Terms of Service

Last Updated: June 25, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern access to and use of SleepyTimeTales.com and the Sleepy Time Tales personalized-story service.

Sleepy Time Tales is operated by Wesley Shepherd doing business as Sleepy Time Tales (“Sleepy Time Tales,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By using the service, creating an account, generating a sample, or starting a subscription, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy.

1. Eligibility and Parent Responsibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use the service.

The service is intended for parents and legal guardians. Children may not directly:

• Create an account;
• Complete story-personalization forms;
• Submit their own information;
• Purchase a subscription;
• Contact support; or
• Independently use the account dashboard.

By providing information about a child, you represent that:

• You are at least 18 years old;
• You are the child’s parent or legal guardian;
• You are authorized to provide the submitted information;
• The information is accurate to the best of your knowledge; and
• You will not provide unnecessary sensitive information.

The service is currently offered only to customers located in the United States.

2. The Service

Sleepy Time Tales creates personalized stories using information submitted by a parent or legal guardian.

Depending on the plan and available features, the service may include:

• A free personalized sample story;
• Personalized nightly stories;
• Scheduled email delivery;
• A private story archive;
• Parent-controlled child profiles;
• Multiple child profiles;
• Christian-theme or general moral-values preferences; and
• Related account and subscription features.

Features may change over time. We will not materially reduce a paid customer’s service without reasonable notice where required.

3. Artificial-Intelligence Content

Stories are generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence.

Artificial-intelligence systems may occasionally produce:

• Inaccurate information;
• Unexpected wording;
• Repetitive or inconsistent content;
• Material a parent considers inappropriate;
• Similarities to other generated content; or
• Technical or formatting errors.

Sleepy Time Tales does not guarantee that every generated story will be error-free, unique, copyrightable, or suitable for every child.

Parents are responsible for reviewing each story and deciding whether it is appropriate before sharing it with a child.

Sleepy Time Tales is not a substitute for parental supervision.

4. No Medical, Educational, or Professional Services

Sleepy Time Tales does not provide:

• Medical advice;
• Mental-health treatment;
• Sleep treatment;
• Educational instruction;
• Childcare supervision;
• Religious counseling; or
• Other licensed professional services.

Stories are provided for personal entertainment and family use.

5. Accounts

You agree to provide accurate account information and maintain the security of your login credentials.

You are responsible for activity under your account, including activity by anyone who accesses the account using your credentials.

You must promptly notify us at info@sleepytimetales.com if you suspect unauthorized access.

We may require email verification, reauthentication, or other reasonable measures to protect an account.

6. Child Information

You may provide only information reasonably necessary to personalize a story.

Use only a child’s first name or nickname.

Do not submit:

• Last names;
• Exact dates of birth;
• Home addresses;
• School or daycare names;
• Precise locations;
• Health, medical, or disability information;
• Government identification information;
• Photographs;
• Audio or video recordings;
• Passwords;
• Information about another child without appropriate permission; or
• Other sensitive or unnecessary information.

You are responsible for the information you submit.

7. Free Personalized Sample

Sleepy Time Tales may offer one free personalized sample story without requiring payment information.

The free sample:

• Is intended for one use per household;
• May be limited using a browser identifier, account information, email address, device information, or other reasonable anti-abuse methods;
• May be unavailable during periods of high demand, technical failure, or suspected misuse;
• Does not create a paid subscription by itself; and
• May be replaced with a clearly labeled demonstration story if live generation is temporarily unavailable.

We may modify, limit, or discontinue the free-sample offer at any time.

8. Seven-Day Subscription Trial

A payment method is required to start the seven-day subscription trial.

Unless canceled before the trial expires, the subscription automatically converts to a paid monthly subscription at the disclosed price.

The current standard pricing is:

• First child: $9 per month;
• Each additional child: $5 per month; and
• Trial period: Seven days.

The checkout page will display the applicable price and billing terms before you authorize the subscription.

The free trial is generally limited to one trial per household and email address. We may use other reasonable indicators to prevent repeated or abusive trial use.

We may send a reminder before the trial ends. You remain responsible for monitoring the trial expiration date and canceling before the deadline if you do not want to be charged.

9. Recurring Billing Authorization

By starting a trial or subscription, you authorize Sleepy Time Tales and Stripe to charge the payment method on file:

• When the trial ends;
• Monthly thereafter;
• For additional child profiles selected by you;
• For applicable taxes; and
• For any other amount clearly disclosed and authorized at checkout.

