Welcome to 8pagezine. These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Reedster LLC, the operator of 8pagezine (referred to as "8pagezine", "we", "us", or "our"). They govern your use of the 8pagezine website at 8pagezine.com and the tools, storefronts, marketplace, and related services we provide (together, the "Service").
Last updated: July 27, 2026
Please read these Terms carefully. By using the Service, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
Not legal advice. We publish this document for transparency so you understand the rules of the road. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for advice from your own lawyer. If you need legal guidance about your situation, please consult a qualified attorney.
1. Who we are
8pagezine is a browser-based zine maker and a two-sided marketplace. You can lay out text, images, and shapes on pages in your browser and export print-ready PDFs (print-shop sequential, a home 2-up duplex booklet, or the classic 8-page fold-and-cut mini). You can also publish issues of your zines to a personal storefront and to our public marketplace, and readers can buy them, download the PDF, and read them online. Some issues may be offered for free ("free pulls").
The Service is operated by Reedster LLC, located at 100 N Howard Street STE R, Spokane, WA 99201. You can reach us for support at [email protected].
How we handle personal data is described separately in our Privacy Policy, which is part of your agreement with us.
2. Acceptance of these Terms
By creating an account, starting a design, publishing or buying a zine, or otherwise using the Service, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization to these Terms, and "you" includes that organization.
3. Eligibility and age
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service.
- If you are under 18 (or under the age of majority where you live), you may use the free zine-making tools only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian, and only if your parent or guardian agrees to these Terms on your behalf.
- Buying or selling zines requires that you are an adult, or that you have the verifiable consent and involvement of a parent or legal guardian. Do not buy or sell on the Service if you are a minor and do not have that consent.
We want to be honest about a limitation: we do not verify age in our software. The age requirements above are rules you agree to follow, not technical controls we enforce. By using the Service you confirm that you meet these requirements. If we learn that someone does not meet them, we may suspend or remove the relevant account or content.
4. Accounts and anonymous designs
Creating an account
You can start making a zine without an account (see "Anonymous designs" below). To save work to an account, publish, sell, or buy under your own login, you create an account with your email address and a password, and you may add an optional display name (a handle). You are responsible for providing accurate information and for keeping it up to date.
We require you to confirm your email address before your account is fully active, and confirming a new address is required if you change your email. Passwords are stored only as bcrypt hashes; we never store your password in plaintext and cannot see it.
Keeping your account secure
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that happens under your account. Do not share your password. If you believe your account has been accessed without your permission, contact us promptly at [email protected]. We offer standard account tools such as password reset (reset links expire after 6 hours) and remember-me sign-in (that cookie is cleared when you sign out).
Cookies
We use only essential first-party cookies to operate the Service, chiefly to keep you signed in and to protect against cross-site request forgery. We do not use tracking cookies, advertising cookies, analytics, or any third-party trackers. A few additional cookies are set only when you take a specific action (for example, choosing "remember me" at sign-in, starting an anonymous design, or unlocking a private storefront). Because these are strictly necessary or set by your own action, the site shows a short informational cookie notice rather than asking you to accept or reject cookies. A full description is in our Privacy Policy.
One account, honest use
Please use one account for yourself and do not impersonate others or misrepresent your identity. We may limit, suspend, or remove accounts that are used abusively or in violation of these Terms.
Anonymous designs and claiming them
You can begin a zine without signing up. When you do, your unsaved work is tied to a signed, http-only cookie stored in your browser (the anonymous-design cookie). Anyone using that browser, or anyone who obtains that cookie, can reach that design. Anonymous designs are temporary: they expire on a rolling 14-day window (reset each time you edit them) and are permanently deleted, including their images and exports, in a nightly cleanup. If you sign in, we will attempt to "claim" the anonymous design into your account so it is saved. Until you claim it, treat anonymous work as temporary.
