Tumblr

Tumblr is available to individuals who are 13 and older. No individual under the age of 13 may use Tumblr.

By creating an account, you agree to comply with Tumblr's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.

Default privacy settings for users aged 13+

By default, your privacy settings are set so:

• your blogs are all public and primary blogs cannot be made private. However, you can adjust your settings to make a secondary blog private.
• your blogs are locatable by Gmail and Facebook contact integrations, as well as your email address.

Right: an example of how to locate blogs on Tumblr.

Adjust your privacy settings

Making your blog private

You can make a Tumblr blog private by protecting it with a password. This means other people will have to enter a password to view your blog.

Right: an example of how to password protect your blog on Tumblr.

To make a secondary blog private you can select the Password protect this blog box that appears when you create the blog.

Searchable by your registered email address

You can opt out of being searchable by your registered email address. To change this setting, you can:

1. log into your account
2. select the gear located in the top tool bar
3. unselect the Let people look me up by this address box located underneath your email address
4. Click Save.

Right: an example of how to opt-out of being searchable by your registered email address on Tumblr.

Blog settings

When you create a blog, Tumblr allows you to control:

• who can write replies to you
• if people can ask you questions
• if people can submit posts
• if search engines can index your blog.

To access these settings, you can:

1. log into your account
2. click the gear located in the top tool bar
3. click the name of your account on the left side.

Right: an example of how to adjust Tumblr's blog settings.

To report a violation of Tumblr's Community Guidelines, you should send post permalink examples to abuse@tumblr.com to help with our investigation.

Right: an example of how to block a user on Tumblr.

For violations of copyright, you may submit a report at tumblr.com/dmca, or email a report to dmca@tumblr.com.

Blocking a user

You can do so from a number of places within Tumblr.

• From your mobile or web dashboard, open the user's blog by clicking or tapping on the avatar, then go to the user menu (the little human), and select "Block."
• From your blog settings page on the web, just click the pencil to edit your blocked users then type in the user that you want to block.
• From your mobile or web inbox, click or tap the three dots, then "Block" (or if you're on Android, click or tap the X on any message).

Note that if the message was sent anonymously, it isn’t necessarily associated with any particular account, and so there may not be a specific user behind them that you can block.

You can, however, permanently block the IP address the message came from. Any further anonymous messages sent from that address will never see the inside of your inbox.

If you're receiving these anonymous messages from multiple IP addresses, you can disable anonymous messages or even disable the Ask feature entirely in your blog settings. If you need help with any aspect of Asks, check out this help document).

What happens when I block someone from my blog?

• They won't be able to follow your blog.
• They won't be able to send you fan mails or asks to your blog. 
• They won't be able to see your blog's posts in their Dashboard.
• They won't be able to like or reblog your blog's posts.
• Your blog won't show up in their search results.

Just a note for anyone with secondary blogs: when you block someone, you'll be blocking them from a specific blog on your account, not all of them. If you want to block someone from all of your blogs, then you'll have to add them to each block list.

Tumblr is free to join and use.

For a fee, Tumblr offers optional features such as premium custom blog themes.

Right: an example of Tumblr's optional premium themes.

• Tumblr's Help Center provides general help information
• Tumblr's Privacy Policy outlines its privacy guidelines
• Tumblr's Terms of Service outlines its requirements and practices
• Tumblr's Community Guidelines outlines the general behavior for members.