Control over participant data stored in Pavlovia database

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Dear all,

when storing participant data in the database (instead of storing it in the project repository), would it be possible to add a feature that lets us delete all data in the database without deleting the project?

I know privacy and safety is a big concern for you but I’m asking since the ethics and data protection people might not like participant data being stored on ‘third-party’ servers.

Ultimately, it would be great if there was a way to automate this process: mirror participant data locally and have it deleted from the Pavlovia database in a set interval.

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Yes, actually I was coming to the same conclusion that we could provide a method for data to be auto-forwarded to an alternate server. Some people (e.g. Germany and Canada) are apparently not permitted to store data outside their countries at all.

@apitiot this is definitely something we should think about - providing a installable server option that would receive data from Pavlovia rather than Pavlovia using a mongodb or csv file

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