Your work and Bleedline

Your work belongs to you

The scripts, characters, Story Bible entries, art and lettering you make or upload are yours, or belong to whoever holds their rights. Bleedline is the workspace, not the owner.

Here’s everything Bleedline does with your work: it stores it and backs it up; makes smaller previews and print copies of your art; shows it to you, your team, and anyone you or your team send a share link to; puts short pieces of it in notifications to your team (a comment, a page name); turns it into the files you export, and sends those to Google Drive or Dropbox when you ask; and lets admins review anything that’s been reported. We don’t publish it, sell it, license it to anyone, or use it to promote Bleedline without asking you first.

Who can see your work

• Your team. A series is visible only to the people its owner invites (and, as described below, to anyone with a share link and to admins reviewing a report). What each person can change depends on their role (Writer, Artist, Colorist, Letterer, Editor or Viewer). These rules are checked by the database itself, not just the app’s screens.
• Share links. The owner or a Writer (18 or over) can make a link to one issue, showing its script, its lettered pages, or both. Anyone with the link can read those, without an account. They see the series and issue name and the script’s characters, but never your team’s names or emails, comments, or anything else in the series. A link lasts 7, 30 or 90 days, or until it’s turned off, and stops on its own if the person who made it leaves the series or loses that role. Mature series ask viewers to confirm they’re 18 or over.
• Your art is kept in private storage. Each picture is opened through a link that stops working within an hour and is only handed out after checking the person is allowed to see it.
• Fonts you add for lettering are kept the same way. Your team can use them, and a share link to an issue lettered with one shows the pages in that font.
• What teammates see about you: your display name and credits name, the roles you picked, your profile photo (not shown to members under 18), when you’re online, and what you changed. Only a series’ owner sees its teammates’ email addresses, and a backup they download includes them, with everyone’s names, roles and comments in that series. When you invite someone who doesn’t have an account yet, the invite email shows them your email address.
• Your date of birth isn’t shown to anyone else. Bleedline uses it to apply the age rules and for your own birthday greeting; admins can see whether you’re 18 or over, not the date.

What the Bleedline team can see

Bleedline is made by OLGB Publishing. A few people on our team are admins, so they can help when something goes wrong and keep Bleedline safe. Admins can see:

• your account details: email, display name, whether you’re 18 or over, when you joined, when and on how many days you’ve used Bleedline, your plan, the names of your series and your role on each, invites waiting for your email, and how much storage you use;
• why a save failed, if one did (see Saving);
• anything someone has reported, so it can be reviewed.

Admins can also suspend an account and remove reported content. Bleedline’s admin tools can open a stored image when a report is being reviewed; we don’t use that to look at your work otherwise. As with any online service, the people who run the database could technically reach it; we only do so to review a report, to fix a problem you’ve asked us about, or when the law requires it.

Every change an admin makes (giving or ending a plan, suspending an account, removing reported content, pausing or restoring uploads, deleting a stored file, sending an invite again, adding or removing an admin) is written to a log of who did it, when, and to whose account. Nobody can change or remove an entry from inside Bleedline, admins included.

Looking up an account isn’t logged yet.

AI and your work

Bleedline doesn’t generate art or writing with AI. We never use your scripts, art or Story Bible to train AI models, and we never sell, license or give them to anyone for that.

Comic conventions, publishers and contests increasingly ban AI-generated work. We think a tool for comic creators should stay on the creators’ side. (Once you export a file or send it to another service, that service’s own rules apply.)

Saving, history and backups

• It saves as you type. There’s no Save button; the note at the top of the screen says when your work is saved.
• A copy stays on your device, so you can keep writing without a connection. It saves when you’re back online.
• When two people change the same line or field, Bleedline asks which version to keep instead of quietly overwriting either. Changes to different things are simply combined, and Long Form manuscripts merge everyone’s typing as they go. Balloon positions are the exception: the latest move wins.
• History. Script snapshots are taken automatically when a page changes stage, or whenever you save one; the last 20 for each page are kept. Earlier versions of uploaded art stay in the page’s history, so you can go back.
• Weekly backups. Every week (so the latest backup can be up to a week old), an encrypted copy of the database and a copy of every art file go to a separate private storage area. Database copies are deleted after 90 days, and art removed from Bleedline is deleted from the backup within about 14 weeks.
• When you remove a page, panel or line, its lettering, comments and page snapshots are kept aside privately for 2 days, so undoing the removal brings them back. Only you can bring them back, nobody can see them meanwhile, and they’re deleted after 2 days (or straight away if the series or the comment’s author’s account is deleted).
• If something doesn’t save, Bleedline notes the error message (technical, not your work, though now and then it can quote a word or two) so we can see what went wrong if you ask for help. It’s cleared after 30 days.

