Your photo is read once and gone.

Photos

When you use the reader, your browser resizes the photo and sends it once to our server, which forwards it to an AI vision provider (Anthropic) for analysis and returns the result to you. We do not save the photo, a thumbnail, or any copy of it on our servers, and the result is not linked to the photo. The resize step removes the metadata phones embed in photos, including location.

The vision provider processes the image to produce the analysis and, under its API terms, does not use it to train models. Photos are not retained by us for any purpose.

What you type

The optional facts you enter (which shoe, distance, surface, niggles) are sent with the photo to produce the read and are included, in shortened form, in the share link you can choose to create. Nothing is stored server-side. If you do not share the link, nobody else sees the read.

Your email address

A read costs us money to run, so you give an email address before the first one. We store that address, the date you started, how many reads you have used and the country your request came from. We use it to keep the free allowance honest and to write to you about Sole Reader — nothing else, and we never sell or share it. Ask us at hello@solereader.com and we will delete your account and its counters.

Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics, which counts page views and referrers without cookies and without building a profile of you. We do not run advertising trackers.

Affiliate links

Some links to retailers are affiliate links. If you click one, that retailer may set its own cookies on its site under its own privacy policy. See our affiliate disclosure.

Abuse protection

To keep the free reader free, reads are capped per account and per connection. For the connection cap we store a one-way fingerprint of your IP address with a count for the current day — not the address itself, and never linked to your photo or your read.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@solereader.com.