Important: The Redact Tool is available free of charge but must be enabled in your registration code. If you have a need for this tool, contact Customer Support to have it enabled.
The Redact Tool lets you search for and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in hard-to-find or otherwise inaccessible areas of the PolicyTech database. These areas would typically not contain PII, but PolicyTech makes no determination of what is or is not PII. The Redact Tool lets you search these areas that could possibly contain PII and make that determination for yourself. You select a specific data type and the text you want to search for, and then the tool finds and replaces matching text with generic text that is not personally identifiable.
The redaction text is in the following format:
Redacted by User [unique PolicyTech-generated user ID] on [date]
Important: Be aware that the Redact Tool is destructive and use it with extreme caution. Redacted data cannot be restored and may break audit trails and reports.
To use the Redact Tool:
The data value is shown in Results with the redaction text in place of the original value.
Note: In the screenshot below, the redaction text is shown three times, once each for the user's first, middle, and last names that were redacted.