Privacy
What Saga Book keeps about your family, who it reaches, and how to have it removed.
Saga Book keeps what a family says about itself: names, dates, photographs, and recordings of relatives telling their stories. That is about as personal as data gets, so this page says plainly what is kept and where it goes. It is written to be read rather than to be survived.
Last updated September 14, 2026.
Who is responsible
Saga Book is run by Valentyn Morenko, as an individual rather than a company. Questions about anything on this page, and requests about your own data, go to [email protected].
What is kept
Your sign-in account
When you sign in with Google or Facebook, that provider tells Saga Book your email address, your name, and a link to your profile picture. Nothing else is asked for, and no password ever reaches Saga Book. The address matters most: an invitation from a relative is matched to it and to nothing else.
What you and your family write down
Names, nicknames, dates and places of birth, marriage and death, how people are related, notes about a life, and who is still living. Some of this is about relatives who do not use Saga Book and who agreed to nothing. Keeping it accurate, and deciding who may see it, is yours.
Recordings and photographs
Audio a family records or uploads, and photographs added to a person or a story. Both are stored as files and are reachable only through the tree they belong to.
What the software records about itself
Who made which change and when, so a family can read its own history and undo it; how much of a month’s allowance a tree has spent; and ordinary server logs kept by the hosting provider.
Who else it reaches
Saga Book sells nothing, shares nothing for advertising, and carries no analytics or tracking of any kind. Everything below is a supplier doing a job the product needs done.
- Google Cloud and Firebase host all of it: sign-in, the family records, the files, and the site itself.
- Google Cloud Speech-to-Text receives a recording when a family asks for it to be transcribed, and returns the words. It is sent only when somebody asks for a transcript.
- Google Vertex AI receives a transcript when a family asks the assistant a question, or asks for people to be suggested from a story. It is sent only when somebody asks.
- Google and Facebook, as the sign-in providers, know that you signed in to Saga Book.
- Finding faces in a photograph happens inside your own browser. The picture is not sent anywhere to be examined.
Who can see your tree
Only people you invite, and only as much as you give them: a whole tree, or one branch and nothing else. You can also grant an outside program access through a key or a connected app, which you can revoke at any time. Nobody at Saga Book reads your family’s records, except where you ask for help with a specific problem and give permission.
How long it is kept
For as long as you keep your account, because a family history is meant to last. When you ask for it to be deleted, it is deleted.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted, and a tree can be exported to a standard GEDCOM file from inside the app at any time. Write to [email protected]. If you are in the EU or the UK, you may also complain to your national data protection authority.
Children
Saga Book is not meant for children to sign in to, and an account should not be made by anyone under 16. Children appear in family trees, as they do in every family history, and what is written about them is the responsibility of the adult who wrote it.
Changes to this page
If what Saga Book does with data changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.
This page is published in four languages. Where a translation and the English differ, the English is what is meant.