This describes what the software actually does. If you find a place where it doesn't, that's a bug and we want to hear about it.
Last updated 23 August 2026 · clubstage.org
No account, no password, no email address, no phone number, no payment details. We never ask for them and there is nowhere to put them.
| What | Why | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| The name you type | So the room can call you something | Shown to the room; appears in the transcript if you take the stage |
| A random ID in your browser | So the room recognises you across tabs and refreshes | Stays in your browser's local storage. Not a cookie, not sent to anyone else |
| Camera and microphone | So people can see and hear each other | Peer-to-peer, not through our server. Video never touches our machines |
| What you say on the stage | The record of the conversation | Stored on our server. Publicly downloadable as .txt or .md |
| What you say while listening | Feeds the club culture | Becomes a merged question. Never enters the transcript. On by default, switchable at the door and in the room |
| A photo, if you add one | Shown when your camera is off | Downscaled in your browser first, then stored on our server and served at a public URL |
| Clips | A shareable moment from the room | Stored on our server at a public link. The audio includes everyone in the room |
| Invite links | The leaderboard of who brought people in | The name on the link, who made it, and which IDs arrived through it |
Turning speech into text happens in one of two ways, depending on your browser, and the difference matters:
The room shows you which engine you are on, in small type under the board. If you would rather Google never heard any of it, use Firefox or Safari, or switch listening off.
We use a small number of services to make the room work. We do not sell data to anyone and there is no advertising.
| Service | What we send |
|---|---|
| Anthropic (Claude) | Recent lines from the room's transcript and the board, so the AI participant can respond and so similar questions can be merged |
| ElevenLabs | The text the AI is about to say, so it can be spoken. Your voice is never sent |
| Fish Audio | Same as above — a fallback voice provider |
| fal.ai | A short description written from the conversation, when somebody asks the room to generate an image |
| Microphone audio, but only on Chrome and Edge, and only for speech recognition — see above | |
| Fly.io | Hosting. Servers are in Los Angeles, USA |
None. No tracking cookies, no analytics, no advertising pixels, no fingerprinting. The site stores a few small values in your browser's local storage — your name, a random ID, which panels you have collapsed, and whether listening is on — and those never leave your device except as described above. That is why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing to consent to.
Email hello@clubstage.org with the room, roughly when, and what was said or shown. Because there are no accounts we cannot look you up by email, so those details are what let us find it. We will remove transcript lines, clips and images on request.
If you are in the UK, EU, or a US state with a privacy law, you have rights to access, correct, delete and object. Use the same address and we will honour them. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Club Stage is not for under-16s and we do not knowingly collect anything from children. If you believe a child has used the room, write to us and we will delete what we can find.
When this changes, the date at the top moves. We are not going to quietly start selling data; if anything on this page ever stops being true, it means we made a mistake — tell us.
Club Stage is operated by Persist Ventures. hello@clubstage.org