Terms of Use

Effective: August 10, 2026 · Last updated: August 10, 2026

The short version. You must be 18+ to use BookAPresent. Only submit a child's details or photo if you are their parent or guardian, or have that person's permission. The book we create is yours to keep, read, print and give as a gift, but not to resell. Stories and illustrations are generated by AI, so review your book before approving it — once it goes to print we cannot change it.

1. Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and BookAPresent Inc. (“BookAPresent”, “we”, “us”) governing your use of bookapresent.org and our book creation, printing and delivery services (the “Service”). By creating an account, placing an order, or otherwise using the Service, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, and able to enter into a binding contract.
The Service is not intended for use by children. Children may not create accounts, submit information, or place orders. A book made with the Service is meant to be read by a child, not made by one.
You must provide accurate account information and keep it current.

If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it and delete the associated information.

3. Information about children — your promise to us

This is the most important commitment you make when using the Service. By submitting a child's name, age, gender, photo, description or any other detail, you represent and warrant that:

You are the child's parent or legal guardian, or you have obtained the express permission of the child's parent or legal guardian to provide that information and to have a book created from it.
You have the right to upload any photograph you submit, and the right to permit us and our providers to process it to generate illustrations.
You consent, on your own behalf and on behalf of the child where applicable, to the processing described in our Privacy Policy, including transmission of the information to our AI provider for the sole purpose of generating the book.

Do not upload photographs of a child you have no authority over. Do not submit a child's last name, address, school, birth date or any sensitive personal information — it is not needed and we do not want it. You can delete a child's information at any time from your dashboard, or by emailing privacy@bookapresent.org.

4. The Service

The Service lets you supply details about a child, choose a story theme, writing style and art style, and receive a personalized children's book generated with artificial intelligence. You can preview and edit the book, approve it, and order it as a digital file, a printed book, or both, depending on the options available at the time.

We may modify, suspend or discontinue any part of the Service, and we may change features, formats or pricing. Where a change materially affects an order you have already paid for, we will honor that order or refund it.

5. Your account

You are responsible for the activity that happens under your account and for keeping your credentials and sign-in codes confidential. Tell us promptly at support@bookapresent.org if you suspect unauthorized access. You may close your account at any time; see the retention periods in our Privacy Policy for what happens to your data afterwards.

6. AI-generated content — what to expect

Stories and illustrations are produced by AI models from the inputs you provide. Please understand:

Illustrations are interpretations, not portraits. A character based on a photo will resemble the child in style and general features, but is not an exact likeness, and details will vary between pages.
Output varies. The same inputs can produce different stories and images. We cannot guarantee any specific result, and regenerating may not improve a particular page.
Content may occasionally be imperfect. Text may contain errors, and images may contain visual artifacts. This is why we give you editing tools and a preview.
The Service is entertainment, not advice. Stories are not educational, medical, psychological or developmental advice.
You approve the final book. Review every page and every illustration before approving. Once a book is approved and sent to print, it cannot be changed.

7. Content and ownership

Your inputs

You keep all rights you already have in what you submit — photos, names, descriptions and messages (“Your Inputs”). You grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, modify and transmit Your Inputs solely to operate the Service and create, print and deliver your book. This license ends when you delete the content or close your account, except for copies we must keep for legal or accounting reasons.

We will not use Your Inputs, your book, or any child's photo for marketing, public display, or model training without your separate written permission.

Your book

Subject to your payment in full and to your compliance with these Terms, we assign to you whatever rights we hold in the story text and illustrations generated specifically for your book (“Your Book”), for your personal, family and gift use, including printing additional personal copies. You may not sell, license, mass-produce, distribute commercially, or publish Your Book for profit.

You acknowledge that AI-generated material may not be protectable by copyright in some jurisdictions, and that other users' books may be similar in structure, theme or style. We do not warrant exclusivity in any story element, and we may generate similar books for others.

