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Who can see what

Access in Relae is decided by two separate things: what your organization’s plan includes, and what role each person has.

Admin. Everything, including settings, billing, receipting configuration, team management, and the data and privacy choices.

Manager. All donor work, plus the team views: everyone’s activity, the full pipeline, the scorecard across all officers.

Officer. Donor work. Records, notes, tasks, their own portfolio and worklist. On the scorecard they see their own line rather than the team’s.

Viewer. Read only. No edits, no exports of the whole database, no settings.

Every person in your organization can see donor records, apart from what their role restricts. Relae is not built to hide donors from colleagues inside the same small shop, because in a shop of three that would create more problems than it solves.

If you need someone to have no access to donor records at all, do not give them an account. Use a shared campaign view instead.

A read-only campaign view shows progress against goal and nothing else. No donor records, no names, no giving histories. It needs no account.

For most board members this is the right level. A development committee working named prospects is the exception, and giving them accounts is a decision worth making deliberately.

Custom properties from your imports are never shown in a shared client view, whatever they contain.

A consultant working across several clients has a separate workspace per client with no shared donor pool between them. Data does not travel between client workspaces. See working across multiple client organizations.

Relae staff access to customer data is restricted and is for support and operating the service. The Data Processing Agreement sets out the terms, including confidentiality obligations and what happens with sub-processors.

Removing someone ends their access immediately.

Their recorded work stays, attributed to them. A contact report is a record of something that happened, and deleting it because the person left would remove your organization’s institutional memory.

Individuals have rights over personal information held about them under Canadian privacy law, including the right to ask what you hold.

Your charity is the organization responsible for answering such a request, since the records are yours. Relae holds them for you. Exporting everything covers how to get a full copy of what is held.