RV Log starts with privacy in mind. Your entries do not become public merely because you record a stay, upload photos, or enable a profile. Sharing happens only when you turn on the relevant option.
Choose the kind of sharing you need
- Private entry: available only inside your account and to collaborators you have invited.
- Public profile: a profile page that lists only entries you deliberately make public and allow in the feed.
- Public postcard: a direct link to one selected entry without exposing the rest of your log.
- Collaborator: a trusted person who can access private entries and help manage your log.
Important: Collaboration is private access, not public sharing. Collaborators can view private entries and may add entries, edit entries, and manage photos. Invite only people you fully trust.
Adjust your public profile
- Sign in and open Account → Settings & Security.
- Find the Privacy & Sharing card.
- Turn on Public Profile if you want a public feed page.
- Optionally customize the public profile URL, then use Copy to copy it.
- Select Save Privacy Settings.
Enabling a public profile does not publish every stay. An entry must also be marked public before it can appear there.
Protect boondocking locations
When Public Profile is enabled, the same card shows Hide Exact GPS for Boondocking. Turn it on to omit coordinates from public boondocking stays.
If the option is off, RV Log still rounds publicly displayed boondocking coordinates to roughly one degree—about 70 miles. Hiding them entirely is the safer choice for a sensitive campsite.
Invite or remove a collaborator
- Open Account → Collaboration.
- Select Generate New Invitation Code.
- Send the code privately to the person you trust.
- They enter it under Join Another Log.
- Review Users with Access to Your Log and remove access when it is no longer needed.
Do not post collaboration codes publicly. They grant access to private log data, not just public posts.
Make one entry shareable
- Open Trip Log and edit the entry.
- Go to Step 5 — Sharing & Photos.
- Turn on Make this entry public to create a shareable postcard.
- Choose whether to include trip notes.
- Choose whether the entry should appear in your public feed. Hiding it from the feed leaves the direct postcard link available.
- For a feed entry, choose immediate posting or leave the default departure-date timing in place.
- Save the entry, then open Share Public Link.
Before sharing, review photos, notes, dates, campsite details, and location information as a public visitor would see them.
Make an entry private again
Edit the entry, return to Sharing & Photos, turn off Make this entry public, and save. Its postcard and public-profile access are then removed.
A quick privacy check before sharing
- Share only the entry you intend to publish.
- Remove private details from trip notes.
- Review every photo for people, license plates, documents, or location clues.
- Hide boondocking GPS coordinates when a location should remain protected.
- Revoke old collaboration invitations and remove people who no longer need access.
For more context, read about RV Log’s selective sharing controls and privacy-first approach.