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Hello,

new to buddypress and attempting to add some user profiles to our company website.

Is there a way to set permissions on buddypress? We are trying to add user profiles to our company site. What we want to do is allow users(our customers) to sign up, but we want to restrict the ability to view members and send private messages to only the admins. How would I go about doing this in buddypress? When I take away the members page, the ability to see/edit/view profiles is taken away as well.