Terms of use

Last updated: 4 August 2026

handwritten.blog ("the service", "we") turns your handwriting into a blog. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these terms.

Your account

You must be at least 16 years old to use the service. Keep your password and your secret posting address safe: anything published or done through your account is your responsibility.

Claim subdomains you intend to use. Squatting on names or hoarding subdomains isn't allowed, and blogs left empty for a long time may be reclaimed.

Your content and promotion

Everything you publish stays yours. We claim no ownership of your handwriting, your images, or your words.

So that the service can work, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display and distribute your content only as needed to operate the service. That includes showing it on your blog and in its RSS feed, generating display images and making the portable export you request. This operating licence ends when you delete the content or your account, subject to the deletion practices in our privacy notice.

We may use your blog or its content to promote handwritten.blog only while you have Feature my blog on the homepage enabled in your settings. That is a separate, optional licence for platform promotion. Turning it off ends future promotional use; it does not affect ordinary hosting of your blog. Material already published outside our control may take time to disappear from caches or third-party copies.

You're responsible for what you publish. Only post what you have the right to post.

There is no algorithmic feed. Every blog has RSS, and product announcements by email are separate and optional. You can download a portable export containing the blog metadata, posts and pages (including drafts), transcripts, original uploads, display images and handwritten links that the service currently stores for your blog.

Posting by email

Each blog has a secret posting address. Treat it like a password: anyone who knows it can publish to your blog, and you can regenerate it in your settings if it leaks. Mail sent to the service is processed by us and by the email providers we use to run it.

Handwritten comments

Where an author opts in, anyone may email one handwritten image or single-page PDF to the public address shown on a page. First-time senders must confirm their email address, and nothing appears publicly until the author approves it. Authors may edit or clear an email-body transcript for accessibility, reject comments, or turn comments off.

By confirming a comment, you promise you have the right to send it and give us the same limited operating licence needed to store it, show it to the author for moderation and, if approved, display it on that blog. The sender email stays private. Do not use comment addresses to harass authors, evade rate limits or send unlawful or infringing material.

Acceptable use

Don't use the service to publish unlawful content, to infringe other people's rights, to spam, or to interfere with the service or its infrastructure. We may remove content, or decline to host content, that breaks these rules or the law. We'd rather never have to.

Fees

The service is free today. We may introduce paid plans, or make some features paid, in the future. If that ever affects you, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice before you're asked to pay anything, we won't charge you retroactively, and you'll always be able to take your content and close your account instead. Any paid features will come with their own pricing and payment terms.

Changes to the service

We may add, change, or remove features, or suspend or shut down the service. If a change would materially hurt your use of it, we'll try to give you reasonable notice.

Ending things

You can delete your blog, or your whole account, at any time from your settings. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms or the law. Where practical we'll warn you first.

No warranties

The service is provided as is, without warranties of any kind. We work to keep it fast and available, but we can't promise it always will be. Please keep your original handwriting and your own copies of what you upload.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, we're not liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't lawfully be limited.

Changes to these terms

We may revise these terms from time to time. If a change is material, we'll give notice on the service or through required account email before it takes effect. This is separate from optional product announcements. Using the service after that means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Write to hello@handwritten.blog.