Whether your Navigatr profile and badge pages can be found through search engines like Google and Bing depends on when your account was created. Accounts created before 15 September 2026 are usually listed, which helps employers, colleagues and contacts find your achievements when they search your name. Accounts created on or after that date start hidden instead, and stay hidden until you clear the checkbox yourself. Check the setting below rather than assuming either way.
If you would rather your profile did not appear in search results, you can switch this off from your account settings. This article shows you where the option lives, what it does, and what to expect after you turn it on.
Which accounts are listed
When an employer or contact searches your name, your profile and badges are some of the strongest pieces of evidence you can point to. They show what you have learned, who recognised it, and when.
Since 15 September 2026, every new account starts hidden from search engines, whoever created it. That covers accounts people set up themselves and accounts an organisation creates for its members.
Accounts that already existed on that date were left exactly as they were, so for almost all of them the box is clear and their pages are listed. Being added to a community or provider does not change your setting either: if you already had a Navigatr account, it stays whatever you last chose.
Hiding your profile from search engines
You can change this setting at any time. There is one checkbox that covers your profile and all of your badge pages together.
Sign in to Navigatr and open Settings from your account menu.
Choose Data & Privacy from the settings menu.
Under Privacy Settings, tick the Hide my profile from search engines checkbox.
That is everything you need to do. The change is saved as soon as you tick the box, and you can clear it the same way if you change your mind.
What changes when you turn this on
With the box ticked, we tell search engines like Google and Bing not to list your profile or any of your badge pages in their search results. Both your profile and your badges are covered by this single setting, so there is nothing else to switch off separately.
One thing to know up front: search engines re-crawl pages on their own schedule. Your profile and badge pages may still appear in search results for a while after you tick the box, sometimes for days or weeks. There is no way to speed this up from inside Navigatr.
What this setting does not do
This setting is about search engines, not about who can see your profile.
Important note: Hiding your profile from search engines does not make it private. Anyone who has the direct link to your profile, or to one of your badge pages, can still open it. The setting only stops search engines from listing the pages. If you want those pages closed to everyone but you, that is a separate setting, in Settings under Data & Privacy: see Controlling Who Can See Your Profile.
If a specific badge is the reason you want a lower profile, you can remove that badge from your account rather than hiding everything. Learn how to do this in Claiming or Viewing Your Badge.
Tip: If your profile is still showing up in search results weeks after you turned the setting on, contact [email protected] and we will help you work through the options.