1. Overview
Welcome to Star By Faces ("we," "us," or "our"), accessible at starbyfaces.com. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, and how we use it when you visit our website and use our celebrity look alike tool.
By using Star By Faces, you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue using our service.
2. Information We Collect
We collect the following types of information:
- Images you upload: Photos submitted through our upload tool for celebrity matching analysis.
- Usage data: Automatically collected data such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, time spent on pages, and referring URLs.
- Device information: Device type, operating system, and screen resolution.
- Contact form submissions: Name, email address, and message content when you contact us via the contact form.
- Cookies and tracking technologies: As described in Section 5 below.
We do not require account registration and do not collect passwords, payment information, or government identification.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide and operate the celebrity look alike matching service.
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website features.
- Understand and analyze how you use our website.
- Respond to your contact form submissions and provide customer support.
- Display relevant advertisements through Google AdSense.
- Monitor and prevent fraudulent activity or abuse of our service.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
4. Image & Face Data
Your privacy with regard to uploaded photos is a top priority. Here is exactly how your image data is handled:
- Processing: Images you upload are sent to our third-party face recognition API (RapidAPI) solely for the purpose of generating celebrity match results.
- No permanent storage: We do not permanently store the images you upload on our servers. Images are processed in real time and discarded after results are returned.
- No resale: We do not sell, share, or transfer your uploaded photos to any third party other than the processing API.
- Biometric data: We do not build or maintain a database of biometric identifiers or facial recognition profiles from user submissions.
Please do not upload photos of other people without their consent.
6. Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services that may collect data independently:
- RapidAPI / Celebrity Look Alike Finder API: Processes uploaded images to generate celebrity matches. Subject to RapidAPI's own privacy policy.
- Google Analytics: Collects anonymized usage statistics. See Google Privacy Policy.
- Google AdSense: Displays targeted advertisements. See Section 7.
- Google Fonts / CDN libraries: May log requests for font files; no personal data is stored.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services. We encourage you to review their respective policies.
7. Advertising (Google AdSense)
Star By Faces participates in the Google AdSense advertising program. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
We do not control the content of advertisements displayed by Google AdSense. Ads are served automatically based on your browsing behavior and our website content.
8. Data Retention
We retain different types of data for different periods:
- Uploaded images: Not retained after real-time processing is complete.
- Analytics data: Retained for up to 26 months via Google Analytics.
- Contact form submissions: Retained for up to 2 years for customer support purposes, then securely deleted.
- Server logs: Retained for up to 90 days for security and diagnostic purposes.
9. Children's Privacy
Star By Faces is intended for general audiences and is safe for family use. However, our service is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or 16 in the EU/UK). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under these ages.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately so we can delete such information.
10. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction: Request correction of inaccurate data.
- Deletion: Request deletion of your personal data ("right to be forgotten").
- Objection: Object to processing of your data for direct marketing.
- Portability: Request a machine-readable copy of your data.
- Withdraw consent: Where processing is based on consent, withdraw it at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us. We will respond within 30 days.
11. Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include HTTPS encryption for all data transmissions.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security and encourage you to use the service responsibly.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.
Continued use of Star By Faces after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us:
- Website: starbyfaces.com/contact
- Email: privacy@starbyfaces.com