Security & Trust
Event photos and face data are sensitive personal data. This page describes, plainly, how TIME&SPACE handles them: what we collect, where it lives, when it is deleted, and what paperwork we can put on the record for you.
Consent before any face search
Face search is opt-in and never runs without a consent record for that event. Every way into a face search, on the web and in the mobile app, asks for it with a dedicated, unticked consent box that the guest has to tick. Every consent is logged with its time; web consents also record the version of the wording shown. Declining changes nothing about the event.
EU data residency
Photos, selfies and face data are stored and processed in the European Union: database and storage in Ireland (AWS eu-west-1), face-recognition service in the Netherlands.
Deletion on a schedule
Guest selfies are deleted within 30 days. The face index of event photos expires after one year at most, earlier if the event or photo is deleted. A deleted event’s photos are permanently deleted 30 days later. The schedule is published in our privacy policy and terms.
Paperwork for your legal team
A data processing agreement with GDPR Art. 28 terms and our sub-processor register are available on request, along with venue signage and consent copy.
Biometric data
Application security
Sub-processors
These providers process personal data to deliver the service. Biometric data (photos, selfies, face embeddings) is stored and processed in the EU. Consent-gated analytics (Google Analytics, Meta, Microsoft Clarity) run only after a visitor’s explicit cookie consent and are not part of delivering an organiser’s event. Microsoft Clarity never runs on guest pages: event pages, the organiser-wide face search, or a guest’s matched photos.
| Provider | Purpose | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Database, photo storage, authentication | EU (Ireland, AWS eu-west-1) |
| Railway | Face-recognition processing | EU (Netherlands) |
| Vercel | Web hosting and compute | EU deployment region; global edge |
| Cloudflare | DNS, CDN, firewall | Global edge |
| Stripe | Payments | EU / US |
| Resend | Transactional email | US (SCCs) |
| Sentry | Error monitoring | EU region |
| Upstash | Rate limiting (hashed IP keys) | EU (eu-west-1) |
| Expo | Push notifications (consumer app) | US (SCCs) |
| Google / Apple | Optional sign-in; organiser-initiated Drive import | EU / US |
| Dropbox | Organiser-initiated photo import | US (SCCs / DPF) |
| Anthropic | Classifying public event listings; drafting replies to messages sent to our Instagram account. Never photos or face data | US (SCCs) |
| Google (Firebase) | Archive of photos from the retired first-generation TIME&SPACE app | Google Cloud (location being confirmed) |
| Microsoft | Clarity session analytics on the organiser dashboard and marketing pages, only after analytics consent; never on guest pages | United States |
| Google Workspace | Company email and calendar | EU/US |
Compliance posture
TIME&SPACE processes biometric data under GDPR Art. 9 on the basis of each guest’s explicit consent, and treats its face-matching system as high-risk AI under the EU AI Act (Annex III), with a documented risk-management, transparency and human-oversight programme. Our lead supervisory authority is the CNPD (Portugal).
We describe capabilities, not guarantees: you are the controller of your event photos, roster and team data, and we are your processor under our data processing agreement. For guest photo search (consent, selfies, face data, guest emails) TIME&SPACE is an independent controller. We do not currently hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification; our controls are documented and available for review instead.
Full details: Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Request our data processing agreement and sub-processor register, ask a security question, or report a vulnerability. We read everything.
legal@timeandspace.earth