Subscriptions continue until canceled.

Billing dates may vary slightly due to weekends, processing delays, time zones, payment failures, or provider operations.

10. Cancellation

You may cancel through:

• Account settings;
• The Stripe customer portal; or
• Another cancellation method made available through the service.

After cancellation:

• A trial subscription generally remains available until the trial ends;
• A paid subscription generally remains available until the end of the current paid billing period; and
• No additional recurring charge will be initiated after the effective cancellation date, except for amounts already incurred or processing.

Canceling a subscription does not automatically delete the account, child profiles, or archived stories.

Canceled account content may be retained for up to 90 days to allow reactivation, after which it may be deleted unless retention is required by law.

You may request earlier account deletion by emailing info@sleepytimetales.com.

11. Refund Policy

Except where required by law, subscription payments are generally nonrefundable.

As a customer-service courtesy, Sleepy Time Tales will provide a one-time refund of the first subscription charge following a free trial when the customer requests the refund within 24 hours of that charge.

To request this courtesy refund, email info@sleepytimetales.com from the account email address.

Refunds are not guaranteed for:

• Requests received more than 24 hours after the first post-trial charge;
• Subsequent monthly charges;
• Partial billing periods;
• Failure to cancel before renewal;
• Unused stories;
• Failure to open or read delivered emails; or
• Suspension caused by a Terms violation.

Nothing in this section limits a right that cannot legally be waived.

12. Failed Payments

If a payment fails, we or Stripe may retry the payment method.

During a payment failure:

• Future story generation or delivery may be suspended;
• Account access may be limited;
• You may be asked to update the payment method; and
• The subscription may eventually be canceled.

Restoring payment does not guarantee delivery of stories missed during suspension.

13. Price Changes and Promotions

We may change subscription prices by providing at least 30 days’ notice before the new price applies to an existing subscriber, except where a shorter period is permitted or required by law.

Promotions may have separate eligibility requirements, duration, and restrictions.

Sleepy Time Tales may offer a former subscriber a cancellation-recovery promotion, such as a 20% discount for three months. Such promotions:

• Are not guaranteed;
• May be limited to selected recipients;
• May expire;
• May be limited to one use;
• May not be combined with other offers; and
• Are subject to the terms shown with the offer.

14. Email Communications

You agree to receive necessary communications relating to:

• Account authentication;
• Security;
• Story delivery;
• Billing;
• Trial status;
• Subscription status;
• Cancellation;
• Service changes; and
• Customer support.

You may separately opt in to promotional emails, product announcements, bedtime ideas, and special offers.

Marketing consent is optional and is not required to purchase a subscription.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time. Unsubscribing from marketing does not stop necessary account, security, billing, or story-delivery communications.

15. Your Inputs

You retain any rights you have in information or instructions you submit.

You grant Sleepy Time Tales and its service providers a limited license to use, host, process, reproduce, and transmit your inputs only as reasonably necessary to:

• Generate stories;
• Deliver and store stories;
• Operate your account;
• Provide support;
• Prevent abuse;
• Secure and improve the service; and
• Comply with law.

You represent that you have the right to provide the submitted information and that doing so does not violate another person’s rights.

16. Generated Stories and Permitted Use

Subject to these Terms and payment of applicable fees, Sleepy Time Tales grants you a personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to:

• Read generated stories;
• Save them for personal use;
• Print them for personal or family use;
• Share them privately with family and friends; and
• Post them on personal social-media accounts for noncommercial purposes.

You may not, without written permission from Sleepy Time Tales:

• Sell generated stories;
• Publish them commercially;
• License or sublicense them;
• Include them in a commercial book or paid product;
• Use them to train an artificial-intelligence model;
• Resell access to the service; or
• Present the service or generated output as your own competing product.

Artificial-intelligence output may not qualify for copyright protection and may not be unique. Sleepy Time Tales makes no representation that you will obtain exclusive rights in a generated story.

17. De-Identified Excerpts

You grant Sleepy Time Tales permission to use short, de-identified excerpts from generated stories to demonstrate or market the service without obtaining separate permission for each excerpt.

Before using an excerpt, Sleepy Time Tales will remove:

• Child and family names;
• Contact information;
• Account identifiers;
• Sensitive information;
• Unique personal details; and
• Information reasonably capable of identifying a child or household.

This permission does not authorize use of a child’s photograph, identifiable profile, customer testimonial, or full identifiable story.

