Service Companion privacy

Quick start

1. Treat the companion address as public. Anyone with the link can open it without signing in.
2. Review all notes before selecting Show speaker notes. Speaker notes may contain private pastoral material or stage directions.
3. Confirm that your church has permission to publish lyrics before selecting Show song lyrics.
4. Review and edit any draft created by Generate with Ezra.
5. Select Enable companion link only when the service is ready to share, then choose Save.

Asking search engines not to index the page does not make the link private or require authentication. Share the address only with the audience you intend, while assuming it can be forwarded.

Deep dive

Understand who can open the link

Anyone who has the companion link can open it without signing in. The page asks search engines not to index it, but that request does not make the page private, add a password, or authenticate visitors.

Review speaker notes

Show speaker notes is off until an editor enables it. Speaker notes can contain private pastoral material or stage directions that were written for the platform team rather than attendees. Review the notes on every published slide before enabling this setting.

Confirm permission to publish lyrics

Show song lyrics is off until an editor enables it. Your church is responsible for obtaining permission to publish the lyrics. Enable this setting only after confirming that the church may make them available through the public companion.

Know what Generate with Ezra uses

Generate with Ezra can use the service title and schedule, presentation titles, and a composed song's title, writers, and section names. It can also use one linked sermon note.

It does not receive song lyrics, chords, speaker notes, sticky notes, media, or the companion link.

The generated summary is an editable draft. Review and revise it in the editor; it is not published until you choose Save.

Understand published media access

Attendees can load media that appears on the published slides. They cannot browse the church media library or use the companion to view other library items.

When you create a Service Companion QR presentation, WorshipDeck saves the generated QR image in the media library and marks it as a generated QR code. Generated QR images are not sent for image analysis and do not offer the image animation action.

Follow the live service

Anyone with the link can turn on Follow live while the service is running. They then see the current slide, including drawings and the Laser pointer on that slide. Speaker notes and lyrics still appear only when those settings are enabled. Following does not let a visitor control the presentation or browse the media library. See Follow live in Service Companion.

Disable public access

Clear Enable companion link and choose Save to make the public page and its slide media unavailable. The companion address remains the same, but it does not provide access while disabled.

Access returns only after an editor selects Enable companion link and chooses Save again.