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Pic-Time Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel)How safe is Pic-Time for photography?
Pic-Time has a good GDPR profile. Usable in photography, provided you use the business version and follow the points of attention below.
Where does Pic-Time stand in photography?
Shared place 6 of 29 options for photography (professional tools and general assistants) on GDPR profile. 2 options, like the Pic-Time profile, score good. Each tile is an option we track for this field; click for the check.
Published safeguards
proprietary AI models for facial recognition. Servers in the EU, the US and Australia; the head office in Israel has access. Facial data is not used to recognise people across galleries, is not sold, and is only kept for as long as the gallery needs that feature. Models are trained on a small share of images from photographers who sign up for AI Search (according to the privacy statement). Storage on Microsoft Azure; a data processing agreement (DPA) forms part of the terms; certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Own ISO 27001 or SOC 2 not published (according to the provider).
How to use Pic-Time safely
- Use the business variant and sign a data processing agreement (DPA).
- Do not enter unnecessary personal data into prompts; anonymise where possible.
- Enable EU data residency where the provider offers it.
- Keep a professional in the loop: your photos show recognisable people, often clients and their guests: that is personal data, and as soon as a tool groups or recognises faces it becomes biometric data (art.
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Questions
- How safe is Pic-Time for photography?
- Pic-Time has a good GDPR profile. Usable in photography, provided you use the business version and follow the points of attention below. Good safeguards, but not on every point.
- Does Pic-Time train on my data?
- proprietary AI models for facial recognition. Servers in the EU, the US and Australia; the head office in Israel has access. Facial data is not used to recognise people across galleries, is not sold, and is only kept for as long as the gallery needs that feature. Models are trained on a small share of images from photographers who sign up for AI Search (according to the privacy statement). Storage on Microsoft Azure; a data processing agreement (DPA) forms part of the terms; certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Own ISO 27001 or SOC 2 not published (according to the provider).
- What should I watch out for with AI in photography?
- Your photos show recognisable people, often clients and their guests: that is personal data, and as soon as a tool groups or recognises faces, it becomes biometric data (Art. 9 GDPR). So check whether a tool works locally or uploads your photos. Aftershoot, Narrative and Excire select on your own computer; Excire works without the cloud. Neurapix processes in Göttingen on its own hardware and deletes images up to 48 hours after delivery. Watch out for training: Aftershoot states in its privacy statement that collected images and edits are used to train its models, Pixelz uses images for machine learning with the client's consent, and Pic-Time trains on a small share of images from photographers who sign up for this. Luminar Neo sends photos for advanced AI features to external AI partners, including outside the EEA. If you use facial recognition in client galleries, record that in your terms and sign a data processing agreement.
Source documents
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Last checked: 4 November 2026 · How we check
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