Privacy Policy

Effective 2026-10-21. Too Many Comics is published by BigBrainCorp LLC.

The short version

Your comic collection lives on your phone, and nothing in the app needs an account except AI credits. If you use them, you sign in once with Sign in with Apple, which gives us an opaque identifier and no name or email, so we still do not know who you are. We never receive your collection, your sale records, or what you paid. What leaves your device is only what a single request needs: a photograph you ask us to analyze, with any comments you attached to it, or the details of the books you ask us to re-price, a few at a time. We do not keep the photographs. We keep a book's details in exactly two narrow cases, both described below.

The app contains no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, and no third-party tracking code of any kind.

Your install, and your credits account

Too Many Comics has no password, no email sign-up, and no profile. We never ask for your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, or location, so we do not have them.

Your install. To stop strangers from running up our AI bill, the app proves it is a genuine copy running on a real iPhone, using Apple's App Attest. That produces a key generated inside your device's secure hardware that never leaves it. We store the resulting public identifier for your installation. It is a random string that says nothing about you, and we use it for rate limits and abuse protection.

Your credits account, only if you use AI credits. AI features spend credits, and credits belong to an account so that one weekly allowance and one purchased balance work on every device you use. The first time you use an AI feature or buy credits, the app asks you to Sign in with Apple. We ask Apple for no name and no email, so the "hide my email" choice never appears. What we receive is an opaque identifier for you within our apps, the same on every device signed into your Apple Account. We keep that identifier, which installations are signed in to it, a token we use only to end the sign-in with Apple if you delete the account, and, if Apple supplies it on your first sign-in, Apple's indication of whether the account looks genuine, which we use only in aggregate to spot abuse. Your credit balance and activity are linked to this account.

If you never use an AI credit, you never create an account, and the only identifier we hold is your installation's. Signing out on a device signs out that device only.

What stays on your device

All of it, essentially:

• Every photograph you take, at full quality.
• Your entire inventory: titles, issues, grades, prices, boxes, collections, comments, and notes.
• Your sale records, purchase prices, and profit and loss figures.
• Which books you own, which is why Hot Books matches industry news against your collection on your phone. The news feed is the same for everyone; the matching happens locally, so the result never travels back to us.

This data is not synced to any BigBrainCorp server. If you want a copy or a backup, the app's export and backup features hand it to you directly.

What is sent to our servers, and why

Only when you ask for AI analysis, and only what that analysis needs:

• The photograph being analyzed, resized for upload. For Advanced Grading this may be several photographs of the same book.
• Comments you attached, typed or spoken, since those are how you correct and guide the analysis. Spoken comments are transcribed on your device by iOS; we receive text, never audio.
• Existing details of the book when you ask for a correction or a re-price, so the analysis can improve on what it said before instead of starting over: the title, issue, publisher, cover date, condition, and the previous estimate. A batch re-price sends those details for each book in the batch, ten books per request, so refreshing a whole box sends them for every book in it, one batch at a time.
• Your device token, which identifies your installation and, once you have signed in, your credits account, so we can check your balance.

We use these to produce the result and return it. We do not store your photographs. They are processed and discarded.

What we do store

Keyed to your credits account or to your installation, never to your name or email, which we do not have:

• Your credits account: your Sign in with Apple identifier, the installations signed in to it, your weekly allowance (one per account, shared by your devices), your purchased balance and rank, and your last twenty credit events, so the app can show you where your credits went. For a scan or a grading, the event names the book's title, the same way the app's own activity list does.
• Your credit history: every spend, refund, and purchase on the account, so the app can total your day and export a receipt.
• Usage counts per request: a timestamp, which operation ran, which AI model answered, and how many tokens it used. This is how we reconcile our own bill and notice if somebody is abusing the service. It records which credits account (or, before you sign in, which installation) made the request, and nothing about the comic.
• Rate limiting counters, so no single device can run away with the service.
• Details of a book whose batch price estimate failed: the title, issue, publisher, cover date, and condition we priced from, and the reason the estimate came back empty. This is kept so that retrying the same book unchanged costs you nothing, and it is deleted the moment a retry succeeds.
• The attested public key for your installation, and a counter that prevents replay.
• A record of content-filter refusals per installation. If a device repeatedly submits material the AI service refuses, that matters to our standing with our provider. We store when each refusal happened and the photo's internal identifier, never the photo or anything in it, and old entries expire.
• Redeemed purchase identifiers, so a credit pack cannot be redeemed twice, and whether Apple later refunded each one, so the credits it bought can be taken back.

None of this includes your photographs, your collection, your name, or your email. The two places a book's details appear on our side are the activity list and the failed-estimate record above.

Who else is involved

Microsoft Azure hosts our service and provides the AI that analyzes your photographs, through Azure OpenAI. Your photograph and comments are processed there under Microsoft's terms. Microsoft's service can retain inputs for a limited period for abuse monitoring; it does not use them to train models.

Apple handles every purchase. We never see your payment details, billing address, or Apple ID. We receive only a signed confirmation that a specific credit pack was bought for your credits account, which is what tells us to add the credits. Apple also tells us, in the same signed form, when a purchase has been refunded, so that we can remove the credits it bought. Apple's App Attest provides the device verification, and Sign in with Apple the credits account, both described above. Apple also tells us if you stop using Sign in with Apple with our app or delete your Apple Account, so we can delete your credits account.

We do not sell or rent your data, and we share it with no one beyond the two companies above, only to run the service.

Children

Too Many Comics is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. A credits account holds an opaque identifier and credit activity, never a name or email; if you believe a child has created one, it can be deleted in the app, or write to us.

Your control

Delete the app and your collection is gone, because it only ever lived on your device. Back it up first if you want to keep it.

Deleting your credits account. In the app, open Credits (the battery meter) and choose Delete credits account. Anyone can do this, wherever they live. The app first asks you to confirm, naming the credits involved and the date deletion becomes permanent. The account is closed at once: every device signed in to it is signed out, nothing can be spent, and the sign-in with Apple is ended. It is permanently deleted 30 days later. During those 30 days we keep it so you can undo a mistake: signing in with Apple again before the date restores it exactly as it was, credits included. On the date we delete the account and the activity linked to it: the account record, its balances and rank, the link from every device, and its Sign in with Apple token. After that, any unspent credits are gone and cannot be recovered; we cannot refund them, and Apple's own refund process for App Store purchases still applies. What we keep after that: the Apple transaction identifiers of your purchases, detached from the account, for one year after the purchase and then deleted, so a refund Apple issues in that time is recorded once and never charged to anyone; and your past credit activity only as totals under a new random identifier with no link back to you. If Apple is briefly unreachable when you delete, the app shows "deletion pending" until Apple confirms the sign-in has ended. Signing in after the date starts a new account with no earlier balance, and a new account made on the same phone in the same week has no free credits until the next week (so accounts cannot be re-created for extra free credits). That uses only the installation record described above, nothing about you.

If you stop using Sign in with Apple for Too Many Comics, Apple tells us and we sign you out on every device; your credits account stays as it is, and signing in again later picks it up where you left off. If you delete your Apple Account, Apple tells us and we schedule your credits account's deletion exactly as the in-app button does: signed out now, permanently deleted 30 days later, and restored if Apple's deletion is cancelled and you sign in again before then.

Because we hold no name or email, we cannot find your account from an email to us; the in-app button is the way to delete it, because it knows which account is yours.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes we will update the effective date at the top and post the new version here. Material changes will be called out in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or help with a deletion: Info@BigBrainCorp.com.