Bedtime Tales — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 June 2026 · Effective: 10 June 2026

    The short version: Everything about your child stays on your iPhone or iPad.
    Your child's name, profile, and finished stories never leave your device. When the app asks our
    story service to write a story, it sends only anonymous story settings (theme, age range, mood,
    length, language) — never a name, never an identifier tied to you. We run no analytics and we do
    not track you.
  

1. Who we are

Bedtime Tales ("the app") is a bedtime story app for children, developed by Karya Boyraz, an independent developer based in Turkey. You can reach us at [email protected].

2. What data the app uses (and where it stays)

The app stores everything locally on your device using Apple's standard SwiftData persistence:

Child profile — first name, age, avatar emoji, favorite themes.
Stories — the bedtime stories your device generates, plus any settings you chose (theme, companion, lesson, length, mood).
Illustrations — page artwork created by Apple ImagePlayground, saved to your app's local storage.
App preferences — onboarding completion, free-tier counter, voice picker selection.

None of this data is uploaded, synced, or shared with us or any third party.

3. AI story generation — what is (and isn't) sent

Story text is written by our story-generation service. When you create a story, the app sends only anonymous story settings over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection:

the chosen theme, mood, story length, and language,
a coarse age range ("3-4", "5-6", or "7-9") — never the exact age,
the companion type (e.g. "teddy bear") and the lesson topic (e.g. "sharing"),
a random identifier created on first launch, used only to prevent abuse of the service. It is not linked to your name, Apple ID, email, or any other personal information.

Your child's name and the companion's name are never sent. The service returns a story with placeholders, and the names are filled in on your device. The returned story is stored only on your device. If the service is unreachable, the app falls back to fully on-device story templates.

All page illustrations are generated by Apple ImagePlayground on your device. Read-aloud uses Apple's built-in AVSpeechSynthesizer on your device.

4. Subscriptions and purchases

If you start the 7-day free trial or buy a subscription, the transaction is handled entirely by Apple's StoreKit. Apple sees the transaction; we see only the entitlement state ("is this user a subscriber, yes or no") via on-device validation. We never receive your payment information, name, billing address, or Apple ID.

You can cancel at any time from your device's Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions, or from inside the app via Parent Space → Manage.

5. Analytics & tracking

We do not use analytics, crash reporting, advertising IDs, attribution SDKs, or any tracking technology. The app does not use the App Tracking Transparency framework because there is nothing to track.

6. Children's privacy

This app is designed for use by parents to create bedtime stories for their children. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone — including children. The app is compliant with Apple's Kids Category guidelines and uses a parent-gate (arithmetic challenge) before opening the Parent Space or showing purchase options.

7. Network access

The app makes network requests only to (a) Apple's servers (App Store, StoreKit, model availability checks) and (b) our story-generation service described in section 3. The app contains no third-party SDKs that "phone home," no advertising SDKs, and no analytics SDKs.

8. Your rights

Because we collect no personal data, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export, or delete on your behalf. To remove the app's local data, simply delete the app from your device.

9. Changes to this policy

If our practices ever change in a way that involves collecting or sharing data, we will update this page and post a note in the app's "What's New" section before the change takes effect.

10. Contact

Questions? Concerns? Email [email protected].