Hi Rob,
Thanks for reaching out to us on this! I’ll help you with it…
From what I’m seeing in the screenshot you re setting this for tickets? Also if you set an event as password protected the word ‘Protected: ‘ will be pre-prended to the title, but it will be listed and in the single event page the content will be blocked by the password box.
If you want you can put those events in a category and then exclude it from the events listings: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/exclude-category-from-site-calendar/
Do you think that might work for you?
Best,
Nico