What we collect, what we do with it, what we never do.

When you make a memoir with In Their Eyes, the app stores:

• Your email address and basic profile info (name, profile photo if you sign in with Google) — so we can send prompts, send invites, and show you the right book.
• The bio you write about the storyteller, the questions we ask, and the answers — voice recordings, photos, written replies.
• Reactions, comments, and follow-up questions other family members add to the storyteller’s replies.
• Standard server logs (IP address, browser type, page accessed) for security and debugging. We don’t use these for tracking or analytics.

We use what you give us to do exactly what the product promises:

• Send the storyteller a warm, specific question once a week.
• Generate those questions using an AI model grounded in the bio you wrote — so the prompts are specific to that person’s actual life.
• Transcribe voice recordings to text so they’re searchable and printable in the book.
• Show family members the stories as they come in.
• Bind everything into a hardcover memoir when the year is up.

We never sell or rent your data. We don’t use it to train models. We don’t use it for advertising — there is no advertising in In Their Eyes.

To make the product work, we send your data to a small number of trusted infrastructure providers, each of which is bound by their own privacy commitments:

• Supabase— hosts the database and stores uploaded audio + photos.
• Vercel— hosts the website and runs the server code.
• Anthropic— generates the weekly prompts. We send only the bio + prior story snippets needed to write a good prompt; we do not send raw audio.
• OpenAI— transcribes voice recordings to text via the Whisper API.
• Resend— sends the Sunday-question emails and any account emails.
• Lulu— if you order the printed book, the manuscript + cover get sent to Lulu’s print pipeline.

Within your own project, family members you explicitly invite can see the storyteller’s stories. No one outside the family you invite can see anything.

• See it. Sign in any time to read everything we have on file for your project.
• Edit it. Edit transcripts, bios, prompts, photos — most things are user-editable.
• Delete it. Email knollmcb@gmail.com with the subject “delete my data” and we’ll wipe your account and project within 30 days.
• Export it.Same email, subject “export my data,” and we’ll send you everything as a downloadable archive.

We use one cookie: the sign-in session cookie that keeps you logged in. We don’t use third-party analytics, advertising trackers, or social-media pixels.

In Their Eyes does not collect data from anyone under 18.Account holders must be 18 or older, and contributors invited to a project must also be 18 or older to sign in. Minors don’t have accounts here, and we don’t ask them for any information directly.

Stories may still involve minors— a grandchild’s voice recording, a kid’s drawing, a photo of the family at the lake. When those appear in a memoir, they were uploaded by an adult account holder (a parent, grandparent, or the project owner) using their own account, on the understanding that they have the parent’s or guardian’s authority to share that content. We don’t see the child; we see an upload from the adult.

If you believe someone under 18 has signed up or signed in, please email us at knollmcb@gmail.com and we’ll close the account and delete the data within 30 days.

If we change this policy, we’ll update the effective date at the top of this page and email anyone with an active account.

Casey Suszynski, builder of In Their Eyes — knollmcb@gmail.com.