# Selective Public Profile > Pick a username and your map and statistics get their own address. Your profile stays private until you make it public. - URL: * Private until you make it public * Your own address with the username you pick * Your map, trips, statistics, and collections for visitors to see * Tax residency numbers that stay hidden from visitors Public Profile is one switch in your account settings. Until you turn it on, only you can see your map, trips, and statistics, and turning it off makes your profile private again right away. A profile is either private or public, with no friends-only mode in between. ## Make the Profile Yours Choose a username and your profile gets an address like lugara.me/@yourname. Add your name, a photo, a short bio, your website, and your Instagram, and visitors see your profile in the theme color you picked. [Lugara Product Brief #2](https://lugara.me/log/product-brief-02) covers the photo and the appearance settings. ## Visitors See Your Travels A public profile shows your globe in the style you picked, your trips and places, your statistics, and your collections. Your tax residency numbers never appear on it. Anyone with the address can see your public profile, and its trips are also available as JSON at the same address with .json added. Search engines leave profiles out of their results, so people find yours through the links you share. See what a public profile looks like on [@nicoroams](https://lugara.me/@nicoroams) and [@meretzaugg](https://lugara.me/@meretzaugg), or [start your own profile](https://lugara.me/auth/signup). ## Read More - Docs: [Make Your Profile Public](https://lugara.me/docs/make-your-profile-public): Your profile stays private until you switch it to public, and your tax residency days stay private even then. - Docs: [Export Your Trips](https://lugara.me/docs/export-your-trips): Download everything you've recorded in Lugara whenever you like. - Log: [Pick a Style for Your Globe](https://lugara.me/log/globe-styles) (2026-10-06): The globe on your profile now comes in multiple styles to choose from. ## More Features - [Delightful Travel Map](https://lugara.me/features/interactive-travel-map): Every trip you add lands on a beautiful and interactive globe. You'll see at a glance the countries you've been to, the cities you visited, and the routes between your stops. - [Blazing Fast Trip Entry](https://lugara.me/features/blazing-fast-ai-assisted-trip-entry): Write where you went, when, and how you got there in one sentence. You get the trip with its city, dates, and transport worked out, whether it lies behind you or ahead. - [Travel Statistics and Insights](https://lugara.me/features/travel-statistics-and-insights): See how many days you've spent away, how far you've traveled, and which places you keep going back to. Your Exploration Score sums up how you travel and gives you a traveler type. - [Collect Countries and Continents](https://lugara.me/features/collect-countries-and-continents): Every new country adds its flag to your pin collection, and every continent gets a card that fills up as you go. One look shows how much of the world you've covered. - [Tax Residency for Nomads](https://lugara.me/features/tax-residency-for-nomads): See where you spent the most days each year, and which countries reached 180 days. Only you can see these numbers, even when your profile is public. - [Sync With Your Social Profiles](https://lugara.me/features/sync-location-with-social-profiles): Turn on GitHub sync and the location on your GitHub profile follows your trips. Every few hours, it changes to the city of the trip you're on. - [Data Stored in the European Union](https://lugara.me/features/data-privacy-in-the-european-union): Your trips live on servers in the European Union, under the GDPR. Nobody buys your data, and you can export every trip whenever you like.