5. Acceptable use and prohibited content
You are responsible for everything you create, upload, publish, sell, or share through the Service. You agree not to use the Service to create, upload, host, sell, share, or link to content or to engage in conduct that:
- is illegal, or that promotes or facilitates illegal activity;
- infringes anyone's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights, or misappropriates someone's likeness;
- is defamatory, harassing, threatening, or that promotes hatred, discrimination, or violence against people or groups;
- sexually exploits or endangers minors in any way;
- contains other people's private or personal information that you do not have the right to share;
- contains malware, viruses, or code intended to harm, disrupt, or gain unauthorized access to systems or data;
- attempts to probe, scan, overload, disrupt, or circumvent the security, rate limits, or access controls of the Service;
- impersonates any person or entity, or misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity; or
- violates these Terms or any applicable law.
You are responsible for the legality of the content you make and distribute, including any personal information you choose to type into your zine's text. We apply server-side sanitization to text (stripping HTML down to a small safe allowlist) as a security measure against script injection; this is a technical safeguard, not a review of your content for legality or appropriateness.
6. Your content and the license you grant us
You keep ownership of your content. Your zines, text, images, layouts, and other materials you create or upload ("Your Content") remain yours. We do not claim any ownership of, or copyright in, the zines or other content you create using our tools. The license you grant us below exists only so that we can operate the Service for you; it transfers no ownership or copyright to us.
To operate the Service, we need permission to handle Your Content on your behalf. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transform, and render Your Content only as needed to provide the Service to you and to the people you choose to share or publish to. Concretely, this license lets us:
- store your designs (as JSON) and your uploaded image files;
- render your work into PDFs, print images, cover images, and the 1200x630 social share ("og:image") thumbnail;
- display your designs back to you in the editor and reader; and
- display and distribute the parts of Your Content that you choose to make public or share, through your storefront, per-zine pages, the marketplace, the public "look inside" reader, share links, and buyer downloads and online reading.
This license exists to run the features you use. It ends when you delete the relevant content or your account, except that (a) copies may persist temporarily in caches or other transient copies until they cycle out, and (b) content you have shared or sold may remain accessible to people who already hold a share link or a purchase, as explained below. You represent that you have all rights necessary to grant this license and to distribute Your Content through the Service.
7. Public sharing and marketplace publishing
Your content is private by default: only you (or, for anonymous designs, whoever holds the anonymous cookie) can see it until you choose to share or publish. When you do share or publish, please understand exactly what becomes visible.
Share links
You can generate a private share link for a zine (of the form /z/[token]) using an unguessable 32-character token. Anyone who has that link can read the full zine and download its PDF. Important limitations you should know before you share:
- The link does not expire.
- There is no in-app way to revoke or rotate a share link once it exists.
- The link is unguessable, but treat it as effectively permanent. Only share it with people you trust, and understand it may be forwarded beyond them.
Published listings and your storefront
When you open a storefront and publish a listing, certain information becomes public. Your public storefront (when listed) exposes your store name, bio (up to 500 characters), a tag, and an auto-generated URL slug (/shop/[slug]). Each published issue exposes its title, description, and cover art. Published issues can appear on your storefront, on per-zine pages, on the public /marketplace, and in a public "look inside" reader (/read/[id]).
You control how much of a published issue the "look inside" reveals, using a per-listing preview mode:
- preview: the cover plus the first spread only;
- full: the whole issue; or
- locked: the cover only.
This paywall is enforced on our servers: for a locked or preview issue, the pages that are not unlocked, and the images those pages reference, are never sent to the reader's browser.
Private stores and their limits
You can make a storefront private by setting an optional store password (separate from your login password, bcrypt-hashed). Visitors who enter the correct password get a signed, http-only cookie that remembers they unlocked the store; changing the password re-locks everyone. Two honest limitations:
- The store password has no recovery flow. If you forget it, we cannot recover it for you; you would need to set a new one, which re-locks existing visitors.
- A private store's existence can be confirmed by visitors, because the "look inside" redirects to an unlock page rather than returning a "not found" response. Private mode protects the content behind the store, not the fact that the store exists.
An unlisted store (not listed, no password) does not appear in the marketplace. A listed store appears in the marketplace even if it is private (shown with a lock and gated on click).
How reader and cover images are served
Images used in the reader and covers are served from your original uploaded files via unguessable links on our storage backend that have no configured expiry. Anyone who obtains such a link can fetch that file. Treat these links, like share and download links, as unguessable but effectively permanent.
