What a shared card shows

Here is what a card reveals.

Only what you choose

A card, and its record, is made the moment you tick the box and press one of the buttons under it: Download, Copy caption, X, WhatsApp, Email or Open on phone on the website; Share…, Save to Photos or Copy caption in the app. Until then you have only the preview, which is exactly the card. The notice above the tick says what it shows: your first name or no name, and how many items. Nothing else from your account is included.

What can go on a card

The expressive things only: an idol, inspiration, quote, dream, goal, strength or bucket-list item, today's gratitude entry, or your month (check-ins, top feeling and longest streak). Never Health, Finance, Family, Religion, Scripture or Within Drive. Show my name is off until you turn it on; then the card shows your first name.

No photos, ever. The only image is the LinkedWithin logo, on every card and PDF page with linkedwithin.com, and it cannot be removed. Initials stand in for pictures of your idols. The file carries nothing hidden, and the caption no tracking.

Before the card is made

• The tick. On every card you confirm: "I have the right to share everything on this card. It doesn't reveal anyone else's private information, and I understand it will be public." It is never ticked for you.
• The check. Before the preview is drawn, Amazon Bedrock in the United States checks the card's text against the rules for public cards. It receives only that text, and your first name if shown, and keeps nothing.

Prohibited words, hateful, insulting, sexual, violent or otherwise harmful content, phone numbers, email addresses, card numbers, government numbers, passwords, IP addresses, web addresses and @handles all refuse the card, and we add to the list as we learn. A refused card is never made and its text is not kept. Refused wrongly? Email contact@linkedwithin.com.

The check is a backstop, not a guarantee. It does not look for other people's names, so the tick is what matters.

Share short passages you have the right to share, not song lyrics or whole poems.

It is public where you post it

A card leaves LinkedWithin as a file. There is no public card page. The only address a card ever has is the Open on phone link you make on the website: it lasts 10 minutes, and anyone who has it can open the file until then, so keep it to yourself. Once you post a card, it is public there, and the platforms keep their own copies. Think of the people it mentions before you press Share.

Your records

LinkedWithin keeps a record of each card, never the image. See and delete them in SettingsData privacyYour shared cards. Your card records says what deleting does.