Fillable forms do not operate correctly

I have created a form in Designer 7.0 and published it to our internal system. When someone opens it in Acrobat Reader and starts to fill it in, the information disappears. The name can be typed in and is visible until you tab to the next fill-in and it disappears. What am I doing wrong?

I have no clue what is happening here. Can you email me the form to [email protected] ?

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