Terms of Service

Who we are, and what these terms cover

Our Little Book ("Our Little Book," "we," or "us") is the service described on this site. [Our Little Book is operated by (legal entity name and registered address): counsel to confirm before launch.] These terms apply whenever you use the service. By creating an account or using Our Little Book, you accept these terms; if you don’t agree with them, please don’t use the service.

These terms cover personal use of Our Little Book by individuals. Access provided to an organization’s members through a business or sponsorship arrangement, and any developer or programmatic access, are governed by separate agreements, not by these terms.

What Our Little Book is

Our Little Book is a tool for adults to make personalized, illustrated storybooks. You shape the characters and share a few story ideas, and the service helps write and illustrate a keepsake built around them. There are three ways to create: Spark, where you type the gist and we draft the cast and story for you; Studio, a guided wizard; and Atelier, where you shape the whole plan and sign off before a page is drawn. A hardcover book may be offered as an optional, separately-priced add-on.

Your account and eligibility

You need an account to use the service, and Our Little Book is for adults. You must be at least 18 years old [or the age of majority where you live: counsel to confirm] to create one. Our Little Book is a tool for adults; it is not a product for children, and it is not directed to children.

Please give accurate information and keep your sign-in details safe. You’re responsible for what happens under your account. One account is meant for one person.

The content you provide, and your promises about it

To make a book, you provide details in your own words: character names and descriptions, story ideas, and the people, pets, and moments you’d like the book to be about. These often describe real, identifiable people, including children. You do not upload photographs; characters are built from descriptions and choices you make.

You promise that you have the right to provide those details and to make a book featuring the people you describe, and that you have the necessary permission or authority for every real person depicted, especially any child who is not your own. You keep ownership of the details you provide, and you give us permission to use them to create, generate, store, and deliver your book and to operate and protect the service.

How books are made, and your direction of the result

Books are written and illustrated with the help of AI tools, and you direct that work. You approve each character’s art before a story is written. On the Atelier path you also review and sign off on the plan before any page is drawn, and on every path you can review and edit the finished pages. Because the work is generated, results vary and we can’t promise a particular outcome. We’re always glad to help you get a book you’re happy with.

You are the author, and your rights in the finished book

Our Little Book is a studio that helps you make something; you are the author. You decide what’s right for your family and the people in your book, you review the result, and you have the final say. That responsibility, and that authority, rest with you.

When your book is finished, the digital file is yours to keep and to use for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. One honest caveat: the law on whether AI-generated illustrations can be owned or copyrighted is still unsettled, so we can’t promise you a copyright in the generated artwork itself. [The precise license and ownership terms for finished books are being finalized: counsel to confirm.]

Our intellectual property

The Our Little Book name, brand, website, and the software and engines behind the service belong to us. These terms don’t give you any right to them beyond using the service as intended. Finished books may carry a small "Made with Our Little Book" mark unless you remove it through an available option; your rights to your own finished book are described above.

Sharing, and the rights you grant

You can share a character you’ve made with another person by entering their email; doing so reveals your email address to that person, and they receive a copy of the character. You can stop future sharing, though a copy already received may remain with the recipient. You can also share a finished book through a private link. Anyone who has the link can view that book, so share it only with people you trust.

When you use a sharing feature, you confirm you have the right to share what you’re sharing, including the right to share a depiction of any real person it contains.

Reviews and other content you post

You may leave one review per finished book: a rating, a short written note, and a display name you choose. Reviews are not published automatically; only approved reviews may appear publicly as part of showing others what people think of the service. When attribution is shown it uses a first name and last initial, never your email address. By leaving a review, you give us permission to display it in connection with the service. Please keep reviews honest and respectful, and don’t include other people’s private information.

Using the service fairly

Please don’t use Our Little Book to create or share content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, sexual involving minors, deceptive, or that infringes someone else’s rights, and don’t depict a real person without the right to do so or in a way that would harm or mislead. Please don’t try to disrupt, overload, reverse-engineer, scrape, or gain improper access to the service, and don’t resell it. We may remove content and suspend or close an account that breaks these rules.

