Choose your Portfolio privacy settings

You can set both your Personal and Organization Portfolios to private or public

After reading this article, you will learn:


Learn about each privacy option below:


Public: Portfolios and Insights can be viewed by any registered EarthScan users with the link to a Personal or Organization Portfolio. This includes users you have shared the link with outside the EarthScan Organization. 


Once a public Portfolio has been shared with a user, the user can view the Portfolio and also share the link with other EarthScan users. However, this user cannot edit the Portfolio in any way - adding or removing Assets is prohibited.


Private (Personal): Only you and the people added as a Viewer or a Sharer have access to your Portfolio and the Insights shared.


Private (Organization): Only you, the people added as a Viewer or a Sharer and members of your EarthScan Organization have access to your Portfolio and the Insights shared. 

Please note: By default, your Portfolios are set to private.

Make your Portfolio public

Follow the steps below to set your Portfolio to public:

  1. From the EarthScan menu, navigate to the Portfolio you’d like to make public.
  2. Click on the Share Portfolio icon in the upper right corner.
  3. From the dropdown menu, click on ‘Public portfolio’.
  4. A pop-up message appears on screen when the privacy settings have been updated.

Make your Portfolio public if:

  • You want to share your Portfolio and/or Insights with any registered EarthScan users, within or beyond your organization.

Make your Portfolio private

Follow the steps below to set your Portfolio to private:

  1. From the EarthScan menu, navigate to the Portfolio you’d like to make private.
  2. Click on the Share Portfolio icon in the upper right corner.
  3. From the dropdown menu, click on ‘Private portfolio’.
  4. A pop-up message appears on screen when the privacy settings have been updated.

Make your Portfolio private if:

  • You want to share your Portfolio and/or Insights with invited EarthScan Organization members only.


Learn how to share your Portfolios.