Abstract: A document assembly system includes a storage element (506) for storing one or more document templates. The document templates includes at least one document portion and one or more obscuring parameters associated with the document portion and the obscuring parameters specify at least one obscuring method for the document portion. The system also includes a processing element (508) communicatively coupled to the storage element. The processing element is configured for assembling a user document based on at least one of the document templates and at least one input from a user input device (502) and electronically publishing the assembled user document, where the published user document is obscured according to the obscuring parameters associated with the template and permissions associated with the user input device.