Privacy policy
Last updated: June 12, 2026
This privacy policy explains how UNIAI TECHNOLOGY - FZCO (“Bookva”, “we”, “us”), the company operating bookva.co, collects, uses, shares, and deletes personal information. Bookva creates personalized printed comics in which a child you love is the hero. The service is offered to adults (18+) in the United States.
The short version: the photo you upload is used only to illustrate your comic. It is stored encrypted in the United States for up to 24 hours and then permanently deleted. We never create or store face templates or any other biometric identifiers, and your photo is never used to train AI models. Your finished comic stays in your account for 12 months so you can reorder prints — you can delete it at any time.
1. Who we are
UNIAI TECHNOLOGY - FZCO, license no. 43405, registered at A1, IFZA Building, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 33203. Privacy requests: privacy@bookva.co. General support: support@bookva.co.
2. Information we collect
- Order details you provide:the hero’s first name, gender, age, interests, and a fun fact.
- The photo you upload: one photo of the child used solely to illustrate the hero of the comic (see section 4 for retention).
- Contact and shipping data: your email address, shipping name and address.
- Payment data: processed by Stripe; we never see or store full card numbers.
- Consent records: the consents you give before uploading a photo, including a timestamp and the version of the consent text you saw.
- Usage data:device and browser information, pages visited, and events such as “preview created”, collected via cookies subject to your cookie choices (see our cookie policy).
3. How we use information
- To generate your free preview and, after purchase, the full comic and printed book.
- To process payment, print, and ship your order.
- To run internal quality checks on the generated illustrations.
- To send transactional emails (order confirmation, shipping updates, sign-in links).
- To measure and improve the service and our advertising, unless you opt out of analytics and advertising cookies.
- To comply with legal obligations (accounting, fraud prevention).
We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for unrelated purposes.
4. The child’s photo — retention and biometric posture
- The uploaded photo is stored in a private, encrypted storage bucket in the United States and is automatically and permanently deleted no later than 24 hours after upload.
- The photo is used only (a) to generate the comic illustrations and (b) for internal quality review of likeness consistency. It is never published, never used for marketing, and never used to train AI models.
- We do not create, collect, or store biometric identifiers — no face templates, faceprints, face geometry, or embeddings are persisted anywhere. See our biometric identifier notice.
- AI providers process the photo in a no-training, zero-retention mode (see section 6).
5. Children’s privacy
Bookvais an adult-facing gift service. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to use it or collect information directly from children. The photo and details of the child hero are provided by an adult who confirms, before upload, that they are 18 or older and the child’s parent or legal guardian (or have that parent’s or guardian’s express permission). A parent or guardian may request deletion of the child’s information at any time (section 9).
6. Service providers (sub-processors)
We share personal information only with the providers needed to deliver the service:
| Provider | Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Replicate (running image models from OpenAI and Google); Vercel AI Gateway for story text | Generating the comic illustrations and story text | No-training, zero-retention mode; photo never used to train models |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Encrypted file storage (photos, previews, print files), US region | Photos auto-deleted within 24 hours |
| Vercel | Website hosting (US region) | |
| Neon | Database hosting (US region) | |
| Stripe | Payment processing | We never store full card numbers |
| Lulu | Printing and shipping the physical book | Receives the print file and shipping address only |
| Resend | Transactional email | |
| Sentry | Error monitoring (US region) | Diagnostic data only; configured to exclude the photo and child’s details |
| Meta | Advertising measurement | On by default; you can opt out anytime via “Your privacy choices” or GPC. Never receives the photo or the child’s details. |
7. Data retention
| Data | Retention |
|---|---|
| Uploaded photo | Up to 24 hours, then permanently deleted |
| Biometric identifiers (face templates, embeddings) | Never created or stored |
| Generated comic (illustrations, story) | 12 months in your account for reprints, then deleted; deletable by you at any time |
| Order, payment, and shipping records | As required for accounting, tax, and fraud-prevention obligations |
| Consent records | As long as needed to demonstrate compliance |
We maintain a written data-retention and information-security program covering encryption in transit and at rest, access controls limited to staff who need it, and secure deletion.
8. Where data is processed
All customer data is stored and processed in the United States. Our corporate seat is in the United Arab Emirates; access to production data from outside the US is restricted to what is necessary to operate the service.
9. Your rights and choices
- Deletion: you can ask us to delete your account, the generated comic, and associated personal information at any time — email privacy@bookva.co from the address used for the order. We honor verified requests within 45 days.
- Access and correction: you may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, or ask us to correct it.
- Cookie choices and “Do Not Sell or Share”: use the “Your privacy choices” link in the footer at any time to turn non-essential cookies on or off. We treat a Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as a valid opt-out of selling or sharing. See the cookie policy.
- State privacy rights: depending on your state of residence (e.g. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Virginia), you may have additional rights to know, correct, delete, or opt out of targeted advertising. We honor such requests at the contacts above regardless of threshold applicability.
10. Security
We use HTTPS everywhere, encrypt stored files, restrict access to production systems, and log access to sensitive data. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure; if a breach affecting your data occurs, we will notify you as required by law.
11. AI disclosure
Comic illustrations and story ideas are generated by artificial intelligence based on the details and photo you provide. See our AI disclosure for details.
12. Changes to this policy
We will post any changes on this page and update the date above. For material changes affecting the photo or children’s data, we will notify you by email before they take effect.
13. Contact
UNIAI TECHNOLOGY - FZCO, A1, IFZA Building, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 33203. privacy@bookva.co