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title: Define Email Tracking Settings
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description: You can control whether Account Engagement tracks email opens, which are based on a tracking pixel in your HTML email sends. Email opens are tracked in all business units by default, but an admin can change the setting in each business unit as needed. Other settings are provided for click tracking and Advanced Email Analytics data tracking.
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# Define Email Tracking Settings

You can control whether Account Engagement tracks email opens, which are based on a tracking pixel in your HTML email sends. Email opens are tracked in all business units by default, but an admin can change the setting in each business unit as needed. Other settings are provided for click tracking and Advanced Email Analytics data tracking.

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d61477e43 ">To turn email tracking settings on or off:</td>

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1. Open the settings for your business unit.
    - In Account Engagement, click ![the Settings icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-mktg-pardot-264-0-0-production-enus/5fef4d4f-9a34-45c6-8cd3-e3200b9eeba8/pardot/images/pardot_settings_icon.png) and then select **Settings**.
    - In the Lightning app, select **Account Engagement Settings**.
2. Click **Edit**.
3. Select and deselect the tracking options as needed.
    - To turn off email open tracking, deselect **Track all email opens**. This turns off both pixel-based open tracking and implied open tracking based on link clicks.
    - To turn off other email information tracking in a business unit that includes the Advanced Email Analytics add-on, deselect **Track Advanced Email Analytics**.
    - To stop tracking link clicks through an Account Engagement tracker domain, deselect **Track email clicks**.
4. When prompted, confirm your selection, and then save your changes.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-mktg-pardot-264-0-0-production-enus/5fef4d4f-9a34-45c6-8cd3-e3200b9eeba8/images/icon_note.png)

Note Custom redirects continue to work even if you turn off link click tracking.