Biometric Notice

What this notice is for

When you upload a photo to Meynote, our systems run automated face detection on it. Face detection finds where faces are in a picture. It is not used to work out who someone is, except for the celebrity check below, which only asks whether a face matches a well-known public figure.

This notice explains what we use it for, what we keep, who processes your photos, how long we keep the results and how to withdraw.

What we use face detection for

• The one-face check. AI styles are only applied to photos that show exactly one face, so we count the faces in a photo.
• Minor screening. Before we restyle a photo with AI we check whether it likely shows a child, and if it does we refuse to restyle it. We record a yes or no, never an estimated age.
• Celebrity screening. Before we restyle a photo with AI we check whether the face matches a well-known public figure, and if it does we refuse. We record a yes or no, never a name.
• The focal point. We use where faces are in a photo to choose crops, so people stay in frame.

Face detection runs on every face in a photo you upload, including other people's. Our terms ask you to upload photos only when anyone pictured has agreed to appear.

What we keep

For each photo we keep the position of each face as a rectangle with its tilt, the focal point, the number of faces, and the yes/no flags for a likely minor and a public-figure match.

We never store estimated ages, face templates (the numeric faceprints used to recognize a person), facial landmarks or names. We do not sell this data.

Who processes your photos

Face detection runs on a downscaled copy of the photo with its metadata removed, and is done for us by Amazon Web Services (Rekognition). The subprocessors page lists it, with the other vendors that handle photos, and says which of them are live yet.

How long we keep it

The face results belong to the photo: where each face is and how it is tilted, the focal point, the number of faces, and the yes/no flags. They are erased when the photo's files are removed.

When you delete a photo, an automatic clean-up that runs every hour removes its files and erases these results. When you delete your account, the same happens to all your photos once the 14-day grace period ends. A legal hold or a safety review can pause either one.

A published deck carries its own copies of the images it shows, and those copies stay public until you unpublish that deck. The privacy policy has the full retention table; our providers' backups can hold copies until their own backup window ends.

How to withdraw

Delete the photo from the photo picker in the editor, or delete your account in Settings > Delete my account. You can also use Meynote without uploading photos: face detection only runs on photos you upload.

Before you upload photos we ask you to confirm that you have read this notice, and we do not accept photos until you have. We keep a record of that confirmation with its date and the version of the consent wording in force.

Questions

Write to [email protected].