Create private teams for issues that should only be accessed by certain workspace members.
What are private teams
Private teams let you create teams visible to select members in the workspace. The team and issues in them will only be visible to workspace members who have been invited to the private team (and admins have limited access). This feature is limited to paid plans. Anyone in the workspace can create a private team or make an existing team private.
Outside of permissions-related functionality, private teams work just like other 
Teams.
Teams.When to use private teams
Private teams may be helpful for these use cases:
- Work that is sensitive or should be limited to only some team members (e.g. HR, customer data, founders or exec team).
- You want a personal team to keep track of tasks.
We have plans to support other permissions-related features in the future such as guest users.
Who has access to private teams
The person who creates a private team or makes an existing team private becomes the default owner of the private team with full access to issues and team settings. Workspace admins have limited access; they can see all private teams in settings, update team settings, and join private teams but will not see issues in a private team unless they join it.
If an admin uses their privileges to join a private team, they'll be shown a warning and we'll notify the team owners. Admins can choose when exporting issues to include issues from any private team. The Google Sheets integration does not populate issue data from private teams, only public ones.
How to invite members to a private team
Owners of a private team and workspace admins can go to Team Settings > Members to invite other workspace members to the team. This is also where they can promote existing members to team owners. Members of a private team can leave the team on their own, but they won't be able to re-join the team on their own once they leave.
How to make teams private or public
Toggle the private teams option on when creating a new team to make it private. To make an existing team private or vice versa, go to Team Settings > Members and toggle the setting on or off.
Making a team private, will remove any assignees that are not team members from the team's issues. Likewise, any subscribers to issues of the team that are not team members will be removed.
Private teams, issues, and projects
Private team issues and projects are not visible to members outside of the private team.
Issues: Issues in a private team can only be viewed or assigned to members of that private team. You cannot @mention someone outside the team in private team issues. Only team members can be subscribed to issues of the private team.
Roadmap: Members of a private team can see its projects on the roadmap but those projects won't be visible to others.
Projects created under public teams: Projects created under public teams can be shared with private teams. Only private team members will be able to see that the project has been shared with the private team and view or add issues to the project that are associated with the private team.
Projects created under private teams: Projects created under private teams are visible to the private team members only, even if the project has been shared with another public team. Private team members can create issues in the project that are associated with public teams, but those issues will appear without an associated project to anyone outside of the private team.
Private teams and existing integrations, API, and webhooks
Some existing integrations such as Zapier can expose a user's private team and issue titles.
It is also possible to access private team data with the API, if you are using a personal API key of a user that has access to private teams.
Webhooks can also expose data from private teams. Webhooks for private teams can be set up by team owners and workspace admins
If your workspace has set up these integrations or created custom ones, consider this when adding private team data to issues.
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