Privacy policy

• Parent account: email address, display name, and authentication data managed by Firebase Authentication (Google sign-in).
• Child profile: a name (or nickname) you choose, preferred reading language, app feature toggles, and an illustration / avatar reference. We never collect a kid's email address or password.
• Content you create: stories, sentences, captured-page images, generated audio, and AI-generated illustrations. Stored in your private Firebase Cloud Storage bucket; readable only by your account and any co-parent you invite.
• Cloud usage counters: aggregated counts (number of OCR calls, TTS characters, illustrations generated, storage bytes). Used for billing + capacity planning.
• Billing: payment method details are handled by Stripe; we never see your full card number. Stripe shares the customer id, last 4 digits, country, and subscription status with us so we can keep your plan in sync.
• Diagnostic logs: server logs may contain account ids, timestamps, and error messages, retained for at most 30 days for debugging.

• No advertising or tracking pixels.
• No third-party analytics on kid-facing screens.
• No marketing emails to children.
• No microphone audio is recorded; Parler only plays audio.

Generating illustrations sends the sentence text and an optional story description to Google's Vertex AI (Gemini for prompt-shaping, Imagen for the image). Google processes those prompts to produce your image; per Google's terms, prompts and outputs are not used to train Google's models. The resulting image is stored in your private Firebase Cloud Storage bucket.

Translation, text-to-speech, and OCR (camera-to-text) likewise call Google Cloud APIs with the relevant text or image. Same handling.

Parler is designed to be used with a parent or legal guardian. The parent is the account holder and the data controller. We do not knowingly market to children, do not allow discovery / messaging between accounts, and do not share child profile data with third parties beyond the cloud providers required to deliver the service (Google Cloud, Stripe).

If you believe a child has signed up without a parent's consent, email us and we will delete the data.

We share data with the following processors:

• Google Cloud (Firebase, Vertex AI, Cloud TTS, Vision OCR, Translation): to host the app and run the AI calls you trigger.
• Stripe: to take payments. Stripe's privacy policy applies to the payment data they collect.

We never sell personal data. We don't share data with advertisers.

• Stories, pages, audio, and illustrations: kept until you delete them, or your account is closed.
• Deleting a child cascades to all of that child's pages, stories, audio, and tablet sessions.
• Closing your account deletes all family data within 30 days. Email us if you want immediate deletion.
• Stripe retains billing records as required by financial law.

Depending on where you live, you have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to certain processing. Email hello@sacredbluestudios.com and we will respond within 30 days.

Parler uses local storage and browser cookies only for what's required to keep you signed in and remember in-app preferences (highlight calibration, font size, print preferences). No third-party tracking cookies.

We'll update this page when our practices change. Material changes will be flagged with an in-app banner.