FaceNinja

Privacy · security

Your photos make your head. Then they are deleted.

A photo of a face is personal. This page says exactly what we keep, for how long, who can see it, and how you delete it sooner.

  • Photos: 7 days
  • No training
  • Encrypted

What we keep, and for how long.

Each clock starts when your head is finished. Whatever you delete sooner is gone at once.

Retention of what you upload and what we make from it
WhatKeptThen
The photos you upload7 days after the head is made, or failsDeleted.
Images made from the photos while your head is built, such as comparison sheets7 days, with the photosDeleted.
Photos uploaded but never used for a head24 hoursDeleted.
Download files: every format of the head30 days, counted again from each re-downloadDeleted. You can download them again from the master.
The master: the head's mesh with its ARKit shapes, its 4K maps and its groom recommendations1 yearDeleted. Nothing is left to rebuild the head from.
Your account: email address, balance, API keysUntil you delete itDeleted with everything on it. Payment records stay as long as tax law requires.

Downloading again after 30 days. Open the head in the web app and choose Re-download, or ask the API for the file. We rebuild the files from the master in a few minutes, free of charge, up to 3 times a day per head.

What we never do with your photos.

  • No training. We never use your photos, or the heads made from them, to train models.
  • One purpose. We use them only to make your head: to check the photos, build the 3D head and its skin, and pick the groom recommendations.
  • No selling, no sharing. We never sell them, use them for advertising, or show them to anyone else.
  • Not on our site. Every face on this site is synthetic. Your photos and heads never appear here.

How your photos are protected.

  • Encrypted in transit. HTTPS between your browser or your code, our servers and the machines that build heads.
  • Encrypted at rest. Photos and files are stored encrypted.
  • Links that expire. A download link works for 60 seconds, an upload link for 1 hour.
  • Keys we cannot read. We store API keys and sign-in links only as hashes. A key sees only its own account's heads.
  • Builders keep no copy. The machine that builds your head deletes its working copy when the head is done, and a failed build's copy within 3 days.

Who can see your photos.

You, signed in to your account, and code that uses one of your API keys. A build machine reads the photos while it makes your head. Our staff look at a photo only when you ask us for help with that head, or when the law requires it.

The services that process your data.

We name them by what they do. Paddle.com is named because you pay it directly.

  • Hosting and storage: runs the site and the API and stores photos and files, encrypted.
  • Build machines: the computers that make the heads. They delete their working copy as described above.
  • AI processing: receives your photos only to help make your head.
  • Payments: Paddle.com, our Merchant of Record. It never sees your photos.
  • Email: sends sign-in links and receipts. It never sees your photos.

Delete sooner, whenever you want.

  • The photos of one head: open the head in the web app and choose Delete photos, or call DELETE /v1/heads/{id}/photos. The head and its files stay.
  • A head: choose Delete head, or call DELETE /v1/heads/{id}. Photos, files and master are deleted at once.
  • Your account: in the web app, open Account and choose Delete account. Every head, photo, file and key on it is deleted.
  • Ask us: write to support@faceninja.net or use the contact form. We answer within one month.

The privacy policy.

The privacy policy gives the details: who is responsible, the legal bases, your rights and how to complain to a data protection authority.

Make a head, keep the files, lose the photos.

Photos deleted after 7 days. Files for 30. The master for a year.