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You already know Big Tech harvests your data. Here is the alternative.

Bigby is private, encrypted cloud storage built for people who have thought carefully about where their files live and who can see them. UK-based, funded entirely by subscription, and with no commercial reason to access your data. No data deals, no exceptions.

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Free cloud storage is not free. You know this. The question is what you do about it.

Google, Microsoft, and Apple offer cloud storage at little or no cost because the data you store has commercial value to them. That is not a conspiracy theory. It is their business model, stated plainly in their terms of service and reflected in their balance sheets.

For privacy-conscious users, the problem is not awareness. It is finding a credible alternative that does not require compromising on usability, price, or trust. Bigby is built to be that alternative. Not as a political statement, but as a practical product with a straightforward commercial model that does not depend on your data.

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What 'free' cloud storage actually costs you

There is no such thing as free storage at scale. When you are not paying with money, here is what you are paying with instead.

Your files are scanned to power their products

Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive scan file contents to build search, suggestions, and increasingly their AI assistants. That scanning is written into the terms of service you agreed to when you signed up, whether you read them or not.

Your data trains the AI systems being sold back to you

The major platforms have started training AI models on user content, sometimes opt-out, sometimes bundled into terms you cannot decline and keep using the service. Storage you thought was private becomes training material.

You are the product, not the customer

A free service still has to make money somewhere. When storage costs nothing, the business model is built around what your data is worth to advertisers, AI labs, or the platform's other products, not around serving you.

The terms can change whenever the platform decides

Data handling terms are not fixed. Platforms update them regularly, and continuing to use the service usually means accepting the new terms by default. What was true when you signed up may not be true a year later.

How Bigby works

Unlike the major cloud platforms, Bigby does not scan, analyse, or profit from the files you store. Here is how that works.

01. Encrypted in transit and at rest

Your files are encrypted on the way to us and while they sit on our UK servers, so they are protected in transit and never stored as readable plain text. We hold the encryption keys, which is what allows features like editing documents in your browser to work.

02. No access to file contents

Bigby does not open, scan, or read the contents of what you store. We have no business reason to and our data processing terms prohibit it.

03. No AI training or secondary use

Your stored content is not used for AI training, advertising targeting, or any analysis of any kind. The subscription fee covers the cost of running the service. That is the entire arrangement.

04. UK data residency, UK law

All data is stored on UK-based infrastructure. UK GDPR applies. There is no US parent company, no transfer to overseas servers, and no exposure to foreign jurisdiction. What you store with Bigby stays in the UK, under UK law.

Frequently asked questions

Dropbox and Google Drive encrypt data but scan the contents, train AI on your files, and build their business models around the data you give them. Bigby encrypts your files in transit and at rest, and does not access their contents. We are a subscription business. Your storage fee is what pays for the service. There is no advertising model, no AI training pipeline, and no profile being built from what you store.

The privacy guarantee is in our business model. We charge a subscription fee. We do not need to scan your data to operate. A future owner would face the same structural position: a subscription product where scanning or mining user data would undermine the reason customers are paying. We are committed to making our data handling terms clear and to giving users meaningful notice of any material changes.

Your files are always yours to download via WebDAV, an open standard that works with a wide range of tools. You are never locked in and there are no export fees. If Bigby were ever acquired, we would give users notice and the option to export their data before any change in ownership took effect.

Bigby is built on an open source stack. The underlying technologies are auditable and have been independently reviewed by the broader open source community. We are committed to transparency about how the system works and will publish technical documentation for those who want to verify the encryption implementation rather than take our word for it.

Subscription revenue. That is the whole model. You pay for storage, that payment covers the cost of running the service with a margin on top. There is no advertising, no data brokering, no investor pressure to monetise user data, and no free tier that needs to be subsidised by selling something else. The incentive structure is aligned with keeping your data private, because that is what you are paying for.

There are other privacy-focused storage providers, some of which offer end-to-end encryption. What distinguishes Bigby is UK data residency, a UK-based team, UK GDPR as the governing framework, and pricing designed for individuals and small teams rather than enterprise. If you want your data to stay in the UK under UK law, run by a UK company, Bigby is the option built specifically for that.

Private storage that earns the word private

Encrypted, UK-based cloud storage from £3.99 per month. No data harvesting, no AI training, no business model that depends on your files.

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Annual or monthly billing · All prices in GBP · UK data residency · GDPR compliant