Privacy
The short version: your writing is yours, nobody here reads it, and there are no trackers on this site. The longer version is below, in plain English.
What we collect
Only what the tool needs to work, and nothing else.
- Your email address and password, so you can sign in and find your work again. Passwords are stored encrypted by our database provider — we never see them. Your account also notes whether you're on a free trial or a subscription.
- Whatever you put in the app — your books, characters, outlines, drafts, and any cover picture you upload — so it saves and follows you between devices.
- When your account was last active, and how many books it has. This comes from when your work was last saved. It helps us see whether the tool is being used. It never includes what you wrote.
- Anonymous tallies. When someone visits or downloads a free printable, or opens the installed My Outliner app for the first time on a device, we add one to a count. Each count is just a label, such as "blueprint_download" or "app_download". No name, no email, no address, nothing that could point back to a person. We also look at totals across all books, such as how many have a cover picture, and never at anyone's book in particular.
- What you send us on purpose. If you use Report a problem or Request a feature, we receive your message, your email if you choose to give it, a screenshot if you choose to attach one, and which page and web browser you were using, so we can find and fix the problem. A screenshot shows whatever was on your screen, so leave out anything you'd rather we didn't see.
What we don't do
- No analytics. No Google Analytics, no Facebook pixel, no session recording, nothing watching how you move around.
- No advertising, and no ad networks.
- We never sell, rent or share your personal information.
- We don't read your writing, and we never use it to train anything. There is no AI in this tool.
- No marketing emails. Signing up doesn't put you on a list, because there isn't one.
- Downloading a free printable requires no email address at all.
Cookies and browser storage
My Outliner stores things in your browser to keep you signed in, to hold your work so nothing is lost if your connection drops, and to remember small choices, such as dark mode, notes you've closed, and whether the app on this device has already been counted. If you install the My Outliner app, a small helper file lets your browser offer the install; it stores nothing. There are no tracking or advertising cookies, which is why you aren't being asked to accept any.
Who else is involved
Running a website means a handful of other companies are part of it. We keep the list as short as we can — the fonts, for instance, are served from this site rather than from Google, so nobody else sees you just for reading a page. These are the ones that remain:
| Netlify | Hosts the site. Like every web host, their servers log requests, including IP addresses, for security and reliability. Netlify also receives the Report a problem and Request a feature forms. |
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| Supabase | Stores accounts and your writing, and handles signing in. |
| Stripe | Handles subscription payments. Card details go straight to Stripe — they never reach us and we never see them. |
| jsDelivr | Delivers one open-source code library the app needs to run. |
Your writing belongs to you
Everything you create here is yours. You can download your whole book as a Word document, a PDF or plain text at any time, including after a free trial ends. Exports carry no My Outliner branding, because your work isn't ours to put a name on.
Your choices
You can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it entirely. Deleting your account removes your books along with it, permanently. To ask for any of that, email hello@myoutliner.com and we'll take care of it.
You can also delete any individual book yourself from the My Books page at any time.
How long we keep things
Your account and your writing stay until you ask us to delete them. The anonymous tallies are just counts and are kept indefinitely, since there's nothing in them to identify anyone. Problem reports and feature requests are kept until they've been dealt with, and you can ask us to delete yours at any time.
Children
My Outliner isn't intended for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them.
If this changes
If we ever change how any of this works, this page changes with it and the date below is updated. We won't quietly start collecting something new.
Questions
Email hello@myoutliner.com. A real person reads it.
Last updated 13 October 2026.