Terms of use

Who can use Peabody

A family account. A grown-up (18 or older, and the child’s parent or guardian) makes the family account and adds each child. Where these terms speak of a grown-up or a family, they mean a family account.

A kid’s own account. A kid may make their own account from I’m a kid, with a first name and 4 secret numbers they pick: no email, no grown-up and no payment. Their stories stay private to them, and the privacy page says what Peabody keeps for them.

Kids can also make up to three guest stories with no account at all.

Free, for now

Peabody is free through 31 December 2026. What comes after isn’t decided yet. Families will hear well before anything changes, and nobody is charged without choosing to pay. A kid’s own account is never charged and never asked to pay.

Stories

• Stories are written by an AI model from the ideas a kid gives, then screened for safety and labeled before anyone reads them.
• Unless a grown-up marks a story private, it joins Peabody’s library under the author’s pen name, where other kids can read it. By making a story, the family lets Peabody show it there and on share links the family creates.
• A story made on a kid’s own account stays private: it never joins the library and can’t be shared by link.
• [Who owns the stories, and what license the family, or a kid with their own account, gives Peabody, to be settled with a lawyer.]
• Screening is careful but not perfect. A story the screen isn’t sure about waits, shown to nobody, until a person has reviewed it.

Asking Peabody

• The Ask Peabody box answers from Peabody’s own places, games and answers, and from answer cards written from open sources such as Wikipedia. It is a computer, not a person, and it can be wrong or out of date. Each written card shows its source. A grown-up is the right person to ask about anything that matters, and a Help card is only a kind line and two phone numbers.
• What a kid asks is kept as the privacy page says. Peabody can’t lock a device. It opens another website for a kid only after a grown-up has said yes, and never one of the sites it keeps off the list.

Talk with Peabody, typed

• Typed Talk is for kids in 3rd grade and up, in a family account, when a grown-up has left it on. It is switched on today, and this section is marked for legal review, which has not happened yet. Peabody is a computer, can be wrong, and is not a friend, a teacher or a way to reach help: for anything that matters, a grown-up is the right person to ask.
• A family’s grown-ups can read every chat. What is kept, and for how long, is on the privacy page.

Please don’t

• Put last names, addresses, phone numbers or anything private into story ideas.
• Use Peabody to make anything hurtful, or try to get around its safety checks.
• Try to get at another family’s information, or overload the service.

No guarantees

Peabody is new and made by one parent. It is offered as it is, without promises about results or uptime; it may sometimes be down (and say “whomp whomp”). [Limits of liability to be written by a lawyer.]

Ending

A family can stop using Peabody, and delete a child or the whole account, at any time from the grown-ups’ privacy screen. A kid can delete their own account at any time on My page. Peabody removes a kid’s own account that is never used after 14 days, or one with no sign-in and no reading for 180 days. Peabody may close an account that breaks these terms.

Changes and questions

If these terms change in a way that matters, families will hear by email first. [How kids on their own, who give no email, hear about a change: to be settled.] [Contact address to be added.] See also the privacy page.