How to change your video’s privacy settings

We offer a variety of ways to control who can access your videos and how they can do so. This article explains how to change a video's privacy settings and control where it can be embedded. To learn more, see Overview of video privacy settings.

In this article:

• How to change your video’s privacy
• How to change where your video can be embedded
• How to edit privacy settings in bulk

How to change your video’s privacy

You can edit the privacy setting for each video by following the steps below.

1. Log into Vimeo and navigate to your Library.
2. Select your video to open the video settings page.
3. On the upper right-hand corner of the page, select the privacy icon using the Share button. You can hover over the icon to check your current privacy setting.
   
4. A panel will open up on your screen
   
   
5. Under the Link privacy section, select the desired privacy setting. The selection will save automatically.
   
6. You can also change your privacy settings from the Video library by clicking on the (...) dots from your selected video and then choosing Share. This will also open up the modal to change your privacy settings.
   

💡Tip: You can also set your video's viewing privacy before uploading.

How to change where your video can be embedded

Another element of video privacy is controlling whether your video can be viewed elsewhere besides vimeo.com. All privacy settings except for Private allow you to embed your video on other sites. 

1. Log into Vimeo and navigate to your Library.
2. Click on a video to open the video edit page.
3. On the upper right-hand corner of the page, select the privacy icon using the Share button.
4. Click on the Embed section from the panel that appears on the screen.
   
5. Click on Embed privacy to customize your settings.
   
   
   
6. Choose between three options:
   
   
   • Anywhere: Anyone can embed your video onto any page on the internet.
   • Nowhere: No one, including you and your team members, can embed your video anywhere. It will only be viewable on vimeo.com.
   • Specific domains (Available for all plans except Free and Basic): After you select this, add your website’s domain (mysite.com) or subdomain (subdomain.mysite.com) in the text field that appears below the dropdown menu; be sure to click (+) to add it. You can specify and manage up to 50 domains where your video can be embedded.
     • Note when adding a domain like vimeo.com to the "specific domains" list, all subdomains directly under it, such as project.vimeo.com, will automatically be included. However, subdomains at further levels, like example.project.vimeo.com, will not be covered by this setting.
     • Wildcard characters are not supported.
7. Your selection will save automatically. 

How to edit privacy settings in bulk

You can just follow these steps to edit the privacy settings of one or more videos at a time. 

1. Go to your Library to find the video(s) you would like to edit. Note that you cannot change privacy settings for VODs or Vimeo Stock.
2. To select a video, check the box on the left side of its thumbnail/row (depending on if you are in grid-view or list-view).
3. Then, select Privacy.
   
   
4. Choose your desired privacy settings and then Save.