Privacy settings

Your privacy is important. MyDiary gives you complete control over who can see your diary entries and personal information.

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Core privacy principles

MyDiary is built with privacy in mind:

1. You own your data - All diary entries belong to you
2. Explicit control - You choose the visibility for each entry
3. Friend-based sharing - Only accepted friends can see your public content
4. No public profile - Your entries are never visible to non-friends

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How entry visibility works

Every entry you create has a visibility setting that determines who can see it:

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Public visibility

Who can see it: All users who have an accepted friendship with you Who cannot see it:

• Users who are not your friends
• Users whose friend request you haven’t accepted
• Users to whom you’ve sent a pending friend request

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Private visibility

Who can see it: Only you Who cannot see it: Everyone else, including all friends Private entries are completely hidden from all other users and only appear in your own feed.

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Friends-only visibility

Who can see it: Only the specific friends you select when creating or editing the entry Who cannot see it:

• All other friends not in your selection
• All non-friends
• Even users who can see your public entries

This is the most restrictive sharing option and gives you granular control.

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What friends can see

When someone is your friend (accepted friendship), they can: ✅ See your public diary entries ✅ See friends-only entries where they were specifically selected ✅ See your name and profile picture They cannot: ❌ See your private entries ❌ See friends-only entries where they weren’t selected ❌ See entries you created before you became friends (unless you gave them access) ❌ Edit or delete your entries

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What non-friends can see

Users who are not your friends cannot see: ❌ Any of your diary entries (public, private, or friends-only) ❌ Your friend list ❌ Your profile details beyond basic information They can only: ✅ Find you in the Profiles search ✅ Send you a friend request

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Controlling your friend network

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Before accepting friend requests

Consider these questions before accepting a friend request:

• Do you know this person?
• Are you comfortable sharing your public entries with them?
• Do you trust them with your personal thoughts?

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Removing friends

When you remove a friend:

1. They immediately lose access to your public entries
2. They lose access to any friends-only entries you shared with them
3. You lose access to their public and friends-only entries
4. The friendship is removed from both sides

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Privacy best practices

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Entry-level control

MyDiary’s privacy model is entry-level, not account-level:

• Each entry can have different visibility
• You can mix public, private, and friends-only entries freely
• Changing one entry’s visibility doesn’t affect others
• You can update visibility at any time

This gives you maximum flexibility to share different aspects of your life with different people.

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Image privacy

Images attached to diary entries follow the same privacy rules as the entry text:

• Public entries show images to all friends
• Private entries hide images from everyone except you
• Friends-only entries show images only to selected friends

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What MyDiary does NOT do

To protect your privacy, MyDiary: ❌ Does not share your entries on external social networks ❌ Does not sell your data to third parties ❌ Does not make your entries searchable by search engines ❌ Does not show your entries to users who aren’t your friends (even if set to public) ❌ Does not allow friends to share your entries with others

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Data ownership and deletion

You maintain full ownership of your diary entries:

• You can edit any entry you’ve created
• You can delete any entry at any time
• Deleted entries are permanently removed
• No one else can modify or delete your entries

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What’s next

Now that you understand privacy in MyDiary:

• Create your first entry
• Manage your friend list
• Learn about sharing options