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Privacy options in ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Profiles

Control what is included on your ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº public profile.

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Profiles is ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's public profiles service, and is the public layer of RPS. It is possible to control what data is displayed on your public profile using the privacy settings in RPS. There are a number of different privacy configurations available: theÌýmain scenarios are covered below. Your public profile will be updated within a few minutes of making changes in RPS.

How to hide your entire profile from public display

This option will make your profile available only to ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº colleagues who have access to RPS. Log in to RPS, and chooseÌý'Edit my profile' on the right of the homepage. View the status of your public profile at the top of the page. SelectÌý'Internal'.

Screenshot showing the setting to hide a profile in RPS.

How to hide individual data fields on your profile from public display

This option allows you to keep your profile available to the public, but hide certain biographical details (for example phone numbers, appointments, webpage links etc.). Log in to RPS, and chooseÌý'Edit my profile' on the right of the homepage. Scroll to the field that you want to hide, click Edit, then change Privacy from 'Match profile level' to 'Private', then Save.

Screenshot showing the setting to make a profile data field private in RPS.
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How to remove particularÌýpublications, professional activities, or teaching activities from your public profile

This option allows you to remove items from relevant lists in your public profile.ÌýLog in to RPS, and click on the relevant tile on your homepage:Ìý

  • Click on Publications to remove a publication from Publications > Outputs on your public profilesÌý
  • Click on Professional activities to remove an entry from Experience & expertise > Activities & rolesÌýon your public profile
  • Click on Teaching activities to remove an entry fromÌýTeaching > Teaching activities on your public profileÌý

Use the filters on the right of the page to identify the publication or activity that you want to remove.ÌýClick on the globe icon:

Image of the globe icon that brings up object privacy settings in RPS.

Set Relationship privacy to 'internal'.Ìý

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Screenshot showing the privacy settings for an object in RPS

This will hide your relationship with the item in question, while still allowing others (e.g. co-authors of a publication) to be associated with it.ÌýChanging privacy for a publication will affect whether it is sent to ORCID, if you have elected in RPS to populate ORCID with your RPS publications. The relationship privacy must be set to public in order for the publication to be sent to ORCID. To manage what publications are suggested as belonging to you in RPS, review your RPS search settings.