Privacy of videos in collections and review pages

The privacy settings of channels, groups, showcases, and portfolios will often override the privacy settings for your individual video. You may want to double check that only Public videos are added to your public collections.

In this article:

• Channels and Groups
• Portfolios
• Review pages
• Google indexing of collections

Channels and Groups

Only Public videos or those marked password-protected can be added to a channel or group. Videos marked Unlisted or Hide from Vimeo will not be accessible or visible within a channel or group. 

The privacy settings of channels and groups will always override the privacy settings for your individual video. For example, a password-protected video added to a public channel will be accessible to anyone who views that channel.

⚠️Note: You might not be able to add every video you want to your channel. That’s because Vimeo members can choose not to allow their videos to be added to groups, channels, and showcases. Chances are if you aren’t able to add a particular video to your channel, this was a conscious decision by the person that uploaded it. 

Showcases

If you add a nonpublic video to a showcase, that video's visibility will depend on the privacy settings of your showcase. Please see Privacy of videos in showcases for more information.

Portfolios

Review pages

By default, you can share the link to your review page with Everyone, meaning any recipient can view and comment on the video review page. To change the default setting of the video review page:

1. Navigate to the Review Page Privacy section of your account settings.
2. Select either Everyone or Team only from the dropdown menu.
3. (optional) You can also change the review page privacy for all videos currently on your account to the new default setting by ticking the box next to Apply to all existing videos.
   • Important: While you can always change your default setting, and always override the default setting on individual video review pages, you cannot undo bulk-changing all existing videos to a single privacy setting. For example, if you want most videos to be set to Team only but leave some videos set to Everyone, you would need to update the setting in the Share menu on those individual review pages to Everyone after applying this bulk change.
   • If you have been historically configuring this setting on an as-needed, per-video basis, you may prefer to keep this box unchecked.
4. Click Save to apply the setting.

You can then override the default setting for any individual video as needed. To do so:

1. Navigate to the review page (video settings page > options menu (•••) in upper right corner > Review video).
2. Select Share in the upper right corner of the review page.
3. Under Get link, open the dropdown and choose between Team Only or Everyone.
   
4. The setting will automatically save upon selection.

If you would like an extra layer of security on your video’s review page, change the video’s privacy settings to Password. Anyone who opens the video review page link would need to enter the video’s password to access the page.

Google indexing of collections

A video added through a public collection may be indexed through Google, but can only be accessed through the collection. If the video is restricted for privacy with a password, it'll only be viewable with that password. Though it may be indexed and show up in search results, the video's privacy is not overridden. (Note that protecting a video with a password is only available with paid memberships.)