Privacy Modes

Brightkite gives you fine-grained control over your privacy. You choose which of your activities other users get to see, and at which accuracy.

Whenever you are using Brightkite, you are in one of two privacy modes (public or private), which determines how your actions will be visible to other users.

Public

In public mode, anybody can see your checkins and posts, at full accuracy. This mode is great when you are out and about, and want to meet new people.

Private

When you're in private mode, only certain people can see your activities, and you can choose to restrict the accuracy that they see them at. We give you fine-grained control over who sees what in your privacy settings, but by default it works like this:

• strangers see your checkins at the city-level, and don't see your posts.
• friends see your checkins and posts at the city-level
• trusted friends see your checkins and posts at full accuracy

You can easily switch between public and private modes through the website or your mobile device.