Taking your work with you

Your scripts and pages aren’t locked into Bleedline. At any time you can export:

• scripts as PDF (in several industry styles), Word, plain text, Fountain, Final Draft (.fdx) and Markdown;
• lettered pages and print-ready PDFs, and the artist brief;
• comic-reader files (CBZ and EPUB) and page images;
• webtoon episodes as image sets sized for WEBTOON, Tapas, GlobalComix and Instagram;
• your original art files, which can be downloaded from each page.

You can also have every download copied to your Dropbox automatically (and to Google Drive once that opens; see below). Once plans open, page images exported from a series on the Free plan carry a small Bleedline mark; scripts never do.

The Story Bible (the artist brief, characters and their relationships, continuity notes, locations and world notes) downloads as a PDF or a Word file, for anyone on the series.

The whole series in one file. A series’ owner can download a backup from Organize: every issue (archived ones too) with its script, layout, lettering, outline, stages and assignments, plus the Story Bible, the relationship map, the brief, comments, script snapshots and the team’s names, roles and email addresses (so keep it private). The art comes separately, one ZIP per issue with the original files, plus one for the Story Bible and brief pictures and the series’ own lettering fonts. Loading a backup always makes a new series of yours; nothing you already have is changed. Its pictures and fonts come back when you load its art ZIPs, and the old team is listed for you to invite again; nobody is emailed until you do.

Backups and art ZIPs are the owner’s, because the owner decides about the series as a whole. A series’ owner can also choose “Only I can download the finished comic” (off unless they turn it on): then the assembled and lettered PDFs, print PDFs, comic-reader files, page images and webtoon exports are the owner’s only, while the team still reads the finished comic in Bleedline and downloads scripts and their own files. It’s a setting in Bleedline, not a lock on the art itself.

Google, Discord and Dropbox

• Signing in with Google or Discord: Bleedline gets your email address (and whether that service has confirmed it), your account number there, and the name and picture link on that account, and uses only the email address. It never sees your Google or Discord password, and nothing else from those accounts.
• Google Drive and Docs (opening before launch; for now only test accounts can connect): Bleedline asks for Google’s narrowest access. It can open only the files you pick and the files it saves for you, never the rest of your Drive.
• Dropbox: Bleedline can reach only its own folder (Apps, then Bleedline) and any single file you pick to import, never the rest of your Dropbox.
• When a download is saved there again, it replaces the copy Bleedline saved before, and the old one stays in that service’s version history. In Drive, Bleedline only ever replaces files it saved itself; in Dropbox, only files in its own folder.
• Bleedline doesn’t keep these connections on its servers. They stay in your browser while you use them and end when you sign out. You can disconnect on a device in Edit profile, Connected apps, or remove Bleedline completely in your Google or Dropbox account settings.

Plans and payments

Paid plans aren’t open yet. During the beta there are no plan limits except 2 GB of storage per series owner. When plans open:

• you pay on Stripe’s own secure checkout page. Your card details go straight to Stripe, so Bleedline never sees or stores your card number. Bleedline shares your email with Stripe and gets back your plan and payment status;
• if a paid plan ends (a failed payment, a cancellation, or free time running out), it keeps working for 48 hours. After that, anything beyond the Free plan’s limits turns read-only: you and your team can still open, read, comment on and export it, but not change it. Nothing is deleted. When storage is full, new uploads stop;
• the series owner’s plan covers the series, so teammates never pay. Each plan includes a set number of teammates who can edit; the rest can read.

Deleting your work or account

A series

The owner can delete an archived series. It’s removed for good 14 days later, along with its art (except images that were reported, kept as evidence); until then you can cancel. Teammates are told before it goes.

Your account

Go to Edit profile, Profile, Delete account. If other people work on a series you own, you hand it over to one of them or delete it first. You then have at least 14 days to change your mind (longer if a subscription is still set to renew, or a shared series is still on its way out). After that:

• your series, your profile photo and your sign-in are deleted;
• you leave other people’s series; what you added to them (art, comments, lettering) stays, shown as from a “Deleted account”, so their comic isn’t left with holes;
• your email address is removed from invites and from the Bleedline news list.

