To control who can see the content you share, check out the "Sharing on Join Patients First" section of the Privacy Settings page. You can choose one of the four simple privacy setting groupings:
Recommended: Share some information with Everyone (e.g., all, status and photos; bio and favourite quotations; family and relationships), some information with Patients of Patients (e.g., photos and videos you are tagged in; religious and political views; birthday) and some information with Patients only (e.g., comment on posts; contact information)
Patients only: Share all your information with Patients only.
Patients of Patients: Share some information with Patients of Patients (e.g., Wall, status and photos; bio and favourite quotations; family and relationships; photos and videos you are tagged in) and some information with Patients only (e.g, religious and political views; birthday; can comment on posts; contact information).
Everyone: Share all your information with everyone on the internet.

You can further customize the settings you choose by clicking "Customize settings."

If you haven't changed any of your settings, then the "Recommended" group of privacy settings will apply to you by default. If you'd like to select a different grouping, highlight the name of the grouping you want and click "Apply these Settings."

For the most part, no. But some privacy options have been reorganized and certain settings have been combined (e.g., hometown and current city are now one setting). In this case, your new setting will be the most restrictive of any of these former settings. For example, if everyone could see your current city, but only Patients could see your hometown, this setting will now be Patients.
The Privacy page has been simplified, and in that process, some settings have been consolidated.
You now have the option of selecting one easy-to-use master setting to control all of the content you share.
Full privacy settings for connections to all Pages, including those representing Interests, Work, etc., are now available.
If you choose, you’ll now be able to turn off Platform applications and websites completely, and it’s also easier to turn off our pilot Instant Personalization program. View the "Applications and Websites" section of your Privacy page for more information.
The amount of information that's open to everyone has been limited to your name, profile picture, gender and networks.

If you chose to list information for current city and hometown, it is now controlled by one setting, which you can view and adjust from the "Basic Directory Information" section of your privacy settings. Similarly, interests, activities and other things I like are now controlled by one setting, called "Interests and other Pages." You can also view and adjust this setting from the "Basic Directory Information" section of your privacy settings.

In the process of combining these settings, if you previously had chosen different settings for each of these profile categories, then the most restrictive of the settings you chose will be respected. For example, if everyone could see your current city, but only Patients could see your hometown, this setting will now be Patients.

The settings for information that falls under the "About Me" section on your profile (e.g., Relationship Status or Family) remain granular. To view or edit these settings, follow the "Customize settings" link in the "Sharing on Join Patients First" section. Selecting the "Customize" option from a settings drop-down will enable you to open or restrict content from individual people.

Email address suggestions are determined in one of two ways. Either the text before the "@" symbol in the address matches the same text in your primary Join Patients First email address. Or, you clicked on a link in an email we sent to one of your Join Patients First email addresses while you were logged in to Join Patients First.

As always, adding a new email address to your account is completely optional.

What basic information is open to everyone?
To help real-world Patients find you, your name, profile picture, gender and networks are always open to everyone.

You can control who can add you as a friend or send you a message from the "Basic Directory Information" section of your Privacy page. To get there, follow these steps:
Choose the "Privacy Settings" option in the Account drop-down menu at the top of any Join Patients First page.
Select "View settings" in the "Basic Directory Information" section.
Change the settings for "Send me messages" and/or "Send me friend requests."

By default, your privacy settings allow everyone to find you in a search. However, when people click on your search listing, they won’t be able to see all of the information in your profile. They will always be able to view your name, gender, profile picture, and networks. Any additional information that they can view when they click on your search listing is determined by your privacy settings.

You can control who can find you in a search by restricting your privacy settings through the Privacy Settings page. Select the "View settings" link in the "Basic Directory Information" section. From there, you can restrict who can search for you on Join Patients First. You can also control how people can contact you once they've found you.

You can control who can see your contact information from the from the "Customize settings" section of your privacy settings. To get there, follow these steps:
Choose the "Privacy Settings" option in the Account drop-down menu at the top of any Join Patients First page.
Select "Customize settings" in the "Sharing on Join Patients First" section.
Scroll down to "Contact Information." You'll be able to adjust each type of information individually.

Minors (anyone under 18) who use Join Patients First have a slightly different experience with privacy than adults. Both adults and minors have some basic information (name, profile picture, gender and networks) appear when people navigate to their profile. This information may be accessed by applications that they and their Patients use. Adults and minors both appear in search results on Join Patients First. However, minors do not have public search listings created for them.

The "Everyone" setting works differently for minors than it does for adults. When minors set information like photos or status updates to be visible to "Everyone," that information is actually only visible to their Patients, Patients of Patients, and people in any verified school or work networks they have joined. The only exceptions are for "Search for me on Join Patients First" and "Send me friend requests", where if the minor has set those to Everyone, we respect the Everyone setting.

There are three types of content on your Wall, and you can control who can see them by following the instructions below.
Posts your Patients leave. Posts, comments, and other things your Patients leave on your Wall are controlled by a group of settings in the "Sharing on Join Patients First" section on the Privacy Settings page. To adjust these settings individually, follow the "Customize settings" link and scroll down to the "Things others share" section.
Posts you create. Status updates, photos, links and other things you post are controlled by the "Posts by Me" setting in the "Sharing on Join Patients First" section on the Privacy Settings page. Follow the "Customize settings" link to adjust this setting individually. Keep in mind the "Posts by Me" setting is a just default for things you post. You always have the option to adjust the privacy for individual posts before you share them by clicking the lock icon directly from the Publisher.
Recent Activity. These stories are determined by the privacy setting of the content itself. For example, if someone would already be permitted to see a particular photo and comments, then they would also be able to see the Recent Activity story about you making a comment on the photo. While you cannot completely turn off recent activity stories, you can remove a particular story by clicking the "Remove" button that appears to the right of the story after you move your mouse over it.

There are two ways to hide your Friend List on your profile:

From the Privacy Settings page
Follow the "View settings" link under the "Basic Directory Information" section of the Privacy Settings page. Adjust the "See my friend list" setting.

Directly from your profile
Click the pencil icon in the Patients box on your profile. Then, click "Change Visibility Settings."

Your Join Patients First Profile URL (i.e., link) will always be available to people visiting your profile page. However, it will not allow them to access information that they are otherwise restricted from seeing. This includes any information or content for which you have restricted privacy settings.