Title: Privacy Setting For Certain Fields?
Last modified: October 10, 2016

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# Privacy Setting For Certain Fields?

 *  [cyrjm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyrjm/)
 * (@cyrjm)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/privacy-setting-for-certain-fields/)
 * Just want to know if I’m missing something here, is it possible to allow members
   to pick and choose fields that are private? For example, I’m asking for their
   phone and email upon sign up. If a member doesn’t want their phone number displayed
   in the Member Directory, do they have the ability to turn that off? Currently
   I only see an option to either hide a profile completely or make it visible. 
   Is this possible out of the box or is it possible with some custom development?

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 *  [borisv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borisv/)
 * (@borisv)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/privacy-setting-for-certain-fields/#post-8272358)
 * Yes, that would require customization. However, have you tried this? You can 
   create 2 telephone number fields: one for those who wish to publish a number 
   and another one for those who don’t. For those who don’t want their numbers visible,
   you, in the edit field of that telephone number text box, can have in ‘Privacy’
   settings: “Only visible to profile owner and admins”. Then in the text box for
   those who want to publish a number, you would have in the ‘Privacy’ settings:“
   Everyone”.
 * Yes, this means having the users type their numbers twice.
 *  Thread Starter [cyrjm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyrjm/)
 * (@cyrjm)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/privacy-setting-for-certain-fields/#post-8273615)
 * Thanks for your reply…I’ve actually decided that I’m going to use Gravity Forms
   for the user registration and then have it sync up with UM. I’m doing this because
   of the Zapier integration and that’s important for my client.
 * With that being said, would I still be able to achieve something as simple as
   having the member select which fields they want displayed via customization? 
   Do you know any good devs that are experienced in UM that I can reach out to?
 *  Thread Starter [cyrjm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyrjm/)
 * (@cyrjm)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/privacy-setting-for-certain-fields/#post-8276637)
 * Hey Boris…saw you deleted your reply, I’ll still try what you suggested and see
   if I can make that work. However, in the interest of time and if you’re available
   for hire or have anyone you can suggest I’d love to just get my custom GravityForm
   done and working with the privacy option finished. It’s for a church so I’ll 
   have to see if my budget allows for it of course.

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