Introduction
Company Information
- Legal Entity: Helper Inc.
- Brand Name: Outfit Lens
- Contact Email: support@outfitlens.com
- Website: https://outfitlens.com
Welcome to Outfit Lens. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy describes how Helper Inc., operating under the brand name “Outfit Lens,” collects, uses, and safeguards your information when you use our Chrome extension, our website, and the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT.
By using Outfit Lens, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Chrome Extension Permissions
This extension requires the following permissions to provide seamless service:
Website Access Permission
Website access permission is required to enable fashion item search functionality across all webpages you visit. This permission allows you to use the image search feature on any website, including shopping sites, social media, blogs, and more.
Screen Capture Functionality
Screen capture functionality is required to analyze images from the area you select. This feature only activates when you click the extension icon and manually select a region.
Important Notice:
- All features only activate when you explicitly launch the extension
- We do NOT automatically collect data or analyze webpages
- We do NOT track your browsing history
- Images are sent to our servers only when you select them. Usage events and the identifiers of products you save are also sent to our servers, as described below
Information We Collect
1. Information You Provide
- Images you choose to analyze using the extension
- Feedback you provide through our support channels
- Email address (only if you contact us or enter it in the uninstall survey)
- Products you save to your favorites in the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT (see Data Retention)
2. Automatically Collected Information
- Usage Data: Which features you use and how they perform. On our website, Google Analytics records the pages you visit and the buttons you click (see Third-Party Services). In the Chrome extension, usage events — for example that a search ran, how many items it found, the domain name of the website you searched on, or which product you clicked — are sent to our server with a random ID created when you install the extension; our server forwards them to Google Analytics without your IP address. The Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT sends usage events only to our own servers, with no user ID and with a two-letter country code taken from your language setting.
- Device Information: Browser type, browser version, operating system
- Extension Performance: Detection success rates, processing times, error logs
3. What We Do NOT Collect
- We do NOT keep the images you analyze in the Chrome extension after processing (images analyzed through the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT are kept for a limited period so the feature can work, and images you voluntarily submit as feedback are also kept — both are described under Data Retention below). Exception: when an extension search finds nothing, we may keep a face-blurred copy for up to 30 days (see Data Retention).
- We do NOT track your browsing history outside the extension
- We do NOT require an account or ask for your name; we receive your email address only if you choose to give it to us
- We do NOT collect payment information (the extension is free)
- We do NOT access your device's precise location (GPS). An approximate country or region may be estimated from your language settings or IP address, as described under Server Logs and Third-Party Services
- We do NOT sell your data to third parties
How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for:
- Providing the Service: Processing images with our AI models to detect fashion items
- Improving Accuracy: Training and fine-tuning our AI models using anonymized data only; checking detection accuracy with face-blurred copies of extension searches that find nothing, which are not used for training (see Data Retention)
- Performance Optimization: Analyzing usage patterns to improve speed and reliability
- Customer Support: Responding to your inquiries and resolving issues
- Security: Detecting and preventing fraud, abuse, and security incidents
Data Retention Policy
Images You Analyze in the Chrome Extension
Retention Period: Immediately deleted (except a face-blurred copy of a search that finds nothing — see below)
Images you analyze in the Chrome extension are processed in server memory and deleted right after analysis. We do NOT save them to disk, database, or any storage system, except a face-blurred copy of a search that finds nothing, described in the next section. Processing typically takes 2-3 seconds.
Extension Searches That Find Nothing
Retention Period: Up to 30 days, then automatically deleted
When the first search on an image in the Chrome extension detects no items, we may keep a copy of that image to measure and fix detection errors. Before the copy is saved, the faces our server detects are blurred automatically (best-effort — it may miss a face at an unusual angle); if blurring fails or the result is uncertain, the copy is not saved. The original is still processed in memory and deleted right after analysis. We store the blurred image together with the version of our detector that processed it and its top guess with a confidence score kept to one decimal place — not the page it came from or any other details of the request — in a private Google Cloud Storage bucket in the United States. We store no identifier with the copy, and we do not link copies to our server logs (kept for 30 days, including the IP address of every request). We collect these copies only during a limited period of at most 21 days or until we have 600 images, whichever comes first, and each copy — including any copy in our review tools — is deleted within 30 days, sooner once we finish reviewing it. The copies are reviewed by an AI model (Anthropic's Claude, see Third-Party Services), not opened by people. They are not linked to your identity or any account, are used only to check detection accuracy (not to train our models), are not sold, and are not used for advertising. If you are in the EEA or the UK, we rely on our legitimate interest in finding and fixing detection errors (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)); we store no identifier with the copies and do not link them to our server logs, and you can contact us with any question or objection.
