When you upload a selfie to an AI headshot generator, you are handing over a biometric-style image. What matters is what the company keeps, for how long, and whether it trains on it.
This post summarises what Pose AI's privacy policy says about uploads, retention and deletion. It is a summary, so read the policy itself, and apply the same questions to any vendor.
Read the Pose AI privacy policy for the full text.
- Training: the policy says personal data is not used to train AI models.
- Retention: uploads and generated outputs are kept until you delete them, delete your account, or a retention schedule applies, not for a fixed 30 days.
- Deletion: you can delete photos or your whole account; erasure runs automatically, typically within minutes, with a confirmation email.
- Compliance: the policy addresses GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA and PIPEDA rights, including erasure.
Key terms
Data retention is how long a company keeps the data you give it. A short, fixed number is easy to quote; a rule tied to your own deletion and account status is more accurate for services that let you revisit past work.
GDPR is the European Union's data-protection regulation. It gives people rights to access, correct and erase their personal data, which any headshot service handling EU users' photos should honour.
What Pose keeps, and for how long
Photos and videos you upload are stored alongside what is generated from them, which is what lets you re-run or refine a result. Uploads, outputs and models are held until you delete them, delete your account, or a schedule in the policy removes them.
If a paid subscription ends, uploads and generated content are deleted 90 days after it ended, with an email at least 14 days beforehand; resubscribing before then keeps them. An account inactive for 90 or more days without a subscription becomes eligible for automated deletion, again only after a 14-day email notice that was delivered. The policy also keeps a small set of records, such as billing records the law requires and de-identified usage statistics.
Training and facial data
The policy states that Pose does not use your personal data to train AI models or create other AI products. It also says the facial geometry extracted during generation is used only to produce the output you asked for and is not retained as a separate record.
Generation uses third-party models hosted by providers, and the specific models can change; the policy describes this, so read that section if provider handling matters to you.
How to delete your data
You can delete individual photos and models from your account page at any time, or delete the whole account in the app or on the web. The account is deactivated and signed out immediately, a subscription billed by Pose is cancelled, and automated erasure removes your uploads, generated content and personal data, typically within minutes, followed by a confirmation email.
Store subscriptions bought through Apple or Google are not cancelled by deleting your account; cancel those in the store. More detail is on the data deletion page.
Details on how deletion works.
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