Last updated: July 2026
Community Guidelines
The NoteBloom community is students sharing real notes with other students. These guidelines explain what you can post, how deletion actually works, and what happens if something doesn’t belong. They’re part of our Terms of Service, but written the way we’d actually explain them to you.
1. Only Share Your Own Work
Everything you upload to the community should be something you actually wrote or made — your own notes, your own study guides, your own bloomed summaries.
Don’t upload:
- Textbook content, or anything copied from a book you don't own the rights to
- Slides, handouts, or packets from a professor or institution that aren't yours to redistribute
- Someone else's notes, even a classmate's, without their permission
- Any copyrighted material you don't have the right to share
If you’re not sure whether something is “yours enough” to share — notes you took in your own words while studying from a source are generally fine; the source material itself is not.
2. What Sharing Means
Once a note is approved and live in the community, it’s visible to and downloadable by other NoteBloom members. You can choose to share anonymously, but the note itself — its title, subject, and content — is public within the platform.
3. Deleting a Note
You can delete anything you’ve shared, but when it actually disappears depends on how long it’s been up:
- Under 24 hours old: deleted immediately. Barely anyone's had a chance to see it, so there's nothing to protect.
- 24 hours or older: deletion is delayed 24 hours, with a visible countdown on the note. It stays live — and still counts as a shared note — until that window passes, then it's removed for good.
Why the delay? Without it, someone could upload a note, quickly collect downloads, upvotes, and points from friends, delete it, and repeat — inflating their stats without ever leaving anything real in the community. The 24-hour delay makes that not worth doing.
You can also cancel a pending deletion at any time before the 24 hours are up, and the note simply stays.
- You can delete up to 5 notes per calendar month. Hitting that limit doesn't stop you from deleting further, but it does pause new uploads until the next month.
- Points you've already earned from a note — for uploads, downloads, or upvotes — aren't taken back when you delete it. Only your shared-notes count updates.
4. Be a Good Community Member
Community notes are for other students trying to actually study. That means:
- No spam — don't upload the same note repeatedly, or content with no real study value
- No harassment, hate speech, or targeting other users in titles, descriptions, or content
- No low-effort dumps — a two-line file or an unreadable scan isn't a study resource, it's noise
- No misleading titles or subjects meant to trick people into downloading something else
5. Reporting a Problem
If you come across a note that looks copied from a textbook, infringes someone’s copyright, or otherwise breaks these guidelines, email us at community@notebloom.app with a link to the note (or its title and subject) and a short description of the issue. We review reports and remove content that violates this policy.
If you believe your copyrighted work was uploaded without permission, the same email address is where to send a takedown request — include what was uploaded, where it appears in NoteBloom, and a way to confirm you’re the rights holder.
6. You're Responsible for What You Post
You, not NoteBloom, are responsible for the content you upload — including whether you actually have the right to share it. If something you post causes a problem, including a copyright claim from someone else, that responsibility is yours. See the Indemnification section of our Terms of Service for the full legal language.
7. Enforcement
NoteBloom can remove any community content, at our discretion, without advance notice — for a reported issue, a copyright concern, low quality, or any violation of these guidelines. Repeated or serious violations can also result in losing access to community uploads, or account suspension, per our Terms of Service.
8. Changes to These Guidelines
We may update these guidelines as the community grows. When we make material changes, we’ll update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
9. Contact
For reports, takedown requests, or questions about these guidelines:
Email: community@notebloom.app