Images You Analyze in the Outfit Lens App for ChatGPT
Retention Period: Up to 3 days, then automatically deleted
When you analyze a photo through our app inside ChatGPT, we store a copy of that photo on our servers for up to 3 days. ChatGPT gives us only a temporary link to your photo that expires within hours; our own copy is what lets you return to the conversation within those 3 days and select a different region of the same photo without uploading it again. The search results for that photo — the products we matched, without the photo itself — are kept for 7 days. Cropped images of the items we detect are held only in server memory for up to 2 hours, and the app may keep those results, including the crops, in your browser for 2 hours. The photo copy is transmitted over an encrypted connection, is not linked to advertising, is not sold, and is not used to train models. Because it is tied to a search rather than to your identity or an account, we cannot retrieve a specific image to delete on request.
Favorites You Save in the Outfit Lens App for ChatGPT
Retention Period: Until 90 days after you last save or remove a favorite, then automatically deleted
When you tap ♡ on a product in our app inside ChatGPT, we save it to your favorites list on our servers so you can find it again in later conversations. For each saved product we keep its product ID, a copy of its listing from our catalog (name, brand, price and currency, product image link, store name, and a link to the store, which may be an affiliate link) and the time you saved it. A list keeps your 200 most recent favorites. The product details are copied from our own search results, not from anything you send us.
To keep your list apart from other people's without an account, we use the anonymous user identifier that ChatGPT gives to apps. We do not store that identifier: we keep only a one-way keyed hash of it (HMAC-SHA256), and the identifier is not written to our logs. Your favorites are not linked to your search terms, the photos you analyze, your conversations, your location or your language, or to the search a favorite came from.
You can remove a favorite at any time by tapping ♡ again; it is deleted from our servers immediately. Viewing your list does not extend the 90-day period, and if you remove every favorite, an empty list remains until the same 90 days pass. We do not share your favorites with third parties. They are stored in a MongoDB Atlas database on Amazon Web Services in Seoul, South Korea, and handled by our servers on Google Cloud in the United States.
Images You Voluntarily Submit to Improve Detection
Retention Period: Up to 90 days, then automatically deleted
You can voluntarily share a failure image to help us improve detection through two channels:
- Uninstall feedback page: When uninstalling, you can optionally attach an image our extension failed to recognize and check the consent box. On this page, detected faces are automatically blurred in your browser before upload (best-effort — it may not catch every face at extreme angles); if the blur step cannot run, the image is not attached or uploaded, so the original unblurred image never leaves your device.
- In-extension feedback: When detection fails or returns low-confidence results, a dialog inside the extension lets you submit the clothing crop image with your explicit consent. Detected faces are blurred on your device before upload, using the same on-device blur as the uninstall page (best-effort — it may not catch every face at extreme angles). If the blur step cannot run, the image is not uploaded at all, so the original unblurred image never leaves your device.
In both cases, these images are transmitted over an encrypted connection, used only to improve our fashion-detection models, are not linked to your identity or any account, are not sold, and are not used for advertising. They are automatically deleted after 90 days. Because they are not linked to you, we cannot retrieve a specific image to delete on request.
Search History (Local)
Retention Period: Until you uninstall the extension
Your last 100 searches are stored locally in YOUR browser only (not on our servers). This data is automatically deleted when you:
- Uninstall the extension
- Clear your browser data
- Perform your 101st search (oldest is deleted automatically)
Product Catalog
Retention Period: Permanent
We maintain a database of fashion products (names, prices, images, shopping links). This contains NO personal information about you - it is just a catalog of available products.
Server Logs
Retention Period: 30 days
Our servers keep logs to run the service, investigate errors and produce usage statistics. These logs:
- Contain your IP address, browser user agent and the address you requested, which for text searches includes your search words
- For the Chrome extension, also contain the random install ID used for analytics, event names, a session ID and the region we derive so that products from stores that ship to your country are listed first (other products are not hidden)
- Do NOT contain the images you analyze
- Are kept in Google Cloud and automatically deleted after 30 days. Your IP address and install ID are written on separate lines, but they can be matched by time within those 30 days, so we treat them as linked
Backups: Our database is backed up once a day and each backup is kept for 7 days. Data deleted under the periods above can therefore remain in a backup for up to 7 more days, until that backup expires.
Data Storage and Security
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data:
- Encryption: All data transmitted between your browser and our servers is encrypted using TLS/SSL
- Immediate Deletion: Images you analyze in the Chrome extension are processed in real-time and immediately deleted after detection (this does not apply to images analyzed in the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT, which are kept for up to 3 days, or to images you voluntarily submit via the uninstall page or the in-extension feedback dialog, which are kept with your consent for up to 90 days — see Data Retention). The one exception for ordinary extension searches: when a search finds nothing, a face-blurred copy may be kept for up to 30 days to check detection accuracy (see Data Retention).
