— privacy —
Last updated: 2026-08-04
Tales & Fables is a small, self-hosted writing tool operated by Caplan Studio LLC. It stores your email, your stories, and anything you type into them — nothing more. It does not run analytics, ad trackers, or fingerprinting. It is not sold or shared with anyone.
On a server Caplan Studio operates itself, in the United States. The database is a SQLite file. Uploaded images sit on the same disk. Nightly backups are kept locally; nothing is uploaded to a third-party cloud provider. Magic-link emails are delivered via Resend — your email address is sent to them only at the moment a link is requested. If you subscribe to Pro, the payment itself is handled by Stripe; card details go to Stripe and never touch this server.
The Storysmith is the guided interview that turns answers into a new story. When you submit a round, the text of your answers is sent to Anthropic to produce the next questions and, when you choose to build, the story outline. Your answers are not used to train any model. The session — its questions and your answers — is stored here until you discard it; discarded sessions keep their round records so monthly usage can be counted.
Answering by voice uses your browser’s own speech recognition. In most browsers, including Chrome and Edge, that means the audio is sent to the browser maker to be transcribed. Tales & Fables never receives or stores audio — only the transcribed text is submitted, exactly as if you had typed it.
You can mark a story public, which exposes a read-only page at /s/<slug>. These pages carry a noindex tag so search engines won't list them, but anyone with the URL can read the story. Untoggle the share link to revoke access.
The Account page has a "Delete my account" button. It cascades: every story, scene, comment, snapshot, and upload tied to your user is removed. Backups containing the deleted data roll off within 14 days.
Questions, deletion requests, or anything else, write to Caplan Studio LLC at [email protected].