Terms of Service

Eligibility, account and regional availability

To run a search, you must be at least 18 and legally able to accept these terms in your region. Keep your email account and one-time sign-in codes secure. Search, previews and purchases depend on your account eligibility and the country or region supported for each feature. Follow the eligibility, regional and rate limits shown in the service.

Your photo and permission to process it

Upload only photos you have the right to use. For face search, search only for your own face. Prefer a photo of yourself alone. If a photo includes other people, you are responsible for the right to upload it and must select your own face. The age and self-portrait declarations you make must be accurate.

You retain your rights in your photo. By uploading it, you authorize FaceByPhoto to store and process it for the photo check, including face detection and quality checks where enabled. By confirming and starting a search, you authorize the service to prepare a crop of the selected face or a copy of the full image, depending on the search mode, and make it available to the search integration for that search. The Privacy Policy describes these steps and the retention windows.

• How photos are processed

Acceptable use

Use the service only to review your own public image footprint. Prohibited uses include the following.

• Searching for another person, targeting minors, identifying strangers, tracking people, harassment, stalking, doxxing, impersonation, or surveillance.
• Using results to make decisions about someone’s employment, housing, credit, insurance or access to services, or to make law enforcement or eligibility determinations.
• Violating privacy or intellectual property rights, uploading unlawful material, or publishing information about others in a harmful or unlawful way.
• Automated bulk queries or scraping, unauthorized access, resale of service access or reports, or attempts to bypass usage limits, regional rules, access controls or payment checks.

Search results and external sites

Searches return candidate images from publicly indexed sources available to the search provider. Coverage is limited by the sources indexed at the time. Results can be incomplete, outdated, or show someone else. Treat a result as a visual lead and verify its original context before acting. An empty report leaves open the possibility that your image appears elsewhere.

Source links and images may change or become inaccessible. The original site controls its content and the rights to it. Access to a report gives you access to review available information, while use of third-party material remains subject to the rights and rules that apply to it.

Intellectual property and reports

The FaceByPhoto name, site design, software and original materials are owned by the operator or its licensors. Access to the service allows you to use it for the purposes described in these terms. Reuse of those materials requires permission or another right under applicable law. Third-party images and pages remain subject to their own rights and terms.

• Image removal and copyright reports

Credits, previews and search outcomes

A full search uses one credit when it completes, including when it returns no candidates. When a preview is available, it uses the preview allowance and returns a limited report. Unlocking an eligible preview uses one credit to reveal available details in the existing report. Unlocking and running a new search are separate actions.

A running search may reserve an allowance. Partial, failed, cancelled or timed-out searches release the reservation. Use the cancel control to stop a running task, and check your history before retrying after an interruption, since a task can continue in the background.

Purchases, refunds and payment disputes

Available credit packs are one-time purchases. Review the quantity, price, currency, taxes and any validity period shown for your offer before confirming payment. Stripe or NOWPayments hosts checkout. Credits become available after payment and delivery are confirmed in the service. If an order is pending, check its status before placing another order.

Cash refunds, withdrawal rights and disputed payments are handled separately under applicable law and the terms of the purchase. When a payment is reversed or disputed, affected credits may be suspended or revoked while the order is reconciled. Removing a search or account is a separate action from requesting a cash refund.

• Refund and Payment Policy

Suspension, deletion and ending use

Access may be limited or suspended to address abuse, security risks, unpaid or reversed payments, or legal requirements. You can stop using the service, delete searches through history and request account deletion through account settings. Deletion ends access to the affected records and starts site cleanup. The Privacy Policy explains retention and the separate handling of external copies.

• Search history
• Account settings

Consumer rights and changes to these terms

Mandatory consumer rights and remedies under applicable law continue to apply, including any rights relating to refunds, withdrawal or disputes. The availability and accuracy limits described here reflect how image search works. They apply only to the extent permitted by law.

Search and report access may be interrupted by maintenance, technical failures or changes at external search providers. The service offers visual leads and cannot guarantee a particular match or uninterrupted access. Liability and remedies remain subject to applicable law.

Updates will be dated, with notice and renewed acceptance where required. The published terms will identify the channels for purchase questions, complaints and other requests.

• Privacy Policy
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