---
title: "Profile"
description: "Where your name, email and photo in Pyn come from, where they appear, and what the profile menu in the corner offers."
sidebar:
  label: Overview
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area: account
feature: profile
appPath: /home
lastVerified: 2026-10-22
version: "2026-10-16"
audience: employee
related:
  - account/sign-in/sign-out
  - account/workspaces/switch-workspace
  - getting-started/roles-and-permissions
  - settings/general
---

Your profile in Pyn is the user record the workspace keeps for you: a display name, a preferred name, a primary email, a photo, a role and a status. You see it as the avatar in the bottom-left corner and as your row, marked **(You)**, under **Settings**, **Current Users**.

![The profile menu: the workspace name, then workspace, support and sign-out options.](https://support.pynhq.com/media/account/profile/account-profile-menu.png)

## Where your details come from

Pyn fills your profile from the account you sign in with. Google supplies a display name and photo at the first sign-in; Microsoft supplies them once you open its verification email; a magic link supplies only the email address, so the avatar shows the first letter of it. Pyn writes a value only when the field is empty, so a later sign-in with a different provider adds what is missing and leaves what is set.

Admins see the same fields in your row under **Current Users**: **User** (name and avatar), **Email address**, **Last Seen**, **Role** and **Status**. Selecting the row opens a panel with the full property list; the fields are read-only there.

## The profile menu

Select your avatar (labelled **Open profile**) to open the menu. The heading is the name of the workspace you are in. The items are:

| Item | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Create new Workspace** | Opens the form described in [Create a workspace](https://support.pynhq.com/account/workspaces/create-a-workspace/). |
| **Switch Workspace** | Lists the workspaces your email is linked to. See [Switch workspace](https://support.pynhq.com/account/workspaces/switch-workspace/). |
| **Contact Support** | Opens the Pyn support messenger in the corner of the page. |
| **Contact Sales** | Opens a request-a-demo form for upgrades and paid features. |
| **Exit Playground Mode** | Appears only in a playground workspace; returns you to sign-in and your own workspaces. |
| **Sign Out** | Ends your session. See [Sign out](https://support.pynhq.com/account/sign-in/sign-out/). |

## Your role and status

Your role (**Owner**, **Admin**, **Power User** or **User**) is set by the admin who invited you, or by a group mapping when your company signs in through SSO, and it decides which navigation items you see. Your status is **Pending** from the invitation until your first sign-in, then **Active**. An admin can archive your user, which removes your access to that workspace. [Roles and permissions](https://support.pynhq.com/getting-started/roles-and-permissions/) has the detail.

## Related

- [Sign out](https://support.pynhq.com/account/sign-in/sign-out/) for ending your session from the menu or by address.
- [Switch workspace](https://support.pynhq.com/account/workspaces/switch-workspace/) for moving between organisations.
- [Roles and permissions](https://support.pynhq.com/getting-started/roles-and-permissions/) for what your role lets you do.
- [General](https://support.pynhq.com/settings/general/) for the Current Users list admins manage.