Privacy

stickyarchive.com is run by one person in the Netherlands. This page says plainly what the site keeps and why. Short version: notes are anonymous, sign-in is optional, and nothing is sold or shared for advertising.

Writing a note

A note stores the text you wrote, the colour you picked, the name and location you typed if you typed any, and when it was posted. Location is only ever what you enter yourself. If you use the "use my location" button, your browser asks for permission and the result is put into the field for you to edit or clear; coordinates are never stored.

When you post, your browser receives a random author token so you can edit or delete the note for 15 minutes. Only a hash of that token is kept on the server. It cannot be traced back to you.

Hearts, views and reports

To count each visitor once per note, the site hashes your IP address together with your browser's user agent. The hash is stored; the IP address is not. The same applies to view counts and reports.

Review

Every note is checked before it appears, by an automated model running on Cloudflare and, when needed, by the keeper of the site. The note text and the optional name and location are sent to that model for the check and for the English translation shown on the wall.

Signing in with Google

You never need an account to write a note. Signing in exists for one thing: owning a wall. When you sign in, Google tells the site your account identifier and email address. The site stores those two things, the wall name and address you choose, and which notes belong to you. Your email is never shown publicly and is not used for mailings.

Notes you wrote in the same browser before signing in are linked to your account when you first open your wall page. You can take any note off your wall at any time; it then shows on the shared wall without a wall name, as it did before.

Signed-in writers can post notes that live only on their wall. Those skip review, because the wall is the owner's own space and carries their name; they still store the same fields as any note and can be reported or hidden by the keeper.

Signed-in writers can also keep private notes. A private note is stored like any other but is never shown on any wall, never reviewed by the model or the keeper, and cannot be hearted or viewed by anyone else. Private means unpublished, not encrypted: the text sits in the database in plain form, readable by the keeper if they were to look, which they do not. You can make a private note public later; it then goes through review like a new note.

The session is a signed cookie set by the site's own API. It holds no third-party trackers. Signing out removes it.

Analytics

The site counts page views and a few actions such as posting or hearting a note with OpenPanel, a privacy-focused analytics tool, so the keeper can see what people use. No advertising networks, no cross-site tracking.

Where things live

Everything runs on Cloudflare: the site, the API, the database, the review model and the image files. Cloudflare processes requests on the site's behalf and may see IP addresses as any hosting provider does.

Keeping and removing

Approved notes are kept permanently; that is the point of the archive. Notes that are not approved are kept so their author can rework them. Hidden notes and their counts stay in the database but never show.

You can delete a note yourself within 15 minutes of posting. After that, or if you want your account and email removed, write to hi@stickyarchive.com from the address you signed in with. Account data is removed within a month; notes stay on the shared wall without a wall name unless you ask for them to be hidden too.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what the site holds about you, have it corrected or deleted, or object to how it is used. Email the address above. If you are unhappy with the answer you can complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top moves and the change is described on the About page.