Privacy Settings

Merit lets you adjust various privacy settings inside your account. On this page you will learn about: 

• Your information and Merit
• Adjusting privacy settings
• Adding and removing family and friends
• Opting out of Merit

After you sign into Merit, you can adjust your privacy settings on the Privacy tab in the sidebar:

Your Information and Merit

For more information, please review Merit's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Privacy Settings

Your Merit Page was created for you by your institution in compliance with their FERPA policy, but you can control how people can discover your Merit page. 

You can adjust your privacy settings by checking or un-checking the option that says Make my Merit page searchable:

• If Make my Merit page searchable is checked, your Merit page can be found through the search feature on meritpages.com. It will also be searchable through Google and other search engines. 
  
• If Make my Merit page searchable is un-checked, your Merit Page will remain active, but only found by clicking a direct link, which you can provide to friends, family, and future employers.

• If Allow others to follow me is checked, your friends, family, employers, professors, and more can click the Follow button on your Merit page to stay up to date. They will receive an email when new content is added to your Merit Page. 
• If Allow others to follow me is un-checked, The Follow button will be removed from your Merit page. Other people will not be able to follow your successes through their personal Merit pages. They can still visit and view your page at any time. 

Learn more about Followers here.

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Adding and Removing Family and Friends

Merit will automatically let you know when an achievement has been added to your page. Your parents and other stakeholders can also be alert when your school shares your accomplishment. The email addresses that will automatically get notified when an achievement is added to your page will appear here:

You can add, edit or remove the email addresses that will receive an email alert when your Merit page gets updated by changing the text in the box.

If you remove an email from this box, you should also un-check to the Allow my college to edit these emails box. This will prevent your school from accidentally adding them back to your account.

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Opting Out of Merit

If you do not wish to have a Merit page at all, you can choose the Opt Out option to delete your Merit Page and all of its content. Your page will no longer be updated and you will no longer receive email notifications from Merit. To opt out, click the red Go to the Opt Out Page button:

This will direct you to a page where you will be asked to confirm the deletion of your account:

Please note that after opting out of Merit, you will no longer be able to access your account. If you would like to opt back in to Merit, please contact Merit help@meritpages.com.