Title: Member Privacy
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Member Privacy

 *  Resolved [tvready](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tvready/)
 * (@tvready)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/member-privacy/)
 * Hello, are member profiles and directories truly private to the site? Meaning
   could search engines index these pages and profiles become publicly available
   via a google search?
 * If yes, how do I keep this from happening?
 * FYI I have yet to add Ultimate Member because its contingent on this information.
   Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/)

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 *  [ridethetides](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ridethetides/)
 * (@ridethetides)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/member-privacy/#post-7508515)
 * 1. Users can enable/disable “Profile Privacy” from their Account > Privacy tab.
   This can be set so “Everyone” can see, or “Only Me”
 * 2. Using Yoast SEO plugin, you can disable Author / User from sitemap. I am sure
   you could also add something to robots.txt to tell search engines to ignore your
   yoursite.com/member
 * 3. You can disable “Global Site Access” if a user is not logged in. This would
   prevent anyone not registered from accessing UM pages. UM > Settings > Access.
 *  Thread Starter [tvready](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tvready/)
 * (@tvready)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/member-privacy/#post-7508519)
 * [@ridethetides](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ridethetides/) Thank you 
   for providing numerous options. Makes total sense!
 *  [ridethetides](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ridethetides/)
 * (@ridethetides)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/member-privacy/#post-7508522)
 * Best of luck!
 *  Plugin Author [Ultimate Member](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ultimatemember/)
 * (@ultimatemember)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/member-privacy/#post-7508745)
 * Thanks for helping out on the forums ridethetides 🙂

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/member-privacy/#post-7508745)
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