Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 2026

1. Who We Are

Classic Kid Lit is a personalized children's audiobook service operated at classickidlit.com. Our service is sold to and used by parents and legal guardians; it is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly allow children under 13 to create accounts or place orders. Every order begins with an attestation that the customer is the parent or legal guardian of the child the audiobook is for.

2. Information We Collect

From the parent or legal guardian placing an order, we collect:

• Email address — to deliver the finished audiobook and order-related messages.
• Payment information — handled entirely by Stripe; we never see or store card numbers.
• Your child's first name (and optionally a phonetic pronunciation guide) — woven into the narration.
• A voice recording (optional) — if you choose to have the audiobook narrated in a cloned voice. This may be your voice, another adult's voice, or, with your consent, your child's voice.
• A photo of your child's face (optional) — if you choose the Premium plan with a generated storybook character, or if you'd like a photo on the video art.
• A saved-account record (optional) — if you create an account via magic link, we store your email, your past orders, and any voices or photos you've chosen to save for reuse.

We do not knowingly collect any information directly from children. A child's name, photo, or voice enters our service only through the paying parent or legal guardian, who attests to parental status at Step 1 of the order flow and provides a specific biometric-data consent at Step 2 before any voice or photo is transmitted.

3. How We Use It

• Your email delivers the finished audiobook and any order updates. We do not add you to marketing lists.
• Your child's first name is spoken in the narration and used in the filename of your deliverables.
• A voice recording is sent to ElevenLabs to produce a one-time voice clone used only to narrate your order. We do not share voice data for model training or advertising.
• A photo is sent to OpenAI to generate an illustrated storybook character. We do not use your photos to train any model, and we send requests with training opt-out asserted.
• Stripe processes your payment and independently retains billing records required by law.
• We use Google Analytics 4 (with IP anonymization, ads-personalization disabled, and Google Signals disabled) to count aggregate page visits. We do not allow analytics to be linked to cross-site advertising profiles.
• We use the Meta Pixel on our public marketing pages (e.g., the homepage) to measure ad effectiveness. The Meta Pixel is not loaded on the order flow or this privacy page. We do not use it to build advertising profiles from child data.

4. Who We Share It With

We use the following third-party services to fulfill orders. Each operates under its own privacy policy; by using Classic Kid Lit you agree to their processing of the information listed below:

• ElevenLabs — receives a voice recording (including, where applicable, a child's voice with parental consent) to create a narrator voice clone.
• OpenAI — receives a photo (including, where applicable, a child's photo with parental consent) to generate an illustrated character.
• Stripe — receives your payment information to process charges.
• YouTube — receives finished video files you opt into having uploaded as unlisted.
• Railway, Cloudflare, Netlify — cloud infrastructure hosting the service, receiving ordinary request/response data.
• Meta (Facebook) — receives anonymized page-view events via the Meta Pixel on our public marketing pages only, for ad measurement. Not used on the order flow or child-data pages.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it with third parties for behavioral advertising.

5. How Long We Keep It

Order audio and video files are stored on our servers only long enough to deliver them, and are automatically deleted within 30 days of completion. Saved account voices and photos persist until you delete them or close your account. A minimal order record (email, book chosen, payment receipt) is retained for tax, refund, and support purposes for up to seven years. Voice clones on ElevenLabs are deleted immediately after your audiobook renders unless you save the voice to your account. Photos sent to OpenAI are processed and returned; OpenAI retains inputs for no more than 30 days per its API privacy terms.

6. Children's Privacy & Biometric Information

Because this service produces audiobooks for children, COPPA (the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506) is important to us. Under COPPA, a child's first name, photo, and voice are considered personal information when tied to a minor, even when provided by a parent. We treat every order as containing child personal information and handle it accordingly:

• Every order requires an age-gated parental attestation at Step 1 ("I am at least 18 years old and the parent or legal guardian of the child this audiobook is for").
• Every order that transmits a voice recording or photo requires a separate, specific biometric-data consent at Step 2 before anything is sent to ElevenLabs or OpenAI.
• We use payment-card authentication plus parental attestation as our method of verifiable parental consent (one of the methods recognized under 16 C.F.R. § 312.5(b) when personal information is used only internally).
• If we discover we have collected information from a child under 13 outside of this parent-consent flow, we delete it immediately.
• We do not knowingly sell or disclose a child's personal information to third parties other than the service providers listed in §4, and only for the limited purpose of producing the audiobook you ordered.

7. Parent Rights

As the parent or legal guardian who placed an order, you have the right to:

• Review what information we have collected about your child.
• Delete any voice, photo, saved asset, or order record we hold about your child, at any time, at no cost.
• Refuse further collection or use of your child's information (which may mean we cannot complete a pending order).

To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected] from the email address on the order, and we will respond within 10 business days. If you have a Classic Kid Lit account, you can also delete saved voices and photos yourself from the account page.

8. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of California (CCPA/CPRA), Virginia (VCDPA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Utah (UCPA), and other U.S. states with comprehensive privacy laws have rights to access, correct, delete, and opt out of certain processing of their personal information. We do not sell or "share" (as those terms are defined under CCPA/CPRA) personal information, and we do not use it for targeted advertising. To exercise any state-law right, email [email protected].

9. Changes

We may update this policy as our service evolves. We will update the "Last updated" date and, for material changes, email customers with accounts on file.

10. Contact

General questions: [email protected]
Privacy and parental-rights requests: [email protected]