Welcome to GenStory, the AI-powered storybook platform designed to help you create and share interactive storybooks using Google's Gemini AI technology. At GenStory, your privacy is of utmost importance to us, and this privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our services.
Information Collection and Use
We collect the following types of data to provide you with a better experience while using GenStory:
Account Information
What We Collect: Your name, email address, and other information you provide when creating an account.
Purpose: To manage your account and provide customer support.
Usage Details
What We Collect: How you use GenStory, including story creation activities, reading patterns, and feature interactions.
Purpose: To analyze user engagement and improve our AI story generation services.
Device Information
What We Collect: Device type, operating system, and browser type.
Purpose: To optimize our services for different devices and ensure compatibility.
Cookies
What We Collect: Small data files placed on your device that help us track preferences and improve user experience.
Purpose: To enhance functionality and personalize your storybook experience.
Story Content
What We Collect: Stories you create, prompts you use, and interactions with AI-generated content.
Purpose: To improve AI story generation capabilities and provide personalized recommendations.
Commercial Use: By creating content on our platform, you grant GenStory a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, distribute, display, and perform such content for commercial purposes, including marketing, advertising, promotional materials, and product development.
Payment and Billing Information
What We Collect: Payment methods, billing address, and details required for transaction processing.
Purpose: To facilitate billing and payment processing.
Data Storage and Security
We take the security of your personal information seriously. The data we collect is stored securely on our servers, and we implement encryption and access controls to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
User-Generated Content and Commercial Rights
By using GenStory to create storybooks, stories, illustrations, or other content, you acknowledge and agree to the following:
Content License Grant: You grant GenStory and its affiliates a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable license to:
Use, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, display, and perform your user-generated content
Create derivative works based on your content
Use your content for commercial purposes, including marketing, advertising, product showcases, educational and training purposes, and platform feature development
Content Ownership: You retain original ownership of the content you create, while the license above allows GenStory to use your content as described.
Content Standards: You remain responsible for ensuring your content complies with our community guidelines and does not infringe third-party rights.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties, except:
To comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests from public authorities.
To protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or others.
To provide services through trusted third-party partners who assist us in operating our website or business, subject to confidentiality agreements.
To improve AI story generation through secure, anonymized data analysis.
To use user-generated content for commercial purposes as described above.
User Data Rights
Subject to applicable law, you may request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of your personal data. You may also request account closure, restriction of processing, object to certain processing, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Access: request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Correction: ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
Deletion and account closure: ask us to delete your personal data and close your account, subject to data we must retain by law or for legitimate security, dispute, or billing purposes.
Portability and other choices: request a machine-readable copy, restrict or object to certain processing, or withdraw consent where applicable.
To exercise these rights, email [email protected] from your account email and describe your request. We may ask for reasonable information to verify your identity and protect your account. We will acknowledge and process a complete request within 30 calendar days, unless a longer period is permitted by applicable law; if an extension is needed, we will explain why.
If you close your account, we will delete or anonymize personal data that we no longer need, subject to legal, accounting, fraud-prevention, security, dispute-resolution, and enforcement retention requirements.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the effective date. Changes are effective when posted.
Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our data practices, contact us at: