Reference library

Before you upload

• Private means only you, signed in as you. Public means anybody at all: not signed in, search engines included, and copyable by anyone who can see it. Nothing is public unless you choose it.
• Every file has its metadata removed on the way in — the GPS coordinates, the camera and lens, the software, the embedded thumbnail, the colour profile. That happens before it is stored, so what we keep never had them.
• The person running this server can read the database and the directory the files are in. That is true of every service and it is worth saying plainly: private here means private from other visitors, not from the operator.
• Deleting a picture deletes it: the row, its tags, its place on any board, and the file itself once nothing else refers to it. There is no bin to recover it from.
• What you may upload is your responsibility, not ours. If you did not make it, the licence note is where you write down what you checked.