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How the face search works
1You take or upload a selfie on the event page
2It's converted into a numeric face signature in memory, in that single request
3That signature is compared against signatures already generated from the event's photos
4You get back the photos that match - and your selfie is discarded immediately
Your selfie itself is never written to disk or stored anywhere. It exists only for the few seconds it takes to compute a match, then it's gone. We cannot retrieve it, and neither can anyone else.
What we do store
- Event photos - uploaded by the event organiser, these are the actual images you're searching. They persist as the event album.
- Face signatures from event photos - not the selfie you upload, but numeric signatures computed from faces detected in the organiser's uploaded photos, so future selfies can be matched against them.
- A short-lived access token - lets you return to "your" matched photos later in the same event window, without re-uploading a selfie each time.
Retention
This is the part that matters most for a face-recognition product, so we make it a hard rule, not a policy we could quietly extend:
Face signatures from event photos are automatically deleted 72 hours after the event ends. After that, face search simply stops working for that event - there is nothing left to match against. The photos themselves remain in the album, because they belong to the event organiser under their own agreement with us, separate from the biometric layer.
Your uploaded selfie never enters this retention window at all, because it was never stored to begin with.
Who can see this data
- The event organiser can view and download the full photo album they uploaded
- You can view and download only the photos that matched your face, using your access token
- We do not use event photos or face signatures for any purpose beyond that event's search - no cross-event matching, no advertising, no profiling
Your rights
You can ask us to remove specific photos of you from an album, or confirm your face signature has been deleted. Since signatures auto-delete within 72 hours regardless, most requests are about the photos themselves - which the event organiser controls, so we'll put you in touch with them. Email [email protected] and we'll respond within 30 days.
Security
- All uploads travel over TLS-encrypted connections
- Photos and face signature files are stored in access-controlled directories, not publicly listable
- Face matching runs on a dedicated model (AuraFace) with no third-party API calls - your face data never leaves our servers
Children
Event albums may include photos of minors attending as guests, uploaded by the event organiser. We do not run face search on behalf of, or knowingly collect selfies from, anyone under 13 without a parent or guardian present.