- Access Control: Only authorized personnel can access our server logs and analytics data
- Regular Audits: We conduct security audits to identify and fix vulnerabilities
Third-Party Services
To provide our fashion search service, we use the following third-party infrastructure and services:
Cloud Database Services
- Purpose: Store fashion product catalog and enable visual similarity search
- Hosting: MongoDB Atlas on Amazon Web Services (database); the visual similarity index also runs on Amazon Web Services and holds product data only
- Data Stored: Fashion product catalog (names, prices, images, shopping links) and — for the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT only — a copy of the photo you analyzed, kept for up to 3 days, the search results for it, kept for 7 days, and your favorites list (see Data Retention)
- Personal Data: None for the product catalog. The ChatGPT app photo copies (up to 3 days) and search results (7 days) and the anonymous feedback images you voluntarily submit are tied to a search rather than to your identity or an account and carry no personal identifier. Your favorites list in the ChatGPT app is linked only to a one-way hash of the anonymous identifier ChatGPT provides, not to the identifier itself, and it holds product details rather than information about you (all described under Data Retention).
AI Image Processing Service
- Purpose: Detect fashion items in images using AI
- Hosting: Google Cloud Platform (self-hosted service)
- Data Processing: Images processed in memory only, immediately deleted
- Storage: None - the AI detection service itself never saves images to disk or database (separate services store the ChatGPT app's 3-day photo copy and voluntarily-submitted feedback images; see Data Retention). Face-blurred copies of extension searches that find nothing are also kept by a separate service, not by the detection service.
AI Accuracy Review (Anthropic)
- Purpose: Check whether our detector missed clothing in the face-blurred copies of extension searches that find nothing
- Data Sent: The face-blurred image copies only — no account, install ID or IP address of yours
- Who Sees It: The copies are reviewed by Anthropic's Claude model; no person at Outfit Lens opens them
- Privacy Policy: Anthropic's privacy policy applies: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
Currency Exchange Rate Data
- Purpose: Convert product prices to your preferred currency
- Data Source: External currency exchange rate API
- How We Use It: We cache exchange rate data in our database
- User Data Transmission: None - no information about you is sent to the exchange rate provider
Chrome Web Store
- Purpose: Extension distribution and automatic updates
- Provider: Google
- Privacy Policy: Google's privacy policy applies to Chrome Web Store interactions
Google Analytics
- Purpose: Measure how our website and Chrome extension are used
- Data Collected: Website: the pages you visit and the buttons you click, plus device and browser information, using cookies (_ga) that can last up to two years (your browser may shorten this; Chrome keeps them for about 13 months). Google uses your IP address to estimate your approximate location. Chrome extension: the usage events and random install ID described under Information We Collect, forwarded by our server without your IP address.
- Retention Period: We have set Google Analytics to keep detailed event-level data for 2 months and user-level data for 14 months; aggregated reports are kept longer.
- Your Choice (EEA and UK): In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, we load Google Analytics only after you accept analytics cookies in our banner; until then nothing is sent to Google. Your choice is kept in your browser for 12 months, and you can change it at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of each page. To know whether to ask, we set a session cookie that records only your two-letter country code.
- How to Opt Out: Install Google's opt-out browser add-on, or block cookies for this site: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy
Google Forms (Uninstall Survey)
- Purpose: Collect the optional survey shown after you uninstall the extension
- Data Collected: Your answers, the extension version, how many days it was installed, your language and — only if you enter it — your email address, stored in Google Sheets. If you included your email address, you can ask us to delete your response.
Affiliate Marketing Networks
When you click on product links in our extension, we may earn a commission through the following affiliate networks. These networks use cookies to track clicks and attribute purchases.
CJ Affiliate (Impact)
- Purpose: Track product link clicks and attribute commissions
- Data Collected: Click events, cookie-based session data
- Privacy Policy: cj.com/legal/privacy
Admitad
- Purpose: Track product link clicks and attribute commissions
- Data Collected: Click events, cookie-based session data
- Privacy Policy: admitad.com/en/privacy-policy
Rakuten Advertising
- Purpose: Track product link clicks and attribute commissions
- Data Collected: Click events, cookie-based session data
- Privacy Policy: rakutenadvertising.com/legal-notices/services-privacy-policy
Commission Factory
- Purpose: Track product link clicks and attribute commissions
- Data Collected: Click events, cookie-based session data
- Privacy Policy: commissionfactory.com/privacy-policy
Local Data Storage
Some data is stored directly in YOUR browser. Most of it never leaves your computer; the exceptions are described below.