You may opt out of future use by emailing info@sleepytimetales.com. An opt-out will not necessarily require removal of materials already lawfully produced or distributed before the request was processed, although we will make reasonable efforts to honor the request prospectively.

18. Prohibited Conduct

You may not:

• Submit sexual, exploitative, abusive, or inappropriate content involving minors;
• Request violent, hateful, harassing, or unlawful content;
• Submit instructions for wrongdoing;
• Infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights;
• Submit unnecessary sensitive personal information;
• Attempt to bypass safety controls;
• Circumvent free-sample, trial, rate, or usage limits;
• Use bots, scripts, or automation to abuse the service;
• Probe, disrupt, reverse engineer, or compromise the service;
• Access another person’s account or data;
• Use the service to create spam or deceptive content;
• Resell or commercially exploit the service without permission; or
• Violate applicable law.

19. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate access when reasonably necessary because of:

• Nonpayment;
• Fraud;
• Abuse;
• Security concerns;
• Harm to a child or another person;
• Prohibited content;
• Repeated attempts to bypass service limits;
• Violation of these Terms; or
• Legal requirements.

Where reasonable, we may provide notice and an opportunity to correct the issue.

Serious safety, fraud, security, or legal concerns may result in immediate suspension.

20. Service Availability and Delivery

We do not guarantee that:

• The service will always be available;
• Every story will generate successfully;
• A story will arrive at an exact time;
• Email providers will deliver every message to the inbox;
• Archived stories will remain available indefinitely; or
• The service will be free from interruptions or errors.

Delivery times are estimates. Internet, email, hosting, payment, database, and artificial-intelligence providers may cause delays or interruptions.

Archived stories are generally available only while the account remains active or during the applicable post-cancellation retention period.

21. Third-Party Services

The service relies on third-party providers, including providers of:

• Artificial-intelligence generation;
• Payments;
• Email delivery;
• Authentication;
• Hosting;
• Databases;
• Analytics;
• Advertising; and
• Network security.

We are not responsible for a third party’s independent acts, outages, policies, or services.

Your use of third-party payment, authentication, or other services may also be governed by their terms.

22. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available.”

Sleepy Time Tales disclaims implied warranties, including warranties of:

• Merchantability;
• Fitness for a particular purpose;
• Noninfringement;
• Accuracy;
• Availability; and
• Uninterrupted operation.

We do not warrant that every story will be appropriate for every child. Parents must review stories before sharing them.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so some exclusions may not apply to you.

23. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Sleepy Time Tales and its operator, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of data, profits, goodwill, or business opportunity.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, total liability arising from or relating to the service will not exceed the greater of:

• The amount you paid to Sleepy Time Tales during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or
• One hundred dollars.

These limitations do not apply where prohibited by law or to liability that cannot legally be limited.

24. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sleepy Time Tales and its operator from third-party claims arising from:

• Information you submit without authorization;
• Your unlawful or prohibited use of the service;
• Your commercial use of generated stories;
• Your violation of another person’s rights; or
• Your material violation of these Terms.

This provision does not require indemnification for conduct caused solely by Sleepy Time Tales.

25. Informal Dispute Resolution

Before filing a legal claim, you agree to contact info@sleepytimetales.com and provide:

• Your name and account email;
• A description of the dispute;
• The requested resolution; and
• Relevant supporting information.

The parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.

Either party may seek urgent injunctive or protective relief when reasonably necessary without waiting 30 days.

26. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oklahoma, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where federal law or another jurisdiction’s mandatory consumer law applies.

After the informal-resolution period, an unresolved dispute must be brought in an appropriate state or federal court located in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, unless applicable law requires a different venue.

These Terms do not include mandatory arbitration or a class-action waiver.

27. Changes to the Service or Terms

We may update the service or these Terms.

When a change is material, we may provide notice through the website, account, or email.

Changes apply prospectively from the effective date stated in the updated Terms, except where immediate application is required for security, fraud prevention, or legal compliance.

Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance where legally permitted.

28. Severability and No Waiver

If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.

A failure to enforce a provision does not waive the right to enforce it later.

29. Entire Agreement

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, checkout disclosures, and any applicable promotional terms constitute the agreement between you and Sleepy Time Tales concerning the service.

30. Contact

Wesley Shepherd d/b/a Sleepy Time Tales
Edmond, Oklahoma 73013
info@sleepytimetales.com

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