Privacy settings

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Your Profile has a few settings that control who sees you and your flights. This article explains each one, and how to download or delete your data.

Your account is shared by every airline you fly for, so these settings apply at all of them.

Hiding from leaderboards and live maps

Open Profile from the menu (on the main site it's under Profile & password).
Open the Privacy tab.
Tick the options you want.
Press Save.

You'll see "Profile saved."

Leave me off leaderboards

When this is ticked, you're left off:

the Leaderboard, including its Butter board of the softest landings
Airport kings
the top pilots of Community goals and Team challenges
the airline's Duels results (your own duels still show on your Duels page)

Your flights, hours, points and rank still count as normal, and so do your goal and team totals. On the Leaderboard you'll see a note that you're hidden. You still appear on your airline's Roster for its pilots, but not on its public roster or in the latest flights on its website (see below).

Your airline's public pages and website

An airline can show a public roster and flight log, and boxes with its latest flights on its own website. Pilots who are off leaderboards aren't on the public roster or in those latest flights, and pilots hidden from live maps aren't in the flights in the air. Your name shows there only when your Public profile is on; otherwise only your pilot ID, rank and hub. The public flight log lists flights without any pilot.

Hide my flights from other pilots' live maps

When this is ticked, other pilots don't see your flights in progress on your airline's Live map or the live flights on its dashboard. Your flights are also left off the flight feed your airline can share with its own tools through its API. Your departures and arrivals aren't posted to your airline's Discord either, and other pilots can't download your flights' tracks (GPX or KML) or replay them from your PIREPs.

At an airline listed in the public directory, flights in the air also show on the live map on the Vaeroly home page, with the callsign, route and aircraft but no pilot names. When this is ticked, your flights aren't shown there either.

You still see your own flights, and your airline's staff still see them too.

Your public profile

Tick Public profile under Privacy on your Profile page and press Save to get a page anyone can open, at the address shown under the settings (you can pick your own, such as /pilot/captain-sam, in Profile address). It shows your name, the month you joined, and at each airline you fly for that's listed in the public directory your pilot ID, rank, hours, flights, average landing and awards, plus your passport and your recent routes with their dates. It never shows your email, VATSIM or IVAO number, Discord account, or a flight in progress. Search engines are asked not to list it unless you tick Let search engines find my page. If you're left off leaderboards, you're asked to confirm before it turns on. Untick the box to make it private again: the page stops working at once.

At the top, Flying on Vaeroly adds up the flights you flew and had accepted at those airlines: hours, flights, airlines, average landing and the aircraft types you flew. Hours typed in from elsewhere aren't counted. Shared on Discord, WhatsApp or X, the link shows a picture card with your name and these totals.

Emails

The Emails card on your Profile lets you turn off emails you don't need (announcements, comments on PIREPs, event reminders, reminders to keep flying) and turn on the ones that are off until you ask for them (a weekly summary, duel challenges and results, promotions and awards, news from your airline). Press Save email choices. Emails about your account, security and decisions on your own flights and requests always come. See Email notifications.

To change your email address, password or two-step login, see Your account: email, password and two-step login.

Flight card links

Share flight card on one of your PIREPs gives a link to a picture card of that flight, for Discord or social media. Anyone with the link can open it, for a year. If you shared one with the wrong people, press Revoke my share links in the Flight card links card on your Profile: every link made until then stops working. Share a flight again to get a new link.

Your stream overlay link

If you made a link in Stream overlay, anyone who has it can see your flight in progress or your last landing. Keep it private. If it gets out, press New link to replace it, or Switch off to stop it working.

Downloading your data

In the Your data card:

Download my data (JSON) gives you one file with your account, memberships, flights and comments, any notes an airline's staff wrote on your record, and the links to the screenshots you sent with flight claims.
Everything, with spreadsheet and screenshots (ZIP) gives you the same with a spreadsheet and the screenshots you uploaded before screenshots became links. Vaeroly doesn't store pictures you send now: they stay where your links point.

The page also links to the Privacy Policy.

Leaving an airline

Also in Your data, under Leave an airline, press Leave next to the airline and confirm. Open bookings at that airline are cancelled. Your flights stay in the airline's history, and if you join again later you get the same pilot ID back.

If you just need a break, take a Leave of absence instead.

Deleting your account

In Your data, open Delete my account.
Type DELETE and your current password.
Press Delete my account and confirm.

Your account is deleted 30 days after you ask. Until then you're signed out and taken off rosters and boards. If you change your mind, sign in again within the 30 days to keep your account.

After 30 days, your name, email, network IDs, Discord link, ACARS sign-ins and memberships are removed for good. Your past flights stay in airlines' statistics without your name.

If you own an airline, you have to hand it over to someone else first. See Handing the airline to a new owner.