Privacy Policy

1. Information we collect

We collect information you provide directly, including names, email address, shipping address, uploaded photos, character names, relationships, story inputs, preferences, and order information.

2. User-uploaded content

When you upload images or personal content, this data is processed to generate personalized books. This may include likeness of individuals. Content is used only for generation, preview, book preparation, printing, and fulfillment.

3. Account information

If you create an account, we collect login credentials and account preferences. You are responsible for maintaining confidentiality of your account.

4. Automatically collected data

We may collect device information including IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, session duration, and interaction events on stanlymade.com.

5. Cookies and tracking

We use three kinds of cookies. Necessary cookies keep the site working: signing in, your cart, checkout, security, support chat and remembering your cookie choice. They are always on.

Analytics cookies show us how people use the site so we can improve it.

Marketing cookies let us show Stanly ads to people who visited and measure which ads lead to orders.

When marketing cookies are on, our servers also tell our advertising service about a few key steps: starting to design a book, creating an account or signing in, starting your free preview, viewing your preview, adding a book to your cart, starting checkout and placing an order, with the order total. With each step we send your IP address and browser type and, once you have an account, a scrambled version of your email and account number, so the advertising service can match the visit to its ads. We never send names, photos, story text or who the book is for.

In the EU, the EEA and the UK, analytics and marketing stay off until you choose. Elsewhere they are on, and you can switch them off at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of any page. We keep your choice for 6 months, then ask again. Your book, names and photos are never used for ads.

You can also manage ads in your advertising account settings. See our advertising service’s privacy policy.

6. How we use your information

We use collected information to operate stanlymade.com, generate AI content, process orders, provide previews, print books, ship orders, provide support, improve services, detect fraud, and comply with legal obligations.

7. AI processing

Uploaded content may be processed using artificial intelligence systems to generate illustrations, layouts, and narrative content. This processing is required to provide Stanly services.

8. Third-party services

We share information with third-party providers including payment processors, print-on-demand partners, shipping providers, analytics providers, hosting providers, and customer support tools necessary to operate stanlymade.com.

9. Payment information

Payments are processed by third-party payment providers. Stanly does not store complete credit card information.

10. Data retention & Deletion

We keep your project data — including your stories, previews, generated pages, and final print files — for as long as your account remains active with us. This is so you can return to your book at any time, share it, or order another copy.

The photos you upload are kept only as long as we need them to make your book, and are then deleted automatically. Photos of your characters are deleted 7 days after your book is created. Photos added to a Memory book are deleted 14 days after your book is created. A photo you upload but never use in a book is deleted within a day.

You can ask us to delete your project data whenever you want, and we will remove it from our active systems within a reasonable timeframe, subject to legal and operational requirements.

11. Data security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal data.

12. International data transfers

Your information may be processed in countries where our third-party partners operate.

13. Your rights

You may request access, correction, or deletion of your personal data by contacting us.

14. Children’s privacy & Photo safety

stanlymade.com is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data directly from children.

If your book includes a child's name or photo, you confirm that you are the parent or legal guardian, or that you have the parent or guardian's permission. We use this content to create and fulfil your book and do not use it for advertising without separate permission.

15. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. Continued use of stanlymade.com constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

16. Contact information

Email: antony@stanlymade.com

Our chat is open 24/7. We usually reply within one business day.