Your answers are yours.
Full stop.
Someone at your company just sent you a StaffHero survey, and you're wondering: "is this actually anonymous, or anonymous-with-an-asterisk?" Fair question. Here's the honest, technical answer.
What your employer sees
- Team-level scores — and only when at least 5 people have answered
- Patterns, like "4 people mentioned workload" — never which 4
- How many people responded in total
What they can never see
- Your name, or any link between you and an answer
- Your individual scores or your written comments with your identity
- Whether you specifically answered, beyond the overall count
- Your IP address, device, or location — we don't record them at all
"Trust us" isn't good enough.
So it's built into how StaffHero works.
Your name is never attached to what you say
StaffHero keeps a private reference for one reason only — to stop double-voting and to route anonymous follow-ups back to you. It's never shown to your employer, on any screen, export or report.
Your employer never sees who said what
Who said what is stripped out in code before anything reaches your employer — every report, export and drill-down runs through a privacy layer they can't switch off.
Small groups stay hidden
Scores stay hidden until at least 5 people in a group respond, and comments until at least 7. Nobody can be identified by elimination — not even on a team of six.
Things people ask before clicking
The link in my email is unique. Doesn't that identify me?
The link only tells us which survey to show and stops you being surveyed twice. Your answers are stored apart from your identity, and your employer never sees which link or person an answer came from — that's enforced in StaffHero's code, not left to a setting.
Could my writing style give me away in comments?
Comments are only shown once at least 7 people in your group have answered, and never next to a name — so no one can tell who wrote which. We don't edit what you write, so if you want to stay unidentifiable, avoid naming yourself or describing something only you could know. The AI brief summarizes the patterns across comments.
What if a leader asks a follow-up question?
Follow-ups ("clarification threads") reach respondents anonymously. You appear only as "Participant A" — a label that lives inside the thread and is never linked to your name.
So should I actually be honest?
That's your call — but StaffHero is built so your honesty stays anonymous to your employer. And honest answers are the only way the problems you see actually get fixed. That's the whole point.
Want the deeper technical detail? Read our Security & Anonymity page. Still unsure? Ask whoever sent you the survey to share this page with the whole team — it works better when everyone knows the rules.