What Tales & Fables knows about you.

The short version

Tales & Fables is a small, self-hosted writing tool run by one person. 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.

What gets stored

• Your email address (used only to send sign-in links and collaboration invites).
• Stories you create: characters, scenes, world notes, plot points, manuscript text, tags, comments, and revision history.
• Cover images and any other files you upload through the app.
• A daily word-count total per story (used for the streak grid on your dashboard).
• Standard server logs (timestamps, IP, request path) for up to 14 days, for abuse detection.

Where it lives

On a Raspberry Pi at the maintainer's home. 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.

Public share links

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.

Deleting your data

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.

Contact

Questions, deletion requests, or anything else: [email protected].