Terms of Service

Acceptance of these Terms

SafPix is operated by Aternom Inc., a California corporation, doing business as "SafPix" ("SafPix," "Aternom," "we," "us," or "our"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding legal agreement between you and Aternom Inc. By accessing or using SafPix — including processing any image — you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use SafPix.

You must be at least 13 years old to use SafPix, and if you are under 18 you must have a parent or guardian's permission. By using SafPix you confirm that you meet these requirements.

You use SafPix entirely at your own risk. You are solely responsible for the images you choose to process and for any decision or action you take based on SafPix.

What SafPix is (and isn't)

SafPix is an informational tool that performs statistical forensic analysis on images. It provides probabilistic indicators, not definitive conclusions. Here's what that means in practice:

• A "looks clear" score does not certify, guarantee, or verify that an image is authentic
• A "red flags" score does not prove an image is fake, AI-generated, or manipulated
• SafPix is not a forensic laboratory
• SafPix is not a certification authority
• SafPix is not a substitute for professional forensic analysis

We built SafPix to help people make more informed judgments about images they encounter online. It's a powerful screening tool — but screening is not the same as certifying.

No warranties

SafPix is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or accuracy.

We do not warrant that the analysis will be accurate, complete, reliable, or error-free. Here's the reality:

• False positives happen — real, unedited images sometimes get flagged
• False negatives happen — AI-generated or manipulated images sometimes look clean
• New AI techniques evolve constantly — generation methods that didn't exist when we built a detector may evade it entirely

Image forensics is probabilistic by nature. Anyone who tells you their tool is 100% accurate is not being honest with you. We'd rather be upfront about the limitations.

Deep Scan (beta)

"Deep Scan" is an optional, more intensive analysis that downloads and runs a large detection model on your own device. It is provided on a beta, best-effort basis and is subject to every disclaimer in these Terms. Because it runs entirely in your browser using your device's own memory and processor, it may run slowly, requires a one-time download of several hundred megabytes, and may not complete on older or lower-memory devices — a scan that does not finish is a device limitation, not a defect, and gives rise to no liability on our part. Like every SafPix result, a Deep Scan verdict is a probabilistic indicator, never proof: it can miss AI images (false negatives) and can flag real photographs or human-made artwork (false positives), and a "no AI signature" result is never a guarantee that an image is authentic.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, SafPix and its creators, operators, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages arising from or related to:

• Your use of or inability to use SafPix
• Any analysis results or scores provided
• Any decisions made based on SafPix results
• Any claims by third parties related to your use of SafPix results

This applies whether the damages are based on warranty, contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other legal theory — even if we've been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Liability cap. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the total aggregate liability of Aternom Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, creators, operators, and affiliates for all claims arising out of or relating to SafPix will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us, if any, in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD $100.

Savings clause. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including, where applicable, liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, or death or personal injury caused by negligence — or affects any statutory consumer rights you hold that cannot be waived by contract. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

Not legal evidence

SafPix analysis is not designed, tested, or validated for use as forensic evidence in legal proceedings. Full stop.

Do not present SafPix results as proof of authenticity or manipulation in any legal, administrative, or regulatory context. Courts require chain-of-custody documentation, validated methodologies, and expert testimony — SafPix provides none of these.

If you need forensic analysis for legal purposes, engage a qualified digital forensics professional. We mean this sincerely — the stakes in legal proceedings are too high for a consumer screening tool.

Not professional advice

SafPix and all of its content — including analysis results, the "inspect it yourself" guidance, checklists, the scam-recovery guide, and any tips — are provided for general informational purposes only. They are not legal, financial, investment, medical, psychological, relationship, or safety advice, and do not create any professional or advisory relationship.

Do not rely on SafPix as a substitute for professional judgment. For decisions that matter, consult a qualified professional. In an emergency, or if you believe you are in danger, contact your local emergency services or law enforcement.

Not a consumer reporting agency

SafPix is not a "consumer reporting agency" and its results are not "consumer reports" under the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or any similar law. You agree not to use SafPix, in whole or in part, to make or influence decisions about a person's eligibility for employment, credit, insurance, housing or tenancy, education, or any other purpose with a legal or similarly significant effect.

