The short version: we don't keep your photo. The long version is not much longer.
When you pick a photo, your browser shrinks it and sends it to our server, which passes it to the age-estimation model. The model returns a number and where the face is. The photo is discarded the moment that answer comes back. It is not written to disk, not stored in any database, not used to train anything, and not sent to anyone else.
If you type in your real age to get the youthfulness score, that number is used in your browser only. It is never sent to our server or anywhere else.
We set a random ag_vid cookie when you use the guesser or open a valid invitation. It counts daily guesses and restores referral rewards. It lasts up to 400 days and is not linked to a name, email or photo. Clearing it loses access to earned quota.
We also keep a salted one-way hash of your connection address, not the address itself. Usage rows are pruned after 48 hours; referral records may be retained for up to 400 days.
A valid invitation can reserve referral attribution for 14 days. We keep random browser IDs, random invitation codes, salted connection hashes and successful-referral records, with each referral record retained for up to 400 days and pruned on subsequent use. They restore earned daily quota and prevent repeat or self-referrals. No photo, age or raw IP is stored. Each new browser can qualify once, and each connection can qualify once. Credits stay on this site in the same browser; clearing the cookie loses access.
The model can usually tell when it is looking at someone under 18. When it does, it declines to guess and shows nothing. We don't estimate children's ages, even for fun, and we don't want photos of children sent to us — but if one is, it is discarded exactly like every other photo.
If analytics are enabled, we use Google Analytics with IP anonymisation to count visits and see which parts of the page get used; it sets its own cookies under Google's privacy policy. If advertising is enabled, the ad network's own privacy policy applies to the ad slot. Neither receives your photo, your guess or your real age.
ageguesser.ai and olderoryounger.com are operated by Latent Search Limited. Questions: [email protected].
This service estimates how old a face appears. It does not verify age or identity and must not be used as if it did.