Who can see your event and media

Every Partyreel album starts unlisted: nobody can find it without the link. From there, you decide how open it is to the people you give the link to, in the order a guest meets it.

1. Dashboard
2. Your event
3. Settings
4. Who can get in

The link is the door

An event's address is a long random string. It isn't listed on Partyreel, it isn't linked from your profile unless you choose to publish it, and every event page asks search engines not to index it. So "anyone with the link" means your guests and whoever they pass it to, not the internet.

Step 1: what the link opens

• Public: anyone with the link or the code comes in. The default.
• Private: guests meet a gate you pick before the album (step 2).
• Only me: only you can open it. Guests meet a closed album, and the link's preview card shows nothing. Useful while you curate.

Step 2: the gate, when it's Private

Who may join has four answers, each with its purpose one tap away behind the small (i) beside it, all four free on every plan:

• A password: the link, then the password you share with them. Guests see the event's name and how many photos are inside, nothing else, until they enter it. See password-protect your event.
• You let each person in: a newcomer confirms an email, then waits at the door with nothing of the album behind it, until you let them in from Guests, where they're listed under At the door. The moment you do, the album opens on their phone by itself. Declining someone blocks them: they meet a closed album and can't ask again, and you can let them back in from Blocked.
• Your invite list: the addresses on your list come straight in once they confirm their email; anyone else can ask you, and waits at the door like a newcomer above. The list lives in Guests, under Invited.
• Only people already in: everyone already in keeps adding; nobody new can join. Good for after the party.

Everyone already in

A gate stops newcomers, never the people already inside: someone who's in keeps getting in on every device, past a password and every gate, and Settings says how many that is under the gate ("31 guests are already in"). Only two things put out someone already in: Only me, and blocking them. Choosing Only me while guests are in says it closes them out before anything changes, and it waits for you to confirm; they then read that you made the album private. Turning an album Public lets in everyone waiting at the door.

Step 3: an email first

An email first (on by default, free on every plan) means a guest confirms an email before seeing everything or adding to it; at a Public album they see a preview of the newest 9 photos first. Turn it off and anyone with the link can view and add right away, under a typed display name that wears a small unverified mark. Letting each person in and the invite list both match a confirmed address, so they keep it on. See an email first, explained.

Step 4: a photo first

A photo first (off by default, free on every plan) holds the full album until a guest has added one photo or video of their own; if uploads are closed or the album is full, it opens anyway rather than holding anyone at a step they can't finish. See a photo first, explained.

The Who can get in row at the top of Settings says your whole door in one sentence, and each of its underlined words changes that part right there.

What's visible inside

Whoever can open the album sees approved photos with the uploader's display name, confirmed or wearing the small unverified mark, never an email. Hidden and unapproved photos aren't sent to guests at all. Like counts are yours alone. The guest list names every guest who added photos to anyone who can open the album, and a guest you block leaves it. The full table is in what guests can and can't see.

Location data

Photos carry hidden location and device details. Partyreel strips them in the browser before an upload leaves the phone, so the originals people download don't say where they were taken. See photo metadata and location data.