Last updated: September 2026.

The short version: your photo never leaves your device. PhotoChecker was designed so that the sensitive thing — your face — physically cannot be collected, because it is never transmitted. The longer version below covers the data the site itself touches.

Your photo is analyzed locally

The checker is JavaScript running in your browser tab. When you drop a photo in, the browser reads it from your disk, draws it to a canvas, samples its pixels and measures it — all locally. You can verify this yourself: load the page, disconnect from the internet, and the checker keeps working. There is no upload endpoint in the site’s code, no image queue, no processing server.

This design means we couldn’t see, store or leak your photo even if we wanted to — which matters more for a document photo than for almost any other file type.

Server logs

The site is hosted on Cloudflare. When your browser fetches a page, Cloudflare processes standard request metadata — IP address, user agent, timestamp, requested URL — to deliver content, protect against abuse and measure aggregate traffic. There are no accounts and no forms that store data, so there is nothing to combine these logs with.

Advertising and cookies

If advertising is enabled on this site, it is served by third-party networks such as Google AdSense. Ad networks may set cookies or similar identifiers to measure impressions and — where permitted — personalize ads. You can opt out of personalized ads via Google’s Ads Settings or a browser that blocks third-party cookies. The checker works identically whether or not ads load.

Analytics

We may use privacy-respecting aggregate analytics (no cross-site tracking, no personal profiles) to see which pages are used. File names, photo contents and check results are never included — that data never reaches the network at all.

Your choices

• Reading the site works with JavaScript disabled; only the checker needs it.
• Cookie and ad personalization preferences are controlled by your browser settings.
• Questions about this policy: hello@passports.pics.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new “last updated” date.