# Data Source Confusion between Google Sheets and Airtable

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-confusion-between-google-sheets-and-airtable/1870015
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** design
**Created:** [May 10, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-confusion-between-google-sheets-and-airtable/1870015 "2022-05-10T13:59:48Z")
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### Author: ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-confusion-between-google-sheets-and-airtable/1870015/2 "2022-05-10T14:02:17Z")

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If you are storing sensitive data, use Firebase and have users sign up and sign in. Set the Firebase rules to only allow access to each user’s data for the signed in user.

This is a related discussion:

> [@Ensuring user privacy](https://community.thunkable.com/t/ensuring-user-privacy/1867522):
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> Hi Thunkers, I am making an App which lets users complete a health assessment or ‘functional rating scale’ and store their data to see changes over time. I am wondering if anyone has info about how to make sure I’m ensuring best practice is being followed for storing user data? Is it okay to save user’s medical data to a Google Sheet for example? Is it okay if I would (theoretically) have access to this data? I have started trying to figure out Firebase. Perhaps this is a more secure way? Wo…

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