Privacy

Your Google identity. Signing in with Google gives IdeasBoard your email address, your name and the URL of your profile picture. That is all it asks for — the scopes are openid, email and profile, and nothing else. IdeasBoard never sees your Google password, and cannot read your mail, files or calendar.

Your captures. The text you type or dictate, stored exactly as you entered it, along with when you captured it and how — the web app, the share sheet, or a capture token. Any images or files you attach are stored too.

Your corrections. When you change a title, move something to a different project or fix a tag, that change is kept. It is treated as more authoritative than anything the model produced.

Interpreting a capture means sending it to Anthropic’s API. What goes with it is deliberately narrow: the capture text itself, your project names and descriptions, the tags you already use, the titles of your recent captures, the current time and time zone, and which surface the capture came from. That context is what lets the model file a thought into an existing project instead of inventing a new one.

What is not sent: your name, your email address, your profile picture, your account identifier, and any image or file you attached. Attachments are stored and shown back to you; they are never sent to the model.

Anthropic processes it under their commercial API terms, which do not use API inputs to train models. IdeasBoard does not train anything on your data either — there is no model here, only calls to theirs.

Your capture is saved before that call is made, so a failure loses nothing.

Your captures, projects and attachments are stored in a database on servers in the United States, along with your sign-in sessions. If you are outside the United States, using IdeasBoard means your data is processed there.

Your account’s data is isolated from every other account’s, and that separation is enforced by the database rather than left to application code to remember. IdeasBoard is a small beta and does not claim a formal security certification.

Nobody. There is no sharing, no collaboration, no team access and no public content. An administrator can see how many accounts exist, how much has been captured, how the processing queue is behaving and what it costs — counts and health, never the contents of anyone’s captures.

IdeasBoard has no advertising, no third-party trackers and no tag manager. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone, because there is no mechanism by which it could be.

There is one measurement, and this is all of it. Vercel Web Analytics counts page views: which path was loaded, roughly where in the world the request came from, and what kind of browser and device asked. It sets no cookie, stores nothing on your device, and has no identifier that could follow you to another site or join one visit to the next. It never sees a capture, a project name, your email address or your account id — it is counting pages, and a page is the same page whoever loads it.

That is why this site has no cookie banner and does not ask for consent. The only cookie IdeasBoard sets is the one that keeps you signed in, which is strictly necessary for the thing you asked it to do, and nothing here tracks you.

A capture token lets something outside the browser — a Siri shortcut, a script — add a capture to your account. It is a credential: anyone holding it can write to your board, though not read from it. You can revoke one at any time in Settings, and you should if it has been anywhere you do not control.

Closing your account in Settings deletes your captures, projects, tags, attachments and capture tokens immediately and permanently. There is no recycle bin and no restore.

One record survives: a marker holding your account identifier and the date you closed it, with no name, no email and no content. Without it, signing in with Google again would silently rebuild the account you just closed rather than telling you it is gone.

You can export or read everything through the app at any time before you close.

IdeasBoard is in a small private beta. If this page changes in a way that affects what is stored or what leaves the system, the date at the top changes with it.

Questions, or a request to see or delete something, go to support@ideasboard.net. You can also just close your account without asking anyone.