Typeform + Data Alias: Protect Typeform responses, open-text answers included
Why use Typeform with Data Alias
Open-text answers are where respondents name themselves, their manager or their company. They are the answers most worth analysing and the ones to protect first.
How it works
Data Alias doesn't connect to Typeform. Typeform's API doesn't accept requests from a browser, so a connection would have to route your original records through a Data Alias server — and Data Alias never does that. So the export stays your step: export the data from Typeform, drop the file into Data Alias, and everything after that happens in your browser.
What it does
- Read a CSV or XLSX download in your browser
- Find emails, phone numbers and credential patterns inside open-text answers
- Alias identifying columns consistently
- Keep one row per response, in the original order
How to use it
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Download the responses
In Typeform, download the responses as a CSV or XLSX file.
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Drop the file into Data Alias
The file is read in your browser tab. It is not uploaded anywhere.
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Review the open-text answers
Answers with detected emails or phone numbers are suggested for protection. Read the free-text columns yourself before you rely on the result.
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Download the safe copy
Row order, column order and empty cells stay as they were. Use it in an AI tool, or keep the mapping to restore real values later.
What moves where
- What reaches Data Alias servers
- Nothing from the file.
- What reaches Typeform
- Nothing. Data Alias never contacts it.
- What stays in your browser
- The original file and the alias mapping.
- Permission you grant
- None. There is no account link.
Limits worth knowing
- Detection is pattern-based and suggests rather than decides. Review the columns and free text before you rely on the safe copy.
- Files are limited by your plan's size and row limits — see pricing.
Why isn't there a direct Typeform connection?
Typeform's API doesn't accept requests from a browser, so a connection would have to route your original records through a Data Alias server — and Data Alias never does that. A file export keeps your original data out of our servers entirely.
Is anything sent to Typeform?
No. Data Alias has no connection to Typeform and makes no request to it.
Will it catch a name typed inside a free-text answer?
Emails, phone numbers and credential patterns inside text are detected. Names written in a sentence are suggested only by the optional in-browser name detector, and it won't find every one — review free-text columns yourself.
Data Alias reduces exposure risk but cannot guarantee detection of every sensitive value. Every transfer passes the same review as a download — check the result before you send it. How connected services are handled.