Your responsibilities

By using SafPix, you agree to:

• Use results as one input among many — not as a sole basis for decisions about people, content, or situations
• Not use results to harass, defame, or make false accusations — a SafPix score is not grounds to accuse someone of fraud, catfishing, or deception
• Not present results as definitive proof or certification — saying "SafPix proved this is fake" misrepresents what the tool does
• Exercise your own judgment — SafPix gives you data points, but the interpretation and any resulting actions are yours

Sharing results

If you share SafPix results — share cards, PDF reports, screenshots — you are responsible for the context in which you share them.

Sharing a SafPix report with commentary that presents it as definitive proof of forgery or authenticity is your responsibility, not ours. We can't control how you frame the results, but we can be clear: SafPix results are informational indicators, and every report includes a disclaimer saying exactly that.

If someone shares a SafPix result with you, treat it as one data point — not a verdict.

Acceptable use and prohibited conduct

SafPix processes your images on your own device — we never receive, see, or store them. You are fully responsible for what you process and how you use the results. You agree not to use SafPix to:

• Process, create, or store any content that is unlawful — including, without limitation, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or other illegal imagery. Because processing happens locally, SafPix never receives such content, but using the tool for it is strictly prohibited.
• Process, create, or share intimate or sexual images of any person without that person's consent — including images obtained without consent, images shared to harass or coerce ("revenge porn"), and synthetic or AI-generated intimate imagery of a real person. This is prohibited whether or not it is unlawful where you are.
• Process images of a minor for face comparison, identification, or any sexualised purpose whatsoever
• Harass, stalk, "dox," defame, threaten, or invade the privacy of any person
• Violate anyone's intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other rights
• Break, overload, scrape, reverse-engineer, or interfere with the service or its security
• Evade or defeat detection: use SafPix, its models, or its outputs to develop, train, test, tune, or benchmark techniques or systems intended to evade image-authenticity detection (ours or anyone's), to generate adversarial images, or to build or improve a competing detection product
• Bulk or automated access: query the service or download its model files by automated means beyond ordinary personal browser use, or extract, redistribute, or commercially exploit our model files, thresholds, or calibration data
• Use face comparison for surveillance, tracking, law-enforcement or governmental identification, or any automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects on a person
• Use SafPix anywhere its use would be illegal or in violation of any applicable law, or if you are subject to U.S. sanctions or located in a jurisdiction embargoed by the United States

We host nothing, monitor nothing, and cannot remove anything

Every image, file, and password you use with SafPix is processed entirely within your own browser, on your own device. Aternom Inc. does not receive, view, transmit, store, host, or back up any of it — there is no upload, and no copy of your content exists on any system we control.

It follows that we cannot and do not monitor, review, screen, moderate, filter, or remove anything you choose to process, and nothing in these Terms creates any obligation for us to do so. We have no ability to identify what any user processes, to intervene, or to comply with a takedown or preservation request directed at user content, because we hold no such content. Any prohibited use described above is a breach of these Terms by the user who commits it, and the sole responsibility of that user.

If you encounter illegal material, report it to the appropriate authorities — in the United States, child sexual abuse material can be reported to the NCMEC CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org. Please understand that we cannot action such a report ourselves, as we never possess the underlying file. We may restrict, suspend, or terminate access to SafPix for any breach of these Terms, and may report unlawful conduct we become aware of to law enforcement.

Biometric data — face comparison runs on your device

The "Same picture? Same person?" tool computes face measurements (sometimes called face geometry, embeddings, or descriptors) entirely on your own device, in your browser. Aternom Inc. never receives, collects, captures, purchases, stores, possesses, sells, leases, trades, discloses, or otherwise obtains any image, face measurement, biometric identifier, or biometric information from you. We maintain no biometric database, and there is nothing on our side to retain or delete — the computation exists only in your browser's memory and is discarded when you leave the page.

You are the party processing the images you choose to compare, on your own device. Where any law — including, without limitation, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, Washington's biometric or My Health My Data laws, or the EU/UK GDPR — requires notice to or consent from a person whose photograph or biometric data is processed, obtaining that notice or consent is solely your responsibility. Do not process photographs of another person where doing so would violate applicable law or that person's rights. You agree that any claim arising from your processing of another person's image is covered by your indemnification obligations below.

