Privacy

Version 2026-10-08. Magic Storytime is a small beta for family and friends.

The short version

Your child tells the storyteller an idea, and we turn it into a picture book. To do that we use a few AI and hosting services. We keep only what is needed to make and show your family's books. We never sell anything, never show ads, and you can delete your whole family at any time.

What we keep

• Your child's first name, age, languages, and favorite books, if you share them.
• The written transcript of each story conversation, and the stories, pictures, and narration it made.
• For grown-ups with an account: your sign-in (handled by Clerk) and a fingerprint (hash) of your email.
• For guests: a random device cookie and a scrambled (hashed) form of your internet address, used only to limit free stories.
• Safety records: when something your child asked for was softened or blocked, we keep what was asked, so you can see it.

What we don't keep

• Recordings of your child's voice. Voice is turned into text as it happens; we store the text, not the audio.
• Last names, addresses, schools, or other contact details for children. The storyteller never asks for them.

Who processes it

• Google (Gemini): the voice conversation, writing and checking story text, narration, and safety checks.
• OpenRouter, which passes requests to the model makers it routes to (such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI): story writing and pictures.
• Modal: our story service and where pictures and narration are stored.
• Neon: our database.
• Vercel: the website, including its bot check.
• Clerk: grown-up sign-in.
• Stripe: payments, if you buy a membership. We never see card numbers.

We use these services' paid or business terms, under which they don't use your data to train their models.

Safety

Every story, picture, and storyteller reply is checked for a young child. Grown-ups can see anything that was softened or blocked in the Safety log in the Grown-ups area.

Deleting everything

In Grown-ups, choose "Delete our family". That removes your child's profile, every story, picture, narration, conversation, and safety record. We keep only cost records with nothing that identifies you, so our bills still add up.

Questions

Reply to the invitation you received from Max, who runs Magic Storytime.