Some things are kept: content that was reported, as evidence; reports you made and feedback you sent, without your email; the admin log, which shows “deleted account” instead of your email; Stripe’s own payment records; and the weekly backups, which age out as described above.

Reports and removals

Anyone can report something that breaks Bleedline’s rules: members with the Report button next to images and comments, and anyone else with the Report this page link on a share page or the report form, no account needed. A person on the Bleedline team reviews every report. We don’t tell the person reported who reported them, except that we pass copyright notices on to the person whose material was removed.

• Intimate images shared without consent, including fake or AI-made ones, are removed within 48 hours of a valid request, along with any copies we know of.
• Sexual content involving a minor, including drawn or fictional characters, is removed and the account that posted it is suspended. When it appears to involve a real child (including realistic, AI-made or altered images), we also report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as the law requires.
• When we remove something you posted, we tell you in Bleedline and by email what was removed and which rule it broke, and you can reply if you think we got it wrong. (The exception is when telling you could get in the way of a child-safety report or investigation.)
• Copyright: a removal after a copyright notice counts as a strike, and you can send a counter-notice to have it put back. With three strikes in 12 months, uploads and new share links are paused on the account while we review it (everything else keeps working), and accounts that keep infringing can be suspended.

Removed files aren’t deleted straight away: they’re kept for a year as a record of the report, where only the people handling reports can reach them, then deleted. Anything reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is kept for at least a year from that report, as the law requires. Closed reports are deleted a year after they’re closed (unless the law requires us to keep them longer). Invites nobody takes up expire after 90 days.

Members under 18

You need to be at least 13 to use Bleedline, or 16 if you live in the European Union, the United Kingdom or Quebec. Before an account is made (also before you continue with Google or Discord), Bleedline asks your date of birth and whether you live in one of those places; only the yes or no is kept, never your country. If the answer is under the minimum age, no account is made and nothing you entered is kept, apart from a note in that browser for one day so the question can’t simply be answered again with a different year. (Accounts made before this, and anyone who says they already have an account when continuing with Google or Discord, are asked at their first sign-in.) An account that turns out to be under that age is deleted the next day, along with its own series, even ones other people work on (they’re told), and the comments and files it added to other people’s series (except anything kept for a report). Members aged 13 to 17, and accounts that haven’t given a birthday yet, can’t add a profile photo or see other members’ photos, can’t join or open a series labelled Mature, can’t make share links, and aren’t offered the Bleedline news list. Their notification emails start switched off, and once plans open they stay on the Free plan.

Emails

Bleedline emails you what’s needed to run your account (confirming your email, resetting your password, team invites) and notifications about your team’s work: a daily summary unless you change it in Edit profile, Notifications. Bleedline news from OLGB Publishing is sent only if you tick the box for it. Every notification email has a one-click unsubscribe, and every news email has an unsubscribe link. If someone invites you and you don’t have an account, the invite email has a link to stop all invite emails to your address.

Services Bleedline uses

Bleedline runs on a few other companies’ services. Each gets only what it needs:

• Supabase: the database and sign-in (your account and your work).
• Cloudflare: hosting the site, storing art and backups, and the check at sign-up that stops automated accounts.
• GitHub: runs the weekly backup; the database copy passes through it before being encrypted.
• Resend: sends Bleedline’s emails, including notification emails, which quote names and comments.
• Sentry: error reports. If something breaks in your browser, it gets the error, your browser type and which pages were open, with email addresses and quoted text taken out first. Never your scripts or art, and no screen recordings.
• Kit: the Bleedline news list, only if you tick the box.
• Stripe: payments, once plans open (your email and payment details).
• Browser push services (Google, Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft): deliver notifications to devices you turn them on for. The messages are encrypted.
• Google and Dropbox: only if you connect them (see above).

Questions and requests

• Help with your account or work, or if you can’t sign in: [email protected], or the ? button inside Bleedline, then Email support or Send feedback. We usually reply within 2 business days.
• Your data (a copy of it, correcting or deleting it, or a privacy question): [email protected].
• Reporting something, or asking for an intimate image to be removed: the report form, or [email protected].
• Copyright notices and counter-notices: [email protected].