Can you make comments private?

[Tech-nol]

Can you make comments private? i.e I want to send PDF to A&B via the cloud, but I don't want A to see B comments and vice versa. Is this doable? 
So is there no way to 'segregate' participants? I am wanting to share a file with people who I do not want to be able to see other participants' comments. So what is the point of sharing I hear you ask? I want to share with internal staff, but only want external invitees to comment/mark up without seeing the internal discussion about what they have to say, as it may be 'sensitive'. We don't want 2 versions of the document, one internal and one external. We just want to have more control over what information is available to read.

[AnandSri · Accepted solution]

Hi there!

I hope you are doing well.

I believe you are referring to a shared review initiated via Document Cloud web or Adobe Acrobat. When its a shared review, then comments can't be done privately. Everyone (receivers) would be participating in this shared review and comments would be seen by all. Shared reviews are the most collaborative form of review because participants can read and reply to the comments of other participants.

To know more about Shared review and commenting, please take help from these articles:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/how-to/send-share-pdf-file-review.html 
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/participating-pdf-review.html 

Hope this answers your question.

Thanks,
Anand Sri.