How we protect your child's data

What we ask for

For a personalized story, only these:

• The world you make: a place and a name for it, who is in the story, its mood, and anything you want left out. Some of these are words you type yourself.
• Up to three things that matter in this book, chosen from our suggestions or written by you.
• A reading age, 3-4, 5-6 or 7-8, so the language and length fit. We don't ask for a birthday.
• Optionally, up to two first names for the children listening, so the story can be theirs, and a name for anyone you invite to read.
• Optionally, one sentence suggesting a change to a chapter, in your own words.
• Optionally, voice recordings: yours, or those of someone you invite to read a chapter. They stay in private storage for your family.

That's the whole list. No last names, no photos of your child, no location, no contacts. Your own account is just an email for signing in.

How it's stored

The most personal fields (a world's name, who lives there, what never happens there, its laws, and the first names of the children listening) are encrypted with Storie's own key, separate from the database's own safeguards, so a leak of the database alone would not expose them in the clear. Reader profiles from earlier versions of Storie, which held a child's name, interests and birth month, are protected the same way. The stories themselves, which use your child's first name, and any recordings are protected by the database's and storage's own safeguards, not by this extra key.

If that key is ever unavailable, Storie refuses to save those fields rather than store them without it.

Keepsake pictures live in private storage that isn't publicly reachable. They're shown only to your signed-in account — or on a story's public page, if you yourself chose to share that story.

Who else touches this data

Three companies outside Storie see story content. We name them plainly, and each receives only what its job needs:

• Anthropic: writes the stories. It receives what you choose and write for a book: the world (its name, who lives there, its mood, what never happens there, and its laws), the reading age, the ending, the children's first names, and any note you leave to change a chapter. While you make a world it also writes a sample first line for your book, shown on the page, from the world, its laws and the reading age, without the children's first names. Continuing a story from an earlier version of Storie also sends the story so far and the name, age and interests saved with it.
• OpenAI: creates keepsake pictures. It receives only a short scene description that we scrub of names first, never your child's details.
• Braintrust: checks story quality. It receives each story request and the story written, with email addresses and phone numbers removed first. Your child's first name, as you entered it, is replaced before anything is logged. The story text is not removed. The logs are not tied to your account.

We never use your family's data to train AI models. What we send these companies, we send to make your story and check its quality, nothing else.

Behind the scenes we also use Clerk (sign-in), Supabase (database), Stripe (payments), Vercel (hosting), Resend (emails, such as a gift code), and Apple (purchases in the iPhone app). The full list lives in our privacy policy.

If you share a story

Every story is private until you choose otherwise. Tapping share makes that one story readable by anyone who has its link.

One thing to know before you share: the story's text usually weaves your child's first name into the prose — that's part of what makes it theirs — and a shared story shows that text in full. Link previews and the page's metadata never include your child's details, but the story itself does. Share knowingly.

Deleting a story takes its public page down with it.

No ads, no trackers

There are no ads in Storie, and a story will never carry one. We don't sell your data and we don't track you across the web. We measure visits in two ways: aggregate page analytics from Vercel, our hosting provider, to keep the site quick to load, and the cookie described in the privacy policy. No ad trackers.

Deleting is real

You can delete a world from Your books. Storie asks once, then deletes the world with its books, chapters and recordings. This can't be undone. A world with a chapter being written has to wait until it is ready, and a world with a book that is paid for, or whose payment was started, can't be deleted. The world with your free first book can be deleted only once a book in another world is paid for or its payment is started.

From your account page you can download everything Storie holds about your family in one readable file, or delete all of it: stories, story worlds, profiles, keepsake pictures and recordings. Deleting also cancels any older Storie subscription, and it cannot be undone.

Questions?

If anything here is unclear, or you'd like to know more before trusting us with a name, write to us at privacy@immanence.inc