Privacy Policy

Gootaku (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates gootaku.com, an AI-powered platform for creating manga, comics, GIFs, and short anime-style videos. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our services. Please read this policy carefully.

Information We Collect

Account information: When you create an account, we collect a username, email address, and a password (stored as a one-way hash, never in plain text). If you sign up or log in with Google, we receive your name, email, and profile picture from Google instead. You can optionally add a display name, avatar, and short bio.

Content you create:Your text prompts, panel descriptions, dialogue, and any reference photos or sketches you upload are sent to our AI generation pipeline (OpenAI's image models, routed through our own backend) to produce your manga, comic, GIF, or video panels. Generated art and any images you upload are stored on our servers. If you publish a creation, its art, title, and tags become visible on the public Explore feed and your profile.

Community activity: Comments, votes, follows, forum posts, and reactions you post are stored and, where public (e.g. the community feed and forum), visible to other users under your username.

Payment information: Token pack purchases are processed by our payment provider, Creem.io. We never see or store your full card number — Creem handles payment details directly and shares only the transaction result (success/failure, amount, pack purchased) with us.

Content moderation: Every prompt is checked by an automated moderation pipeline (keyword filtering and AI-based classification) before it reaches our image generation models. We log moderation decisions (allow/warn/block and the matched category) to enforce our Acceptable Use Policyand to meet our payment provider's compliance requirements.

Automatically collected information:When you visit our site, we automatically collect information such as your IP address, browser type, referring URLs, and pages visited. We use Google Analytics and Cloudflare's web analytics to understand aggregate usage patterns, and Sentry to capture technical error reports (which may include the URL and browser state at the time of an error, but not your password or payment details).

Email:We use Resend to send transactional email — sign-up confirmation, purchase receipts, comment notifications, low-token warnings, and a short onboarding series after you sign up. You can opt out of non-essential emails at any time (see “Your Choices” below).

How We Use Your Information

• To create and secure your account, and keep you signed in
• To generate the manga, comics, GIFs, and videos you request
• To process token pack purchases and refunds
• To operate the community feed, forum, and notifications
• To detect and prevent abuse, spam, and content that violates our policies
• To send transactional and account-related email
• To improve our website and services
• To comply with legal obligations

We do not sell your personal information to third parties, and we do not run advertising on gootaku.com.

Data Retention

We keep your account data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we remove your profile and private data within a reasonable period, though some records (such as moderation logs or transaction records we're required to keep for compliance) may be retained longer as required by law. You can request deletion at any time by emailing [email protected].

Your Rights (GDPR / CCPA)

Depending on your location, you may have the right to: access the personal data we hold about you, correct inaccurate data, request deletion (“right to be forgotten”), object to processing, and data portability. To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.

California residents: We do not sell personal information as defined under CCPA. You have the right to know, delete, and opt out of sale (which we do not conduct).

Cookies

We use essential cookies for signing you in and analytics tools to understand usage patterns. See our Cookie Policy for details.

Security

We implement industry-standard security measures including HTTPS encryption, hashed passwords, self-hosted database access controls, and layered content moderation. No method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify registered users of material changes by email. The “last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent revision.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Contact us at [email protected] or visit our contact page.