What happens to your photos and selfie
That’s Me finds your photos in a shared Google Drive folder, Google Photos album or iCloud shared album. Here is how it handles what passes through it.
Your selfie
Your selfie is never stored. The server turns it into a numeric face signature in memory, compares that with the photos in the folder, and then discards both. The selfie is never written to disk, never logged and never shared.
When you search for several people at once (for example your children), the same goes for their photos. Any names you type stay in your browser: they are never sent to the server.
The photos in the folder
To search a folder, That’s Me downloads a resized copy of each photo and keeps a numeric face signature for every face in them, so the next guest from the same event gets an answer in a second. The copies and signatures are deleted automatically 24 hours after the folder is first scanned.
Only folders their owner shared with “Anyone with the link”, and albums shared by link, can be searched. This is checked again on every search. (A Google Photos or iCloud album counts as a folder here.)
Photos uploaded to That’s Me
When an organizer uploads the photos instead of sharing a folder, That’s Me keeps a resized copy of each photo (1,600 pixels) and the face signatures for 7 days from the album's creation, then deletes them automatically. The organizer can delete the album earlier at any time with their private link. Guests only ever see the photos they are in.
Your results
The list of photos found for you is kept for 24 hours, so you can come back to your search's address. Anyone with that address can see the photos found, so share it only with people you choose.
No accounts
No sign-up, no login and no tracking cookies. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.
Counting visits
To know whether That’s Me is useful, the server keeps daily totals, such as how many searches finished today and how many people shared a link. A visit adds 1 to a count and nothing more: no cookies, no IP addresses, no photos, no links. Where a visit came from is kept only as a short label, such as “a shared link” or “Google”, and a visit also adds 1 to its country (worked out from the time zone set on your device), to “phone”, “tablet” or “computer”, and to the site's language.
Own a folder and want it out?
Turn off link sharing. In Google Drive: Share, then under “General access” choose “Restricted”. In Google Photos: open the album, then its sharing options, and turn off link sharing. In iCloud: open the shared album's settings and turn off the public website or link. New searches stop at once, and everything kept from the folder is deleted within 24 hours.
Contact
Questions, or a photo you want taken down: hello@thatsme.photos.