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DesignBat is a web app to create, edit, animate, share and export designs and to edit photos, with optional AI features. Your account is an OfficeBats account, shared by every Bats app. This policy explains what we collect when you use DesignBat.
Information we collect
Your account
- Your OfficeBats account id, name, username and email address, which OfficeBats shares with DesignBat when you sign in.
- Your plan and AI credit balance, read from OfficeBats.
Your content
- Designs and photo projects you create, including text, layers, animation, comments and version history.
- Images, video, music, fonts and logos you upload, stock photos you add (with their credits) and files you choose from your OfficeBats Drive.
- Brand kits: logos, colours, fonts and brand voice you save.
- Copies of your designs and exports saved to your OfficeBats Drive.
- Share links you create, and the people who join your designs through comment or edit links.
Technical information
- IP address, browser type and request logs, used for security, rate limiting and fixing errors.
- Error reports from your browser when a page fails, without the content of your designs.
- If you accept analytics cookies: usage statistics from Google Analytics, such as pages visited, device and browser, and approximate location (see Cookies and analytics).
How we use information
- To provide DesignBat: store, render, share and export your designs and photos.
- To keep the service secure and prevent abuse.
- To charge AI credits and apply your plan.
- To answer support requests.
We do not sell your data and we do not use your designs or photos to train AI models.
On device processing
Background removal, select subject and similar photo tools run a model in your browser. The photo you process with them is not sent to our servers for that step. The model file is downloaded from our site once and cached by your browser.
AI features
When you use AI, what you send (your request, the text being edited, a description of the current page, the image you are editing and, if you ask, your brand kit) is sent to our AI providers to produce the result, then returned to you. If you name a website, our server reads that public page for you. Only signed in people can use AI. Stock photo searches send your search words to the photo library.
Sharing
Your designs are private until you share them. Anyone with a view link can see the design. Comment and edit links require people to sign in. You can turn links off at any time.
Service providers
We use hosting, database, object storage, email and AI providers to run DesignBat. They process data only on our instructions. If you accept analytics cookies, Google (Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics) receives pages visited, device and browser, approximate location and analytics cookie identifiers, never the contents of your designs.
Retention
Designs stay until you delete them. Deleted designs stay in the trash for 30 days. When you delete your OfficeBats account, your DesignBat data is deleted.
Your choices and rights
You can export and delete your designs at any time. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete your data. Contact us at [email protected].
Cookies and analytics
DesignBat uses a session cookie to keep you signed in and short lived cookies that protect sign in. Preferences such as light or dark appearance are kept in your browser. DesignBat does not use advertising cookies.
Analytics cookies: on design.officebats.com we use Google Tag Manager (GTM-WQMSBFZS) and Google Analytics to understand which pages and features people use, so we can improve DesignBat. They load only after you accept analytics cookies in the banner, and never on public view links, embeds or the export renderer. Google Analytics sets cookies such as _ga that last up to 2 years. Your choice is kept in a cookie_consent cookie for 12 months, and you can change it at any time with Cookie settings in the footer. Declining removes the analytics cookies. You can also use the Google Analytics opt out add on.
Changes
We will post changes to this page and update the effective date.