Public
The memorial is openly reachable. Suited to a well-known figure, a community remembrance, or a family who want anyone who knew the person to be able to visit and read.
Trust
Digital Memorial Privacy: Who Can See and Manage a Memorial?
The honest answer is that it depends on the provider — and often on a visibility setting that is easy to miss before you pay. Here is how visibility, family roles and QR scanning work on a Moments by QR memorial, and what to ask anyone else.
Are digital memorials public?
Not necessarily. Some memorial platforms publish every page openly and rely on search traffic to grow; others let the family decide. On Moments by QR the visibility is a setting: a memorial can be public, public with role and access controls, or private and PIN-protected.
Before you commit to any provider, find out which of those it offers. A platform with a single public mode has decided something on your behalf.
The three privacy options
Public with role and access controls
The memorial is reachable, but management and contribution sit behind the roles the family has assigned rather than being open to everyone who finds it.
Private and PIN-protected
The memorial is protected by a PIN, so reaching the page is not the same as being able to open it. This is the mode families choose when the record is meant for relatives only.
Can a memorial be kept completely private?
Yes — the private mode is PIN-protected, so the memorial is not open simply because someone has the link or has scanned a code. Without the PIN the contents are not available to them.
We describe that as access control, and nothing more. We are not making a claim about encryption, security certification or auditing, because none is established — and a memorial platform that implies one it cannot evidence should be treated with suspicion.
Who manages a Moments by QR memorial?
A memorial is not tied to one account. Four roles exist — Owner, Delegate, Contributor and Nominee — and they are assigned and managed within the app by the family.
The practical point is that more than one person can be involved. Where a memorial depends on a single login, it usually stops being maintained the moment that person is unavailable — the most common way a family record quietly disappears.
What we are not publishing: a matrix of exactly which actions each of the four roles can take. Those permissions are not confirmed to the standard we are willing to put in writing on a page about access control, so the page names the roles and stops there. Check the current behaviour in the app before you rely on it.
What happens when someone scans the QR code?
Scanning takes the phone to the memorial that the code is linked to. What the person can then see follows the memorial's privacy setting — a scan does not override it, so a private, PIN-protected memorial still asks for the PIN.
The plaque itself is a 5cm × 5cm matte black QR plaque and is optional — a memorial works perfectly well without one. If you are considering fitting one at a graveside, the practical side is covered in QR codes on graves, and permission in cemetery rules.
Privacy questions families should ask
Written for any provider, not only this one.
- Is the memorial public by default, and can that be changed after it is created?
- Is there a genuine private mode, or only an unlisted page anyone with the link can open?
- Can the family change the privacy setting themselves, without contacting support?
- Who is able to add or remove people?
- Are memorial pages indexed by search engines?
- If a QR code is attached to a grave, what does a stranger see when they scan it?
Decide who sees it before anyone else does
Set the memorial public, role-controlled, or private and PIN-protected — and change your mind later if the family's wishes change.
- Public, role-controlled, or private and PIN-protected
- Owner, Delegate, Contributor and Nominee roles
- A scan follows the memorial's privacy setting
Keep reading
Permanence and data ownership
How long a memorial lasts, who owns the content, and what if a provider closes.
Trust and family control
The trust hub: privacy, control, longevity and what we do not claim.
What a digital memorial is
What a Memorial Page holds and who it is for.