Terms of Service

By creating an account or using Ink Byte, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the site.

• You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to agree to these terms where you live.
• Give accurate information when you sign up, and keep your email address working so we can reach you about your account.
• Keep your password safe. We recommend two-step verification or a passkey. You’re responsible for what happens under your account.
• Accounts are personal. Don’t share one, sell one, or create accounts to get around a suspension or limit.
• Usernames and display names must follow the rules below. We may change one that doesn’t.

You keep ownership of the comics, artwork and text you post. We don’t claim any of it.

So that we can run the site, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, copy, resize, crop and display what you post, only as needed to provide Ink Byte. That includes making smaller versions and panel crops of your pages, and showing your work on your site, in feeds, search results, tag pages and RSS, following the visibility you choose. This license ends when you delete the content, except for copies kept briefly in backups or already shared through features like RSS.

When you post something, you confirm that:

• you made it, or have permission to post it;
• it doesn’t break anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights; and
• it follows these terms.

Visibility settings (public, unlisted, restricted and private) are there to help you control who sees your work, but no system is perfect. Don’t post anything you can’t afford to have seen by others.

Don’t use Ink Byte to post or do any of the following:

• Anything that sexualizes minors. We remove it and report it to the authorities.
• Sexually explicit material. The site doesn’t have age checks, so it isn’t allowed.
• Intimate images of anyone shared without their consent.
• Harassment, threats, or attacks on people for who they are, including their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
• Content that encourages violence or self-harm.
• Other people’s work, or personal information, without permission.
• Pretending to be another person or organization.
• Spam, scams, or misleading links.
• Anything illegal where you or we are.

And don’t misuse the site itself:

• Don’t try to get around limits, filters, suspensions or maintenance mode.
• Don’t access accounts, data or areas you aren’t allowed into, or probe the site for weaknesses without our permission.
• Don’t upload malware, or overload the site with automated requests, scraping or bulk downloading.

Admins keep the site safe. If something breaks these terms, or puts people or the site at risk, we may, with or without notice:

• edit, hide or remove content;
• block words from names, titles and descriptions;
• change a person’s storage limit;
• take away a person’s ability to post comics;
• suspend an account, for a period or indefinitely; or
• delete an account and its content.

We usually tell you the reason, such as when a comic is removed or an account is suspended. To help keep the site fair and safe, admins can view the site as another person to investigate problems, and every moderation action is recorded.

If you think we got something wrong, sign in and use Report a bug in the account menu.

If you believe something on Ink Byte infringes your copyright, sign in and use Report a bug in the account menu with:

• your name and how to reach you;
• the work you own;
• a link to where it appears on Ink Byte; and
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorized, and that the information you’ve given is accurate.

We’ll remove infringing material, and we suspend people who repeatedly post others’ work.

Each account has a storage limit for uploads. It grows as your account ages and you publish, and admins can change it. You can see yours under Studio › Storage.

We’re always improving Ink Byte, so features may change, and we may take the site offline for maintenance. We may also stop offering the service. If we do, we’ll try to give you notice so you can save your work.

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and how we use it.

You can stop using Ink Byte at any time. You can delete your comics yourself, and delete your whole account from your Account & security page.

We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms. The parts of these terms that by their nature should continue, such as ownership, disclaimers and limits on liability, still apply after that.

Ink Byte is provided “as is” and “as available”. As far as the law allows, we don’t make promises about it, including that it will always be available, error-free or secure, or that content won’t be lost. Please keep your own copies of your work.

As far as the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, lost data or lost profits arising from your use of Ink Byte, and we aren’t responsible for what other people post. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have that can’t be limited by law.

If your use of the site, or content you post, leads to a claim against us, you agree to cover the reasonable costs that result, as far as the law allows.

We may update these terms. If a change is significant, we’ll let you know on the site or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use Ink Byte after that means you accept the new terms.

Questions about these terms? sign in and use Report a bug in the account menu.