Haiku Deck Help: Adjust Your Deck’s Privacy Settings

March 6th, 2013 by

Note: This post has been updated to reflect the new publishing flow in Haiku Deck 2.0, which now offers in-app privacy controls. If you have not yet updated your app, be sure to do that here. For getting-started Haiku Deck help, check out the Haiku Deck Tutorial.

You have complete control over the privacy of your Haiku Decks, even those that are published to the web. We offer three privacy settings:

Public – Your deck may show up in search results and may be selected for our galleries, to be viewed by anyone who visits the Haiku Deck website
Restricted – Only people who have the link to your deck can view it
Private – Only you can view your deck

You can now specify and update your privacy settings right from the app, as well as from the website.

Setting Privacy from the App

1.  From your iPad, tap SHARE. (Tip: Read more about publishing and sharing here.)

2.  In the SAVE & SHARE popup, you’ll be prompted to add or edit your deck’s title, specify the privacy setting, and select one or more categories.

Haiku Deck Help: Specifying Privacy Settings in the Haiku Deck Save & Share Popup

Setting Privacy in the Save & Share Popup

3.  Tap the green PUBLISH button. (Tip: Read more about how the Haiku Deck app and website work together here.)
4.  After you have published a deck, you can change the privacy settings from the larger SAVE & SHARE popup.

Haiku Deck Help: Adjusting Privacy in the Haiku Deck Save & Share Popup

Changing Privacy Settings

Tap CHANGE PRIVACY, select your desired option, then tap BACK.

5.  To completely remove a deck from the website, tap UNPUBLISH. You can re-publish your deck at any time.

Setting Privacy from the Website

  1. Sign in to the Haiku Deck website the same way you sign in to the app. (Look for the SIGN IN button in the top right corner). Click GALLERY, then MY GALLERY to view all the Haiku Decks that you have published. (Tip: If the deck you’re looking for isn’t showing up, try this.)
  2. To adjust the privacy setting one of your decks, click it to open it in Web Edit View. Click the PRIVACY button below your deck, then select the option you prefer. (You can also choose “Unpublish” if you wish to completely remove your deck from our website. You can re-publish it from your  iPad any time.)
Haiku Deck Help: Setting Privacy Controls from the Haiku Deck Wesbite

Setting Privacy from the Haiku Deck Website

While you’re in Web Edit View, you can also add Notes, grab an Embed code for your blog or website, share your deck with your networks, or download a beautiful PDF you can use for a handout. Read more about how the Haiku Deck app and website work together here.

Tip: You can keep your deck set to Private while you’re working on it or until you make your big presentation. Once you’re done, be sure to set your story free by changing your Privacy setting to Public. You’ll be amazed how many views your Haiku Decks can rack up when you start sharing them across your social channels!

More Haiku Deck Help

For more Haiku Deck help, please check out the Haiku Deck Tutorial or drop us a line any time at support (at) haikudeck (dot) com.

  • Yott

    I can’t see any privacy option. Just “edit description” and number of views. I don’t want anyone to see my test slideshows. It’s very confusing and the app didn’t ask me if I want to publish it online for anyone to see or not :(

    • Catherine

      Hi there-I’m so sorry I didn’t see your comment until now. We are working to make the privacy settings clearer and more obvious. For now, please try signing in to the website (the same way you signed in when you set up the Haiku Deck app). Once you sign in, you should see the PRIVACY option under SHARE, DOWNLOAD, and EMBED. Thanks, Catherine from Haiku Deck

    • mamatweeta

      Yott, apologies for the confusion (and for the delayed response; I didn’t see your comment until today). You’ll need to actually sign in to the Haiku Deck website, using the same credentials you use from the iPad app. Once you do that, you should see the Privacy button. Please let us know if that’s not working. (And we are working to make this much clearer and easier in our next release!)

      • Yott

        Thank you for your answer mamatweeta. I’m logged-in with the same credentials I use for the iPad app and I can only see “edit description” and number of views. Any suggestions?

        • el Flynn

          Same thing happened to me. The post here is probably talking about an older version of the website.

          1) go to your gallery
          2) click on the deck you want to edit

          On the next page, you should see the “privacy” link at the bottom of the image of your deck.

  • Mish

    I can’t see a privacy setting. Any suggestions

    • mamatweeta

      Mish, apologies for the confusion (and for the delayed response; I didn’t see your comment until today). You’ll need to actually sign in to the Haiku Deck website, using the same credentials you use from the iPad app. Once you do that, you should see the Privacy button. Please let us know if that’s not working. (And we are working to make this much clearer and easier in our next release!)

  • http://www.carlesbellver.com Carles Bellver

    I can’t see the “privacy” button, just “edit description” and the number of views :(

    • mamatweeta

      Carles, apologies for the confusion (and for the delayed response; I didn’t see your comment until today). You’ll need to actually sign in to the Haiku Deck website, using the same credentials you use from the iPad app. Once you do that, you should see the Privacy button. Please let us know if that’s not working. (And we are working to make this much clearer and easier in our next release!)

      • http://www.carlesbellver.com Carles Bellver

        Well, I am (and was) logged in. I can see my gallery and my -only one- presentation, but no ‘privacy’ button :(

        • el Flynn

          1) go to your gallery
          2) click on the deck you want to edit

          On the next page, you should see the “privacy” link at the bottom of the image of your deck

          • http://www.carlesbellver.com Carles Bellver

            It’s working now, thanks :)

          • Yott

            When I click on the deck it says “PRIVATE Some stories aren’t meant to be set free! This Haiku Deck has been removed or specified as private.”
            ??? I didn’t remove it or set it as private and there is no option to “unprivate” it. It’s so confusing.

          • http://twitter.com/HaikuDeck Haiku Deck

            That’s odd! Can you email me a link to your deck and we can look into it? catherine (at) haikudeck (dot) com.