Privacy Policy

• Your email address (collected during checkout, via Stripe) — so we can send your order confirmation, book-ready, and shipping updates, and so you can get back into your book later.
• Your dog’s profile (name, breed, personality traits, and your zip code) — your zip code is used only to generate a locale-specific adventure (nearby parks, local weather); your dog’s name, breed, and personality personalize the quiz-generated adventure and the AI narration.
• The photos you take during the adventure — used to build your book. An AI looks at each photo to write the narration and to run an automated safety screen before anything is printed (see “How we use your photos” below). We store them so we can produce your book and so you can come back and re-download it.
• Your end-of-day quiz answers — used as extra material for the AI narration (your favorite moment, funniest thing that happened, and so on).
• Your shipping address (collected during checkout, via Stripe, only if you order a physical book) — sent to our print partner so they can ship your printed copy to you.
• An optional account email — accounts are optional; every order works forever through a private, unguessable link with no account required. If we offer optional sign-in, creating one only collects the email address needed to let you find your past orders in one place.

• EXIF and GPS location data is stripped from every photo the moment it’s uploaded. We never see or store the precise location a photo was taken at.
• Your book uses fuzzy geography — “your favorite neighborhood park,” not a street address or a GPS pin — and doesn’t print exact dates.
• We do not run facial recognition on any photo, ever.
• We don’t print or share any other person’s name unless you type it in yourself, for example in a quiz answer.
• We never see or store your full card number. Checkout happens on Stripe’s own hosted payment page, so your card details go straight to Stripe and never touch our systems. Because we never handle card data ourselves, we qualify for the simplest level of PCI compliance (“SAQ-A”) — we’re not claiming any elevated security tier, we’re simply never touching the data. Stripe only tells us that a payment succeeded, not your card information.
• Your photos and finished book are stored using Vercel’s Blob storage.

We work with a small number of outside services to actually run the product. Here’s exactly what each one receives:

• Stripe (payment processing) — your email, payment details, and shipping address at checkout. Stripe holds your payment details, not us.
• Prodigi (our print-on-demand partner) — your finished book file and your shipping address, so they can print and ship your physical book.
• Anthropic (Claude, our AI provider) — your uploaded photos and quiz answers, to write your book’s narration and run a safety screen on each photo.
• Resend (our email provider) — your email address and order status, to send you order-status emails.
• Clerk (only if you choose to create an optional account) — your account email, to manage sign-in.
• OpenStreetMap and Open-Meteo (map and weather data sources) — only your zip code or an approximate location, to look up nearby parks and local weather. We don’t send them your name, your photos, or any other personal detail.

We do not sell your personal information. Beyond the services listed above — each of which only gets what it needs to do its specific job — we don’t share your photos, quiz answers, or dog’s profile with anyone else.

To be plain about this: when you upload a photo, an AI model (Claude) looks at it for two reasons — to help write the dog’s-point-of-view narration in your book, and to run an automated safety screen that checks nothing unsafe or inappropriate ends up printed. That’s the extent of what happens to your photos beyond storing them so we can build and re-deliver your book.

We keep your photos and finished book so you can come back and re-download or reorder your book at any time, without having to redo the adventure. If you’d like your photos or book deleted, email us at the address below and we’ll delete them.

If you don’t request deletion, we currently intend to retain order data for [TODO: confirm retention period] after your order — an exact retention window is still being finalized.

The Goodest Day isn’t directed at children. It’s a purchase made by an adult dog owner (see “Who can use this” in our Terms of Service). We don’t knowingly collect information from children.

You can ask us what information we have about your order at any time, or ask us to delete it — just email us. If you’re somewhere with additional legal privacy rights (for example under GDPR or CCPA), we’ll honor requests consistent with those laws.

We don’t currently use tracking cookies or third-party analytics on this site. If that changes, we’ll update this policy first.

We may update this policy as the product changes. We’ll update the “last updated” date above whenever we do.

Questions about this policy, or want to see or delete your data? Email hello@thegoodestday.com.