Privacy and notifications
These settings decide how other people can tag you, whether you share anonymous usage data, and which notifications we send. We keep notifications to a minimum, and we never sell your data.
Finding these settings
Select your profile picture (top right), choose Account settings, then Privacy or Notifications. Or go straight to or .
On both pages, each switch saves as you flip it.
Tagging
The Allow tagging switch controls whether other people can tag you in their photos and posts.
- On: people who can already see you (members of your collections and people you're connected to) can tag you in photos they upload, or suggest you for someone else's photo, which its owner can then accept. You appear in tag suggestions and lists of tagged people. Nobody else can tag you.
- Off: no one else can add new tags of you. You still appear in the tag pickers, greyed out with Tagging turned off, so people can see why they can't pick you. You can still tag yourself, or suggest yourself for someone else's photo.
Turning tagging off doesn't remove existing tags. If you want a particular tag gone, ask the person who owns the photo to remove it.
Analytics
The Usage analytics switch controls whether we collect anonymous data about how you use Lovd: which features get used, where people get stuck, and what errors happen.
We never collect your photos or what's in them, your personal details, or anything we could sell to advertisers. Switch it off and we stop collecting usage data from your account. Leaving it on helps us improve Lovd, but it's your call.
Cookies
If you're not logged in, a cookie banner appears once you scroll. It offers three choices:
- Accept all: essential and analytics cookies.
- Reject all: essential cookies only (the site needs these to work).
- Customise: pick which categories to allow.
Once you're logged in, you manage analytics from the Privacy page instead of the banner.
Notifications
The Notifications page is a grid: one row per kind of notification, one column per way of getting it. Push arrives on the devices where you've turned notifications on; Email goes to your account address. The rows come in three groups:
- Invitations: collection invites, event invites and relationship requests. Push and email start on, because someone is waiting for your answer.
- Activity: new posts and new comments. New comments also covers a reply to your comment and a comment that @mentions you. Push starts on; email is off until you turn it on.
- Reminders: event reminders, birthdays and a weekly summary email. All start off, so turn on the ones you want.
In the Lovd phone app, Reminders also includes Recent photos, an occasional nudge to add your latest photos. Once it's on, How often sets the interval.
Above the grid, a panel shows whether notifications are on for this device, with a Turn on button when they're off and Turn off when they're on. Turning them off only affects this device: your other devices and your emails carry on as set. In the phone app, it also silences the Recent photos reminder on that phone until you turn notifications back on. Pause all silences everything except invitations: for an hour, until tomorrow morning, for a week, or until you switch it back on.
Muting one collection
To go quiet on a single collection, open its menu and choose Mute notifications. New posts and comments there stop; invitations and reminders still reach you. Muted collections are listed at the bottom of the Notifications page, each with an Unmute button.
In-app notifications
Whatever your push and email settings, pending invites and updates always show up in Lovd. Open the user menu (your profile picture, top right) and choose Notifications to see them, then accept, decline or dismiss.
Emails you can't turn off
Some emails are part of running your account, so they're always sent:
- Password reset: when you ask for one.
- Email confirmation: when you change your email address.
- Account and data requests: when you schedule or cancel an account deletion, and when a data export is ready.
- Billing receipts: payment confirmations for paid plans, sent by Polar, our payment provider.
Email troubleshooting
Too many emails? Every notification email ends with an Unsubscribe from these emails link. It opens a page where you can stop that kind of email in one step. You can also turn off the rows you don't need on the Notifications page and check Lovd instead.
Missing an email? Check your spam or junk folder, add noreply@lovd.app to your contacts, and make sure that notification is switched on in your settings.
Related
- Profile settings: your name, photo and email address
- Export or delete your data
