FloraSense is a web application that identifies flower species from a photograph using a deep learning model. This policy explains exactly what data is collected, what leaves your device, how long anything is kept, and what controls you have.
Your photo is used to answer one request and is then deleted. There are no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking of any kind. Nothing you upload is stored, indexed, or used to train models. The only personal information FloraSense ever receives is what you choose to type into the optional support form.
FloraSense processes only the following:
Identifying a flower requires no personal information at all. There is no sign-up, no login, and no user profile, and FloraSense does not collect your location coordinates, contacts, or device identifiers.
The one exception is the Contact Support form, which is optional and only sends anything if you choose to fill it in. See section 7.
When you press Identify:
Your image is never written to a database, an object store, or any durable storage. It is not retained after the request, not reviewed by a human, and not used to train or improve any model.
Classification runs on AWS Lambda in the ap-southeast-2 (Sydney, Australia) region.
The web page is served from Amazon S3 through Amazon CloudFront, whose global edge network may
terminate your connection at a location closer to you. The image itself is only processed in Sydney.
AWS may process request metadata as part of operating its services, under its own terms.
FloraSense sets no cookies and uses no analytics, tracking pixels, fingerprinting, session storage, or advertising technology. Nothing about your visit is persisted in your browser between page loads.
cdnjs.cloudflare.com. Your browser's request for that file reveals your IP address to Cloudflare, as with any third-party asset on the web. No FloraSense data is sent with it.No data is sold, rented, or shared with advertisers or data brokers. There are none involved.
If you send a message through Contact Support, the name, email address, topic, and message text you type are submitted to Formspree (formspree.io), a third-party form delivery service, which forwards them by email to the developer. This is the only place on the site where you are asked for personal information, and nothing is sent unless you complete and submit the form.
Submitting the form does not attach any photo you identified, and the form is entirely separate from the identification service described above.
If you use "Take Photo", your browser asks for camera access and hands the resulting picture to the page as a normal file selection. FloraSense does not stream video, does not access the camera in the background, and receives nothing until you take a photo. You can revoke this permission in your browser settings at any time.
FloraSense is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
FloraSense recognises 102 flower categories and is correct roughly 86% of the time on its test set. It is a demonstration project. Do not rely on its output for medical, foraging, agricultural, or conservation decisions, or to judge whether a plant is safe to eat or handle. See the Terms of Service.
If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above changes with it. Material changes to how data is handled will be reflected here before they take effect.
Questions about this policy can be sent through Contact Support, or raised at github.com/websaleem/FloraSense/issues.