ETO Support maintains strict data security protocols to protect your participant data. We are HIPAA and FERPA complaint and continue to audit and improve upon all our security standards. We ask that ETO users follow our data privacy measures to continue to Personally identifiable information (PII).
Although ETO is secure and our support team is trained in data security measures, we want to ensure the external tools we are using (Email, Chat, Portal, Screenshots, and Attachments) do not contain Personally identifiable information (PII).
To maintain data security we recommend following these steps when working with SSG support or internal.
What is Personally identifiable information (PII)?
Any combination of these that could identify someone specifically:
First name
Last name
Social Security Numbers
Date of Birth
How do I protect against revealing PII when communicating with support?
Reference ETO Participants and Entities by their case number.
Use Case Numbers as a searchable field in ETO.
Mask SSN in ETO.
Remove PII from screenshots.
Check documents before sending it to support. Any combination of First Name, Last Name, SSN, and DOB should be removed.
You may use encrypted/password protected files to send PII.
File > Protect Document > enter a password then save the file.
Send the file in one email
Send the password in a follow up email.
What if I accidentally send PII to support?
Our support team will remove PII from emails, case comments, chats, or other correspondences. Our support team will log any reveals of PII internally.
What if I have no way to communicate without revealing PII to support?
A zoom session will be the best way for support to see your screen without revealing PII through an email or screenshot.
We will offer a Zoom session and recommend you use Case Numbers to identify participants in the future.