8. Creator terms (selling your zines)
You are the seller of your own zines. 8pagezine is a platform and marketplace that helps you list, host, and get paid for your zines. We are not the seller or publisher of your content, and we do not take ownership of it. As a creator you are responsible for your content, its legality, the accuracy of your listings, and your own tax obligations.
Stripe Connect onboarding
To sell, you must complete Stripe onboarding and connect your own Stripe account (Stripe Connect, Express). During onboarding you provide identity, bank, and tax details directly to Stripe; those details go to Stripe, not to us. Your email is sent to Stripe when your connected account is created. You must complete this onboarding before you can sell.
How you get paid and our fee
Buyers pay through Stripe's hosted Checkout. We use destination charges: the platform collects the buyer's payment, retains a fixed 5% platform fee, and transfers the remainder to your connected Stripe account. Payouts are handled by Stripe according to Stripe's terms and schedule, not by us. You are responsible for your Stripe account being in good standing so you can receive funds.
Pricing and free pulls
You may price an issue at $0 (a free "pull") or from $1.00 to $500.00 USD. Free pulls record a $0 order and skip Stripe entirely.
Your warranties as a creator
By listing or selling, you represent and warrant that you own or have the rights to the content you sell, that it does not infringe anyone's intellectual property or other rights, and that it complies with these Terms and applicable law.
Our enforcement rights
We may remove or unpublish a listing, suspend your ability to sell, or take other action if we believe your content or conduct violates these Terms or the law, or in response to a valid legal or copyright complaint. See "Content moderation and enforcement" below.
9. Buyer terms (purchasing zines)
When you buy a zine, you are buying it from the creator, not from 8pagezine. You may buy as a guest (without an account); if you later sign in with a confirmed email that matches the one used at checkout, your past purchases attach to your account.
What a purchase gives you
A purchase grants you a personal, non-transferable license to the digital zine: to download its PDF and to read the full issue online (you get the full issue regardless of the listing's public preview mode). Delivery is by email after payment, containing a permanent, unguessable link to download the PDF and read online. That link does not expire.
- Keep your download link private. Anyone who obtains it can access the zine. There is no in-app way to revoke it.
- Your license is for personal use. It does not transfer the creator's copyright and, unless the creator tells you otherwise, does not permit you to resell or redistribute the zine.
- A "permanent" link can still stop working. If the creator who sold you the zine deletes their account, their listings and files are removed, which can destroy your download and online-reading links even though they were meant to last. We recommend downloading and keeping your own copy of the PDF.
Digital goods and refunds
Zines are digital goods delivered immediately. By default, all sales are final and we do not offer refunds. We want to be accurate: there is no in-app refund flow, and we do not process refunds, disputes, or chargebacks beyond what Stripe itself provides. A creator or 8pagezine may choose to make an exception, and nothing here limits any statutory refund or cancellation rights you have under applicable law.
EEA and UK buyers: for digital content supplied immediately, you may be asked to consent to immediate delivery and to acknowledge that, by doing so, you lose any statutory right to withdraw once download or online reading has begun. Where that consent is given and delivery has started, the right of withdrawal does not apply.
10. Pricing, payment processing, and taxes
Payments are processed by Stripe. Card details are entered on Stripe's hosted pages and never touch 8pagezine's servers. After a payment, we store only limited order data: the buyer's email (as provided by Stripe), the amount, the currency (USD), the platform fee amount, a Stripe checkout session id, a paid-at timestamp, and unguessable receipt and download tokens.
All prices are in United States Dollars (USD).
Taxes. We want to be clear: the Service does not automatically calculate, collect, or remit sales tax, VAT, or any other tax. Creators are responsible for determining and meeting their own tax obligations on their sales. Buyers are responsible for any taxes that may apply to their purchases where the law requires. Prices shown may not include tax.
11. Our intellectual property
The Service itself, including the 8pagezine name and brand, the website, the software, the editor and rendering technology, and our designs and text (but not Your Content), is owned by Reedster LLC or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service as intended by these Terms. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, resell, or create derivative works of the Service, except as permitted by law.
12. Copyright complaints and takedowns (DMCA)
We respect intellectual property rights and expect our users to do the same. We do not currently have an in-app reporting button, so copyright complaints and other abuse reports are handled by email.
