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Tales By You
Schools and libraries

We are not a classroom product yet, and we will not sell you one

Tales By You is designed around a household with an adult account holder. Dropping that into a classroom without solving consent properly would be careless with other people's children.

What educators can do today

Use it the way a family would

A librarian running a story hour, a reading specialist showing families a tool, or a teacher making a book for their own child at home — all of that works today on a normal household account, with the same privacy rules as any other family.

What does not work is creating profiles for children in your care. Please do not put a student's details into a household account. It is not what the account is for, and the consent behind it is not yours to give.

Talk to us about a pilotRead the privacy policy
Recommending Tales By You to families

You are welcome to point families at us, and we will not ask you to hand over a class list or accept a referral fee for it. There is a free book with no card required, which is a reasonable thing to recommend without putting anyone on the spot.

If it would help to have a plain one-page explanation of our data practices for a family newsletter, ask and we will write one.

What a real school product needs

Four problems we would have to solve first

We are listing them so you can judge for yourself whether anyone selling you a classroom version has solved them.

Consent that comes from the parent, not the school
A classroom account would mean a teacher entering details about a child whose parent never spoke to us. Educational privacy law and basic decency both point the same way: the consent has to come from the family.
Roles that match how schools actually work
Teachers, aides, substitutes, and administrators need different access, and access has to end when a placement ends. Our current roles are built around a household, not a roster.
Data agreements and record retention
Districts require signed data protection agreements, defined retention windows, and deletion on request from the institution. That is contract work and legal review, not a feature flag.
Cost control per classroom
Thirty children generating stories is a very different cost shape from one family making four books a month. Pricing that does not collapse under that has to be designed deliberately.