1. Who we are
Yay!Stories (“we”, “us”) is run by Bizlyfy Marketing Private Limited, Chandwara, Road/Street: At Chandwara For Line Thermal Power District: Koderma, State: Jharkhand, Pin Code: 825409, India. We make personalised storybooks in which your child is the hero.
This policy covers www.yaystories.com and the services on it. Under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, we are the “data fiduciary” for the information you give us.
2. What we collect
From you
- Account details: your name, email address and password (stored only as a one-way hash). If you use Google sign-in, we receive your name, email and Google account id from Google.
- Your child's details: the name, age, gender, birthday and interests you enter, and the answers you give to the story questions.
- Photos: the photos you upload of your child and of anyone else you add to the story — siblings, friends, family or pets.
- Orders: what you bought, its price and status, and for printed books the delivery name, address and phone number.
- Messages: anything you send us by email or WhatsApp.
Automatically
- Technical logs: IP address, browser type and the pages and actions requested, kept by our servers for security and to fix problems.
- Cookies: only the ones the site needs to work — see Cookies.
We do not collect card or UPI details; Razorpay handles them. We do not use advertising trackers or sell data to anyone.
3. Your child's photos
Photos are the most personal thing you share with us, so here is exactly what happens to them:
- They are uploaded over an encrypted connection (TLS) and stored encrypted in private cloud storage. They are never public.
- We use them for one purpose: to draw your child — and anyone else you add — as a character in your book. To do that, our systems detect the face, and the photo is sent to the AI illustration services listed in Who we share it with.
- We do not use your photos to train AI models, and we never sell them or show them to advertisers.
- We keep them while your book can still be edited, regenerated or reprinted. You can delete a photo from your draft at any time, and ask us to delete all your photos whenever you like (see Your rights).
4. How we use your information
- To create, preview, print and deliver your books.
- To run your account, including approving new accounts before they can order.
- To take payment and keep the records the law requires.
- To send emails about your account and orders — for example when your preview is ready or a book has shipped. We send marketing email only if you have subscribed, and every one has a way to stop it.
- To answer your questions and help when something goes wrong.
- To keep the service secure, stop abuse and fix problems.
5. Children's privacy
Our books are about children, but our service is for adults. Accounts are for parents, guardians and other adults aged 18 or over, and children may not create accounts.
When you upload a child's photo or details, you confirm that you are their parent or lawful guardian, or that you have that person's permission. We do not track children, profile them or show them advertising.
7. How long we keep it
- Account, child details and photos: while your account is open. When you delete your account, we delete them within 30 days.
- Finished books: kept in your library so you can read and reorder them, until you ask us to delete them or close your account.
- Order and payment records: kept for as long as Indian tax and accounting law requires, even after the account is closed.
- Server logs: kept for a short time for security, then deleted.
8. Your rights
You can ask us to:
- tell you what personal data we hold about you and your child, and who we have shared it with;
- correct or complete anything that is wrong;
- delete particular photos, a book, or your whole account;
- withdraw consent you gave earlier — this does not undo what was lawfully done before;
- name someone who can exercise these rights for you if you die or cannot do so yourself.
Write to hello@yaystories.com from the email on your account. We will reply within 30 days. You can update most account details yourself, and remove photos from a draft while you build a book.
9. Security
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Photos sit in private storage that is reachable only through short-lived links. Passwords are hashed, and you are signed in with secure httpOnly cookies that page scripts cannot read. Only staff who need access to do their job have it. No system is perfectly secure, but if a breach affects your data we will tell you and the Data Protection Board of India as the law requires.
11. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we will also email you before it takes effect.
12. Contact and grievances
For any privacy question, request or complaint, write to our Grievance Officer at hello@yaystories.com, or to Bizlyfy Marketing Private Limited, Chandwara, Road/Street: At Chandwara For Line Thermal Power District: Koderma, State: Jharkhand, Pin Code: 825409, India. We acknowledge complaints within 48 hours and resolve them within 30 days.
If you are not satisfied with our answer, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India. Using our service is also subject to our Terms of Service.