Privacy Policy

The short version: your comics and photos stay on your device — stored in your browser, with every export generated there. We have no copy of them and no way to see them.

There is no exception to that today. Nothing you draw, write, photograph or export is sent to us, because the features that would need to send it are not switched on here. What little does reach a server is listed below, and none of it is your work.

Comics That Pop is responsible for the little personal data described below. For any privacy question, or to exercise the rights at the end of this page, email hello@comicsthatpop.com.

What stays on your device

Stored in your browser (IndexedDB and local storage) and never transmitted to us:

• Your comics — pages, panels, text, layout
• Photos, GIFs and audio you add
• Exported videos, PDFs, images and eBooks
• Editor preferences

You can remove all of it at any time by deleting your comics in the app, or by clearing site data for this website in your browser settings. That deletion is immediate and complete for everything held on your device.

What we do process

Everything else that reaches a server is listed below. None of it identifies you, because there is nothing here to sign in to.

Loading a GIF or image by link

If you paste a link to an image, our server fetches that URL and passes the image back to your browser — a step needed because most sites block browsers from loading their images directly. We see the URL you pasted in order to fetch it, and we do not store the URL or the image. The image is saved only in your browser.

Server logs

Our hosting provider (Vercel) records standard technical request logs, which include IP address, timestamp, requested path and browser user-agent. These are used to operate and secure the site and are retained for a short period by the provider. We do not use them to build profiles.

Accounts

There is no sign-in here, and no account to create. We hold no email address, no profile and no billing details of any kind, because there is nothing on this site that asks you for them. Everything the editor does works without identifying you.

Anonymous usage statistics

We count how the app is used, so we can tell which features people actually reach and spot a format failing on a whole class of device without waiting for someone to report it. We use Vercel Web Analytics, which is cookieless and stores no identifier for you.

What is counted is exactly this, and nothing else:

• Page views, and which page referred you
• A comic being created, opened, deleted or imported
• An export being started, which format it was, whether it failed, and if so a short technical description of the error (for example “encoder not supported”) so we can spot a format breaking on a whole class of device

No comic titles, filenames, images, audio or text are ever sent— only that something happened, and for exports which format. There is no account, so none of it is linked to a person, and it is not used to build a profile or for advertising.

We also keep our own copy of those same counts, in our own database (Supabase), so we can read them ourselves. Each one may also say which of our social media posts brought you here, taken from the address you arrived at — never a cookie, never anything stored on your device, and forgotten when you leave the page. No IP address or device details are kept with them.

Cookies

No advertising cookies and no analytics cookies — the usage statistics above work without them.

With no sign-in on this site there is no session cookie either, so we set no cookies at all. That is why you are not being asked to consent to any — there is nothing to consent to.

Third parties we rely on

• Vercel — hosting, delivery, and the cookieless usage statistics described above
• unpkg (CDN) — when you export a video with sound, your browser may download an audio-encoding component from this public CDN. The request comes from your browser and carries no information about your comic.

Some of these are outside the European Economic Area. Where that is the case, transfers rely on the safeguards those providers offer, such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

Why we are allowed to process it

Legitimate interest — keeping the Service running and secure, and understanding in aggregate, without identifying anyone, which parts of it work. That covers the request logs, the link-loading step and the usage counts.

How long we keep it

Without an account we keep nothing that identifies you. Our hosting provider retains technical request logs for a short period, and the usage statistics are aggregate counts with no identifier attached, so there is nothing in them to trace back to a person.

Your rights

You have the right to request access to any personal data we hold, its correction or deletion, a portable copy, or to object to processing. On this site that is close to nothing at all — there is no account, so we hold no name, email address or profile for you. To ask anyway, email hello@comicsthatpop.com and we will respond within one month.

Because your comics are only on your device, we cannot supply or delete them for you — you already have full control of them through your browser.

If you believe we have handled your data improperly you can complain to the Spanish data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), or to the authority in your country of residence.

Children

Since comics stay on the device and there are no accounts, we do not collect children’s personal data. If we introduce accounts in future, this section will be updated.

Changes

If this policy changes materially we will update the date below.