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Hello,
My project is composed of two Surveys (A and 😎, which need to be linked. At the end of survey A, participants will be redirected to a third survey where they will be asked for their email addresses on which they will be sent (through an email trigger) the link to survey B. All three surveys (A, B and email survey) are linked through an ID code set as embedded data.
In order to protect participants' privacy, I would like participants' responses to the email survey to never be recorded by Qualtrics, so there is no way to identify their responses through the ID code. I know that if I avoid adding embedded data to the email survey, then the ID code won't appear in the recorded responses, however, by adding the embedded data to the survey, I'll be able to identify participants' responses, which I would prefer not to be possible at all.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks in advance!!

Hi MaVi ,
Not sure if this would work but I would test out enabling the Do Not Record Response option in the custom EOS in the Survey Flow.
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Hi Matthew,
Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, by checking that option, the email won't be triggered because the email addresses won't be recorded. Also, if I subsequently un-check that option, the responses to surveys that were previously not recorded will appear.
Thanks anyways for your suggestion!

I haven't tried it, but instead of using a Qualtrics question to ask for email, you could try creating your own html input then save it to an embedded data field using JS. Then pipe the embedded data field into the email trigger. As long as you don't define the embedded data field in the survey flow it won't be recorded. The question is whether it exists long enough to be piped into the trigger.

I wonder if this question was ever answered.  I have the same problem.  I would like to ask participants to enter a date, but I want the date to not be recorded on the output file, but I would still like to use the date.

I was thinking of trying to use embedded data to overwrite the variable at the end of the survey, once it has been used.  But I have not yet done so and hoping more experienced people will offer advice.

I can confirm this works.  

I found that this solution works.  You can collect the data and use it, and then overwrite it with embedded data at the end of the survey.  Almost a miracle.   

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