General Settings

There are several options in General Settings to choose from. These include checking whether or not this report will be used for pre-employment purposes e.g., Fair Credit Reporting Act (in the US only), how many years of history you would like to analyze, where to send notifications regarding report status, and finally whether or not Ferretly should do a surface web scan for your subject.

This guide will walk you through more details regarding the various options.

Step 1: Open General Settings

To format your reports, click Settings in the left navigation. The button may appear as a gear icon depending on your screen size.

The Settings page will open. Click General Settings in the left panel.

Step 2: Select Report Profile

Use the dropdown in the top right corner to select which report profile you are creating report settings for. Each profile can have its own unique report settings.

Your settings are automatically saved to the report profile as soon as you change them, so be sure to select the correct report profile or create a new report profile in the beginning.

Here’s a quick breakdown of your options:

FCRA Compliant Background Check. This option places limits on post history and also dictates to a certain extent what can be included in your report.
If you are outside of the United States but plan on using Ferretly reports for pre-employment purposes, we recommend you uncheck the FCRA option. Unchecking this option will allow you to include additional information in the report of a statistical nature. Please be aware of your federal and/or state/provincial laws pertaining to the use of statistical information in your reports.
Limit post history. If FCRA is unchecked, then you can choose to limit the years of history to include in the analysis, or leave black for unlimited.
Email the background report upon complete. This allows you to specify an email address where all notifications regarding status are sent. If this is unchecked, no emails will be sent regarding the status of the social media report run.
There are two types of events which can trigger an email notification that a run is complete. If your organization has analyst assistance and you assign the subject to an analyst, you will be notified it's complete only when the subject is Marked Redressed. If you run the subject yourself, then you will be notified when Ferretly is done processing the initial results. In this case, you would be responsible for performing redress on the subject and marking the subject redressed.
Include web/news posts on background check and report. When checked Ferretly will perform a web and news search for any articles pertaining to your subject and include a section in your report specific to articles found. Ferretly uses the subject's country and/or region in order to perform the search. If the subject does not have a location, then Ferretly will perform the web search in the United States only.