Prevent public links

Public links allow users to share individual Confluence pages and whiteboards with anyone who has the link, even if that person doesn’t have access to Confluence or an Atlassian account. About public links

The public links control lets you choose whether all users can create public links for anyone to use in the Confluence spaces, apps, or content with specific classification levels. What is a data security policy?

How do I use this control?

You can choose to prevent or allow public links for your organization. You can also customize your control with overrides if you wish to be more specific. Apply a default configuration to a policy control

When you change the control, it may take up to 10 minutes for the change to take effect in Confluence. For example, if you change the control from Blocked to Allowed, it may take about 10 minutes for the public links toggle to be available again.

What will my users experience?

When the public links control is set to Blocked:

• Users won’t be able to turn on public links for content covered by the control. They’ll see a message that public links aren’t allowed.

• All existing public links will be turned off for content covered by the control. If you later change the control to allow public links, these links won’t be turned back on automatically.

• Admins in Confluence can’t allow public links or change any public links settings in Global permissions or Space permissions when public links are blocked for an entire app. They’ll see a message that public links aren’t allowed.

When the public links control is set to Allowed:

• Whether public links are available will depend on the settings in Global permissions and Space permissions.

• Spaces created while the public links control was set to Blocked will also respect the settings in Global permissions and Space permissions.