> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/applicant/backed-profiles.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

> This page uses Backed's default terms, such as Funding Round and Application Template. An organisation may rename them, so read each as your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

An applicant profile keeps the answers funders ask for, such as an organisation's legal name and
ABN or your own contact details, in your Backed account. Nothing in a profile reaches an
Organisation until you choose to share it, answer by answer. Your account shows two tabs for this:
`Applicant profiles` and `Sharing`.

These tabs appear only when applicant profiles are turned on. When they are off, your account
shows its usual tabs and nothing here.

## Before you start

Open your account: select your name, then `Manage your account`. You need nothing else: every
profile is yours alone, and no Organisation sees it.

## Create a profile

1. Open `Applicant profiles` and select `Create a profile`.
2. Under `Who is this profile for?`, choose `An organisation` for an organisation you apply for,
   or `Yourself` for when you apply as an individual.
3. Enter a `Profile name`. Only you see it; it helps you tell your profiles apart.
4. Select `Create a profile`. The profile opens on its own page.

## Answer the standard fields

A profile's page lists the `Standard fields`: the same questions, with the same labels, that a
funder's form asks when it uses a standard field. Answer the ones you want to keep, and leave a
field blank if you would rather not keep it here. Select `Save profile`. You see `Profile saved.`

If you have the profile open in two tabs and save in both, the second save is refused so that
neither overwrites the other. Reload the page to see the latest answers, then make your change
again.

## Delete a profile

Select `Delete profile` on the profile's page, then `Delete profile` again to confirm. The profile
and its answers are deleted from your account. Organisations keep what you already shared with
them, and your sharing register keeps its record of each share.

## See what you shared

`Sharing` is your sharing register. For each Organisation it lists each time you shared a profile,
shared an update or withdrew consent: the `Date`, the `Action`, the `Profile`, how many
`Answers shared`, and the `Notice` you agreed to. Select the notice to read the version you
accepted. Where the Organisation gave a privacy policy, its link is under the Organisation's name.

The register records which answers you shared and when, never the answers themselves.

To keep a copy, select `CSV` or `PDF` beside `Download register`.

## Share your changes with an Organisation

When you change an answer you already shared, the Organisation's entry in `Sharing` shows
`Update` followed by the Organisation's name.

1. Select it. You see only the answers that changed since you last shared.
2. Untick any you do not want to send, then select `Share changes`.

Nothing is sent unless you do this. When the Organisation already has your latest answers, its
entry says so.

## Withdraw consent

1. In `Sharing`, select `Withdraw` under the Organisation.
2. Select `Withdraw consent` to confirm.

Your profiles are not shared with that Organisation again unless you choose to share. The
Organisation keeps what you already shared, under its own privacy policy and retention. If consent
was already withdrawn, for example from another tab, the confirm says so and nothing changes.

## See also

- [Your profile](your-profile.md)
- [Registering](registering.md)