The SafPix tools (Clean, Blur & hide, Stamp, QR, Same picture/person, Original check)

The utility tools are provided on the same "as is," best-effort, no-guarantee basis as the analysis, and you are responsible for checking their output before relying on it:

• Clean removes common metadata (EXIF/GPS) but may not remove every trace — confirm a file is acceptable before sharing it publicly. Cleaning also removes provenance data (Content Credentials, AI-source labels)
• Blur & hide only covers the regions you select — you are responsible for confirming every sensitive detail is actually covered before sharing
• QR check uses heuristics to flag risky links; a "looks okay" result is not a guarantee of safety — verify the destination yourself
• Stamp adds a visible watermark that can deter reuse but does not legally prevent anyone from copying or misusing an image
• Same picture / Same person produces probabilistic similarity indicators. A "same person" or "different people" result is not an identification, verification, or authentication of any individual, and must never be treated as proof of anyone's identity or wrongdoing. Face comparison degrades on small, distant, angled, filtered, or low-quality faces, on twins and close relatives, and across significant age gaps. The "same picture" check and its difference highlighting are best-effort and can miss subtle or sophisticated edits
• Original check audits byte structure and camera-physics signals. Passing the audit is evidence, not proof — a sufficiently determined forger can construct files that pass, and a failed or partial audit does not prove an image is fake (most legitimately shared images fail because platforms strip this data). It verifies file characteristics, never the truthfulness of what an image depicts

Crumble — locking & encrypting files

"Crumble" encrypts a photo or file with a code (password) entirely on your own device using standard AES-256 encryption. Aternom Inc. never receives, sees, stores, or transmits your file or your code — encryption and decryption happen only in your browser. Because of that:

• We cannot recover your file or reset your code. There is no backdoor. If you lose or forget the code, the locked file is permanently unrecoverable, and we have no ability to help. Keeping your code safe is entirely your responsibility.
• It is not a backup. Crumble locks a copy you send or store — never rely on it as your only copy of anything. Always keep your original safe, separately. Verify a locked file actually opens before deleting the original. We are not liable for any lost, corrupted, or unopenable file.
• It does not control the file after it is opened. Encryption protects a file in transit and at rest; it cannot stop a person you gave the code to from saving, copying, or resharing the file once they open it.
• Use your own judgment with sensitive material. Although Crumble uses strong, standard encryption, you use it entirely at your own risk. Crumble adds a lock to a file you were going to send anyway — it is not a secure-document service, a compliance product (HIPAA, GLBA, PCI or otherwise), or a substitute for one. Do not rely on Crumble as your only safeguard for irreplaceable, legally-regulated (for example health, financial, or government-identity records), or highly sensitive material — for those, use purpose-built, professionally-supported services. Encrypting a file also does nothing to make its recipient trustworthy: if you are not certain who is asking for an identity document, the safe answer is not to send it at all. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Aternom Inc. is not responsible or liable for any loss, exposure, or consequence arising from your use of Crumble or from any file you lock, send, or fail to open.
• Provided "as is." Like everything else on SafPix, Crumble carries no warranty of any kind, and the limitation-of-liability and indemnification sections above apply in full.

Third-party links and services

SafPix may link to or rely on third-party services (for example reverse-image-search engines, scam-reporting databases, map providers, payment processing by Stripe, and content-delivery networks). We do not control and are not responsible for third-party websites, services, or content. Your use of them is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

Pro tier, payments & refunds

Pro features are unlocked via payment processed by Stripe (one-time purchase or monthly subscription). We never see or store your card details — payment data is handled entirely by Stripe under its own terms. Here's the deal:

• All payments are final — refunds are at our sole discretion and may be requested by emailing support@safpix.com
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled. You can cancel at any time through Stripe's customer portal — cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; no prorated refunds for partial periods
• Digital content, immediate delivery. Pro is a digital service performed immediately on purchase. If you are an EU or UK consumer, by purchasing you expressly request immediate performance and acknowledge that you thereby lose your statutory right of withdrawal to the extent the service has been performed — without affecting any non-waivable statutory rights
• Chargebacks. Initiating a chargeback instead of contacting us first, where done in bad faith, is grounds for terminating Pro access
• Pro features are subject to the same "no warranties" and "limitation of liability" terms as the free tier — paying doesn't change the probabilistic nature of the analysis, and a paid report carries the same disclaimers as a free result
• We reserve the right to modify Pro pricing, features, or availability at any time. Existing subscriptions will be honored at their purchased rate until the end of the current billing period
• Taxes: prices may exclude applicable VAT/sales tax, which is collected where required

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Aternom Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, creators, operators, and affiliates from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from or related to:

• Your use of SafPix or any results it produces
• Your violation of these terms
• Any content you share, publish, or distribute that incorporates SafPix results
• Any claim by a third party related to actions you took based on SafPix analysis

In plain English: if you use a SafPix result to accuse someone of something and it goes sideways, that's on you — not us.

