Adjust a Policy

Requirement: You must own the project

Equalize the project

1. Navigate to the project.

2. Click the Policies tab.

3. In the Project Equalization section, click the toggle button on the far right to On.

1. Navigate to the project Overview tab.

2. Click the Add Purposes button in the center of the page.

3. Select the desired purpose(s) from the dropdown menu. The project must have one purpose with noise reduction for policy adjustments to function. Noise reduction is indicated by the policy adjustment amount highlighted in gray. If there is no policy adjustment shown, it is the default, none.

1. Navigate to the Policy Adjustment tab.

2. Select the data source from the dropdown menu. You will receive a No Adjustments Available message if there are no columns in the data sources that are associated with adjustable policies.

3. Select the columns from the dropdown menu.

1. In the priority ranking window, give weight from most to least important columns. The higher the weight the more usability will be provided, while still providing de-identification through the other columns.

2. Opt to select for specific columns.

3. After assigning the weight and ensuring that the remaining weight is zero, click the Adjust button.

After you ensure that your data source has two columns with k-anonymization policies applied,

1. Navigate to your project and click the Overview tab.

2. Click Add Purposes and select a purpose with a Noise Reduction and Fields in Clear tags, or create a new purpose with Noise Reduction and Fields in Clear enabled.

3. Click Save, and then click I Agree.

The values for the fields you selected will now be visible to users acting under the project.