Face Recognition Privacy and Consent for Event Photos
Face search, only with consent.
A short and plain account of how CollectAsist treats guests' photos and face data.
A face is personal data. So face search is something you and your guests choose, never something that happens quietly in the background.
Off by default
Face search is disabled for every new event. It runs only if the studio turns it on for that event.
Layered consent
Before a selfie is taken, each guest reads what will happen and gives explicit consent. Without consent there is no search.
Written retention period
How long the data is kept is stated in writing on the consent screen, not buried in fine print.
One-tap deletion
A guest can delete their face data at any time with a single tap on the event page.
What a guest sees before any selfie
Face search follows the same steps at every event.
The studio decides first
Face search stays off unless the studio enables it for that specific event.
The guest reads and consents
The page explains what a selfie is used for and how long the data is kept. The guest continues only by giving explicit consent.
Liveness check and selfie
A liveness check confirms that a real person is in front of the camera, so nobody can search with someone else's picture.
Confirm or reject, delete any time
Matches are shown as certain or possible. The guest answers “This is me” or “Not me”, and can delete their face data whenever they like.
Also worth knowing
Face data is stored encrypted
Faces are kept as encrypted numerical vectors used only for matching within that event.
Photos remain their owners'
Uploading to CollectAsist does not hand over the rights to a photograph. They stay with the person who holds them.
You decide who sees the gallery
Each event's gallery can be open to all guests or closed, so guests only see what the studio chooses to show.
Privacy requests
To ask about your data or request deletion, write to us. We answer requests about events hosted on CollectAsist together with the studio that ran the event.
support@collectasist.com
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