Privacy

Updated 9 November 2026 · preview service

Information you provide

Accounts store your email address, a salted password hash and subscription and trial status. Server sessions use an HTTP only cookie. Teaching profiles and saved resources are stored with your account. Use a class label, initials or a nickname; student names are not required.

Google sign-in

If you choose Continue with Google, Google verifies your identity and shares your verified email address and a stable account identifier. We use these to create or sign in to your Sound and Story account. We do not request access to your Google Drive, contacts or email messages. Google access tokens are not stored.

Generation services

When enabled, story prompts and selected teaching context are sent to OpenAI, or Anthropic when configured, for text generation. Image prompts and reference illustrations are sent to OpenAI for book illustrations. Book text is sent to OpenAI when you generate AI narration. Higgsfield is used to create the marketing artwork. Do not include personal student information in prompts.

Schools and listening links

A school administrator can view teacher membership email addresses and manage invite codes. Teachers’ profiles and resources remain private to their individual accounts. Listening links are off by default. When enabled, anyone with the link or printed QR code can hear the book text and see its title, without an account. Turning sharing off or changing the checked text disables the old listening link. Avoid personal information in shared books.

Payments

Stripe handles checkout, card details, invoices and subscription management. The app stores Stripe customer and subscription identifiers and subscription status. Card details are not stored by this app. Paid subscriptions use Stripe live checkout.

Storage and cookies

The hosted service stores account and resource data on Azure, including private resource files, generated images and narration audio. Session cookies are necessary for sign in. The production website uses the Meta Pixel to measure page visits and confirmed free-trial starts and to help evaluate advertising. Meta may use cookies and browser/device information for measurement and advertising. Our event parameters do not include account email addresses, passwords, story text, prompts or student information. A trial-start event is sent only after Stripe confirms checkout, and is not repeated on refresh. There is no session replay.

Account data

You can delete individual resources in your library or permanently delete your account from Account settings. Account deletion removes your app account, teaching profiles, resources and listening links, revokes sessions and cancels future subscription billing. Historical payment records may remain with Stripe. If a school administrator deletes their account, its shared school access ends; other teachers keep their personal accounts and libraries.