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Data Privacy

Key Core Privacy Features

Germain UX provides robust privacy controls to help protect sensitive data. It supports three main approaches—masking, anonymization, and exclusion—to ensure data security and compliance with privacy standards such as GDPR and PCI. Each method offers flexibility based on your organization's privacy requirements, whether you need to obscure data, analyze it securely, or prevent it from being collected at all.

Feature

Description

Masking

Replaces real values with ***. Preserves or randomizes length and whitespaces based on settings.

Anonymization

Converts real data into hashed values, protecting user identity.

Exclusion

Prevents sensitive data from being collected, transmitted, or stored.

AI-Driven PII Detection

Automatically detects and flags sensitive fields (e.g., user.name, sessionId) for review.


Masking

  • Definition: Converts sensitive values into "***" before storing or transmitting.

  • Usage: Ideal for keeping the structure of the data while hiding the actual content.

  • Options:

    • Preserve Length: Maintains original character count (admin → *****)

    • Preserve Whitespace: Keeps space characters (This is a test → **** ** * ****)

Anonymization

  • Definition: Replaces actual values with a hashed version.

  • Usage: Suitable for analytics where re-identification must be avoided.

  • Example: admin → a1f5d4e3...

Exclusion

  • Definition: Stops sensitive data from being collected, stored, or sent.

  • Usage: Best for highly confidential fields like SSNs or credit card numbers.

  • Example: Entirely skip data collection for those fields.

Privacy Dashboard Navigation

How to Access

  • Go to Germain Workspace

  • Navigate to: Left Menu > Analytics > Data Privacy

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Detection of Stored PII

Lists all unprotected data fields identified as potentially sensitive. More details here.

Configured Exclusion

Shows what fields are already anonymized, masked, or excluded. More details about Configured Exclusion.

Form Privacy and UX Monitoring Profile view

Predefined set of rules to exclude from collection sensitive user information entered in form elements. More details Form Privacy and UX Monitoring Profile.

Service: Management

Feature Availability: 2020.1 or later

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