FAQ - Accounts and Packages of Service

Yes, you can use LiveJournal for free. You can also upgrade to an account with Professional package of service. Some users have an account with Permanent package of service. All LiveJournal accounts can use LiveJournal core features, such as posting entries and comments, customizing journal appearance, and participating in communities. All account types can also purchase additional userpics. Users of accounts without additional packages can purchase up to 15 additional userpic spaces, while users of accounts with Professional and Permanent package of service can purchase up to 210 additional userpic spaces. For additional features, you can purchase an account with Professional package of service (benefits).

When your account with Professional package of service expires, your account will revert to the level you had beforehand. You will no longer have access to any premium features, and the expiration will have different effects on any premium features you have previously used.

Accounts with Professional package of service help keep LiveJournal in business. To show appreciation for users who have made contributions, a number of premium features are only available to users with accounts with Professional package of services.

Advertising is displayed on LiveJournal to certain account levels to support site operations and to ensure that there is an account level available to users free of charge. In exchange for viewing and displaying advertising, Account without additional packages of services gain features and storage space in a manner similar to accounts with Professional and Permanent package of service.

Account without additional packages of services provides access to LiveJournal's extra features for free, subsidized by advertising appearing on the LiveJournal system pages and the account holder's journal.

After trying the Account without additional packages of service, you may want to upgrade to an account with Professional package of service for access to additional features and higher limits.

LiveJournal uses user-provided information to select the ads that appear for Account without additional packages of service users and most visitors to Account without additional packages of service journals. In particular, ads are displayed based on the user's gender, age, location, interests, or a small portion of public page contents. Ads are targeted according to information about the author, the viewer, and general demographics about LiveJournal as a whole.

Your email address, any personally identifying information, and protected entries are never shared with advertisers or partners. LiveJournal and its advertising partners may use browser cookies to improve the precision of ad selections for users. LiveJournal does not store personally identifiable information in its cookies, nor do we allow our partners to do so.

This FAQ has been merged with FAQ 379.

LiveJournal offers the ability to log in with your credentials from a number of other external sites. You can log into LiveJournal using your other site's account in one of two ways:

• From the Home Page, click the Facebook icon () or Twitter icon (). You can also log in from Google () and other supported sites, as well as sites that support OpenID (), by clicking the select more button () and choosing the appropriate service. From the next page, click the "Login" button for the site you wish to use. You may be directed to that site to authorize logging into LiveJournal with your username and password.
• When posting a comment to a journal, click the drop-down menu with the LiveJournal userhead to select the site you wish to use to comment. Type your comment and click "Submit", then follow the prompts to log into your other account.

All accounts that use your identity from another service to allow you to comment on LiveJournal are known as identity accounts. Identity accounts use a trust relationship between LiveJournal and the identity service to allow you to comment on LiveJournal using an identity others will recognize without having to create a standard LiveJournal account. LiveJournal does not gain access to your password for the identity service and the identity service does not gain access to your LiveJournal password if you have one.