What We Store Locally
- Detection History: Last 100 searches (timestamps, images, results)
- Extension Settings: Server URL, UI preferences
- UI State: Side panel position, minimized button location
- Saved Items: Products you choose to save (product name, price, store, a small thumbnail image, and a link back to the product page)
Privacy Protection:
- Everything listed above is stored in YOUR browser
- Your detection history, settings and UI state are never sent to our servers
- Automatically deleted when you uninstall the extension
- Detection history is capped at 100 items (the oldest is deleted automatically)
- Saved items are stored in your browser too. When you save an item, identifiers for that product are sent to our server so we can copy the matching data that lets the item be found again. When you open your saved list, the saved identifiers are sent so we can check whether each item is still on sale and what it costs now. The images, names and prices held on your device are not uploaded
How to Clear Local Data
Easiest Method:
- Right-click extension icon → “Remove from Chrome”
- All local data automatically deleted
Alternative Method:
- Chrome Settings → Privacy and Security → Clear browsing data
- Select “Cookies and other site data”
- Extension data will be cleared
Your Rights
You have complete control over your data. Here are your rights and how to exercise them:
1. Right to Access
You can request information about what data we have about you. Most of what we keep is not linked to you: your local data exists only in your browser, and the photo copies from the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT and the feedback images you may voluntarily submit are tied to a search rather than to you (see Data Retention). Server logs, which can include your IP address, are kept for 30 days and deleted automatically; because we cannot reliably tell which entries are yours, we cannot retrieve them on request. The exception is your favorites list in the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT, which is linked to a one-way hash of the anonymous identifier ChatGPT provides. We do not hold your name, email address or ChatGPT account, so we cannot find that list from an email request; you can see it, and remove items from it, inside the app. Face-blurred copies of extension searches that find nothing are not linked to you either, and we do not link them to our server logs.
To request access, contact us at support@outfitlens.com
2. Right to Deletion
Local Data: Uninstall the extension to immediately delete all local data
Server Data: Images you analyze in the Chrome extension are deleted immediately, photo copies from the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT within 3 days, and feedback images you voluntarily submit after 90 days; these are not linked to you, so they cannot be retrieved per person. Server logs, which can include your IP address, are deleted automatically after 30 days; because we cannot reliably tell which entries are yours, we cannot retrieve them on request. Uninstall survey responses that include your email address can be deleted on request. Favorites in the Outfit Lens app for ChatGPT can be removed one at a time in the app, which deletes them from our servers immediately, and the whole list is deleted automatically 90 days after your last change — see Data Retention. The exception is a face-blurred copy of an extension search that finds nothing, which is kept for up to 30 days (see Data Retention).
3. Right to Correction
We do not keep profile information about you, such as your name, so there is nothing about you that could be inaccurate. If you find any issues, contact us at support@outfitlens.com
4. Right to Object
Simply don't use the extension. All processing is user-initiated, so not using the extension means no processing occurs. Uninstall to stop all processing permanently.
5. Right to Data Portability
You can request a copy of your data in a standard format. Contact us at support@outfitlens.com
6. Right to Withdraw Consent
Uninstall the extension at any time to immediately withdraw consent. All local data will be deleted, and no further processing will occur.
How to Exercise Your Rights
- Email: support@outfitlens.com
- Response Time: Within 48 hours
- Processing Time: Within 30 days (GDPR standard)
Children's Privacy
Outfit Lens is not intended for users under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately at support@outfitlens.com.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. Significant changes will be announced via the extension or email (if provided).
Continued use of Outfit Lens after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Helper Inc.:
- Company: Helper Inc.
- Brand: Outfit Lens
- Email: support@outfitlens.com
- Website: https://outfitlens.com
- Response Time: We aim to respond within 48 hours
GDPR Compliance (European Users)
For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), we comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our lawful basis for processing is your consent when installing and using the extension. For analytics cookies on our website, our lawful basis is the consent you give in the cookie banner.
Your GDPR Rights:
- Right to access your personal data
- Right to rectification of inaccurate data
- Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
- Right to restrict processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to object to processing
- Right to withdraw consent at any time
You can withdraw consent at any time by uninstalling the extension. See the “Your Rights” section above for detailed instructions on exercising your rights.
CCPA Compliance (California Users)
If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):
- Right to Know: What personal information we collect and how we use it
- Right to Delete: Request deletion of your personal information
- Right to Opt-Out: We do NOT sell personal information
- Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights
Important: We do NOT sell personal information to third parties. Your data is used solely to provide the fashion search service.