installations on the same hardware.

SSL Support

All areas of Checkbox Survey support industry standard SSL encryption, allowing for secure communications between the browser and web server.

Active Directory Integration

(Server Edition only) Checkbox can integrate with Active Directory (NT Domain) via LDAP to authenticate users for both the administrative functions as well as for taking surveys.

Log-in & Password Restrictions

Checkbox offers System Administrators complete control over the user log-in process. Enhanced password restrictions allow you to configure password lengths and non-alphanumeric character limits. Lock-out options offer the ability to set a maximum number of consecutive failed login attempts before locking a user out of an account. If desired, System Administrators can even manually lock a user out of an account.

Available Surveys & Reports Pages

The Available Surveys page provides a secure location for your respondents to access only the surveys that have been made available to them. Respondents are shown a list of the available surveys in one convenient window without needing to enter your account’s Survey Manager. In addition to Available Surveys, Checkbox offers an Available Reports page where users can view any reports they have been granted access to.