Privacy

Your designs stay in your browser

Every Designer Bee tool runs entirely in your browser. Previews and exported files (SVG, DXF, STL) are generated right on your device, and photos or files you upload never leave your browser. No account is required, and Designer Bee itself does not collect any personal data.

Keep my design for me

When you press Keep my design for me on a project, the design's settings (the sizes, text and options you picked) are stored under the code we show you, like brave-otter-42, so you can open it again on any device. Your photo is never stored, only the settings. Anyone who has the code can open that one design, so treat it like a ticket, not a secret. Only the browser that kept a design can update it under the same code (it holds a private key for that code), and every earlier version is kept. Kept designs stay for 12 months from the last time they are opened. No account, no email.

Anonymous analytics

To understand which tools people actually use and where the interface is confusing, Designer Bee uses Microsoft Clarity for anonymous analytics. Clarity collects aggregated usage data such as clicks, scrolls, heatmaps, and anonymized session recordings. It does not identify you personally.

You can read Microsoft's full policy at clarity.microsoft.com/terms.

Design export analytics

When you export a design, Designer Bee logs which tool you used, the design settings, the approximate city-level location (derived from your IP address by our hosting provider; the IP address itself is never stored, only an anonymized hash used to prevent abuse), and the time of the export. This exists for one reason: to see what people actually make, so the tools can keep improving. For tools that do not use a photo, the exported design file itself (the STL or SVG) may also be stored for about a week, so a real print or cut can be tested and any problem fixed.

Tools where your image is part of the file (like the lithophane, jigsaw, and agamograph makers) are never stored. The one exception is a design you choose to order, or ask us to quote, through the "Make it for me" button: that file is uploaded to a private, unguessable link, only when you place the order or send the request, so it can be made or priced. A quote request also sends us the email address and note you type, which we use only to answer you. Otherwise photos and uploaded files never leave your browser, and they are never part of these logs. No names, no emails, no accounts. The data is stored privately and is never shared or sold.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, reach out via the Designer Bee YouTube channel.