8. Account Settings & Privacy

In this Chapter

Account, notifications, language, appearance - customize your Notion settings to best suit your personal workflow. We'll explain all of your account options and how to change them.

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Account settings

You can update your profile image/avatar, name, email address and basic preferences on desktop. Updates you make to your account information affect all of your Notion workspaces ⚙️

Workspace settings

When you sign up for Notion, you can create multiple workspaces connected to your account. Each one can be customized to your liking with workspace-specific settings. Here's how to manage every aspect of an individual workspace 🗝️

Appearance settings

Looking to reduce eye fatigue? Want better contrast? Simply prefer an edgier look? Notion comes complete with dark mode 🌒

Notification settings

Notion is set up to notify you if you're mentioned in a page or database, for reminders, and when updates have been made to a page you care about. Below, we describe how notifications work, and how you can modify them 🛎

Language & region settings

Notion is used by people around the globe, so we're dedicated to making our tool accessible for everybody across our international community 🌍

Delete your account

No hard feelings - but we're sad to see you go! Here's how to delete your Notion account 🗑

Back up your data

Your data is safe in Notion. Everything is stored in the cloud, and we keep per-minute backups of your page content on our server. That said, your data belongs to you, so we've made it easy to create your own backups and keep your information portable 💿

Security & privacy

We know you've entrusted us with valuable data, and we take its security very seriously. Below, we've provided a deep dive into our security practices, protocols and tooling 🔒

GDPR at Notion

We're committed to complying with GDPR. Read on to access our DPA and for more details about our privacy practices 🇪🇺

Data access consent

Notion employees will only ever access your data for the purposes of troubleshooting problems or recovering content on your behalf, after hearing from you via email or in-app support chat with a request for help. Here's how you can grant access consent🚪

Report inappropriate content

To ensure the trust and safety of everyone who interacts with Notion public pages, we prohibit them from containing content that violates our terms of service. Anyone viewing public pages can report inappropriate content 🚨

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