Understand privacy and stay safe

Before sharing an idea, pause for a moment and check who should see it. Public content is made for broad discovery; Drafts and private boards are access-controlled spaces.

What you’ll learn

Who can see Public content, Drafts and private boards.
How someone can take part in a workshop without an account.
What you agree to when you publish on the worldwide wall.
What happens to copies of Public content.
How to report a concern or make a privacy request.
How to protect your account.

Know what happens to Public content

A Public sticky note or Instant Photo appears on the worldwide wall without your profile details. It stays public until you return it to Draft, delete it or authorised moderation removes it.

Search engines may crawl, index, cache and show Public content. External AI services may process or use its text and images to train, improve, evaluate or operate AI systems. There is no separate opt-out for search indexing or external AI use.

Returning content to Draft or deleting it stops StickyNotes.club from showing it publicly. This cannot necessarily remove copies, screenshots, saved images, search results, caches, AI datasets, model training or other third-party uses that already exist.

For the full explanation, read the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Keep work private

Drafts and private-board content are not intentionally made available to public search or AI crawlers.

Private boards are access-controlled. The Owner can invite someone by email; that person signs in or creates an account before becoming a Participant.

An Owner on a paid plan can also share a board with a link:

A View link shows a read-only version of the board to anyone with the link. No account is needed.
A Post link also lets a signed-in StickyNotes.club user on any plan contribute.
A workshop link lets someone take part without an account at all. They choose a nickname and can contribute for as long as the session runs. Only an Owner on Club Facilitator or Chosen Few can create one, and it always has an expiry time.

Link access does not make someone a Participant. A signed-in Post-link contributor can create, edit and delete their own sticky notes while the link remains active. They cannot arrange notes, comment, use hearts, take part in dot voting, invite people, manage access, change board settings or edit other people’s content. The Owner can revoke a link at any time, including after a downgrade. Existing links are unavailable while the Owner’s plan does not include collaboration.

A participant without an account can add, edit and delete their own sticky notes, arrange notes, comment, use hearts and take part in dot voting while the session is open. They cannot invite people, manage access or change anyone else’s content. When the facilitator finishes, the board becomes read-only and the results page becomes available through the active link. Because there is no account behind the nickname, StickyNotes.club cannot verify who is taking part — the link itself is the access. Revoke it, or select New link, as soon as it should no longer work.

When Hide author names on notes is enabled, note and comment authors stay anonymous to everyone, including the facilitator and on the results page. The facilitator still sees names in the participant list for attendance and guest removal.

The setting is reversible and controlled by the facilitator. They can switch it on during a session, which also hides the names on notes that are already there, and switch it off again, which shows them. Anonymity in a workshop is therefore a facilitation promise rather than a permanent property of a note. If you are contributing something you would only write anonymously, ask the facilitator what they intend to do with the setting.

Treat a board link as private information. Anyone who receives or is forwarded an active View link can read the board. Access controls cannot stop a Participant or link visitor from independently copying information they can see.

You must confirm your email before publishing. A board Owner must also confirm theirs before sending an invitation or creating a Post or workshop link. A View link is read-only and does not require this confirmation.

Authorised moderators and administrators may access Drafts and private-board content only when genuine moderation, support, security or legal work requires it. Access should be limited and recorded. They may hide, remove or restore content, but must not silently rewrite someone’s words. Only a narrowly necessary, recorded redaction is allowed.

Understand ownership and public use

You keep ownership of the sticky notes, comments and images you create or share on a private board. Giving Participants access to the board does not transfer that ownership.

Publishing to the worldwide wall does not change who owns the content, but it does change who can use it. When you publish a sticky note or Instant Photo, you agree that this content is public and may be used accordingly: anyone can view, copy and share it, and search engines and external AI services may index or use it. You keep ownership of what you publish, as set out in the Terms of Service. The worldwide wall does not connect it to your name, profile or contribution history. The only origin information shown is the country saved when the content was created; the publication date, share count and heart count may also appear.

While your account exists, StickyNotes.club keeps a private internal connection so you can edit, return to Draft or delete the Public content and so authorised moderation can act. This connection is not shown on the worldwide wall.

Read the Terms of Service for the formal conditions that apply when you publish.

Report content or behaviour

Open the sticky note and select the flag control next to the heart and share controls. Choose the reason that fits best and add a short explanation when the reason alone does not make it clear. You do not need an account; without one you give an email address, so we can send you a case reference and the outcome.

For a board, a board sticky note or a comment, email farid﹫stickynotes.club with the link and the same information.

A human makes the final moderation decision. The outcome may be no action, a warning, a content or feature restriction, a temporary suspension or permanent exclusion. Restricting an account does not automatically remove its existing contributions.

If an action affects you, the notice should explain the reason, scope, duration and free appeal route. A recorded safety or legal reason may delay notice. You can appeal for six months.

Ask for your personal data

Email farid﹫stickynotes.club to exercise applicable privacy rights, including access or portability. This is a privacy request, not a bulk board or product-export feature.

Protect your account

Use a password you do not use elsewhere.
Keep your email address current.
Sign out when you use a shared device.
Review Manage Devices & Sessions and Login Activity in Settings.
Change your password promptly and sign out other devices if you think someone else accessed your account.

Good to know

A workshop link lets people take part without an account and always expires. The facilitator can see each nickname in the participant list; contribution names are hidden when anonymous notes are enabled.
The nickname of a participant without an account is removed 30 days after their last activity on the board. What they contributed stays, under a neutral name.
A Draft is not public, but a Public sticky note may travel beyond StickyNotes.club.
Private means access-controlled, not impossible to copy.
Revoke a board link when it should no longer provide access.
A human makes final moderation decisions.
Never send your password or payment-card details to support.