Prices, credits, books, and add-ons

Some features are paid. You can pay for a book at the time you make it, or use credits. Credits are a prepaid, limited-use balance for making books and add-ons inside Our Little Book. They are not money, carry no cash value, and can’t be redeemed for cash or transferred. There are two kinds: a monthly allowance that comes with the Ever After membership, which refreshes each billing month and does not roll over, and top-up credits you buy, which are yours to keep and don’t expire.

Prices are shown before you buy. Listed prices don’t include tax or shipping; those are added at checkout and are the buyer’s responsibility. We may change our prices and what credits buy going forward, and we may offer new plans or memberships over time; changes never affect a purchase you’ve already made.

The Ever After membership

Ever After is a month-to-month membership for digital books. Each month it grants 24 credits to spend on any book or add-on: a short story is 3 credits, a single story 8, the five-story anthology 24. The monthly credits refresh on your billing date and don't roll over, but any credits you buy as a top-up are yours to keep and never expire. A mid-month start grants that month's credits right away. A printed hardcover is a separate fee. You can cancel anytime; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing month. Our Little Book may pause, change, or end the Ever After plan at any time.

Refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks

A finished, delivered digital book is a completed item and is not refundable, and we don’t take a finished book back once it’s made. If a generation genuinely fails on our end, we put the credits for it back. If a payment is refunded or reversed (including a card dispute), we may reclaim any unspent credits or access that came with it; credits you’ve already spent on finished books stay spent. You can cancel the Ever After membership at any time, with cancellation taking effect at the end of the current billing month, as described above. [Any additional refund window for one-off purchases or credit packs, and any withdrawal right required in your country, are being finalized: counsel to confirm.]

Hardcover books and shipping

Ordering a hardcover book is optional, separately priced, and paid in regular currency rather than credits. When offered, a hardcover is printed and shipped by a third-party printing partner, which receives the shipping and contact details needed to fulfill and deliver your order. Production and delivery times, shipping costs, and any taxes are shown before you order and are the buyer’s responsibility. Because each book is made to order for you, a hardcover generally can’t be returned except where it arrives damaged or misprinted; [the exact print return and replacement policy is being finalized: counsel to confirm].

Availability, disclaimers, and limits on liability

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." We may change, pause, or stop parts of it, and it may occasionally be unavailable. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HERE, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. To the fullest extent allowed by law, our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim. Some places don’t allow certain disclaimers or limits, and nothing here removes a right you have that can’t be waived under the law where you live.

Covering certain claims (indemnification)

You agree to cover us for reasonable claims, losses, and costs that arise from the content you provide or share or from your misuse of the service, for example a claim that you depicted a real person without the right to, infringed someone’s intellectual property, or broke these terms. [The exact scope of this section is being finalized: counsel to confirm.]

Copyright complaints

If you believe something on Our Little Book infringes your copyright, please write to us at hello@ourlittlebook.com with enough detail to identify the work and where it appears, and we’ll review it and respond. [A formal copyright-agent designation and a complete notice-and-takedown and counter-notice procedure are being finalized: counsel to confirm.]

Disputes and the law that applies

[The governing law, the place where disputes are resolved, and whether disputes are handled by arbitration with a class-action waiver are being finalized by counsel before launch.] Until then, if something’s wrong, please reach out to us first at hello@ourlittlebook.com, we’d much rather make it right than argue about it.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the service grows. When we do, we’ll change the date at the top of this page, and for a material change we’ll give reasonable notice. If you keep using Our Little Book after a change takes effect, you’re accepting the updated terms.

The rest

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. These terms are the whole agreement between you and us about the service and replace any earlier understanding. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours, for example if our business is sold. Our not enforcing a term right away doesn’t waive it. We aren’t responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

Getting in touch

If you have a question about these terms, write to us at hello@ourlittlebook.com and we’ll be glad to help.