Pool Privacy — in plain words
This page explains what happens to your card photos when you check a card. Right now the demo is in a public testing phase — read the card below first. In the full app, saving is a choice: if you tap Yes, send to pool, the Yes rules on this page apply; if you tap No, just check my card, none of this applies — nothing is sent, nothing is saved.
TESTING PHASE — READ THIS FIRST (Nov 2026): while this public test runs, every check is saved to the test pool automatically — the front and back photos and the check result. That is what the test is for: test checks are how the checker learns. Test scans land in a raw intake marked unverified. They are never filed as verified, never added to the verified genuine-card library, and never used as graded test answers. When the full app launches, the ask-first agreement below takes over again. Deleting works in both phases — see "Deleting your scan".
What we collect
(During testing: on every check. In the full app: only if you say Yes.)
- A photo of the front of your card, and a photo of the back if you take one.
- The card name and printed number, only if you type them. If you don't, we record them as unknown.
- A submission number, so we can find and delete your scan if you ask us to.
What we do NOT collect
- For anonymous checks: your name, your account, your email, your location, or your device. If you check while signed in to a demo account, the scan is listed under that account name so you can find it in Your checks and delete it — and for no other reason.
- Photos of faces, hands, or anything outside the card. Card photos only.
- Anything about who owns the card. Scans are anonymized — we don't record whose card it is.
Where your scan goes
Your scan goes into a pending pool only. Pending is not the verified pool, and it is not a training label. It does not mean your card is genuine, and it does not mean it is fake. It is just an unreviewed candidate photo.
It only moves up later if we have the same card, front and back, in phone photos, with the set and number matching, and 3 to 5 distinct verified-genuine copies, reviewed by us. Fake scans go to a separate fake pool, never mixed with genuine scans.
Deleting your scan
You can ask us to delete a pending scan at any time. Give us the submission number you got after your check, and we will delete that scan only, nothing else. Signed in, you can also delete any of your saved checks yourself, from Your checks.
Short version: Testing = every check saved to the test pool, unverified, deletable. Full app — Yes = card photos only, anonymized, pending only, deletable. No = nothing sent, nothing saved.
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