Most videos on equiReelz are private. Public is an explicit opt-in flag that says "anyone can find and watch this without creating an account". Useful for the few rounds you want to show off; wrong for everything else.
When public is the right choice
- Sale videos you want findable by buyers.
- A "highlight reel" round you'd link from a social profile.
- Press, sponsor, or marketing-permitted clips.
When private + share link is better
- Sharing with a specific person — you don't want it findable, you want it accessed.
- Anything you might regret later — public is durable; share links expire.
What a stranger sees on a public video
When someone with no other relationship to the video opens it, equiReelz shows them only:
- Horse and rider as you typed them.
- Location — the text label or place name you set.
- Map pin — coarsened to roughly a 1 km square so a home barn or private property can't be pinpointed.
- Recording date (the date the clip was filmed).
- Owner's name — your first and last name, or your team's name if a team owns the video.
- The video itself (and its thumbnail).
What a stranger does not see
- Your email address — never exposed on a public video.
- The uploader (when different from the owner — e.g. a trainer who uploaded for a rider).
- Your private notes, comments, tags, or rating.
- Performance metadata: obstacle height, result, indoor/outdoor, session type.
- Technical details: file name, file size, duration, resolution, codec, bit rate.
- Upload and processing timestamps.
- Whether the video is shared with anyone else, or with how many people.
- Exact GPS coordinates from your camera — only the coarsened pin.
Where public videos appear
A public video is reachable by anyone, with or without an account — through its direct URL and through search, where it can surface for other people browsing equiReelz. Making a video public is a real publishing step: it becomes findable, not just "the URL works for anyone you give it to".
Going public is reversible — but the link may have travelled
Toggling public off stops new viewers from watching. Anyone who already saved the URL still has the URL; they just can't load it any more. If you've shared it widely, treat it as if it might still be remembered.
The full record stays intact
Scrubbing only affects what strangers see. You, your team-mates, and people you've shared the video with always see the complete record — comments, tags, performance, technical details, exact GPS — exactly as before.