Photo handling, fully explained
Most looksmax apps keep your face. We built ours so it can't.
"Where does my photo go?" is the right question to ask any app that wants your face. Here is our complete answer - not a policy promise, an architecture.
Your photo arrives in memory
The upload goes straight into the analysis process's working memory. It is never written to disk, object storage, a queue, a cache, or a log - there is no code path that stores it.
Metadata is stripped, image normalized
GPS coordinates, device identifiers, and all EXIF metadata are removed before the image goes anywhere. The AI model sees pixels, nothing else.
Scored, then gone
The AI returns numeric scores and improvement notes. The image is destroyed from memory when the request completes - seconds after upload. Your results page shows the deletion timestamp.
Only numbers persist
What we keep: scores like "skin: 62.5" and short improvement notes. Nothing we store can recreate your photo or identify your face. We never build a face database, and there is nothing to leak, sell, or train on.
How that compares
The legal version of this page lives in our privacy policy, including the published retention and destruction schedule. The honest version is simpler: we never have your photo for longer than it takes to score it.