privacy-settings/Privacy Settings/Facebook-Privacy-Settings.md

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Facebook Privacy Settings

Login to Facebook from browser.

Click dropdown arrow on top right and go to Settings & Privacy > Settings

General

Contact

  • Allow friends to include my email address in "Download Your Information": Off
  • Remove phone number if added

Security and login

Setting up extra security

  • Get alerts about unrecognized logins: select Get Notifications and Get Emails

Your Facebook information

Off-Facebook activity

  • Clear history > Clear History
  • More Options > Manage Future Activity > Manage Future Activity > Future Off-Facebook Activity > Turn Off

Privacy

Your activity

  • Who can see your future posts?: Friends
  • Who can see the people, Pages and lists you follow?: Friends

How people can find and contact you

  • Who can see your friends list?: Friends or Only me
  • Who can look you up using the email address you provided?: Only me
  • Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?: Only me
  • Do you want search engines outside Facebook to link to your profile? > Allow search engines outside of Facebook to link to your Profile > Turn Off

Profile and tagging

Profile

  • Who can see what others post on your profile?: Friends

Tagging

  • Who can see posts that you're tagged in on your profile?: Friends

Reviewing

  • Review posts that you're tagged in before the post appears on your profile: On
  • Review tags that people add to your posts before the tags appear on Facebook?: On

Location

Location History

  • Turn on Location History for your mobile devices?: Off

Apps and websites

Remove anything you don't use

Ads

Advertisers

If any advertisers shown, click Hide Ads

Ad topics

Click See Fewer for all of them

Ad settings

  • Data about your activity from partners > Use Data from Partners: Off
  • Categories used to reach you > Turn Off all
  • Categories used to reach you > Interest Categories and Other Categories. For both > Remove all (if too many, remove as many as you can, or do it over a period of few days)
  • Ads shown off of Facebook > Off
  • Social Interactions > Only me


Remove any personally identifiable info like phone numbers, email, location etc from your Facebook bio.