Manage Default Location, Privacy and Stewardship Settings

Learn how to manage default Location Visibility, Post Privacy and Stewardship Settings. These settings will automatically be applied to all of your future posts.

1. Tap Explore.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Privacy.
4. Turn on/off Shareable for Facebook and Twitter.
5. Tap Location Visibility and select your preferred option.
   • Show Location. Once a post is Uploaded, an icon will appear on the SIKU map at the location where the post was made. This icon is visible to both the person who made the post and anyone at the Privacy level the user selected. The location coordinates will also be visible in the post.
   • Hide Location. Once a post is Saved, an icon will appear on the SIKU map at the location where the post was made. This icon will be visible only to the person who made the post and no other SIKU users. Any user who tries to view the location will receive an error notification that this information is not available.
   • Approximate Location. The user selects a kilometer range for a ‘Location Mask’ and a large red circle containing the post’s true location is added to the map, visible to anyone at the privacy level the user selected for the post. The circle is not centered on the location of the post
6. Tap Privacy and select your preferred option.
   • Standard. Anyone on SIKU can view your post.
   • Medium. Anyone on SIKU can view your post summary but details are restricted to tagged users and members of tagged projects.
   • High. Access to your post is restricted to users tagged in your post, members of stewarded projects, as well as administrators of tagged projects and organizations.
   • Max. Access to your post is restricted to users tagged in your post and administrators of tagged projects and organizations.
7. Turn on/off the Stewardship options.
   • Indigenous Stewardship. Allow your tagged community’s affiliated Indigenous organizations to steward this post for the benefit of Indigenous self-determination.
   • Ice Watch Stewardship. Improve ice safety for Indigenous communities by making Ice Posts publicly visible and contributing ice condition data to products such as hazard maps and the SIKU Ice Map.
   • Open Access Stewardship. Allow 3rd party partners who agree to SIKU’s Terms of Use including respect for Indigenous knowledge to download this post’s metadata.