Standard account user is able to search my files

Even after 5 years of using a mac I must ask a rookie question.
I've given a lend of my old PowerBook to my friend and set up a standard account for him. I've just noticed that when he searches for something in the finder and chooses to search mac, he can see my files coming up in the search results that are in my home folders behind my admin log in name.
Surely this isn't meant to work like that??

where exactly in your home folder are those files? by default everybody has read access to anything at the top level of your home directory. but things inside your Desktop and Documents folders should be only accessible to you. same with Pictures and Movies folders. of the other user can search there as well then the permissions on those folders are wrong. select, say, your Documents folder and enter command+i. at the bottom of the resulting popup it should list the permissions. what are they?

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