Your objects. Your privacy.

What stays on your device, what you share, and how to remove it.

Photo identification and AI estimates

Choosing a file keeps it in your browser until you request an estimate. That action sends the image to our server. We strip photo metadata and blur detected faces before sending an analysis image and your optional details to Cloudflare Workers AI. Product markings remain readable to help identify the object; other text may remain too. Do not upload sensitive documents or photos containing personal information. Automated detection can miss details.

The model identifies the object and estimates a US second-hand resale range. It does not search live sales. The original and analysis-only images are processed in memory and are not stored. We keep a sanitized preview and structured result privately for up to 24 hours unless you publish or delete them. Your optional free-text input is not saved separately, but the AI result may reflect details you supplied.

Cloudflare’s data-use policy says standard stateless inference retains content only for processing and response delivery, subject to limited legal exceptions, and does not use it to train models. Operational metadata may be retained. We do not enable provider logging, caching or stateful storage for these requests.

Your donation list stays with you

The separate donation calculator saves your list in this browser’s local storage. We do not upload that list or publish it to the community. Clearing the browser’s site data removes its saved list.

Sharing a photo is a separate choice

When you choose to share, the server processes your photo before storing a preview. It removes embedded photo metadata, including GPS information, and blurs detected faces and text. The original upload is not saved. These checks can miss identifying details. Review the preview carefully and use the blur tool to cover anything else before publishing.

Nothing appears publicly until you confirm that you have reviewed the photo and agree to share it. The public collection contains the reviewed photo, its item description and category, the condition and the day it was shared. For photo estimates, it also includes the AI result, its assumptions and questions, model and generation date. Review that text as well as the image before publishing. We do not attach your name, email, filename or location as post metadata. An image or AI result can still contain identifying details; check both before sharing.

Keep your private removal link

After uploading, you receive a private link that lets you remove your item. We also save its removal key in this browser so you can manage your own items here. Anyone with that link can remove the item, so do not share it. We cannot recover a lost key. You can use a saved link from another device.

Unpublished previews expire after 24 hours. Published items remain until removed with their private key. Removing an item takes it out of the live collection and deletes its image from active storage. Copies already downloaded by other visitors cannot be recalled. Hosting backups may retain an earlier copy for their retention period.

Email updates are optional

The email form stores the address you enter, your consent and the signup date separately from community items. Signing up is never required to get an estimate, use the calculator or share a photo. We do not display subscribers’ addresses publicly or attach them to uploads.

Save the private unsubscribe link shown after your first signup. Opening it takes you to a confirmation page; confirming removes the matching email from the active list. Submitting an existing address does not reveal its private key. The site does not send a confirmation email when you sign up.

Basic site operation

The server temporarily uses your network address to limit repeated requests. This address is not added to the public feed or attached to a stored upload. The guide and donation calculator pages use Google Analytics to measure visits. Analytics is not loaded on the photo homepage, community, privacy or unsubscribe pages. Our forms do not send photo data, removal keys or signup addresses to analytics.

Illustrative photographs around the site were generated locally. They are labelled as illustrations where they could be confused with community entries. Photos in the community collection come from contributors.

Questions about a shared photo

Contact hello@howmuchworth.com with the public item link. Do not send a private removal key or sensitive documents.