Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you when you use our website to organize and retrieve your images.
Information We Collect and Use:
Your Face Scan Image:
We collect data about your face to recognize and retrieve your photos from our database. Our application collects face embeddings for the purpose of facial recognition. Face embeddings are numerical representations of facial features extracted from images. They are used to uniquely identify individuals and facilitate facial recognition within the application.
Data We Collect About You:
We collect other information such as your first name, last name, email, and phone number in order to provide you with the best services, contact you, send promotional updates, and manage any additional requests from your end. Your collected information is stored in our secure database for the mentioned purposes. Additionally, the website may request your consent to access and share details from your contact list. This facilitates the provision of a list of your contacts who are also users of the website, simplifying the process of adding them to your groups.
Automatically Collected Data:
Usage Data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. When you access the website by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
How We Use Your Information:
We may use the information for the following purposes:
Facial Recognition for Photo Sorting:
When users upload photos to the user group, we extract facial features from these images and convert them into numerical representations known as face embeddings. These embeddings are then utilized to recognize each user’s face and identify photos that belong to them. Our commitment is to ensure the responsible and ethical use of face data to benefit our users. We value user privacy and aim to create a seamless and secure experience within the website.
To Manage Your Account:
To manage your registration as a user of the website. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the website that are available to you as a registered user.
To Contact You:
To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as website push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To Manage Your Requests & For Research and Training:
To train our computer vision and face recognition models, including training the computer vision and face recognition models of third parties, in order to provide you with more accurate results.
For Other Purposes:
We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our website, products, services, marketing, and user experience.
Sharing of Your Information:
We do not share any of your private or public information with third-party organizations. We also do not use your information for any other purposes internally.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data:
The company may disclose your personal data in good faith if such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website
- Protect the personal safety of users of the website or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Data Security:
We take reasonable measures to protect the information we collect about you from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
Data Retention:
Your selfie will remain in our secure database for 5 years from the upload date. Following this duration, you will be notified to re-upload the selfie to continue its retention and continue access to the functionalities of the website. However, if a user has not utilized the website for a period of one year, we consider them as no longer active, and their face data is subsequently removed from our secure database as part of our regular data management practices.
Children Under 16:
As part of our commitment to safeguarding children’s privacy, we do not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under 16 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian and have concerns about your child using our website, we encourage you to get in touch with us promptly. To ensure security and prevent unauthorized access, we may request proof of identification before initiating any data removal procedures.
Your Rights:
At any time, you have the option to delete your account if you do not want to continue using our services. If you find any inaccuracies in your data, believe our processing is unlawful, or no longer require us to process your data for a particular purpose, you can ask us to suspend the processing. Should any additional requests arise, feel free to contact us at info@sortasnap.com, and we will make sure to provide you with the best assistance.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy:
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email or by posting a notice on the website.
Contact Us:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to opt out of any of the aforementioned uses of your personal data, you can contact us by email: info@sortasnap.com