Why Privacy Matters for Event Photo Sharing

Your wedding photos. Your child's birthday party. Your company retreat. These are deeply personal moments — yet most event photo sharing platforms treat them like rental storage units. Upload now, lose access later.

In an era where data breaches make headlines weekly, the question isn't whether to share event photos digitally — it's where those photos end up and who controls them.

The Problem with Traditional Platforms

Most event photo sharing services follow a familiar pattern:

1. Upload to their servers — Your guests' photos land on company-owned infrastructure.
2. Pay to keep access — After 3–12 months, galleries expire unless you upgrade.
3. No control over data — You don't own the server, and you don't control what happens to your files.
4. Terms change — Storage policies, compression, and pricing can shift without warning.

This model makes sense for the platform — more data stored means more reasons for users to pay. But it's fundamentally misaligned with your interests as a customer.

Don't rent your memories. Own them.

What "Privacy-First" Actually Means

At EventSnap, privacy-first isn't a marketing tagline. It's an architectural decision baked into the core of how the platform works:

• Zero file storage — We never store photos or videos on our servers. Period. Every file goes directly from the guest's phone to YOUR Google Drive.
• No data mining — We don't analyze, scan, or process your media for advertising or profiling.
• No expiring galleries — Because your files live in your Drive, they're yours forever. EventSnap can't delete them even if we wanted to.
• Minimal data collection — We only store what's essential: your account info, event settings, and upload metadata (file name, size, timestamp).

Why Google Drive?

Google Drive is infrastructure you already trust with your emails, documents, and personal files. By routing event uploads there, you get:

• Full-resolution originals — No compression, no watermarks, no quality loss.
• 15 GB free storage (or more with Google One) — No additional storage fees from EventSnap.
• Access from anywhere — View, share, and organize your event media across all your devices.
• Google's security — Enterprise-grade encryption, 2FA, and industry-leading infrastructure.

A Better Model for Event Memories

We believe the event photo sharing industry needs a fundamental shift. Instead of platforms that hold your photos hostage, we need platforms that work for you — putting your memories where you can always access them, under your control, with no strings attached.

That's exactly what EventSnap does. Guests scan a QR code, upload from their phone's browser, and every file lands safely in your Google Drive. No app downloads. No server storage. No expiring galleries.

Your data. Your Drive. Your memories. Forever.

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