Last updated August 2026
One Million Tiny Creatures is a digital entertainment experience. You pay $1 once, and we reveal and assign you one unique tiny digital creature within this project, along with a public page for it and shareable, printable images. By buying a creature you agree to these terms.
This deserves its own heading, because it is the single most important thing to understand before you pay: your creature is a digital product, delivered instantly on screen, and nothing physical will ever be sent to you.
This is deliberately explicit, because we would rather under-promise than mislead:
Each creature has a rarity, derived from its creature number before any payment is made. Rarity is descriptive. There is no paid chance mechanism, no way to influence what you receive, and nothing to win. The odds we publish are calculated from the actual generation weights. Buying more creatures does not improve any odds, and we encourage you not to treat it as if it did.
At most 1,000,000 creatures will ever be created. This limit is enforced by our database, not by a promise. Once it is reached, new purchases stop. If a payment somehow completes after the limit is reached, we will refund it in full.
Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card details. Where tax applies to your purchase it is calculated at checkout and shown on your receipt; the receipt is a PDF you download, not a document we post to you. Prices may change for future purchases; a change never affects a creature already bought.
Every creature carries a signature that proves it is genuine and unaltered. The full signature, and the scannable code that carries it, is issued to the buyer and is the buyer's to keep private: whoever holds it can present it as proof of holding your certificate. Public pages show a redacted form. We are not responsible for what happens if you publish your full signature yourself.
A certificate is retired and replaced when a creature changes hands. If you give a creature away and the offer is accepted, the signature you were issued stops verifying and the new owner receives one you have never seen. Nothing you were issued is invalidated while a creature is still yours, and declining or cancelling an offer leaves your certificate exactly as it was.
Names are public. We may remove or change a name that is abusive, hateful, sexual, impersonates a person or organisation, or is otherwise unlawful, and we may do so without notice. Repeated abuse may mean losing the ability to rename.
You may offer any creature you own to somebody else by email. A gift is an offer rather than an immediate transfer, and this distinction matters, so it is worth setting out exactly what happens at each step.
A creature can only have one offer outstanding at a time. Gifting is final once accepted: we do not reverse a completed gift, because the recipient now holds a certificate we cannot un-issue. Please only offer a creature to somebody whose email address you have, and whom you are content to have receive an email naming you.
You may offer any creature you own for sale to other people, at a price you choose. This section is the whole of how that works. It is deliberately specific, because it is the only part of this product where money moves between two people rather than from one person to us.
You receive the whole price you set. We take no commission and deduct nothing: list a creature at $3.00 and $3.00 of credit arrives. The cost of processing the card payment is ours, not yours. The figure shown to you before you list is exactly the figure you get.
That is also why there is a minimum price. Card processing costs us roughly the same on every sale whatever it is worth, so below $3.00 a sale costs us more than it moves.
You are paid in credit, and credit is not money. This is the most important sentence in this section. Credit is a balance inside this project. It buys creatures here — new ones, or other people's. It cannot be withdrawn, transferred, refunded or exchanged for money, it is not a stored-value instrument or an account with us in any financial sense, and it has no cash value. If what you want is money rather than more creatures, do not sell your creature.
Credit does not expire. If we close the project or the marketplace we will say what happens to outstanding balances at the time; we do not promise to convert them to money, because we have never offered that.
A sale rotates the creature's certificate. The seller's signature stops verifying at the moment the sale completes, and a new one is issued to the buyer under a secret the seller has never held. This is what makes a transfer real rather than a change of label, and it is not reversible: once a sale settles, the previous certificate is gone and cannot be reinstated.
The seller's receipt keeps its record of what they paid — it is a true record of a real payment — but it stops printing a certificate for that creature, because the certificate is no longer theirs.
If a completed sale is later reversed by a refund or a card chargeback, the buyer keeps the creature and the credit is taken back off the seller's balance, which may leave that balance below zero until it is cleared. We do not claw a creature back from a buyer who did nothing wrong. Sellers should understand that this risk sits with them, and it is one more reason credit is not cash.
A marketplace does not make a creature a financial product. There is no order book, no bidding, no secondary market we operate on your behalf, no valuation and no guarantee that anybody will ever want to buy what you are selling. Two people agreeing a price is not a market rate. Please do not buy creatures in the hope of selling them for more.
Please do not: attempt to buy creatures with stolen payment details; scrape, overload or attack the service; use automation to hoard creature numbers; or misrepresent creatures, certificates or receipts as something they are not (for example, as physical goods, investments, or tickets to anything). We may refuse or reverse purchases involved in abuse.
We will make a reasonable effort to keep creature pages online, but this is a small project and we do not promise perpetual availability. Pages may be briefly unavailable during maintenance or outages. If we ever have to shut the project down, we will give notice and make creature data available for download where we reasonably can.
There is no password anywhere on this site. Two things prove a creature is yours, and both are tied to email rather than to a secret you have to remember.
The first is the private link in your creature email. Anyone holding that link can rename your creature or give it away, so treat the email as you would a receipt with a key attached. We can reissue a link to the address used at purchase.
The second is your collection. Entering your email address there sends a one-time sign-in link that expires after twenty minutes and works once; opening it starts a session lasting seven days. Anyone with access to that mailbox can therefore see every creature registered to it, together with the full certificates, so the security of your creatures is the security of your email account. If you are signed in on a device that is not yours, use the sign-out link when you are done.
We made this project to be delightful, and we genuinely hope your creature delights you. But we must be plain about the limits of a $1 digital toy:
The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind beyond those that cannot be excluded by law. To the extent permitted by law: we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, for loss of data, or for emotional distress as set out above; and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including your statutory consumer rights, and liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Refunds have their own page, written in the same plain language. In short: if something went wrong, we refund; if you simply wished for a different creature, we usually do not, but the creature stays yours either way.
We may update these terms. Material changes will be noted on this page with a new date. Changes never retroactively remove a creature that has already been assigned to someone, and never turn this into something that ships physical goods without saying so very loudly.
Questions about these terms, or anything else about the project, go to hello@1mtinycreatures.com. If your question concerns a specific creature or a payment, please write from the address you used at purchase so we can find it without asking you for more detail than we need.