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Privacy

facechip is built around a simple rule: your uploaded faceshot is used only to generate your avatar, then discarded.

Uploaded photos

When you upload a faceshot, it is processed in memory on our servers. It is sent to the AI model provider through the Vercel AI Gateway solely to analyze your face and generate a stylized avatar.

Uploaded source photos are not stored after generation completes. They are never written to our database, never uploaded to Vercel Blob, and never retained on disk.

Generated avatars

Only the avatars you choose to publish are retained. Published avatars are stored as PNG and JPG files on Vercel Blob and referenced in our database for the public gallery.

Unpublished avatars remain in storage so you can download your variants, but they are not shown in the public gallery unless you explicitly publish them.

Third-party services

Model inference runs through the Vercel AI Gateway. Generated files are stored on Vercel Blob. Rate limiting and progress updates use Upstash Redis. Database records live on Neon Postgres.

Analytics

We use privacy-friendly, cookieless web analytics (Vercel Web Analytics) to understand how the create flow is used — for example, when someone starts a generation or downloads a variant. Events do not include uploaded photos, faces, or other personal content.

Payments

If payments are enabled, checkout is handled by Stripe. We do not store card details on our servers.

Questions? Contact the site operator through the email listed on your deployed site or repository.