The short version
- We use your photos and story only to make your book.
- We never sell your information, and we don’t use it for advertising.
- Nobody trains AI on your photos or stories. Not us, and not the AI companies we use.
- Each company that helps us gets only what it needs. They’re all listed below.
- You can delete your account, books, and photos whenever you like.
Who we are
Bring Wonder is run by We Love Pixels, LLC, a small company in Illinois, USA. This policy covers our website (www.bringwonder.com), the app where you make your book (app.bringwonder.com), and the emails we send. When we say “we” or “us,” we mean Bring Wonder.
What we collect
Your account
- Your first name and email address
- If you sign in with Google or Apple, the name and email they share with us
- The country you choose, which decides whether you can order a printed book, and the country your internet connection seems to be in when you choose it
- When you last visited, and on what kind of device, so we can help when something goes wrong
There are no passwords. You sign in with Google, Apple, or a code we email you.
Your books
- Your story idea, typed or spoken
- The people, pets, and things in your story: their names, parts, ages, genders, and any notes you add
- The photos you add so we can draw them
- The story, the drawings and pictures, your dedication, the back cover, and any changes you make
If you speak your story idea, your browser turns your voice into text. Your browser’s maker (for example, Google in Chrome or Apple in Safari) may handle the sound. We only get the words.
Your orders
- What you ordered, when, and what you paid
- The name and address a printed book ships to
Stripe handles your card. We never see or keep your card details.
Messages and visits
- Anything you write to us, and the reason you give if you delete your account
- The pages people visit and the sites that send them, counted by Plausible without cookies, so we see totals, not people
- Short-lived server logs, like your IP address and browser, which keep the site running and safe
How we use it
- To write, paint, print, and deliver your book
- To take payment, and to email you about your account and orders
- To help when you write to us, and to fix problems
- To keep things safe and fair: stopping misuse, and keeping AI use within limits
- To see, in totals, how people find and use our site
- To meet our legal, tax, and accounting duties
We don’t send newsletters or sales emails. If we ever do, you’ll choose to get them, and you can stop any time.
Who helps us make your book
A few companies help us make and deliver your book. Each gets only what it needs for its part, and may use it only to do that work for us.
- OpenAI
- Gets: Your photos, the drawings of your characters, and a description of each picture, which can include first names
- Why: Draws your characters, the cover, the pages, and the coloring pages
- Anthropic
- Gets: Your story idea, the names, ages, parts, and notes for everyone in it, the story, and the finished drawings and cover. Never your photos
- Why: Writes your story and plans its pictures
- Lulu
- Gets: Your book’s print files, and the name and address it ships to. Your photos aren’t in the book, so Lulu never gets them
- Why: Prints and ships your book (printed books only)
- Stripe
- Gets: Your email, your payment details, and your shipping address
- Why: Takes payment and checks for fraud. Your card details go straight to Stripe, never to us
- Clerk
- Gets: Your name, your email, and how you sign in
- Why: Runs accounts and sign-in
- Google or Apple
- Gets: Only if you sign in with them. They tell us your name and email
- Why: Signs you in without a password
- Vercel and Neon
- Gets: Everything on this list, stored for us
- Why: Run our website and app, and store your account, books, and photos
- Resend
- Gets: Your email address and the emails we send you
- Why: Sends account and order emails
- Slack
- Gets: Your email, your story ideas, your orders, and messages you send us
- Why: Our team’s own messages, so we can see what needs help
- Plausible
- Gets: The pages you visit, the site that sent you, and your browser. No cookies, and nothing that names you
- Why: Counts visits to our site and app
We’d also share information if the law requires it, or to protect someone’s safety. If another company ever takes over Bring Wonder, it would have to keep the promises in this policy, or ask you first.
What we never do
- Sell your information, photos, or stories
- Share your information for advertising, or let ad networks track you on our site or app
- Use your photos for anything but making your book
- Train AI on your photos or stories
- Show your book, photos, or story in our marketing without your written permission
AI and your photos
OpenAI draws your characters and pictures, and Anthropic writes your story. Under their business terms, neither may train their AI on what we send them. They may keep it for up to 30 days to check for misuse, then delete it.
We don’t use face recognition, and we don’t collect biometric information of any kind. We don’t make face scans, face prints, or anything like them from your photos. A photo is only ever used to draw that person in your book’s style.
Our photo safety page follows a photo step by step, from the moment you add it.
Children
Bring Wonder is for grown-ups making books for children. Children can’t make accounts, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them.
What we know about a child comes from the grown-up making the book: a name, an age, a few notes, and maybe a photo. We use it only to make that book.
If the child isn’t yours, please ask their parent or guardian before you add their photo. If you’re a parent and someone added your child without asking, write to us and we’ll sort it out.
When our team looks at a book
We’re a small team, all in the United States, and we don’t browse your books. We open one, photos included, only when we need to: to answer you, to fix a problem, or to check the pages before they’re printed.
How long we keep it
We keep your account, books, and photos while you have an account, so you can read, download, and order your books again.
- Delete a book you haven’t ordered, and it’s gone from your library right away. Its photos and drawings are deleted within 30 days.
- Delete your account (on your Account page, or by emailing us), and we delete your books, photos, and drawings within 30 days.
A few things we have to keep. Order records (what was bought, when, for how much, and where it shipped) stay for as long as tax law requires, usually seven years. Copies in our backups are erased as the backups are replaced, within 30 days. A book already being printed is still printed and shipped.
Cookies
We use only the cookies the app needs: one to keep you signed in, and one to remember your country. No advertising or tracking cookies, on our site or in the app.
Keeping it safe
Everything travels over encrypted connections. Payments go straight to Stripe. Only our team can get into our systems. No way of keeping information online is perfectly safe, but we work hard to protect yours, and we’ll tell you quickly if something goes wrong.
Your choices
Wherever you live, you can ask us to:
- Tell you what we have about you, and send you a copy
- Fix anything that’s wrong
- Delete your information
- Stop using your information for something
Email support@bringwonder.com from the address on your account. We’ll answer within 30 days, and asking will never change how we treat you.
Some places give you more rights by law, including California and other US states, Canada, the UK, and Australia. We honor them. You can also complain to your local privacy authority.
Where it’s stored
We’re based in Illinois, and everyone on our team works in the United States. The companies that help us keep your information in the United States too, wherever you live.
If this policy changes
We’ll update this page and the date at the top. If a change matters, we’ll email you before it takes effect.
Questions
Email support@bringwonder.com. A person reads every message.