Privacy

Bindery is operated by Bindery. This page says plainly what happens to your information.

Your manuscripts stay in your browser

Books, sources, covers, and audio are saved in your browser's own storage on your device. We do not keep a copy on our servers and have no account database holding your writing.

What passes through our servers

When you ask Bindery to build an outline, draft a chapter, run the honesty check, write a publish kit, or narrate audio, the relevant text is sent through our server to an AI model provider to produce the result, and the result is sent back to you. When you export a PDF or EPUB, the book is sent to our server to be typeset and returned. We do not store this content after the request finishes and we do not log request bodies.

Each request is first read by a small safety model that decides whether it is something Bindery will make; only the category of a refused request is logged, never its text. If you ask for cover art, the book's title, topic, and your suggestion are sent to an image model. Text requests are routed only to providers that do not train on or retain what they are sent.

The AI provider processes that text under its own terms for API customers. Avoid putting information into your sources that you are not permitted to share with a processor.

Payments

Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number. Stripe shares with us your email address, your subscription status, and the records needed for billing and tax. Stripe's privacy policy applies to the information you give it.

Cookies

We set only the cookies the service needs to work:

• one that records that this browser has an active subscription, and
• one that counts the free outlines, chapters, and checks you have used.

We do not use advertising cookies or sell personal information.

Analytics

We count page views and a few button presses, such as starting a book or opening checkout, to learn what is working. This uses no cookies, is not tied to you as a person, and never includes anything you write or upload.

Hosting

Our hosting provider keeps standard technical logs, such as IP address and request time, for security and reliability.

Your choices

You can delete your books at any time from the library, or by clearing this site's data in your browser. To cancel a subscription, use Settings. To ask what billing information we hold or to have it deleted, write to admin@millionroots.com.