Privacy Policy

1. What Snoop does

Snoop searches publicly available images and profiles on the web to find faces that look like the one you upload, and returns links to that public information. We do not control or host the sites we link to.

Snoop is a tool you operate. When you search, you are asking us to process the photo on your behalf — and you confirm you have the right and any consent needed to do so (see our Terms of Service).

Snoop is not offered to visitors in Illinois, in line with the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). You must be at least 18 to use Snoop.

2. The photo you upload to search

When you run a normal search, your photo is sent to our matching engine to find similar public images, and the results are returned to you. We do not keep the photo you searched with after the search completes.

For each search we do record limited, non-identifying metadata so we can run and improve the service: the time, whether a match was found, how many results, the source (app, web, or API), and standard request data such as IP address and browser/device string. We do not store the uploaded face image alongside this log.

We never use the photo you upload for any purpose other than running your search — unless you give explicit consent by choosing an optional feature below.

3. Features that do store an image (only if you choose them)

Two optional features keep a small, downscaled copy of a face because they cannot work otherwise. Both are opt-in, and both are reversible:

• Community help — if you ask the community to help identify a face, we store the downscaled image and your note so a moderator can review it. If approved, it is shown publicly on our community board so people can submit tips. You can ask us to remove it at any time.
• Follow a face — if you follow a face, we store the downscaled image so we can re-run the search for you roughly every 2–3 weeks and tell you if new results appear. Unfollowing deletes the stored image and stops the re-checks.

4. What we store, and for how long

• Search logs — the metadata described above. Kept to operate and secure the service.
• Community cases — the submitted image, optional note, moderation status, and any tips others add. Public once approved; removed on request or when resolved.
• Followed faces — the image, the history of result links seen, and check timestamps. Deleted when you unfollow.
• On your device — your Snoop tokens, your "still on the hunt" case ids, and your followed-face thumbnails live in your browser’s local storage, not on our servers. Clearing site data removes them. We use only essential storage like this — no third-party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

5. Who processes your data, and security

We use reputable third-party infrastructure to host the site and database, and our face-matching engine to find similar public images. We do not sell your data, and we do not use your uploads to build advertising profiles.

We protect data with encryption in transit, access controls, and limited staff access, and we act promptly on any suspected breach. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to safeguard what we hold.

6. Your rights & choices

Depending on where you live (for example under the EU/UK GDPR or California’s CCPA/CPRA), you have rights over your personal data, including the right to:

• Access the data we hold about you and get a copy of it.
• Correct it if it is wrong, or ask us to delete it.
• Restrict or object to how we process it, and — where applicable — receive it in a portable form.
• Opt out of any "sale" of personal data. We do not sell your data.

To exercise any of these, email [email protected]. If you appear in Snoop’s results you can have them suppressed via the Remove my results page or faceprivacy.ai; you can unfollow a face to delete its stored image; and you can ask us to remove a community submission. We honour valid data and removal requests and respond to lawful legal process. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

7. Children

You must be at least 18 to use Snoop. It is not directed to children and is not for finding, identifying, or contacting minors. Do not upload a photo of a child as a search subject.

8. Your responsibility

Because you decide what to upload and search, you are responsible for having the rights and consent that the law requires, and for using Snoop lawfully. Please read the Terms of Service — especially the acceptable-use and legal-compliance sections — before you search.

9. Changes & contact

We may update this policy; the date above reflects the latest version. Questions or requests: [email protected].