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Adding/Editing Privacy Profiles

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Add/Edit Profile Overview

With privacy profiles, you can determine which users are allowed to see your user status and which users’ Instant Messages should be blocked. The Add/Edit Profile window enables you to add or edit privacy profiles. See Privacy Tab for more information.

To view this window, select the New Profile button on the Privacy Tab in the User Settings window or select a profile other than Visible to All, and click the Edit button.

The Add/Edit Profile window contains the following items:

To Add/Edit Privacy Profiles

To add/edit a privacy profile:

  1. In the Name field, create or edit a name for a privacy profile that will display in the Privacy Profiles pane of the Privacy Tab in User Settings.
  2. You cannot edit the Visible to All profile.

  3. Determine which users are allowed to see your status in Show My User Status To.
  4. Determine which users are blocked from seeing your status in Block Instant Messages From.
  5. Click OK to save the changes, and exit the New/Edit Privacy Profiles window. The changes become effective immediately.

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