Your birthday

Joinue shows the day and month of your birthday to people you're connected with. It sits among the details on your profile and on their calendar, and around the date it can show up on their home screen so somebody who knows you gets a chance to say something.

What is never shown

• Your birth year, and your age. Neither is ever shown to anyone, anywhere.
• Your birthday to anyone outside your connections. This does not change with your profile visibility: even a public profile shows it to connections only.

Turning it off

Open Privacy settings and switch off Share your birthday. Your profile and your connections' calendars stop showing it, and nobody gets a reminder. Nothing else changes, and you can turn it back on whenever you like.

If the date is wrong

You can correct your date of birth once yourself, in Privacy, under Date of birth. After that, write to legal@joinue.com and we'll sort it out.

Whose birthdays you'll hear about

Your calendar shows every connection's birthday that they share, and its Show control can hide them all. The reminders on your home screen are rarer: only people you're close to, and only around the day itself, so it stays a handful a year rather than a running list. Putting somebody on your Radar means you hear about theirs a few days ahead, which is enough time to actually do something about it.