Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 September 2026

Photos you upload

When you identify a specimen, your photo is uploaded to our servers (hosted by Vercel) and passed to Anthropic's Claude vision model, via Vercel's AI Gateway, solely to generate the identification, which is returned to you. The mobile app resizes the photo and removes camera metadata (including any GPS location) before upload. Photos are not stored on our servers after the identification is produced, and the model provider does not use them to train its models. We do not sell your photos, and we do not use them to build a profile of you.

Your identification results

In the mobile app, the text of each identification is kept for up to 24 hours on our servers, linked to an anonymous device token, so that a scan interrupted by a lost connection can be recovered without being counted twice. If you use “Something wrong?” on a result, we store the identification, the reason you chose, and any note you add, to improve the service.

Cookies and usage data

On the website we use a small cookie to count your free identifications, and we may use privacy-respecting analytics to understand which pages are useful. The mobile app uses a random per-install identifier for the same free-tier count, and sends us a small number of anonymous usage events (for example that a scan was started from the camera, or that a result was shown) so we can see where the app fails people. No advertising identifier is collected and no third-party analytics SDK is used. We do not sell personal data.

Payments

On the website, payments are handled by Stripe. In the mobile app, subscriptions are sold and billed by Google Play, and RevenueCat processes the purchase receipt so we can confirm your plan; we never see your card details. You can cancel an app subscription at any time from Google Play → Subscriptions.

Your choices

You can clear cookies in your browser at any time. To ask about the data associated with you, contact us at team@anyrockidentifier.com.

Data deletion requests

Photos you submit are processed to produce your identification and are not kept on our servers. In the mobile app, your identification history is stored only on your device — deleting a find in the app, or uninstalling the app, removes it. To request deletion of any other data associated with you (such as usage counters tied to your device or account), email team@anyrockidentifier.com from the relevant account and we'll action it.

Changes

We may update this policy as the service evolves; we'll revise the date above when we do.