# Docs: how to use a Birthdayland birthday site

> the birthdayland manual: how to leave a card, how to explore your birthday island and play the festival games, and what's public on a birthday site.

Page: https://bday.land/docs · updated 2026-10-05

short guides for everyone who touches a birthday site: the friends who sign it, the person whose birthday it is, and anyone wondering where their photos go.

## the guides

- [leaving a card](https://bday.land/docs/leaving-a-card): a friend's guide to signing a birthdayland birthday site: the seven steps of the card maker, what you can add, size limits, and how to change your card later.
- [your birthday island](https://bday.land/docs/your-birthday-island): a guide for the birthday person: reading the board, walking the island, hugging every friend, lighting the cake and playing the 12 festival games.
- [privacy](https://bday.land/docs/privacy): what's public on a birthdayland birthday site, what isn't, what stays on your own device, and how a card and its photos get removed.

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birthdayland is a birthday website your friends fill together. it's free to start, a paid plan is one payment per birthday site, and friends never pay. every page, for language models: https://bday.land/llms.txt