Your photo stays yours.

Updated November 4, 2026. Photo Play provides free starter packs and photo pack creation, with free tries and paid generation credits, for adults preparing printable activities.

What works today

You can browse and download curated starter packs without an account. These are Photo Play Studio samples, not submissions from other families. Their sources and illustration credits appear with each pack. Any child shown in a sample is fictional.

Choosing and creating from your photo

Choosing a photo prepares a smaller JPEG on your device and removes source EXIF metadata. Your photo library original stays unchanged. Choosing alone does not upload it. When an adult confirms permission and selects Create my play pack, we send the prepared image through OpenRouter to the configured image provider to make line art. AI may change details, and colour suggestions are estimates rather than verified original colours.

Your photo library original stays on your device. With your explicit consent before upload, we may privately keep a resized copy with source EXIF metadata removed, and AI drawings, for up to 7 days so authorised administrators can investigate generation failures. Diagnostic images are not published, and some may be unavailable if storage fails. You can delete retained diagnostic images in Library, including after your pack expires. Pack previews and PDFs remain available for 24 hours. Downloaded PDFs remain on your device.

Saved starter packs

Saved starter-pack references are stored on this device. They do not sync to an account and do not include your photo. Your browser settings can clear this local data. Downloading a starter pack is free.

Purchases and generation credits

An account is required to purchase and use generation credits. Web payments are processed by PayPal and Android in-app purchases by Google Play. We do not store payment card details. We retain purchase identifiers, payment status and credit-use records separately from generated packs to provide your balance, prevent duplicate transactions and handle refunds. Deleting or expiring a pack does not delete these records or extend the pack’s original availability.

Gallery review and sharing

New guest packs created after the sharing notice are automatically submitted for private administrator review with an anonymous name. Nothing is public until an administrator approves it. Photos of children, other recognisable people and personal details must not be published. All generated pages, including photo puzzles, are reviewed because they may contain your photo. Uploaded source files and diagnostic images are not gallery files. Signed-in members can separately choose Donate my creation after completion. Only submit pages you have permission to share.

Gallery sharing does not earn credits or payment. Review copies expire after 30 days unless approved. Approved gallery copies remain until withdrawal or removal. You can withdraw in Library, including after your private pack expires; guest access requires the original browser cookie. Manual donors can also save a private removal receipt. Withdrawal stops gallery access, but cannot recall files already downloaded by others. Deleting your private pack or account also withdraws associated donations.

Guest access, optional accounts and retention

You can create without signing up. An essential, signed browser cookie keeps guest packs private to this browser. The cookie lasts up to 30 days, but every pack expires after 24 hours and can be deleted in Library. Clearing cookies or switching browsers loses guest access. Optional signup or sign-in can move your current guest packs to your account for access on other devices, without extending their expiry. Deletion revokes access before file removal. Automatic storage cleanup is scheduled after one day and can occur later. Account and attempt records are retained separately for authentication and cost limits. We use a keyed hash of your network address for generation limits; we do not store the raw address in pack records. Android PDF downloads use a file-specific private link that expires after two minutes; anyone holding that link can download that file until it expires or the pack is deleted.

Image providers have their own processing and retention policies. OpenRouter sends the image to the selected provider; service-side deletion cannot delete copies retained by that provider. Do not upload sensitive photos or images you do not have permission to use. Free samples and free tries remain available without payment.

If you ask us to email your pack, we send the PDF to that address through our email provider, Resend. We do not keep the address or add it to any mailing list.

Deleting your account

Signed-in users can delete their account at any time on the Account page (www.photo-play.app/account), on the web or in the Android app. Deletion removes your account, sign-in details and packs immediately; stored pack files are removed with them or expire within one day. Unused generation credits are lost. Purchase, payment status and credit-use records are kept without your email address for refunds, tax and fraud prevention. If you cannot sign in, email byunginhb@gmail.com from the address on the account to request deletion.

Contact form

When you use the contact form, we store your name, email address, optional organisation, topic and message, the language of the page, and a keyed hash of your network address to limit repeated submissions. We do not store the raw address. We use these details only to read and answer your request, and they are not added to any mailing list. Only the Photo Play administrator can see messages. We delete a message 12 months after your request is resolved, or sooner if you ask.

Language preference and visitor estimates

Your selected interface language is saved locally on this device. We estimate daily visitors using a day-specific keyed hash (HMAC) of network signals and a broad browser family. We do not store raw IP addresses or full browser identification strings for these estimates or set a tracking cookie. Visitor fingerprints are removed within 31 days; the dashboard shows the most recent 30 days.

We also count PDF download-button clicks using the same daily estimates. These include paper size, activity type and public starter or shared pack identifiers. For private packs, we record only the pack category, activity type and paper size, without pack identifiers, titles, photos or download links. Repeat clicks on the same item in a day count once. These estimates do not confirm that a file was saved or identify unique people across days. The same retention period applies.

Service troubleshooting

Authorised administrators can inspect and delete generated pack results to troubleshoot the service, including photo-derived puzzle and mosaic content. With your explicit consent, they may also inspect privately retained prepared photos and AI drawings for up to 7 days. Access requires administrator authorisation. Diagnostic images can be deleted separately in Library without deleting your pack.