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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 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:
- Name - If this is a new profile, enter the name of the profile to be displayed in the Privacy Profiles pane of the Privacy Tab. If you are editing a profile, the name of the profile displays; you can change the name of this profile in the Name field.
- Show My User Status to - Specifies the users who are allowed to see your status
- Block Instant Messages from - Specifies the users who are blocked from seeing your status.
- Nobody - No one is blocked from seeing your status.
- Anyone Not in my Contact List - Only users in your contacts list are not allowed to see your status.
- All Users Except Users In - Only users in a specified contact group are not allowed to see your status.
- Only These Users - Only specified users are not allowed to see your status.
- OK button - After the privacy profile changes have been made, click OK to save the changes, and exit the New/Edit Privacy Profiles window. The changes become effective immediately.
- Cancel button - Cancels any changes you have made but not yet applied.
- Help Button - Displays this Help topic.
To Add/Edit Privacy Profiles
To add/edit a privacy profile:
- 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.
You cannot edit the Visible to All profile.
- Determine which users are allowed to see your status in Show My User Status To.
- Determine which users are blocked from seeing your status in Block Instant Messages From.
- Click OK to save the changes, and exit the New/Edit Privacy Profiles window. The changes become effective immediately.
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