This page explains how Bartleby handles your work, your data, and your trust. We wrote it in plain language because you deserve to understand it without a law degree.
Everything you write in Bartleby is yours. Your ideas, your characters, your dialogue, your Story Bible, your uploaded drafts. Bartleby does not claim any ownership over your creative work. Period.
You can export your Story Bible at any time. You can delete your projects. You can leave and take everything with you. We will never use your stories for marketing, examples, or any other purpose without your explicit permission.
Bartleby is powered by Anthropic’s Claude API. When you send a message, your conversation is processed by Claude to generate a response. That’s it.
Anthropic’s API policy is clear: data sent through the API is not used to train their models. Your writing does not become part of any AI training dataset. Anthropic retains API data for a short period (currently 7 days) for safety monitoring, then deletes it.
We chose the API specifically because of this policy. Writers need to trust that their unpublished work stays unpublished. We take that seriously.
Account information. Your email address and display name, so you can log in and we can identify your projects. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email from Google.
Your conversations and Story Bible. We store your messages and story data in our database so your work is saved between sessions. This is what makes it possible to pick up where you left off.
Uploaded documents. If you upload a draft or outline, the text is extracted and processed in real time. We do not store the original file. The extracted text enters your conversation and is stored as part of your message history.
Feedback responses. If you fill out the feedback form, your responses are stored to help us improve Bartleby.
We do not collect analytics, tracking cookies, browsing behavior, location data, or any information beyond what is listed above. We do not sell, share, or monetize your data in any way.
Your account and story data are stored in a Supabase database with row-level security, meaning only you can access your own projects. The application is hosted on Vercel. Both services use encryption in transit and at rest.
You can delete individual projects from your dashboard at any time. If you want your entire account and all associated data removed, contact us and we will delete everything within 30 days.
Bartleby is a story development tool. It is not a ghostwriter, a content generator, or a substitute for professional editorial, legal, or publishing advice. It is designed to help you think through your creative work, not to produce finished work on your behalf.
By using Bartleby, you agree to use it for its intended purpose: developing your own original creative work. You are responsible for the content you create, upload, and share.
We reserve the right to suspend accounts that misuse the service, including attempts to use Bartleby to generate harmful, abusive, or illegal content.
Bartleby is currently in beta. The service is provided as-is. We are actively developing and improving it, which means features may change, bugs may occur, and availability is not guaranteed. We will do our best, but we cannot promise perfection yet.
Bartleby is being built by a writer, for writers. During the beta period, we may read anonymized conversation patterns to understand how the tool is being used and where it can improve. We will never read your conversations to judge your writing or share your ideas. We read them to make Bartleby better at doing its job: helping you figure out your story.
If you have any questions about how your data is handled, want your account deleted, or just want to talk about the tool, reach out to us at hello.bartleby@gmail.com. We are a small team and we read everything.
Last updated: March 2026