If you've built a website on Framer and want to export it, you might be wondering: am I actually allowed to do this? The short answer is yes — and the law is firmly on your side.
You Own Your Website — Not Framer
When you build a website on Framer, you own the content: your text, images, design decisions, and brand. Framer provides the platform and hosting, but the intellectual property of your website belongs to you. This is standard across virtually every website builder's Terms of Service.
GDPR Article 20: Your Right to Data Portability
If you're based in the European Union — or your users are — GDPR Article 20 gives you an explicit right to data portability. This means you have the legal right to receive your personal data and content in a commonly-used, machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another service.
ℹ️GDPR Article 20 states: 'The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her... in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller.'
By restricting or limiting your ability to export your own website's HTML, CSS, and assets, platforms may actually be in tension with these data portability rights — especially for EU users.
What About Framer's Terms of Service?
Framer's Terms of Service confirm that you retain ownership of your content. You grant Framer a license to host and display your content, but you never transfer ownership. Exporting your own website is simply retrieving what is rightfully yours.
What You Cannot Do
While exporting your own site is perfectly legal, there are limits:
- You cannot export someone else's Framer site without their permission
- You cannot export Framer's proprietary editor or platform code
- You cannot sell exported sites that contain third-party licensed assets
- You cannot claim Framer-created templates as your own original work
The Bottom Line
Exporting your own Framer website is completely legal and, in the EU, arguably a protected right under GDPR. You built it, you own it, and you have every right to host it wherever you want — without paying Framer's monthly hosting fee.
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