# Profile picture being imported - from where?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-picture-being-imported-from-where/42882>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 20, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-picture-being-imported-from-where/42882 "2016-04-20T14:41:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![steko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-picture-being-imported-from-where/42882/2 "2016-04-20T15:17:09Z")

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> [@Kevin\_McKinney](#):
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> I’m not importing anything beyond username, name, email address

The email address is used to match [Gravatar](https://en.gravatar.com/) profiles, but you can change the setting `automatically download gravatars` if you like.

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