privacy

Privacy notice

What happens to a photo you contribute, and the personal data we do and do not handle.

When you contribute at a location, we process your photo, its capture time (after which all embedded metadata — including any GPS location and device identifiers — is permanently stripped), and, only where a location enables it, an optional display name. We never collect your email or any contact detail. Contributions are anonymous by default.

Your photo is held in a private quarantine area and screened on our own servers: detected faces are discarded or irreversibly blurred, explicit content is rejected, and only a cleared image is kept for a human to review. Images are never sent to any third party or external/cloud service.

How contributed photos are used

A cleared, approved photo becomes part of the time-aligned stack for its location. By contributing you agree that your photo may be displayed on this website and may be reproduced in other formats — for example a physical or online exhibition, or a print — as part of the artistic project. It is always shown anonymously. The full terms are on the terms page.

Legal basis & your rights

Legal framework: UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (regulator: the ICO). The legal basis for your photo and optional display name is your explicit consent, given at the point of capture. You have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction and objection, and you may complain to the ICO (ico.org.uk).

To request removal of a photo — for instance if a face slipped past our detector — see the removal page.

last revised · 2026·06·06