Patent ID: 8694577

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a social network website, a request to access an application from a user; identifying a third-party application server associated with the request; determining a user profile associated with the user providing the request to access the application, the user profile including a user identifier; transmitting the user identifier, user data associated with the user identifier, and the request to access the application to the third-party application server; receiving, at the social network website, a request for data included in the user profile from the third-party application server; evaluating a privacy setting associated with the user profile, wherein the privacy setting determines whether one or more items of data included in the user profile is shareable with the third-party application server; comparing the request for data included in the user profile to the privacy setting associated with the user profile; and transmitting the requested data included in the user profile to the third-party application server subject to the privacy setting.