Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 22, 2026

ChronoCast AI turns a photograph into a short narrated comic. To do that, the photo you choose is sent to our processing service and to our AI providers, which read the image, write the story, illustrate each panel from your photo, and speak the narration aloud. This Privacy Policy explains what ChronoCast accesses, what leaves your device, how it is used, and the choices you have.

1. Information You Provide

The core input to ChronoCast is a photograph — captured with the camera or chosen from your library. You may also provide, optionally:

• A short description of the place and the era you want the story set in, either typed or spoken.
• Your choice of visual world, narrator, and narrative perspective.

ChronoCast does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, or any account credential, because it has no accounts.

2. How Your Photo Is Processed

When you make a comic, your photo and the text of your request are sent over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection to our backend, which relays them to:

• Anthropic (Claude) — reads the photograph to suggest what and when the place is, and writes the story and the narration text.
• Google (Gemini) — illustrates each panel. Your photograph is sent with every panel request, because keeping the result recognisably your place is the point of the product.
• ElevenLabs — converts the narration text (never your photo) into spoken audio in the voice you selected.

This processing is transient: your photo is used to produce your comic and is not retained by us to build a profile of you. We do not attach your name, email, or an account identifier to these requests, because we do not have one.

We ask before any of this happens. The first time you make a comic, ChronoCast shows you exactly what will be sent and which of these companies receives it, and nothing leaves your device until you agree. If you decline, no request is made.

Equal protection by these third parties. Each provider processes our requests under its commercial API terms, which prohibit using submitted content to train their models, require deletion after processing, and commit them to security and confidentiality obligations at least equivalent to those described in this policy. We have reviewed these terms and do not send your content to any processor that offers weaker protection. Their own policies are published at Anthropic, Google and ElevenLabs.

Photos of people. If your photograph contains people — including you — their likeness is part of the image sent for processing and may be reinterpreted in the illustrated panels. Please only photograph people who are happy for you to do so, and consider that before making a comic from a photo of someone else.

3. Video Export

When you tap to make a shareable video, the MP4 is assembled entirely on your device from the panels and audio already stored there. Nothing is uploaded, and the video never reaches our servers or anyone else's. It is saved to your device, and shared only when you choose to share it.

4. Device Permissions ChronoCast Uses

• Camera: To photograph the place you want to transform.
• Photo Library: To let you choose an existing photo instead, and — if you save a video — to add it to your library.
• Microphone and Speech Recognition: Only while you hold the microphone button, to turn what you say into the text of your request. Where your device supports it, this transcription happens on-device.

You can change or revoke any permission at any time in the iOS Settings app. ChronoCast does not request or use your location.

5. Where Your Data Lives

• Your comics — the panels, the narration audio, the story text, and your original photograph — are stored locally on your device so you can reopen them offline.
• We do not operate a cloud library. There is no server-side copy of your comics, and no way for one user's comic to reach another. The single exception is one you make deliberately: if you send us feedback and tick the box to include the story's text, that text reaches us — see Feedback You Choose to Send.
• Deleting a comic in the app removes its files. Deleting the app removes all of them.

6. Analytics

ChronoCast does not embed advertising SDKs and does not track you across other apps or websites. Apple may provide us with aggregate, anonymised App Store and crash statistics through standard developer tools; these never include your photos or your comics. This website uses privacy-friendly page analytics that do not identify individual visitors.

7. Feedback You Choose to Send

After reading a comic, ChronoCast may ask you to rate it. Rating is entirely optional, you are only asked once per comic, and nothing is sent unless you choose to send it.

A rating includes the score you gave, any reasons you selected, an optional note you typed, and which visual world, narrator and perspective produced the comic — along with the app version. It contains no account, no device identifier, no location, and no photograph. There is no field in which such a thing could travel, so we have no way to connect a rating to you, or to any other rating you have sent.

If you tick “Include the story’s text”, the words of that comic are sent with your rating so we can see what went wrong. This is off by default, applies only to the report you are sending, and never includes your photograph or the artwork.

Feedback is received by our own backend and recorded in its server logs, which are retained for a limited period and then discarded automatically. It is not sent to any other company, is not used for advertising, is not sold, and is not shared.

We use it for one purpose: to improve the app — to notice a visual world that consistently disappoints, or a narrator that misses. Because it is anonymous, we cannot delete an individual rating on request, as we have no way to identify which one was yours. If you would rather send nothing, dismiss the rating screen and nothing leaves your device.

8. Subscriptions and Purchases

ChronoCast offers an optional ChronoCast Pro subscription and a one-off credit top-up, both sold through Apple's In-App Purchase. Payment is processed entirely by Apple; we never receive or store your payment-card details.

Subscription status is managed through RevenueCat, which acts as our processor for purchase validation and receives a randomly generated, app-specific identifier along with Apple's transaction data. That identifier is not linked to your name or email, because we do not collect either. Your remaining comic count and purchased credits are tracked on your device, not on our servers.

9. Third Parties

The external parties involved in ChronoCast are: Apple (in-app purchases and system frameworks), our hosting provider (which runs the backend that relays requests to the AI services), Anthropic (reads your photo and writes the story), Google (illustrates the panels from your photo), ElevenLabs (narration audio from the story text), and RevenueCat (subscription validation). We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it for advertising or cross-app tracking.

10. Your Choices

• Grant or revoke Camera, Photo, Microphone and Speech access in iOS Settings at any time.
• Choose which photos you turn into comics — nothing is sent until you tap Transform.
• Delete any comic from within the app, or remove all local data by deleting the app.
• Manage or cancel a Pro subscription through your Apple ID settings.

11. Data Security

Requests to our backend and to every AI provider are sent over encrypted HTTPS connections. Comics stored on your device benefit from iOS's built-in file protection and your device passcode or biometrics.

12. Children's Privacy

ChronoCast is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date.

14. Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy: hello@virtusop.us