Privacy settings for member profile page

Each member can control who can see which field on Member profile page. As administrator you can control these settings as well. Please respect the privacy of your members and keep in mind the privacy laws of your region.

Each member in your database has a personal webpage - so-called 'member profile page'. This page can be made accessible to other people on your website - and they can find and access it via a Member directory.

Access to this page can be turned on or off by the administrator - and then adjusted for some individual member records - by administrator and by member himself.
Furthermore, administrator can set the default settings for each field - which apply to all new records. Each member can change these settings specifically for his own record. And administrators can also change these settings for individual records if necessary, see View and edit memberships. Changing these settings will also effect how a member is displayed in the Member Directory, and wheter their name is displayed on Blog Posts and Comments, Forum posts and Replies, and in the List of Registered Attendeesfor an event.

Individual Privacy Settings

To change the privacy settings of a single member go to the member record and click on Privacy:

Default Privacy Settings (And applying them to all existing members)

The Member Profile Page defines the default settings for new members and can also be used to make bulk changes to the privacy settings for all members.

To access member profile page go to Settings > Membership Settings > Member profile page:

This page consists of two main parts:

• Access by others: here you can set the following:
  (a) Member profile page access: this defines whether it is shown at all or hidden
  (b) If it is set to be shown, here you can define access level for each field:
  • Anybody - Shown to anyone viewing this page
  • Members - Only shown to logged-in members (all levels) viewing this page
  • No Access - Hidden from the public or other members
• Fields to use as page title: here you can define up to 3 fields used as the page title in the member profile.

Changing privacy settings

To change the settings, click on [Edit]:

Click [Save] to save your changes or [Cancel] to exit without saving.

Note: To update privacy settings for all existing members you must make at least one change, otherwise the current settings would only apply to new members.

Applying changes to all existing records

Whenever you change the settings, you have the choice to

• only have the settings applied to all new profiles (i.e. members who join after you make the changes), or
• re-apply to all existing profiles as well.

In the first case you will have members that can have different fields displayed on their profile. In the second, all profiles will display the same fields. If you choose to re-apply to existing profiles, it will override any changes to profile permissions that members might have made on their own.

For example, the above settings will cause a member profile in the member directory to look like this:

The same settings can also be accessed via Customizing your member database and Customizing your contact database fields Member can change what fields to display in his own public profile - See: [Member - edit profile]