privacy

Privacy notice

What happens to a photo you contribute, and the personal data we do and do not handle. Framework: UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (regulator: the ICO).

Who we are

The data controller is Rodrigo Pardo Lojo, the individual operator of chronolapse.art. For any privacy request, contact privacy@chronolapse.art.

What we collect

When you contribute at a location, we process your photo and its capture time (after which all embedded metadata — including any GPS location and device identifiers — is permanently stripped). We also collect minimal technical logs (including your IP address) for security and abuse-prevention purposes; these are kept for a short period (target: 30 days) and then deleted. We never collect your email or any contact detail. Contributions are anonymous.

Your photo is held in a private quarantine area and screened on our own servers: detected faces are discarded or irreversibly blurred, explicit content is rejected, and only a cleared image is kept for a human to review. Images are never sent to any third party or external/cloud service.

How contributed photos are used

A cleared, approved photo becomes part of the time-aligned stack for its location. By contributing you agree that your photo may be displayed on this website and may be reproduced in other formats — for example a physical or online exhibition, or a print — as part of the artistic project. It is always shown anonymously. The full terms are on the terms page.

Legal basis & your rights

The legal basis for your photo is your explicit consent, given at the point of capture (you can decline by simply not uploading). The transient face/NSFW scanning — done only to delete or redact — and the security logs rest on our legitimate interest in protecting people who may appear in shot and keeping the service safe. We do face detection(“is there a face?”), never face recognition — we never try to identify anyone.

You have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction and objection. Because contributions are anonymous, we may be unable to locate a specific photo unless you can identify it (e.g. by location and approximate time). To exercise a right, or to request removal — for instance if a face slipped past our detector — use the removal page or email removals@chronolapse.art. You may also complain to the ICO (ico.org.uk).

Cookies & tracking

We use no third-party analytics, no advertising, and no tracking cookies. The only cookie we set is a strictly-necessary session cookie for site administrators; ordinary contributors are not tracked.

International transfers

Contributor personal data (your photo and the security logs) is processed on infrastructure located in the United Kingdom. If that ever changes, this notice will describe the safeguards used.

last revised · 2026·06·08