Your Passport and who can see it

In Privacy you decide what your Passport shows.

• Public: shown on your Passport.
• Unlisted: not shown, but anyone with its link can check it.
• Private: only you can see it in your Passport.

You can also choose whether your country, city and affiliation appear, or hide your Passport altogether.

Privacy settings control your Passport. A certificate's own verification link still works for anyone you've given it to, because that's how it gets checked.

There are several separate visibility decisions

First, the Passport itself must be public for visitors to see the profile. Second, each certificate has its own visibility choice. Third, profile settings control additional details such as city, country, affiliation and search indexing. A public collection also depends on the applicable Passport and item visibility.

Set privacy in a useful order

1. Open Passport and decide whether the overall profile should be public.
2. Open Certificates and choose which records belong in the public portfolio.
3. Open Privacy and choose which profile fields and summary information visitors should see.
4. Check the default visibility for newly received certificates so future awards behave as you intend.
5. Open your public profile and any collection links while signed out to verify the result.

Hiding a portfolio is not revoking an award

Passport privacy controls your personal presentation. The issuer's verification record has a separate purpose: letting someone check a certificate they have been given. Making a Passport private or hiding a certificate there does not make a shared certificate's verification address stop working.

Likewise, turning off search indexing is a request about discovery, not a way to retract copies already shared or an instantaneous removal from every search engine. Use the most restrictive appropriate sharing settings before distributing a link.

Review the public page rather than assuming your signed-in view is what everyone sees. Your signed-in workspace can contain records and controls that are intentionally absent from the public Passport.