Terms of Service

The agreement

These terms are the contract between you and Get Happy Tales for the Happy Tales subscription at gethappytales.com. The privacy policy, the refund policy, and the cookie policy are part of this contract.

Happy Tales is the name on the page. Get Happy Tales is the name on this contract. The way to reach us for anything in these terms is hello@gethappytales.com.

By paying, you agree. If you do not agree, do not pay. You can look at a cover without paying anything.

Who may start a tale

You must be 18 or older.

If the tale is about a child, you are that child's parent or legal guardian, and you are the person who uses the account. The child does not get a login. There is nothing for a child to type into or talk to. It is a picture book you read aloud.

If a dog is in the story, you are the person who may share that dog's photo.

You promise that each photo is one you have the right to share, of the child or the dog you named, and not of someone else. Do not send a photo of another adult as the star. Do not send anything sexual, violent, or unlawful. We may refuse a photo, or a start, that is not safe for a picture book.

What you are buying

One subscription is about one star.

• Four new tales a month, one a week, read in the browser.
• Each tale we deliver includes a print-at-home file, letter or A4, that folds into a booklet.
• $47 a month, or $397 a year, in US dollars. The pay screen shows the amount before you confirm. Tax is added only where the law requires it, and only if that screen shows it.
• You see a cover before the first charge. If it is not them, email us before you pay and we will draw another, or leave and pay nothing.
• We aim to open the first tale the day you start, and a new one each week after that, while the subscription is paid and not paused. If we miss a week you paid for, we still owe you that tale.
• A sibling or the dog may appear in a tale. A second star is a second subscription at the same price.

There is no free trial, no hardcover, and no shipping.

The first charge

If the pay screen shows a lower price for the first month, that price applies only to the first charge, and only while the timer on that screen is still running. After that, the subscription renews at the full price of the plan you picked.

Renewal

The subscription renews on its own until you cancel. A month renews each month. A year renews each year.

We do not change the price of a period you have already paid. If we change the price of a later period, we email you before that renewal, and you can cancel before it happens.

Pause

You may pause for up to three months in a row. Email us to pause. New tales stop. Tales already delivered stay.

On a monthly plan, we do not bill a month that is fully paused. On a yearly plan, a pause does not refund the year you have already paid. It stops new tales for those months, and they resume after. Weeks that fall inside a pause are not owed later.

Cancel

You may cancel at any time. No phone call. Email hello@gethappytales.com from the address on the account. When the account has a cancel control, you may use that instead. We confirm by email.

You are not charged again after the period you have already paid. You can keep reading until that period ends. Then new tales stop. Tales we have already delivered stay available to read and to print at home, on the license below.

Refunds

The refund policy is part of these terms. In short: email us within 30 days of the first charge and we refund that first month. You do not have to give a reason. Tales already delivered stay.

The photo, and the tales we make

The privacy policy is part of these terms. You let us use the photo, the name, and the other details you type only to make and deliver tales for this account, and to keep the service safe.

The words and pictures we make belong to us. Once we deliver a tale, you may read it and print it at home, for personal use in your household, for as long as we operate Happy Tales. You may not sell a tale, license it, or use it in advertising.

Your photo stays yours. The child's likeness in real life stays theirs. We do not claim either.

If a page is not right

A tale is a drawing, not a photograph, and a likeness can miss. If a page is not them, or not what you asked for, email us and we will redraw it.

Happy Tales is a picture book. It is not school, medical, or parenting advice.

If we cannot deliver

If we miss a tale you paid for, we deliver it late or we refund the unused part of that period. We do not promise the site will be up every minute. If we shut the service down, tales already delivered stay available for a reasonable wind-down, and we refund any period you paid for that we did not deliver.

If we end it

We may refuse a photo, or end a subscription, if these terms are broken, if a photo was not yours to share, or if we have to do so to keep a child safe. If we end a subscription for our own reasons and you have not broken these terms, we refund the unused part of the period you paid for.

If something goes wrong

Email us first. We will try to put it right.

Where we are responsible for a loss, the most we pay for a claim about the service is what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. That limit does not apply to fraud, to death or personal injury caused by our negligence where the law does not allow a limit, or to the refund and the photo-deletion promises in these policies.

Nothing in these terms takes away a consumer right that the law says we cannot take away. We do not require private arbitration, and we will not make you travel to a distant court for a consumer claim.

The law

These terms follow the laws of the United States, except where the law of your home gives you a right we cannot change.

Changes

We post a new version on this page, with a date and a version number. If a change affects the price, the photo, or what you keep, we email you before it applies. The version on this page is the one in force.