Privacy and your profile

Certificates are the one exception you choose to share: anyone with a certificate's ID can see the name printed on it, the course and the date. See Certificates.

• Everyone gets an alias like SwiftFalcon482. You can change it any time on your profile under How others see you.
• Untick Show my alias on leaderboards and live activity to leave them. You're still counted, anonymously, as a dot on the study map, but never named.

• Friendships are mutual: one of you sends a request, the other accepts.
• People can find you only by your exact alias (and only if you show publicly), or through your personal invite link. Your real name and email are never searchable.
• Friends see your alias, avatar, level, streak, XP, which courses you're taking and how far along you are, and your recent milestones. They never see your notes, answers or scores.
• You can remove a friend at any time from the Friends page.

• The live study map shows roughly where people are studying: US state, or country elsewhere, worked out from your connection. Nothing more precise is ever stored.
• Page visits are counted without storing IP addresses, using an anonymous ID that changes every day, so a visitor can't be followed from one day to the next.
• Your study time is measured only while a lesson or exam is open in front of you, to show you your own stats.

• Your notes are visible only to you, on every device you sign in on.
• Your answers, scores, study profile and learning decay are yours alone.
• Problem reports you send include the slide or question you were on, so the Orivian team can fix it.