If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to our designated agent, Reedster LLC, at [email protected]. Your notice should include:
- your physical or electronic signature;
- identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed;
- identification of the material you claim is infringing and enough information for us to locate it (for example, the URL);
- your contact information (name, address, email);
- a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
Counter-notice. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same contact, including your signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed in error, your contact information, and your consent to jurisdiction as required by applicable law. We may restore the content in accordance with applicable copyright law. We may remove content and, in appropriate cases, terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
13. Content moderation and enforcement
We are not obligated to monitor content, and we do not pre-screen it. However, we may review, remove, unpublish, or restrict access to content, and we may suspend or terminate accounts, if we believe in good faith that the content or conduct violates these Terms or the law, harms other users or the Service, or exposes us to liability.
Because there is no in-app reporting button, please report content that violates these Terms, or other abuse, by email to [email protected]. We will review reports and act at our discretion. Where practical, we aim to give notice of significant enforcement actions, but we may act immediately when we believe it is necessary.
14. Termination and account deletion
You may stop using the Service at any time. You can delete your account yourself using the "delete my account" action.
What self-serve deletion does: deleting your account removes your account and cascades to your zines, editions, listings, designs, exports, and uploaded files.
What it does not fully erase (please read): for legal and record-keeping reasons, some purchase records are not entirely removed by the self-serve delete:
- Records of purchases you made as a buyer (order rows, which include a buyer email) are not all fully erased; some are only disassociated from your account.
- Orders that other people placed for your listings are not all fully erased.
- If you were a seller, deleting your account also removes your buyers' purchase records and their download links, which means those buyers may lose access to what they bought.
- Guest-checkout order emails persist.
If you want a complete erasure request beyond what self-serve deletion does, please contact us at [email protected]. More detail on retention and deletion is in our Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if you violate these Terms or the law, or to protect the Service or other users. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (for example, ownership, license grants you made, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution) will survive.
15. Third-party services
The Service relies on third-party providers, and your use of the relevant features is also subject to their terms:
- Stripe processes payments and handles Connect payouts. Card and payout details are handled by Stripe, and Stripe's terms and privacy policy apply to that processing.
- Resend delivers our transactional email.
- Our hosting and database provider (and, for stored files, our hosting provider's infrastructure and/or S3-compatible object storage) runs the Service and stores application data.
These providers are described further, as data processors, in our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for third-party services' own acts, terms, or availability.
16. Disclaimers of warranties
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that it will meet your requirements, or that content, links, exports, or deliveries will always be available. You use the Service, and rely on its output (including PDFs and print files), at your own risk. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some of these may not apply to you.
17. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Reedster LLC and its officers, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or loss of goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of, or inability to use, the Service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amounts you paid to us (for example, platform fees on your sales, or amounts paid on your purchases) in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty U.S. dollars ($50). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.
18. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Reedster LLC and its officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to (a) Your Content, (b) your use of the Service, (c) your sales or purchases through the Service, (d) your violation of these Terms or applicable law, or (e) your violation of any third party's rights. We may assume the exclusive defense of any matter subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with us.
19. Changes to the Service and to these Terms
We may change, add, or remove features of the Service at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Changes take effect when posted, and your continued use of the Service after that point means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, please stop using the Service.
20. Governing law and venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to the dispute resolution section below, you agree that any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Spokane County, Washington, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.
21. Dispute resolution
Talk to us first. If you have a dispute with us, please contact us at [email protected] first so we can try to resolve it informally. We ask that you give us at least 30 days to work things out before starting formal proceedings. Many issues can be resolved quickly this way.
If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, it will be handled by the courts described in "Governing law and venue" above.
Note for the operator: some services add a binding arbitration clause and a class-action waiver. We have not imposed one here. Whether to require binding arbitration and waive class actions is a significant choice with legal consequences, and the operator should decide it with counsel before adding it. Until then, disputes proceed in court as described above.
22. Miscellaneous
Entire agreement. These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on that subject.
Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be applied to the maximum extent permitted.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our consent. We may assign them, for example in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
Contact. For questions about these Terms, contact us at [email protected] or by mail at Reedster LLC, 100 N Howard Street STE R, Spokane, WA 99201. For privacy questions and data requests, contact [email protected]. For copyright or abuse reports, contact Reedster LLC at [email protected]. Our full Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are always available on our website.