Privacy at FindFlower

FindFlower is designed to collect as little as possible. During the Beta, the core identification experience requires no account and no personal information.

We collect three narrow categories of data, and only in specific circumstances: account details if you sign in for developer access (handled by Auth0, such as your name and email), feedback you deliberately submit, and basic, anonymous usage information a browser naturally exposes when loading a page. We do not build advertising profiles.

This is the heart of our design. When you capture, upload, or link an image, the recognition model runs locally in your browser. The image is processed on your own device to produce a prediction and is not transmitted to us for that purpose.

Because the work happens on your side, your photos stay with you. When you close the tab, the image is gone from the page — we hold no copy. The one exception is if you deliberately attach a photo to a feedback submission, described next.

Feedback is optional and always initiated by you. During the Beta, the feedback you provide is stored locally on your device so the experience keeps working offline and privately.

When the improvement pipeline launches, submitted corrections — and any photo you choose to attach — will be used for a single purpose: making future model versions more accurate. This is the human-in-the-loop that helps FindFlower recognise more species over time. We will never repurpose that data for advertising or sell it.

We do not sell your personal data. We rely on a small number of trusted services strictly to operate the product: Auth0 for secure sign-in, and Wikipedia to fetch the reference summaries shown alongside a result. When context is loaded, a request for the species name is made to Wikipedia, subject to their own privacy terms.

Beyond these operational providers, your data is not shared. We may disclose information only where genuinely required by law.

You decide what to share. Nothing leaves your device quietly in the background. You can clear locally stored feedback at any time from your browser, and if you hold a developer account you can request its deletion.

If anything here is unclear, we’d rather you ask than wonder. Reach us through the contact page and a person will respond.