About Page — soundbuttons-click

What this site is

SoundButtons is a free soundboard: a set of pages, each holding a table of short audio clips you can press. It exists because finding a specific two-second sound — the one from a game, a stream, a video that everybody has heard and nobody can name — is unreasonably hard, and because the places that host them are usually buried under pop-ups, fake download buttons and login walls.

This page explains who is accountable for the site, how the collection is built, what the editorial rules are, and how to get something corrected or removed. It is the page a reader should be able to check when they want to know whether a claim on this site is worth trusting.

Who operates the site

The site is operated by the SoundButtons editorial desk, a small operation that maintains the boards, reviews submissions and answers takedown requests. There is no parent company, no investor and no content team; the same person who writes the board descriptions also decides what goes into a table.

Contact addresses, all of which reach a human:

[email protected] — factual errors, wrong titles, broken audio, anything on a page that is not true.

[email protected] — sending a clip you made, or asking whether a clip is appropriate before you send it.

[email protected] — rights-holder takedown requests, which have their own page and their own process.

Corrections are answered in the order they arrive. A wrong title is usually fixed in the next build; a claim about ownership is treated as urgent, because a site that cannot say where its audio came from should not be publishing it.

How the collection is built

Every row on the site started as a public upload somewhere else: a soundboard, a game capture, a video, an archive of a meme. The titles are kept as the uploaders wrote them, including the misspellings, the duplicated names and the ones that describe the source rather than the sound.

That is a deliberate editorial position. Rewriting titles into cleaner copy would make the tables look tidier and would destroy the only provenance these files have: the name the person who uploaded them chose. When a title is unusable — a string of numbers, an empty name — the row is either given a descriptive title and marked as such or dropped.

Boards are built around families, not around keywords. A board has to pass one test: could you describe it to someone in one sentence and have them know which sounds belong in it? That is why the site has a board for one specific game and not a board called "funny sounds", and why some boards hold fifty-six variations of one joke while others hold thirty rows and stop.

Editorial rules

Four rules govern what gets published, and they are applied before a row reaches a table rather than after someone complains.

**No ownership claims.** The site does not claim copyright in any audio clip. It claims copyright in the page text, the tables and the code, and nothing else. A row being playable here is not a statement that the clip is free to reuse.

**No content that harms.** Some sounds are funny because they are transgressive. A table printed on a public page is not the place for slurs, sexual content involving minors, or audio of real people being harmed. Rows are screened before publication and removed if they slip through; the count in a page heading is always taken after screening, so the number a reader sees matches the table they can press.

**No blanket copying.** A competitor's inventory is evidence of what exists, not a licence to republish it wholesale. Rows are collected because they are the sounds people look for, and each board's text is written for this site rather than lifted from the source.

**No promises about licences.** The site cannot tell you that a clip is cleared for your video, your game or your ad. It can tell you where the clip appears to have come from, and it will remove a row when a rights holder asks. Anything beyond that would be a guarantee the site cannot back.

Advertising and independence

The site is free and has no paid tier. If advertising is enabled, it pays for hosting and bandwidth, and it is the only revenue. Advertising does not influence which rows are in a table, which boards exist, or what the text says; an advertiser cannot buy a row, a board or a mention.

If ads are enabled, they are served by a third-party network, which means that network may set cookies and receive your IP address and user agent. The privacy page lists exactly what is collected, by whom, and for how long. If advertising is not enabled, no third-party script runs on these pages at all.

What the site does not do

It does not require an account, and there is nothing to sign up for. It does not capture email addresses, run a newsletter or ask you to accept notifications.

It does not accept uploads through a form. Submissions arrive by email and are reviewed by a person, because an open form turns a curated table into a file dump within a week — and because most of what people want to upload is not theirs to upload.

It does not host downloads. The pages play audio in the browser; whether a specific clip is available as a file depends on the source it came from.

It does not run analytics that follow you between sites. Server logs exist for security and capacity, and they are described on the privacy page rather than hidden in a banner.

Corrections, removals and the record

A correction is a change to a page: a title that names the wrong game, a board description that overstates what a family contains, a count that does not match its table. Send the URL and say what is wrong. The page is edited in the source, the site is rebuilt, and the change is visible immediately — there is no queue of pending edits behind a login.

A removal is different. If you hold rights in a clip, the takedown page describes what a notice needs to contain and what happens after it arrives. The short version: the row comes out first and the discussion happens afterwards, because a public page is the wrong place to hold a disputed file while two parties argue.

The site keeps a record of what was removed and why, without republishing the removed audio. That record is what makes a repeat-infringer policy possible and what stops the same clip from being re-added by a well-meaning submission a month later.

How to read a board page

Every board page carries the same three things, in the same order: what the board is for, the inventory table of every sound on it, and a note on how the list is maintained. The prose is written to be useful before you press anything — it says what the family sounds like, when it works, and where it stops working.

If a page reads as filler, that is a bug worth reporting. The standard the text is held to is simple: it should tell you something about the sounds that you could not get from the table, and it should be true.

That standard is also why the site does not publish a count of how many sounds it holds. A number that only goes up rewards padding, and a table is judged by whether a reader finds the sound they came for, not by how many rows sit underneath it. Each board description is written after listening to the rows on that board, not before.

Questions people ask

Who owns the site? The SoundButtons editorial desk, reachable at the addresses above. There is no separate legal entity disclosed on this page because there is no company behind it; the accountability is the mailbox and the person answering it.

Can I reuse the page text? No. The writing and the tables are the site's own work. The audio is a different question, and the answer is on the takedown page.

Why does the site keep so many near-duplicate sounds? Because in these families the difference between two uploads — pitch, length, room tone — is usually the reason someone wants one rather than the other. A table that collapses them is tidier and less useful.

Is the site safe for children? The site has no accounts, no chat and no user-generated text. Some boards contain crude humour and loud audio, and the loud board carries its own warning. Parents should treat it the way they would treat any public soundboard.

Changes to this page

This page is edited when the facts change, not on a schedule. If the site gains an operating entity, a postal address or an advertising partner, the change appears here first, because this is the page that answers "who is responsible for this".

The date of the last substantive edit is visible in the build record that produced the page you are reading. If something on this page is out of date, that is a correction, and the address at the top is where it goes.