Privacy Policy

The short version

We collect the minimum needed to make your book: your account email, the child's first name, age, gender and interests you choose to share, and the photo you upload. The photo is used for one thing only - creating your book's illustrations. We never sell personal data, we don't run third-party ad trackers, and you can delete everything from your account page at any time.

Your child's photo and details

Photos are uploaded by you - the parent or guardian - never collected from children directly. The photo is stored securely (Vercel Blob storage) and sent to Google's Gemini API once per book to derive the illustrated character; the generated art is what appears in the book.

We do not use your photos or your child's details to train AI models, and we do not share them with anyone except the processors listed below, strictly to provide the service.

What we collect

Account: email address, name (optional), a hashed password (never the password itself) or your Google account id.

Book creation: the child's first name, age, gender/pronouns, interests, occasion, dedication text, and the uploaded photo.

Orders: the shipping name and address you enter for printed books, and your order history. Card details go directly to Stripe - they never touch our servers.

Analytics: privacy-friendly, cookieless page analytics (Vercel Analytics) - no cross-site tracking, no advertising identifiers.

Who processes data for us

Stripe (payments), Gelato (printing and shipping of physical books - they receive the book file and shipping address), Google Gemini API (story text and illustrations - receives the photo and the personalization details), Vercel (hosting, file storage, analytics), Neon (database), Resend (transactional emails such as order confirmations).

Cookies

One essential HttpOnly session cookie keeps you signed in. That's it - no advertising or third-party tracking cookies, which is why there is no cookie banner.

Retention and deletion

Books, photos and profiles stay in your account until you delete them. "Delete my account" on the account page erases your books, pages, child profiles, uploaded photos and generated art, and scrubs your account details. Order records (amounts, shipping details) are kept as required for accounting, refunds and disputes.

You can also request deletion or a copy of your data by writing to shushanran@gmail.com.

Contact

Privacy questions or requests: shushanran@gmail.com.