ImageEvent
 

Privacy & sharing

Private when you want it.

Choose who can find each album, add a guest password, and see exactly what guests see before you share the link.

See the privacy levelsAdd a guest password
Quiet Portrait in Warm Light: a woman with dark hair against a soft pink wall
Quiet Portrait in Warm Light.

You decide who sees what.

A frame from Client Story in Motion

A password for guests.

Give an album a guest password, plus a second one for another group. Either one works.

Guest passwords
Mountain Light, a sunlit mountain landscape

See it as a guest.

View as Guest shows the album exactly as your guests will see it.

Compare the views
Alpine Lake at First Light

A link or a QR code.

Share an album, a folder, your Home page, or a single photo or video.

Ways to share
Geometry of Light

Downloads, your call.

Downloads, sharing, and guest email each have their own switch.

Guest controls

Four privacy levels.

Pick one for each album. Tap a level to see who can find it.

Only people with the link.

It isn’t listed in your account. Anyone you send the link to can open it.

In ImageEvent’s words: “Not listed in account but can access with URL.”

Albums and foldersGuest password available

The quoted descriptions are ImageEvent’s own, from Edit Album → Privacy & passwords.

How it works.

  1. Create an album

    Your uploads go into an album, so start here.

  2. Set privacy

    In Edit Album, pick Gallery, Shared, Hidden, or Personal.

  3. Add a password

    Optional, for Shared or Hidden. Add a second one for another group.

  4. Check, then share

    Use View as Guest, then send the link or show the QR code.

All the options.

Every setting, with step-by-step how-tos.

Privacy levelsGallery, Shared, Hidden, or Personal, for each album.
  1. Open your album and click Edit Album.
  2. Under Privacy & passwords, find Select Level of Privacy.
  3. Choose Gallery, Shared, Hidden, or Personal.
  4. Click Update Album.

Gallery albums also need a Public Gallery Category. Folders offer Shared, Hidden, and Personal.

Select Level of Privacy with Gallery, Shared, Hidden, and Personal and a short description of each
Owner's ViewSelect Level of Privacy. Each level explains itself.
Guest passwordsAdd one for guests, and a second for another group.

Shared and Hidden albums can have an optional guest password.

  1. In Edit Album → Privacy & passwords, type a Guest Password.
  2. Want a second group to have its own? Click Need Second Password? and choose Add Password.
  3. Click Update Album.

In ImageEvent’s words: “Add a second guest password to share with 2 groups. Either guest password will work.”

The Guest Password field with the Need Second Password link
Owner's ViewGuest Password, with an optional second one.
Folders and your Home pageProtect a whole folder, or your Home page.

Folders use the same choices: Shared, Hidden, or Personal, with an optional guest password and a second one. Find them in the folder’s Edit form, then click Update Folder.

Your Home page has its own guest password in Edit Home Page → Security. It covers your home page only, not individual albums. Use a password different from your account password.

Edit folder privacy with Shared, Hidden, and Personal and a guest password field
Owner's ViewFolder privacy.
Home page Security section with an optional guest password
Owner's ViewHome page guest password.
Owner's View and Guest ViewCheck exactly what guests will see.

Click View as Guest at the top of any album to see it the way guests do. Click View as Owner to switch back.

Guest View of an album: the breadcrumb, title, album details, and photos, with no editing buttons
Guest ViewGuests see the breadcrumb, the album details, and your photos, with none of your editing tools.
Owner's View of the same album: the Album Bar and Image Bar above the photos, with a pencil edit icon under each thumbnail
Owner's ViewYou also see the Album Bar, the Image Bar, and a pencil edit icon on each photo.
Share links and QR codesShare panels for Home, folders, albums, photos, and videos.
  1. Open Global Settings.
  2. Set Guest sharing to Yes.

Then Share opens a panel with a link and a QR code wherever you are: Home, a folder, an album, a photo, or a video.

  • Albums, folders, and Home: Share link, QR code, Invite friends, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp.
  • A photo or video: a link, a QR code, Copy image to clipboard, and Download Image.

The setting lets guests “share the album link, show a QR code for the album, send invitations, and share on social media.”

An album's Share panel open under the Share button, with Share link, a QR code, Invite friends, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp
Owner's ViewShare album. Link, QR code, and social.
A photo with its Share image panel open, showing a QR code, Copy image to clipboard, and Download Image
Owner's ViewShare image.
Downloads and guest emailSeparate switches, so you decide each one.

Three settings in Global Settings work on their own:

  • Guest sharing: links, QR codes, invitations, and social.
  • Let guests download: guests can pick sizes to download. It’s turned off for albums where right-click save is disabled.
  • Let guests email photos: shows Email photos to guests.

For a single album, Right click disable in Edit Album helps limit saving.

Global Settings with Guest sharing, Let guests download, and Let guests email photos
Owner's ViewGlobal Settings. Guest controls.
Embedded albumsAn embed follows the album’s privacy.

When you put an album on your website with Embed Album, the album’s own privacy still applies. Match it to the people who will visit that page.

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