The links and annotations that you post to PennTags are publicly associated with your pennkey username, which can be traced to your full name. Please consider privacy when you decide what to post and whether to make it private. By default, your posts are accessible to anyone on the Internet. This includes your friends, family, professors, potential employers, and strangers. Unless you make them private, PennTags posts will appear in search engine results, and may be used in library publications.

When you make a post private, your post and the associated tags will not display in Penntags unless you are logged into Penntags as the owner of those posts. However, we cannot guarantee that posts will be absolutely unfindable, as they are not passed over a secure connection. We offer the private posts as an option, but encourage you to refrain from posting to Penntags (or any other public website) information of a private nature.

You can make an individual post private by checking the "make private" box at the time of posting, or later by editing the post. You can also make a group of posts private by turning on the "action tools," selecting a set of posts, and making the whole set private. Screenshot

If you would like to make some of your posts visible only to a select group of Penn users, you can add add them to a private project. To do this, create a project (link to project help) and invite your collaborators, at least at the viewer level (link to collaboration help). Once you have identified the project and the collaborators, add posts to the project and mark them private. These posts will only be visible to project collaborators when they have logged into PennTags