Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

We may process the images or text you submit, file name, file size, file type, IP address, limited device information and service usage data. Video analysis is not active yet.

Basic analysis may be available without account registration, while saving reports, credits or account features may require authentication.

2. How We Use Information

We use information to provide image and text analysis, generate probabilistic reports, prevent abuse, protect the service and improve our products. Video analysis is in development.

We do not sell uploaded media, submitted text or analysis-related information to third parties.

Data is processed and stored within the European Union.

3. Uploaded images and text

Uploaded images are processed temporarily for AI-content analysis. Pasted text is processed only to generate the requested report. Video analysis is not available yet.

PhotoProof AI does not intentionally store original uploaded images or raw submitted text longer than necessary to provide the requested analysis. In some cases, selected files may be stored temporarily in your browser storage to restore them during the analysis or payment flow.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the necessary rights, permissions or lawful basis to upload and analyze any image, video or text, including content containing other people or third-party material.

PhotoProof AI is not intended for special categories of personal data or highly sensitive information. Users should avoid uploading or pasting sensitive personal information unless they have a lawful basis to do so.

When you create a shared report, we store the report data and, for image reports, a reduced-size preview. Raw text and original videos are not stored in shared reports.

Video and text analysis privacy

Video analysis may be performed by a third-party provider that processes the uploaded video only to return detection results. We store the returned report and limited metadata such as media type, MIME type, file size and frames analyzed when available.

For text analysis, we store the probabilistic report, text length and analysis metadata, but not the raw submitted text.

Automated text-detection results are probabilistic and should not be used as the only basis for disciplinary, legal, employment or similarly significant decisions.

Technical metadata and forensic indicators

Uploaded images may be automatically processed to inspect technical metadata such as EXIF data, camera information, timestamps, editing software tags, compression characteristics and other forensic indicators.

If location metadata is present in an uploaded image, it may be processed only for image analysis and is not used for user tracking or profiling.

Local browser storage

Recent analysis history and temporary pending files may be stored locally in your browser using technologies such as localStorage or IndexedDB.

This local information remains on your device and is not used as server-side permanent image storage.

Shared reports

When you choose to share an analysis, we create a public read-only link for that report.

The shared report may include the analysis result, file name and a reduced-size image preview. Anyone with the link can view it.

We do not index shared report pages and we can delete shared reports when required by policy, retention rules or a valid request.

AI, deepfake and authenticity scoring

AI probability, deepfake probability, origin detection, metadata checks and authenticity scores are probabilistic estimates and may be inaccurate.

Automated analysis results are probabilistic and should be interpreted as informational signals, not as definitive proof.

Payments and credits

When you buy analysis credits, payment is processed by PayPal. PhotoProof AI receives payment status, order identifiers, purchased package information, amount, currency and related technical metadata needed to add credits and prevent fraud.

We do not store full card numbers, PayPal login credentials or other full payment method details on our servers.

4. Third-Party Services

• Sightengine — used for AI image analysis. Video analysis is not active until the dedicated feature is launched.
• Cloudflare — used for DNS, security, traffic protection and email routing.
• Vercel — may be used for hosting and application infrastructure.
• Google Analytics — may be used for privacy-conscious analytics after enabling the service and, where required, obtaining user consent.
• PayPal — used for secure payment processing when you buy analysis credits.
• Supabase — used for database storage and private storage of shared report previews.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We may use essential cookies or similar technologies required for service functionality, security and abuse prevention.

Optional analytics cookies or similar technologies, including Google Analytics, are used only after you give consent where such consent is required under applicable law. You can reject optional analytics cookies.

6. Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the service and processed information, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or restriction of processing of your personal information. Please contact us regarding such requests.

12. Account deletion

Registered users can request account deletion from the profile page. When an account is deleted, PhotoProof AI deletes the user profile, credit balance, credit transaction records, saved analysis reports, image previews stored for those reports, and disables related public report links.

Some limited technical logs may remain for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, debugging or backup purposes for the minimum period reasonably necessary.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Continued use of the service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated version.

9. Contact

hello@photoproof.co