Your data, ownership and privacy
Your work is yours. This page covers who owns what byline reads, who can see it, and how to take it back or remove it.
Your content is yours
Everything you connect or forward to byline belongs to you. We read your posts, notes, and drafts for one purpose: to build your profile and serve it back to the tools you write in. Your originals never move. They stay on the platforms you connected, and the copy byline keeps is held under your workspace, for you. Connecting byline does not sign away any rights to your work.
Walled off from everyone else
Your memory is sealed inside your own workspace. Every read and write byline makes is scoped to your workspace and yours alone, so no other creator, and no other account, can see your content, your voice profile, or your numbers. When you connect byline to an AI tool, you sign in once with your own byline account, and that tool only ever reaches your workspace. Even the way byline measures how your posts perform compares you against your own past work, never pooled with anyone else's.
Never used to train AI
byline never uses your content to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. Your work is sent to the AI models byline relies on for a single reason: to do the job you asked for, like reading a post or drafting in your voice. It is not added to any training set.
Audience comments stay separate
When byline reads the comments on your Instagram and YouTube, it keeps them in a separate place from your own writing. Audience voice is never folded into your brand voice. So when a tool drafts "in your voice", it draws on what you published, never on what a commenter said. Comments are used only to surface what your audience keeps asking for, inside your insights.
The providers byline relies on
byline runs on a small, deliberate set of trusted services. Each one sees only what it needs to do its job:
| Provider | What it does for you |
|---|---|
| Ollama Cloud | Runs the AI models that read your work and write your profile, captions, and ideas |
| Reads your videos, and turns your writing into the searchable memory byline serves back to you | |
| Postmark | Sends your sign-in codes and reminders, and receives anything you forward in |
| Stripe | Handles payment when you subscribe (byline never stores your card) |
Export your data
Your memory is never locked in. Everything byline holds is readable straight back through the tools you connect. Just ask, in plain language, for your content, a transcript, or what byline learned about your voice, using your byline connection link:
https://byline.fyi/api/mcp
Your originals also still live on the platforms you connected. For a full copy in one go, make a privacy request below.
Delete content or close your workspace
You are always in control of what byline keeps:
- Disconnect a channel to stop byline reading it. Your existing archive stays, and the live connection is what goes away.
- Close your workspace to remove everything: your content, your profile, your insights, and the audience data tied to it all go with it.
After you delete content or close your workspace, byline removes it within a reasonable period. Brief copies may linger in routine backups before they age out.
Making a privacy request
You have the right to see the personal data byline holds about you, correct it, get a copy, or have it deleted. To make any of these requests, get in touch through the contact details in our Privacy Policy, and we will take care of it.