Our platform

The Service itself — software, design, templates, prompts, art style definitions, trademarks and branding — belongs to us and our licensors. You may not copy, reverse engineer, scrape, resell or create derivative works from it.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to:

Submit a photograph or details of a child without the parent or guardian's authority.
Create sexual, violent, hateful, harassing, defamatory or otherwise harmful content, or any content that sexualizes or endangers a minor.
Impersonate anyone, or use the name, likeness or image of a person without their permission, including public figures.
Infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity rights — including submitting copyrighted characters or artwork.
Break the law, circumvent our safeguards, probe or attack the Service, scrape it, use bots, or resell access.
Overload the Service, or use it to generate content in bulk for commercial redistribution.

We may refuse, remove, or refuse to print any content that violates these rules, and we may suspend or terminate accounts that do. Content that appears to sexualize or endanger a child will be removed and reported to the appropriate authorities.

9. Orders, prices and payment

Prices are shown at checkout in the stated currency and may change before you order. The price at the time you place an order is the price that applies.
Payments are processed by our payment provider. By ordering you authorize the charge, including applicable taxes and shipping.
Your order is accepted when we confirm it by email. We may decline or cancel an order — for example for suspected fraud, a pricing error, or a content violation — and will refund you in full if we do.
Digital books are delivered to your account. Printed books are produced by our print partners and shipped to the address you provide; please check it carefully, as we cannot redirect a shipped parcel.
Delivery estimates are estimates, not guarantees. Risk of loss passes on delivery to the carrier; if a parcel is lost or arrives damaged, contact us and we will replace it.
You are responsible for any import duties or taxes on international shipments.

10. Cancellations and refunds

Personalized books are made to order, so the usual right to change your mind is limited once production starts.

Before production: you may cancel a printed book order for a full refund at any time before it enters production.
After production starts: the order cannot be cancelled, because the book is custom-made and cannot be resold. EU and UK consumers acknowledge that this is a personalized good exempt from the statutory withdrawal right once production begins, and consent to production starting during the withdrawal period.
Digital books: refundable only if the file is faulty or does not match what you approved.
Defects and errors: if a book arrives damaged, misprinted, or materially different from what you approved, contact support@bookapresent.org within 30 days of delivery with photos, and we will reprint or refund it at no charge.

Typos, edits or story choices you approved are not defects. Nothing here limits any non-waivable statutory consumer rights you have.

11. Printed products and children

Printed books are ordinary paper products, not toys. Books for very young children should be used with adult supervision; paper edges can cut, and small children should not be left alone with packaging materials. Keep plastic wrapping away from infants.

If you create a share link, you are responsible for who you send it to — anyone with the link can view the book, including any child's name and likeness in it. Think before posting one publicly. You can disable a share link at any time.

13. Third-party services

The Service relies on third parties for AI generation, payments, email, printing, shipping and hosting, as described in our Privacy Policy. Their terms govern their own services, and we are not responsible for their acts or omissions beyond our own obligations to you.

14. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that generated content will meet your expectations, be original, or resemble any particular person.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither we nor our suppliers will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill, arising from your use of the Service.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or USD 100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless BookAPresent Inc. and its officers, employees and agents from any claim, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Service, your breach of these Terms, your content, or your submission of information about a child without the required parental permission.

17. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we discontinue the Service. On termination, your right to use the Service ends; sections that by their nature should survive — ownership, disclaimers, liability, indemnity and governing law — will survive. If we terminate without cause, we will refund any paid order not yet delivered.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be brought exclusively in the courts of Tel Aviv, Israel, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections and courts of your country of residence available to you under local law.

Please contact us first at support@bookapresent.org — nearly everything is resolved faster with an email than a filing.

19. General

Entire agreement: these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service.
Severability: if any provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.
No waiver: not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.
Assignment: you may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in a merger or sale of assets.
Force majeure: we are not liable for delays caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version here and update the “Last updated” date, and for material changes we will give notice by email or in the Service before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the revised Terms. Orders already placed are governed by the Terms in effect when you placed them.

21. Contact

Support: support@bookapresent.org
Privacy: privacy@bookapresent.org
Post: BookAPresent Inc., Tel Aviv, Israel