Guide on Facebook settings and good practises

Then, if you go through the remaining fields you can change who you want to be able to see them. For your birthday, the settings are split between day/month and year, so that your friends can wish you a happy birthday without necessarily knowing your age. Your home town is important information about you, so we recommend you leave it empty or remove it.
To change the settings, click on the padlock icon appearing next to each field.

If you are using the Facebook App on your mobile phone, go to your profile and select Edit Public Details. Then spend your time going through each field. We used Education as an example, but all the rest work exactly the same

Post Settings

This section covers the settings you can apply to your posts on Facebook, mainly who can see them.
If you are accessing Facebook through your browser go to Settings > Privacy > Your Activity > Who can see future posts. We recommend you consider setting your default to Friends or Friends except… which is the same setting with exceptions you can manually add in case you don’t want some friends to be able to see your posts. When set to Public, all your posts can be seen by anyone on or off Facebook.

You can also set who you want to be able to see your friend list, or search your profile through your e-mail or phone number. We recommend you consider keeping these two to yourself.
If you are using the Facebook App go to Menu > Settings & Privacy > Settings > Privacy Settings > Who can see your future posts?

Reviewing third party apps with access to your data

Over years of using Facebook, you've likely given several apps permission to access your data stored on the platform. It's important to have control over who you want having access to your data - this is bigger than just having access to your profile. In this section we will look into how to manage third-party apps' access to your Facebook profile and vice-versa.
On your browser head to the upper right corner of the Facebook page. Click Settings and Privacy > Privacy. On the left side you should be able to see a field named Apps and Websites where you will see which apps currently have access to your data. If you click View and edit you can make changes on this list. We recommend you consider removing any apps that you don’t know or that you no longer use.

On the Facebook app, click the icon on the bottom right corner, scroll down and choose Settings > Apps and Websites. Then you can see which apps you’ve logged in with Facebook.

Minimising targeted ads on Facebook

This sections shows you how you can minimise the usage of your data for advertising recommendations on Facebook.

1. Go to facebook.com and log in.
2. Once logged in click Settings and privacy, then click Settings.

If you can access the Accounts Centre:

3. Click Accounts Centre > Ad preferences > Ad settings > Activity information from ad partners

If you can not access the Accounts Centre:

3. Click Ads > Ad Settings > Activity information from ad partners
4. Click Review setting and select No, don't make my ads more relevant by using this information.

Good practises

Updating your settings is important to protect your privacy, but the way you interact with Facebook can also expose a lot about you. In this section we present some simple practices to keep in mind when you are using the app.

• Don’t accept friend requests from unknown people.
• Let people know that you don’t want your picture posted without your consent.
• Don’t post photos of other people without their consent.
• Don’t post sensitive information in your photos or captions.
• Don’t reveal your location/make sure the location is not revealed by background details.
• Don’t use hashtags that may reveal private data (or the location).
• Be wary when posting photos of your kids on social media.
• If you log into your Facebook account from other devices (public / shared), make sure you log out every time.
• Take some time every now and then to review your settings and be wary when granting access to third-party apps.