Children's Privacy Notice
Last updated: July 5, 2026 · Bedside Stories, McKillop Creative LLC, Greenville, South Carolina
In one breath: Bedside Stories is made for a parent and child to create bedtime stories together. A parent enters a nickname, an age range, and a few story ingredients. Those ingredients help write one story. Your child's actual name never leaves your device and is never sent to our AI provider. We never use any of it for advertising, resale, profiling, or AI training, and you can delete it anytime.
This notice explains, in plain language, how Bedside Stories handles information about your child. It supplements our full Privacy Policy. If anything here is unclear, email us — a real person answers.
Who enters the information
A parent or legal guardian. Children do not create accounts, are not asked to sign in, and are not marketed to. Before any child details are collected, we show a one-time parent gate confirming you are the parent or guardian and consent to using these details to create stories.
What we collect about your child
- A nickname (we ask you to use a nickname, not a full name)
- An age range (3–4, 5–6, 7–8, or 9+) — not an exact age or birthdate
- A short list of interests (e.g., "dinosaurs, soccer")
- Story ingredients for a single night — a line of ingredients and an optional magic word
- Optionally, an additional co-author sibling's nickname, age range, and one idea
- Optionally, a pet name
- Optionally, a Care Story topic you pick from a fixed list (e.g., "first day of school")
- The stories that are generated for your family
Why we collect it
Only to generate and personalize the bedtime story your child helped create. That's the entire purpose. We do not build advertising or behavioral profiles of children, and there is no child-to-child communication, no public profiles, no comments, likes, streaks, or messaging of any kind.
The one thing we never send: your child's name
Your child's nickname and any pet name stay in your browser's storage on your device. Before a story is created, our system replaces them with neutral placeholder tokens (like "CHILD_NAME_1" and "PET_NAME"). The AI provider only ever sees the tokens. When the finished story comes back, your device substitutes the real nickname back in. The result: your child's actual name is never transmitted to any third party.
Where the information goes
- Your device: the nickname, pet name, interests, and your saved story library are kept in your browser's local storage — not on our servers.
- Our AI provider (Anthropic): the age range, interests, and story ingredients — but not the child's name — are sent to Anthropic's Claude API at the moment a story is created, solely to write that story. Under Anthropic's commercial API terms, data submitted through the API is not used to train their models.
- Our server / hosting (Cloudflare): processes the request and applies safety checks. It never receives the child's name and does not log children's inputs or story text.
- Payment & email (Stripe): handles the parent's checkout and subscription. Stripe never receives any child data.
Are stories stored? For how long?
- Unsaved story ingredients are not persisted on our servers and are discarded after the story is generated.
- Saved stories and the nickname/interests live on your device for as long as you keep them — you control them, and they're removed when you delete them or clear your browser storage.
- Server logs never contain your child's name, inputs, or story text.
- Payment records are retained by Stripe and in our accounting as legally required.
Analytics, cookies, and ads
The Story Soup screen, the story screen, and the story-generation flow carry no advertising pixels, no session replay, and no behavioral tracking. Our marketing pages use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookie-free and collects no personal identifiers. We do not use Google Analytics, advertising trackers, or social-media pixels anywhere that a child's details are entered.
Never used for training, ads, resale, or profiling
Child data is never sold, never shared with advertisers, never used to build marketing or behavioral profiles, and never used to train AI models.
How to review or delete your child's data
Because your child's profile and stories live on your device, you can review or delete them at any time inside the app, or by clearing your browser storage. You may also request deletion of any child story data by emailing [email protected] or [email protected]; we verify and delete retrievable child data associated with your account or email.
Contact
Questions about your child's privacy: [email protected] or [email protected].