Privacy policy
Last updated November 13, 2026
Toonies makes animated movies starring your child. To do that we need a few things from you, starting with a photo of your child. Here is what we collect, why, who helps us, and what you can ask of us.
What we collect
- From you, the parent or grown-up: your email address, and optionally who you are to the child (“Mom”, “Grandpa”…).
- About your child: their first name and the photo you upload. We check the photo (one child, face visible) and write a short description of their looks (hair, skin tone) to draw them. We then make their character and the pictures of their preview and movie, and the narrator reads their first name.
- When you order: payment is handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number; we receive your name, email, billing country and the amount paid.
- How you use the site: your IP address and the approximate location it gives (city, country), your browser and device, the pages you visit and what you click, to understand what works and fix what doesn’t. We use our own analytics, Google Analytics, and Microsoft Clarity, which records anonymized sessions.
We only collect a child’s information from the grown-up who makes the movie, never from the child. By uploading a photo, you confirm you are allowed to use it.
Why
- To make your preview and your movie, and send them to you.
- To take payment and keep a record of your order.
- To answer you when you write to us.
- To keep the site working, secure and free of abuse, and to improve it.
We don’t sell your data, and we don’t use your child’s photo for anything but their movie.
Your child’s photo
The photo is only used to make your child’s preview and movie, then permanently deleted.
Who helps us
We work with a few companies that process data for us, only for the purposes above:
- Vercel (website hosting) and Convex (database and file storage).
- Stripe (payments).
- OpenRouter, and the AI models it gives access to (from OpenAI and Google), to check the photo and draw your child’s pictures; ElevenLabs, for the narrator’s voice.
- Google (Analytics, and BigQuery for our own analytics) and Microsoft (Clarity).
- Discord, where our team gets notified of new previews, orders and messages.
Some of them are based in the United States, where your data may be processed.
How long we keep it
Your child’s photo: until their movie is made, then it is deleted. Your email, orders and messages: as long as we need them to serve you and as the law requires for orders. Usage data: our own analytics events are kept 30 days in our database, longer in aggregated reports.
Your choices
You can ask us at any time to see, correct or delete your data and your child’s, or to stop using it. Write to us (choose “Privacy & my data”) and we’ll take care of it. You can also block cookies and analytics in your browser.
Changes
If we change this policy, we’ll update it here with a new date. For anything else, contact us.