edocr Privacy Settings
Most of the time you want everyone in the world to have access to your content for
leadgen, SEO, and exposure. But, sometimes the content is just for a select few, for
any number of reasons. Perhaps you only want people to see your content after they
provide you their email, or a fee. Or, perhaps the document is private to you and
another person, or a few select people, or your organization. Perhaps you want
everyone to be able to read the document content, but not be able to copy text or print
on a case by case basis. For those occasions, edocr offers you several privacy options.
Other, not to be named, document sharing sites often place restrictions on their users
by requiring viewers to provide email addresses to view or download the content, and
sometimes 'float over' ads to be clicked through. This is not the case with edocr.
Our authors and content sharers control the access of their documents.
This blog post will show you your options as an edocr user and how our privacy
settings work.
After uploading your document, you will be able to edit your privacy setting. (It is
defaulted to be publicly available to everyone.)
The above is pretty self explanatory. This allows an individual document to be:
● Public
● Require email address (leadgen)
● Hidden from internet search by turning off bot indexing and creating a URL no
one could ever guess
● Grant access by a list you maintain, by placing individual email addresses or
email domains in the setting field.
Allowing access by email or username is a powerful way to privately share documents
and control who may view them. You may add multiple users in the existing text box by
separating the email addresses with commas, and copy/paste works in this field; OR,
ENTIRE DOMAINS MAY BE ADDED AS: " @DOMAIN.COM " .
Then there are the following viewer controls. Other services will require your readers to
log in to their service in order to download or print, edocr puts that in your hands and
will only ask a viewer to register if we are gathering leads or money for you. Turn on or
off by the respective checkbox:
Collections
Collections are groupings of documents, like a file folder, but an edocr collection could
contain documents stored anywhere, in different locations, like a public URL, Dropbox,
OneDrive and of course on edocr.
Perhaps you want a collection of business articles, or of articles you have authored.
The collection could be open to the public, or require an email address (leadgen) or be
a specific list. One useful way to use a specific list would be to offer subscriptions and
allow subscribers into a specific collection based on their staying current with their
payments.
How to Create a New Collection set-up is shown below:
If you need to edit the Collection Privacy Settings after it has been set-up, just click the
'SHARE' button on the top right of the Collection:
Collection Privacy Settings control and override all documents contained in it, such that
if a 'public' document is placed in a 'private' Collection, the document becomes private,
controlled by the Collection setting. Again, a Collection Folder may be:
● Public
● Require email address (leadgen)
● Hidden from internet search by turning off bot indexing and creating a URL no
one could ever guess
● Grant access by a list you maintain, by placing individual email addresses or
email domains in the field.
Collaborative Access is a special kind of Collection designed for gathering documents,
and is explained HERE.
One of the great features of edocr is the ability to host a document outside of edocr and
still publish it on edocr. This allows you to update or modify your document from one
central location.
(And this current document is actually a googledoc, find out how HERE!)