These terms explain how families may use StarringMe to create private, AI-assisted picture books where a child-inspired hero stars in the story.
Last updated: June 5, 2026
StarringMe helps a parent or guardian create short, illustrated storybooks where a child-inspired hero appears in a private reading experience. The service may generate story text, cover art, page illustrations, reading links, and export files.
AI output may contain mistakes or visual variation. A parent must preview the story before sharing it with a child.
Children do not create StarringMe accounts. The person creating a story must be the child's parent, legal guardian, or an adult with clear authority to provide the story inputs and any optional reference photo.
You may not submit another child's details or image without appropriate permission.
Story requests are screened before generation. We may block, refuse, remove, or fail any request that appears unsafe, sexual, sexually explicit, sexually suggestive, exploitative, harmful, illegal, privacy-invasive, or inconsistent with our Acceptable Use Policy.
When Creem Moderation returns flag or deny, StarringMe blocks generation. If required safety screening is unavailable or returns an unexpected result, production generation fails closed instead of sending the prompt to an AI model.
Because StarringMe may generate child-inspired illustrations and may accept optional reference photos, we apply strict child-safety rules and do not allow sexualized, NSFW, sexually explicit, sexually suggestive, exploitative, or harmful content involving minors or childlike characters.
StarringMe does not offer uncensored, unfiltered, or safety-bypass AI generation.
A reference photo is optional. If used, it is intended only to guide a private storybook-style hero. The feature is not for exact face cloning, face swapping, public identity replication, deepfakes, or any inappropriate depiction of a child.
You must not upload a photo for an unlawful, sexual, humiliating, harmful, or non-consensual purpose.
Paid products may include story packs, shelf access, exports, or reading journeys shown on the Pricing page. Prices and included story credits are shown before checkout.
StarringMe offers a 7-day first-paid-story guarantee. For a refund request, StarringMe first checks whether the request is within 7 days of checkout, whether the issue concerns the first paid story from that purchase, and whether you have not used another paid story from that same purchase. Eligible requests then go to support review and approved refunds return to the original Creem payment method.
If the first paid hero is visibly wrong, the book has a clear generation failure, or a PDF export fails repeatedly, the first eligible hero-fix request receives one system-granted regeneration credit or replacement credit. A second hero fix, subjective quality dispute, or refund request should be sent to support@starringme.org with the checkout email, story title, and what went wrong.
Starter Shelf and Story Pack are one-time purchases and do not renew. The 4-Week Journey renews monthly until canceled. Journey can be canceled anytime through the Creem Customer Portal linked from the payment receipt; if you cannot access the portal, send a cancellation request to support@starringme.org before the next renewal date.
We can decline or limit refunds and regeneration requests for safety-policy violations, misuse, repeated refund abuse, chargeback abuse, or requests outside the stated time window.
Our Privacy Policy explains what story inputs, account data, generated assets, photo-reference metadata, and deletion controls are used during a trial or paid story flow.
You can request help with account access, deletion, refunds, generation failures, or safety reports through support@starringme.org.
StarringMe is a parent-facing product interface built on top of third-party AI services. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by those model providers.
As of June 3, 2026, story text is generated with DeepSeek via the deepseek-v4-flash text model. Story covers, page illustrations, and optional private hero reference assets are generated through Volcengine Ark / Seedream image models, currently doubao-seedream-5-0-260128 with doubao-seedream-4-5-251128 as a fallback.
Before eligible prompts reach image generation, StarringMe screens generation requests with the Creem Moderation API and may also apply provider safety rules. Model providers and model versions may change for safety, quality, availability, or cost reasons; material public changes will be reflected in these terms or our FAQ.
You keep responsibility for the story details, child nickname, optional photo rights, and instructions you provide. StarringMe may use those inputs to create, store, display, export, and support the requested private story experience.
When AI generation is enabled, your story setup, child-inspired hero details, avoid notes, and optional photo-reference status may be sent to the AI and moderation providers listed above so they can generate or screen the requested story. API keys are kept server-side and are not exposed to the browser.
You agree not to use StarringMe for prohibited content or to test, bypass, or evade safety filters. The full list is in the Acceptable Use Policy.
StarringMe is a reading and entertainment product. It is not medical, educational, psychological, legal, or safety advice.
We may change, pause, refuse, or discontinue features when needed for product quality, child safety, legal compliance, provider requirements, or payment-provider review.
Questions about these terms, billing, account access, deletion, refunds, cancellation, story fixes, or safety can be sent to support@starringme.org.