Privacy and your data

Your story stays yours.

This page describes how PocketBiographer is built to behave. It is a plain-language summary of the product, not a legal privacy policy; the operator of this site should publish that alongside it before launch.

Private by default: Your interviews, recordings, photographs, notes and manuscript can be seen only by you, unless you invite a relative and give them access. Draft pages are never indexed by search engines.
You own what you tell us: Everything you say, write or upload remains yours. You can download all of it, including your original photographs and recordings, at any time from your book’s Downloads page.
Not used to train AI: Your life story is not used to train AI models. There is no setting in this product that turns that on.
Recordings need your consent: Original audio is kept only if you switch that on, and only on plans that include the recordings archive. Otherwise your speech is turned into text and the audio is not stored. You can delete any recording, or all of them, whenever you like. In a spoken conversation nothing is heard or recorded except while it is your turn, and the microphone is switched off when you pause or leave.
Nothing is invented about you: Your biographer and editor work only from what you have said. Dates you were unsure of stay marked as approximate. Relatives’ recollections are kept as theirs and never written as yours.
Photographs: Nobody in a photograph is identified automatically. Any automated description covers only what is visible and is kept separate from your captions.
Other people in your story: A life story includes other people. You can keep any chapter or interview private, and leave any chapter out of the shared book without deleting your own copy.
Email: We email you about your account and your orders: confirming your address, resetting a password, receipts. We send a question by email only if you turn that on in your book’s settings; every one has a link to turn it off, and they stop by themselves if a few go unanswered. If you give a relative’s email address when inviting them, it is used once, to send that invitation.
Printed copies: If you order printed copies, the book’s pages and cover, and the delivery name, address and phone number you give, are sent to the printing company and its carrier so the books can be made and delivered. Nothing else about you or your story is sent, and nothing is sent unless you place an order.
Deleting: You can delete a single book or your whole account. Deletion removes the interviews, recordings, photographs, notes and chapters, and cannot be undone.