Built for a child,
controlled by a parent.
StoryVeda is used by children but owned by parents. This page sets out exactly what we do — and deliberately do not do — to keep that safe.
No advertising. Ever.
Not on the free tier, not anywhere. We do not work with ad networks and we do not transmit the Android Advertising ID.
No autoplay
A story ends and nothing begins after it. There is no next-episode countdown and no infinite feed to fall into.
Nothing for a child to buy
No coins, no chests, no upgrade prompts inside a story. Subscriptions live in the parent's area, behind Google Play.
Children do not have accounts
Every account is a parent account, created by an adult over 18. Children appear only as profiles inside it.
Your data stays yours
Row-level security in the database means one family can never read another's stories, profiles or recordings. No data is sold, ever.
Report anything, instantly
Every story has a flag button. Reports come to us directly, we read them, and we correct or withdraw the story.
Every story in the library is read by a mother before it goes in.
The library is chosen one story at a time. Somebody reads each one before a child can hear it, and the Hindi is checked by hand rather than machine-translated. That is the slow part, and it is the part we are least willing to give up.
The personalised stories are different, and we would rather say so plainly than hide it. The ones with your child's name in them are written the moment you press play — that is what makes a story about your child rather than about a stand-in. Every one is made inside our own safety rules and filtered for age-appropriateness before it reaches a child: no violence, nothing frightening, nothing that declares one family's practice the correct one. Illustration and narration are produced the same way, to the same rules.
Nothing in StoryVeda ever chats with your child. There is no assistant to talk to and no conversation to be had. Stories play, and that is all.
Filtering is good. It is not infallible. That is precisely why the flag button exists on every single story, and why a human — not a model — reads what you report.
What we will never write
No violence, no frightening imagery, no religious content that declares one practice mandatory, no photographs of real children, and no medical or developmental claims about your child.
The most sensitive thing we hold.
If you record your own voice so it can narrate your child's stories, four rules apply, and they are not negotiable:
- We ask you to confirm the recording is yours before it can be used at all.
- Your voice is used only for your own family's stories — never for another user, never to train a model.
- You can delete it at any time from Profile → My Voices, and it is gone for good.
- Only the family the recording belongs to can ever hear it.
When family members record stories. Grandparents and loved ones can record bedtime stories through a private invite link. These recordings are made by adults, stored privately for one family only, never published, and deletable by the parent at any time. We never ask a child to record anything.
Voice search is a separate thing and works differently. When a child speaks to find a story, the clip is turned into text so the search can run, and then it is gone. It is not saved, not attached to your account, and not used to train anything.
Who we answer to.
StoryVeda is designed to comply with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, the Information Technology Act 2000 and IT Rules 2021, the Google Play Families Policy and Google Play Data Safety requirements.
If something concerns you, our Grievance Officer is Aditi Joon and she replies personally: grievance@thestoryveda.com. Complaints are acknowledged within 48 hours and resolved within 30 days.