FAQ for the "Your Profile" feature

Your IMDb Profile is a collection of your activity on IMDb from your ratings, reviews, lists, Watchlist, Check-ins, polls, and badges you earn based on your interaction with IMDb.

See also: What's the difference between an IMDb page and user profile?

If you mark your Watchlist, lists, ratings, etc. as private, we'll respect your setting and it will only be visible while logged into your IMDb account. To quickly view what's been marked as private, we recommend viewing your Profile while logged out of IMDb.

Even if your lists and ratings are marked as private, summaries of that data may be aggregated and visible as badges or other recognition. When your information is public, you get access to additional features - like the ability to compare your ratings against other IMDb users. See Col Needham's profile for an example.

Badges are accomplishments worthy of earning a badge.

Everyone has a Tenure badge based on how long they have had an account on IMDb, and other badges are either automatically assigned or earned. Available badges are on our Badge Detail page.

• We currently do not have the ability to retroactively issue badges based on lists, so if you've already rated all these films, simple remove and rerate one of the films and the badge will be issued
  
  
• The badges may take as along as 24 hours to issue
  
  
• If you unrate one of the films on the list the badge will disappear within 24 hours
  
  
• There is currently no notification for a badge issuance

The section will appear when you add something to the Watchlist or "Check-In" for the first time.

To change your ratings privacy, click your name from the right hand of the screen and select "Your Ratings" from the drop down menu. On the "Your Ratings"page, use the "Public" on/off toggle to update your privacy setting for this list.

On the IMDb mobile app, navigate to your IMDb profile by tapping in the bottom banner, tap "Account", then "Privacy settings". You may be prompted to sign-in to verify any update to these settings. From there, you will be able to select whether your Ratings are Public, Private, or Public only with reviews. Once you've selected your preferred privacy setting, tap "Save".

You'll need to update the privacy settings for each individual list.

Select your name from the right hand of the top banner and click "Your Lists" from the drop down menu, select and view your list, then use the "Public" on/off toggle to update your privacy setting for this list.

On the IMDb mobile app, navigate to your IMDb profile by tapping in the bottom banner, tap "Lists" and choose the list you would like to update the privacy settings for. Tap the padlock icon to update the privacy settings for this list.

Navigate to your Watchlist, then use the "Public" on/off toggle to update the privacy setting for your Watchlist.

On the IMDb mobile app, navigate to your IMDb profile by tapping in the bottom banner, select "Watchlist". Once you are viewing your Watchlist, tap the padlock icon to update the privacy settings for your Watchlist.

Navigate to your Check-Ins, then use the "Public" on/off toggle to update the privacy setting for your Check-Ins.

Recent Polls are currently always public and cannot be made private.

If you set your ratings to public, and visit someone else's profile that also has public rating, you can see an interesting chart on how their tastes compare to yours. Here's our founder Col Needham's profile.

The page will do a Pearson Correlation between two user's ratings and display a statistic about how much your tastes overlap. Note that this feature is under development and the number could change.

It will also display a set of films for which your ratings diverged from each most dramatically.