Reporting content and keeping your event safe

As the host, you move fastest. Every control you'd want in a bad moment is one tap on your own event page, and reporting to Partyreel is the door for harm a host can't handle alone.

The host's playbook

• Get it off the album now. Hide on the tile or in the photo viewer takes a photo off the album for everyone in the same second; Remove sends it to Deleted. Both are reversible. See hide, remove, and restore.
• Stop the flow. Turn on Review uploads before they appear so nothing new goes public until you've seen it. If it's really bad, turn off Accepting uploads.
• Know who's uploading. With An email first on (the default), every upload has a confirmed name and, for you, an email behind it, which is a strong deterrent on its own.
• Block someone from the event. Open their name in Guests, or on one of their photos, and choose Block from this event. Their uploads move to Deleted in the same step and they leave the guest list; the album stays closed to them, and nothing tells them they were blocked. Blocking is free on every plan. It holds on their account and confirmed email or, for a guest who only typed a name, on the phone they used; on an album that takes typed names, the block offers Also ask for an email first, so a new name alone can't bring them back. The people you've blocked are listed at the foot of Guests, where Let back in undoes it, with Also restore their uploads off unless you turn it on.
• Lock the door. If the link has spread further than you wanted, make the album Private and pick its gate: Only people already in stops every newcomer while your guests keep going, and You let each person in has newcomers wait at the door for you, where Decline blocks them. Only me closes it to everyone. Each takes effect on the existing link instantly. See who can see your event.

A guest who wants their own photo gone can ask you, or delete it themselves: signed in, from any device; with a typed name, from the phone they uploaded from. Their own delete is final, for you too: it leaves your album at once and never reaches your Deleted.

Reporting to Partyreel

Anyone can report harm in an album, signed in or not, and nothing tells you or the person who posted who reported. A small Report link at the bottom of the event page reports the event as a whole. A photo or video has its own Report too, the flag in the photo viewer, so we know exactly what to look at; on your own album you have Hide and Remove instead. The form asks what it is, from A child in sexual or abusive content to Something else, and takes a reason if there's more to say. The guest's walkthrough is in report a problem, or get a photo of you taken down.

What happens to a report

Reports are for harm: a photo that puts a child at risk, shows someone's private details, or was posted to hurt someone. A photo that's simply unflattering is one for the host, who can remove it in one tap.

Every report gets a careful look, and review comes before removal, with one exception: a report of a photo or video as A child in sexual or abusive content, from someone who has confirmed an email, can hide it from everyone the moment it's sent, while we look, and it comes back if the report doesn't hold up. Nothing else comes down the instant a report arrives, so a report can't be used to wreck an album out of spite. We act where the harm is clear; a report that doesn't show it is closed without removing anything, which is why saying what's wrong matters. Serious problems can end in a removal or a closed account. If Partyreel removes something from your album, it simply leaves, the way a guest's own delete does: it never reaches your Deleted, and it can't be restored.

Keeping what's needed

When a report involves something serious, the material is preserved rather than deleted so that it can be handled properly. Deleting an event doesn't erase material that's under review.