Privacy Policy

What we collect

Your account. When you sign in with an email link, we store your email address. When you sign in with Google, Google shares your name, email address and profile picture with us. We use your name to greet you and your email to sign you in and to contact you about your account. We don’t use your profile picture.

What you tell us. The languages you’re learning and your level, your reading preferences (theme, text size, dictionary settings), your answers on the beta form, and, if you set up Send to Kindle, your Kindle email address.

Your reading. Where you are in each book, and the words you save to your word list, along with the sentence you found them in. We don’t keep a record of the words you look up in the dictionary unless you save them.

Books you send us. If your membership lets you send us your own book to adapt, we store the file and any proof of ownership you give us. A person at Storyrific reads each book we adapt for you before we deliver it. We delete the file you uploaded, and our working copies, once your book is delivered or declined. The adapted edition stays in your library, where only you can see it.

Payments. When paid membership is available, payments are handled by Stripe. We receive your plan, billing status and dates, but never your full card number.

Technical information. Like most websites, our hosting provider records basic request logs, such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested, which we use to keep the service running and secure.

How we use it

• To sign you in and run your account.
• To show you stories at your level, remember your place, and keep your word list.
• To send books to your Kindle when you ask us to.
• To make the private editions you request.
• To manage your membership and billing.
• To reply to you, tell you about important changes to the service, and write to you about the beta if you joined it.
• To keep Storyrific secure, prevent abuse, and fix problems.

We don’t sell or rent your information to anyone.

Ads

Storyrific doesn’t show ads today. If we add them, we’ll choose them based on the page you’re reading and the language and level you’re learning. We won’t give advertisers your name, email address, reading history or word list, and we’ll never use information from Google to choose ads.

Information from Google

If you sign in with Google, we receive only your name, email address and profile picture, and only to create and sign in to your Storyrific account. We don’t ask for access to your Gmail, Google Drive, contacts or any other Google data.

Storyrific’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We don’t use information from Google for advertising, we don’t sell it, we don’t use it to train AI models, and no one at Storyrific reads it except to keep your account working, for security, or where the law requires.

Who we share it with

We share information only with the service providers that run parts of Storyrific for us, and only what each one needs:

• Supabase, which stores our database and handles sign-in.
• Vercel, which hosts the website.
• Resend, which delivers email, including books sent to your Kindle.
• Stripe, which processes payments.
• Anthropic, whose Claude models adapt the books you send us. Only the text of your book goes to them, never your account details.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to protect the rights and safety of our users or of Storyrific, or to a buyer or successor if Rific Labs LLC is ever sold or merged, in which case this policy would continue to apply to your information.

Cookies and local storage

We use cookies only to keep you signed in. Your browser also stores your reading preferences so the reader opens the way you left it. We don’t use advertising or analytics cookies, and we don’t track you across other websites.

How long we keep it

We keep your information for as long as you have an account. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete your account and everything linked to it (your reading progress, word list, preferences, Kindle settings and any books you sent us) within 30 days, except billing records that we must keep for tax and accounting purposes. Copies in backups are erased as the backups expire.

Your choices and rights

You can download your word list from the Words page at any time, change your preferences in the app, and remove your Kindle address from your account settings. You can also ask us to:

• send you a copy of the information we hold about you,
• correct anything that’s wrong,
• delete your account and your information, or
• stop using your information for a particular purpose.

Email hello@rificlabs.com from the address on your account and we’ll respond within 30 days. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under laws such as the GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act, and you can complain to your local data protection authority. We don’t treat you differently for using any of these rights.

If you signed in with Google, you can also remove Storyrific’s access at any time from your Google Account settings.

Where your information is stored

Storyrific is based in the United States, and our service providers may process your information in the United States or other countries. Where the law requires it, we rely on safeguards such as standard contractual clauses for these transfers.

Security

We use encrypted connections, limit who can access your data, and keep each reader’s data separate at the database level. No service can promise perfect security, but we work to protect your information and will tell you promptly if a breach affects you.

Children

Storyrific accounts are for people aged 13 and over. We don’t knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, email us and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we’ll tell you by email or in the app before it takes effect.

Contact us

Questions or requests about your privacy: hello@rificlabs.com.
Rific Labs LLC