Terms of use

Last updated: 14 November 2026

WIY Stories (WIY stands for “Write It Yourself”) was previously called Fablefox Stories, at fablefoxstories.co.uk. Only the name and web address have changed.

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and WIY Stories, run by [your full name], a sole trader in the United Kingdom trading as WIY Stories (“we”, “us”). They apply when you use wiystories.com. Please read them together with our privacy policy. You can contact us at contact@wiystories.com.

2. Who can use WIY Stories

Only adults aged 18 or over can create an account: parents, carers, teachers and schools. Children use WIY Stories through a grown-up's account and under their supervision. In a school, pupils can also join their class on their own device with a class code their teacher opens, while the teacher supervises. You're responsible for the children you add, for keeping your password and PIN private, and for everything done in your account.

If you sign up as a school or teacher, you confirm that you're allowed to use WIY Stories for your pupils and that your school's data protection arrangements cover it.

3. Your stories

Stories belong to the people who wrote them. You give us permission to store, display and process them only so that we can provide WIY Stories to you, including the writing help and pictures. We don't publish your stories or use them for marketing. Pictures made for your books are yours to keep, print and share for personal and classroom use.

4. Being kind and safe

Please don't use WIY Stories to write anything unkind, hateful, frightening for young children or unsuitable for them, or anything that includes real people's personal details. WIY Stories checks each line automatically and may ask a grown-up to approve a line. Automatic checks can make mistakes, so a grown-up should stay close by while children write.

5. The writing help

Spelling and grammar suggestions, hints, story ideas, opening lines and pictures are produced automatically using artificial intelligence. They are usually helpful but can sometimes be wrong or unexpected. They don't replace a parent's or teacher's judgement.

Writing competitions (school accounts). Teachers can ask the AI to check competition stories and predict a mark against criteria the teacher sets. Predicted marks are a guide only and may be wrong. The teacher is responsible for reviewing them, deciding the final marks and choosing any winners.

Pupil codes. School accounts should add pupils using a code rather than their name, and keep the list matching codes to pupils safely outside WIY Stories, in line with your school's data protection policies.

6. Plans and payment

• Free plan: for parent and carer accounts only, with the monthly limits shown in the app.
• Free trial for schools: a new school account can have one free 4-week trial of the School plan, with everything unlocked. To start it, you choose your school size and either add a payment card on Stripe's secure page or ask to pay by invoice. Nothing is charged during the trial. On day 25 of the trial we email you one reminder. To pay nothing, cancel by 11:59pm (UK time) on day 25 in Settings → Manage or cancel. If you don't cancel by then, the School plan starts automatically on day 28 at the price you chose: your card is charged the yearly price, or we email the first invoice, due within 30 days. If you cancel after 11:59pm on day 25, the plan still starts on day 28 as agreed and then stops at the end of its first subscription period (one year for the School plan), with no further payments. Your pupils and stories stay saved either way.
• School plan: one yearly price for the whole school, based on the number of pupils at the school (under 50, 50 to 99, or 100 or more), with unlimited teachers and pupils. Please choose the size that matches your school. You can pay by card or by invoice. An invoice can include your purchase order (PO) number, is due within 30 days, and the plan starts straight away. If an invoice isn't paid within 30 days of its due date, we may pause or end the plan.
• Book pictures: every finished book gets an illustrated cover, included in every plan. A fully illustrated version has a picture on every page. Family Premium includes 4 fully illustrated books each calendar month, and the School plan includes 100, 200 or 300 a year depending on the school size (10 during the free trial). Included books that aren't used don't carry over.
• Illustrated books and credits: every account can also make one fully illustrated book free of charge. After the included books and the free book, fully illustrated versions use credits, which you buy in packs. One credit makes one picture, and a book needs one credit for each page plus the cover and the last page. WIY Stories always shows how many credits a book will use, and nothing is used until a grown-up confirms. If a picture can't be made, its credit is given back automatically. Credits don't expire, can't be exchanged for money, and are lost if the account is deleted. Schools can buy credits by invoice; the credits are added straight away and the invoice is due within 30 days.
• VAT: WIY Stories is not registered for VAT, so no VAT is charged.
• Paid plans are paid in advance through Stripe, our payment provider (Family monthly or yearly; School yearly), and renew automatically until you cancel.
• Prices are shown on the Plans page before you pay. Family Premium is £6.99 a month or £69.99 a year. The School plan is £95, £125 or £155 a year, depending on the school size.
• Cancelling: you can cancel at any time in Manage plan. You keep paid features until the end of the period you've already paid for, and you won't be charged again.
• Price changes: we'll email you at least 30 days before any price change affects you, so you can cancel first if you wish.

7. Your right to cancel (UK consumers)

If you're a consumer, you have 14 days after first subscribing to change your mind. Because WIY Stories starts straight away when you ask it to, if you cancel within those 14 days we'll refund what you paid, minus a fair amount for the time you used. Illustration credits: if you change your mind within 14 days of buying a pack and haven't used any of its credits, we'll refund it in full. To cancel, use Manage plan or email contact@wiystories.com. Teacher and School plans bought by a school are business contracts and this 14-day right doesn't apply, but you can still cancel at any time as described above.

8. Fair use

Each account has a monthly allowance of writing-help requests so WIY Stories stays affordable for everyone. If you reach it, you can still write and read your stories; the writing help comes back at the start of the next month. We may suspend accounts that try to misuse WIY Stories, for example by using automated tools.

9. Keeping WIY Stories running

We work hard to keep WIY Stories available, but we can't promise it will never be interrupted, for example during maintenance. We may improve or change features over time. If we ever plan to close WIY Stories, we'll give you at least 60 days' notice, and if you ask, we'll send you a copy of your stories.

10. Our responsibility to you

We'll provide WIY Stories with reasonable care and skill. Nothing in these terms limits our responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't allow us to limit, and nothing affects your legal rights as a consumer. Otherwise, our total responsibility to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the problem happened.

11. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, and where reasonable we'll tell you first and give you a chance to put things right.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Whenever we do, we'll email every account holder with a short summary of what has changed and the date the new terms start. For important changes we'll give you at least 30 days' notice. If you don't agree with a change, you can cancel your plan or delete your account before it takes effect. The date at the top shows when these terms were last updated.

13. Law and complaints

If you have a problem, please email contact@wiystories.com and we'll do our best to sort it out quickly. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring a claim in the courts there.