diff --git a/content/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address.md b/content/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address.md
index 7c33a06336..d7b5298ae4 100644
--- a/content/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address.md
+++ b/content/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address.md
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ To ensure that commits are attributed to you and appear in your contributions gr
 
 {% note %}
 
-**Note:** If you created your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %} _after_ July 18, 2017, your `noreply` email address for {% data variables.product.product_name %} is an ID number and your username in the form of <code>ID+USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com</code>. If you created your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %} _prior to_ July 18, 2017, your `noreply` email address from {% data variables.product.product_name %} is <code>USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com</code>. You can get an ID-based `noreply` email address for {% data variables.product.product_name %} by selecting (or deselecting and reselecting) **Keep my email address private** in your email settings.
+**Note:** If you created your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %} _after_ July 18, 2017, your `noreply` email address for {% data variables.product.product_name %} is an ID number and your username in the form of <code>ID+USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com</code>. If you created your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %} _prior to_ July 18, 2017, and enabled **Keep my email address private** prior to that date, your `noreply` email address from {% data variables.product.product_name %} is <code>USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com</code>. You can get an ID-based `noreply` email address for {% data variables.product.product_name %} by selecting (or deselecting and reselecting) **Keep my email address private** in your email settings.
 
 {% endnote %}