All members have an individual Profile page where they can provide select personal information in profile fields.
Admins can set default privacy settings per profile field in order to establish community-wide ("global") privacy defaults.
NOTE: Members can set to whom their personal information is visible by managing the individual privacy settings on their Profile > My Account > Privacy Settings page (see Privacy Settings in Manage Your Profile Preferences for more information). These individual privacy settings override the default privacy settings.
Access your default privacy settings
- In the Admin Toolbar, click Admin.
- Navigate to Users > Profile > Privacy Defaults.
Manage default privacy settings
Here, you can individually manage the default privacy settings for the profile fields.
TIP: Remember, these are default settings; they can be overridden by members in their personal profiles.
On this page:
- The Name column lists your profile fields.
- You can enable/disable a profile field by checking/unchecking its Active box.
NOTE: Disabled profile fields do not display on members' profiles. - For each profile field, select one of the privacy-setting options as its default.
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Nobody - Personal information in a member's profile is visible only to that member.
NOTE: On member profiles Privacy Settings, this option might be labeled Only Me for some of the profile fields; the functionality is identical. - My Contacts - Personal information in a member's profile is visible to that member and that member's contacts.
- Members Only - Personal information in a member's profile is visible to all Community members.
- Public - Personal information in a member's profile is publicly visible, even to non-Community members.
NOTE: If you add profile fields on the Admin > Users > Demographics page, be sure to set your preferred preferences here. See Profile Demographics to learn more.