PRIVACY
Privacy at Giggle Bureau
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Giggle Bureau is operated by Cubixel AI Inc, a federally incorporated Canadian company operating in Ontario. This notice covers our website and our reader connected to ChatGPT. Our owner is responsible for privacy and handles questions and requests at info@cubixel.ai.
Our stories and science notes are intended for parents, caregivers and educators reading with children. The ChatGPT plugin is intended to be operated by those adults. We do not create child profiles or ask for children's names, ages, photographs or private documents. Please keep personal information out of book searches and avoid sending children's personal details to support.
Reading in ChatGPT
No separate Giggle Bureau account is needed. When ChatGPT calls a reader tool, our service receives the book-title or science-topic search, book identifier, spread number or edition reference needed to return published content. The reader application's code does not save those requests or your reading history to a Giggle Bureau account database, and it does not run the website analytics described below.
The open reader holds the downloaded book and selected page while you read. When supported by the host, it shares the selected book, edition, page text and science notes with ChatGPT so you can ask about that page. Artwork is loaded from gigglebureau.com. Following a link to our website brings you under the website practices below.
OpenAI handles your ChatGPT conversations, tool interactions and shared reading context under its applicable privacy policy and customer agreements. Your ChatGPT account or workspace settings govern that service. Giggle Bureau cannot delete your ChatGPT conversation or set OpenAI's retention period.
Website reading analytics
We use reading analytics to understand which books are opened and improve the website. We record site pages visited, books and spreads opened, page turns, reading progress, active viewing time, fullscreen use, parent-note and book-link interactions, and scroll progress. Events have timestamps and randomly generated session, visit and reading identifiers. These identifiers can connect events within a session; they are pseudonymous, not a guarantee that the records are anonymous.
Our analytics database does not store names, email addresses, IP addresses, browser user-agent strings, referring websites, search terms or free-form text. Our analytics code does not use advertising trackers or analytics cookies. Hosting and security providers handle additional request information, as explained below.
A random session identifier is stored in session storage and replaced after 30 minutes without activity. This browser expiry does not delete events already in the database. Timing pauses when the page is hidden or unfocused, and after two minutes without interaction. A book marked complete means its story spreads were visible for at least two seconds each; it does not tell us whether someone read or understood them. Analytics records are available to authorized site editors.
Your analytics choice
We respect the Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals checked by the website. You can also turn off reading analytics for this browser using the control below. The preference is stored in local storage on your device. If browser storage is unavailable, the choice applies to the current page only. Turning collection off does not erase events already recorded. Browser settings, disabled JavaScript and connection failures can also prevent collection.
Reading analytics are enabled unless your browser blocks them.
Support and privacy emails
When you email info@cubixel.ai, we receive your address, the message and any attachments you choose to send. We use them to answer the request, investigate the reported issue and keep a record of its resolution. Our owner is the only person at Cubixel who accesses this mailbox and handles these requests. Microsoft provides the mailbox service. Please remove unrelated conversations, account details and children's personal information from screenshots or attachments.
Hosting, providers and international processing
We use OpenAI Sites and its infrastructure providers, including Cloudflare, to host and protect the website and its database. Those services may process network and security information such as IP addresses, browser information, request details and security checks to deliver the service and prevent abuse. This is separate from the fields our reading-analytics code stores. Microsoft processes support correspondence to provide email services.
Provider processing may take place outside Canada, including in the United States and other countries where the providers operate. Information processed in another country may be subject to its laws and lawful access requests. See the OpenAI privacy policy, Cloudflare privacy policy and Microsoft privacy statement for their practices. Provider notices supplement this description; Cubixel remains responsible for the information it chooses to collect through Giggle Bureau.
How long we keep information
- Individual website analytics events: 90 days from receipt in our active database, with expired events removed by daily cleanup.
- Anonymous summary statistics: two years from the start of the month they describe, with expired summaries removed by daily cleanup. These retain overall usage totals without session, visit or reading identifiers or individual reading histories.
- Support correspondence: 12 months after the request is resolved, unless an ongoing dispute or a legal obligation requires longer retention.
These periods apply to active records we manage. Deleting an active record can precede its expiry from providers' recovery copies. Provider-managed recovery copies, security records and legally required records follow the applicable service arrangements and legal requirements; the active-data periods above do not promise immediate deletion from every provider system. ChatGPT conversation retention is controlled separately by OpenAI.
Your requests and concerns
Contact info@cubixel.ai to ask about our practices, request access to or correction of personal information we hold about you, request deletion, or raise a privacy concern. We may ask for enough information to locate the relevant records and verify the request. We do not routinely identify analytics sessions by a person's name or email, and we cannot identify a particular reader from the summary totals alone. We will explain any limits on what we can locate or delete and respond within the time required by applicable law.
If we cannot resolve your concern, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the privacy authority responsible for your jurisdiction.
Changes to this notice
We will update this page when our practices change and show the revision date above. Where a change requires a separate notice or consent, we will provide it. Our terms of use explain the permissions for reading and sharing the books.