Your data
Privacy Policy
Last updated June 29, 2026
What we collect
Your phone number (to sign in), the photos you and your group upload, and an age-verified status (adult or 13–17). We strip location and device EXIF from photos on upload — the date a photo was taken is kept (for the date stamp); GPS and camera identifiers are not.
How we use it
To run your event albums: letting your group share, browse, and save photos. We don’t sell your data. Transactional texts (e.g. “someone added photos”) go out over SMS.
Face data (“photos of you”)
This feature is optional and off until you explicitly turn it on through a separate consent screen (current version 2026-06-28.v1). You can use every album fully without it.
- What we collect
- One selfie you take, and a mathematical face-geometry template (a “faceprint”) computed from it. The faceprint is a string of numbers — not a picture.
- Why
- Only to find the photos you’re in across the events you’ve joined, and show them under “photos of you”. Nothing else. We never sell it, share it, or use it to identify you anywhere outside your own albums.
- Where it lives
- On our own servers. Your selfie and faceprint never leave our infrastructure and are never sent to any third-party face-recognition service.
- How long we keep it
- Up to 12 months from when you enroll, then it’s destroyed automatically. You can delete it yourself at any time, sooner.
- How it’s destroyed
- Deleting your faceprint permanently erases the template, the stored selfie, and every match it produced — not just hidden, actually purged — and the deletion is logged.
- Your choice
- Opt in here, opt out whenever. Turning it off never affects your access to any album.
Retention & destruction. A faceprint is kept up to 12 months from enrollment and then destroyed automatically; you can delete it sooner at any time. Deletion permanently erases the template, the stored selfie, and every match it produced, and the deletion is logged. Your selfie and faceprint never leave our infrastructure and are never sent to any third-party face-recognition service.
Who can see your photos
Only members of an event can see its album, and only through expiring, signed links — there are no public photo URLs. Blocking someone hides your uploads from each other.
Your rights
You can remove your photos, delete your face data, block other members, and report content. To delete your account and everything tied to it, contact us.
Retention of the rest
Photos remain until deleted by an uploader, the host, or you via a takedown. Account data is kept while your account is active.
Read the Terms of Use too. Questions about your data? privacy@picdibs.com.