How to make an event private

A private event shows a login screen instead of the open gallery: only people who can prove they participated get in.

Steps

1. Open your event and click the Privacy tab.
2. Turn on the Private switch (right of the toolbar).
3. Decide how participants will log in: Import a participant list (bib + date of birth, email, or access codes) or turn on Login with selfie. See the dedicated guides for each.
4. Share the gallery as usual: visitors now see the login form first.

Good to know

• Making the event private automatically marks its albums as private too.
• Importing a participant list with login columns also makes the event private; you can switch Private off afterwards if you only want the data (for example for watermark labels).
• Turning privacy off is the same switch: your imported participants stay stored, so you can re-enable privacy later without re-importing.
• Privacy applies to the shareable link and the embedded widget alike.