Help > Privacy
Although Goodreads offers a private profile option, all book reviews are public and viewable on the book page. This means reviews are also indexed by search engines. If you would prefer not to see your reviews in a search of your name on search engines, you should make your last name visible to "friends only" on your "edit profile" page.
You can make your location private in your account settings. On the "profile" tab, find the "location viewable by" option and select "friends only" or "no one". Make sure that you save your settings on the bottom of the page before navigating away!
Reviews can be displayed on our partner sites only if you have that option turned on in your privacy settings. You can easily opt out of this. Here's how:
1) Navigate to your "edit profile" page.
2) Select the "settings" tab.
3) Uncheck "allow partners of Goodreads to display my reviews".
We require all members to submit their birthday during the registration process in order to screen out potential users who might be underage. This is a requirement of all social networking sites. Federal law (COPPA) has dictated that the legal age of consent to participate in a social networking site is thirteen years old. This isn't only a Goodreads rule, but a United States law. As such, we must ask for your birthday when you sign up.
