Privacy

Uploaded photos

When you upload a faceshot, it is processed in memory on our servers. It is sent to Google's Gemini API 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

Downloads happen entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded to storage when you save a PNG or SVG.

Only facechips you choose to publish are retained. Publishing stores PNG and JPG files on Vercel Blob and a record in our database so the facechip can appear in the public gallery.

Third-party services

Model inference runs on Google's Gemini API. Generated files are stored on Vercel Blob. Rate limiting and progress updates use Upstash Redis. Database records live on Neon Postgres.

Sample demos

Some facechips on the homepage are product demonstrations generated from a sample portrait sourced from the internet — a publicly available photograph of Rowan Atkinson.

facechip does not own, license, or claim any copyright in that source image or in the underlying likeness. We use it solely to show what the line, solid, and color finishes look like. If you are a rights holder and want the sample removed, contact the site operator.

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.