Privacy

What Airframe knows about you, why, how long for, and who else sees it. Written in plain English, and describing what the site actually does rather than what it reserves the right to do.

Last changed 6 September 2026.

Who is responsible

Jack runs Airframe. One person, not a company. If you want anything on this page explained, changed or acted on, get in touch. You don't need an account to do that.

What is kept, and why

Nothing is collected because it might be useful one day. Each of these is here because the site cannot do the thing you asked for without it.

what	why it's needed
Your username and display name	To put your name on your photos and give you a profile
Your email address	To confirm it's yours, to let you reset a password, and to reply if you write in
Your password, scrambled	To let you sign in. It is never stored in a readable form, so nobody, including Jack, can see what it is
Anything you write in your profile	Because you chose to put it there
Your photos and what you type about them	They're the point of the site
What you've liked, saved, followed and wished for	To show you your own lists and tell people when their photo is liked
Roughly when you were last here	To tell a dormant account from an active one
How many times each photo has been looked at	A number per photo per day. It isn't linked to who looked

What is not kept

This is the shorter and more interesting list.

No tracking, no analytics, no advertising. There is not a single line of anybody else's code on these pages. No Google, no Facebook, no counters, no pixels, not even outside fonts. Nothing about you is sold, shared or built into a profile, because nothing is gathered to build one from.
Your address isn't recorded by Airframe. The site itself never writes down where you connected from. Being straight with you: the companies below that carry the traffic do keep short-lived connection logs of their own, the way every website on the internet has, and Jack cannot switch that off. What is true is that Airframe never stores it, never looks at it, and has nothing to hand over.
No cookie except the one that signs you in. See the cookie page.
No location. See below.

Location data in your photos

Cameras and phones quietly record exactly where a photo was taken. For a shot from your own garden, that is your home address.

Airframe removes it. The copies shown on the site are rebuilt from scratch and carry no hidden information at all, and the coordinates are stripped out of the archived original too. Camera and lens details are kept, because they're interesting and harmless, and there's a switch on every photo to hide those if you'd rather.

Private photos

A photo marked just for my logbook is yours alone. It isn't in the feed, in search, or on your profile, and the address of the image file itself is checked as well, so a link to it doesn't work for anybody else. Not for other members, and not for Jack either.

Who else handles your data

Running a website means other companies hold your information on the way through. For Airframe that is four of them, and no others:

Render runs the site and stores the database.
Cloudflare stores the photo files and carries the traffic.
Resend sends the confirmation and password emails, so it handles your address and what those messages say.
Stripe handles payment, if you ever pay for a plan. Card details go straight to Stripe and never touch Airframe.

Nobody else is given anything. Your details are never sold, rented, or handed over for marketing, and there is no arrangement under which they could be.

How long things are kept

Your account and photos: until you delete them.
A sign-up you never finished: three days, then the address and password are thrown away.
A password reset or confirmation link: cleared once it has been used or has expired.
An email you sent through the contact form: the message arrives in Jack's inbox and lives there. The site itself remembers only that an address wrote in, for two days, so nobody can use the form to send a hundred messages.
Failed sign-in attempts: two days, so repeated guessing can be slowed down.
Backups: a copy of the database is made daily and the last fourteen are kept, so something deleted today can still be in a backup for up to two weeks before it rotates out.

What you can do

See it. Everything the site holds about you is on your account page, your profile and your logbook.
Take it with you. Your whole logbook exports to a spreadsheet, whenever you like, in one click. Your original files are downloadable one at a time from each photo.
Correct it. Your name, profile and email are yours to change. For a photo's details, there's Ask for a change on your own photos.
Delete it. Any photo, at any time, for good. Or your whole account, from your account page, without asking anybody. That takes the account, every photo in it, the files themselves, and everything you've liked, saved and logged.
Ask. If you'd rather have any of this dealt with by a person, write in and Jack will do it.

Age

You need to be 13 or older to have an account. If you're younger than that, Airframe isn't for you yet. If an account turns out to belong to somebody under 13 it gets removed along with everything in it.

If this page changes

Anything that materially affects you will be said on the site rather than quietly edited in here, and the date at the top will change.