Age requirement

You must be at least 13 years old to use SafPix. If you are under 18, you represent that you have your parent or guardian's permission to use the service.

Intellectual property

SafPix — including its name, logo, trade dress, interface design, verdict copy, calibration data, and forensic analysis methodology — is the intellectual property of Aternom Inc. and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. "SafPix" and the SafPix logo are trademarks of Aternom Inc. You may not copy, reproduce, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works based on SafPix's analysis engine, interface design, or branding without prior written permission, except to the extent open-source components (credited below) permit under their own licenses.

You retain full ownership of any images you scan. We claim no rights over your images or the content you analyze — and because processing is on-device, we never receive them and host no user content. If you believe content on the SafPix site itself infringes your rights, contact support@safpix.com with details and we will respond promptly.

Feedback. If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback, you grant Aternom Inc. a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without restriction or compensation.

Service availability

We make no guarantees about uptime or availability. SafPix may be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance, updates, or circumstances beyond our control. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service at any time without prior notice.

Governing law, arbitration & class-action waiver

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. Please read this section carefully — it affects how disputes are resolved and limits your rights.

Informal resolution first. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to email us at support@safpix.com and try to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.

Binding individual arbitration. Except as stated below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to SafPix or these Terms will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration, not in court. Arbitration uses a neutral arbitrator, is more informal than a lawsuit, and review of an award is limited.

Arbitration provider, rules & fees. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (or, if AAA is unavailable, by JAMS under its Streamlined Rules), as modified by these Terms. For any claim seeking less than US$10,000, SafPix will pay the arbitration filing fee and the arbitrator's fees, unless the arbitrator finds the claim frivolous; any in-person hearing will be held in the county where you live, or by phone/video at your option. Delegation: the arbitrator decides all threshold questions about the interpretation, scope, and enforceability of this arbitration agreement — except that a court (not an arbitrator) decides any challenge to the class-action waiver below.

Class-action and jury-trial waiver. You and SafPix agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. You and SafPix waive any right to a jury trial.

Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property. Nothing here waives any right that cannot be waived by law.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing support@safpix.com with the subject "Arbitration Opt-Out" and your name. If you opt out — or where arbitration does not apply — disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and you and Aternom Inc. consent to their jurisdiction.

Force majeure

SafPix is not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages, network or device failures, acts of God, or actions of third parties.

Entire agreement; no waiver; assignment

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Aternom Inc. regarding the service, and supersede any prior agreements. The "Survival" rule applies: sections which by their nature should survive termination (including IP, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnification, and dispute resolution) survive. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor or affiliate.

Severability

If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

Privacy

See our separate Privacy Policy for full details on how SafPix handles (and doesn't handle) your data and images.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Material changes will be noted prominently. Continued use of SafPix after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

Contact

All inquiries: support@safpix.com

These terms exist to be honest about what SafPix can and can't do. We built this tool to help people — not to make promises we can't keep.

Open-Source Attribution

SafPix uses the following open-source AI detection models, with the license noted per model:

• Deepfake-Detection-Exp-02-21 by prithivMLmods — ViT-base with updated training data (Apache-2.0)
• Deepfake-Detect-Siglip2 by prithivMLmods — SigLIP2-base for semantic AI detection, converted to ONNX by SafPix (Apache-2.0)
• Community Forensics by Jeongsoo Park and Andrew Owens, University of Michigan — ViT-small trained on 2.7M images from 4,803 generators, converted to ONNX by SafPix (MIT)
• ai-image-detector by haywoodsloan — SwinV2-Large image classifier, the first Deep Scan stage, converted to ONNX by SafPix (Apache-2.0, per github.com/haywoodsloan/ai-image-detector)
• ai-illust-detector-siglip2-so400m-patch16-384 by Minachist — SigLIP2-SO400m detector tuned for the newest ("Flux-tier") generators, the second Deep Scan stage, quantized and converted to ONNX by SafPix (Apache-2.0)

Built on the Vision Transformer architecture by Google Research. Browser inference powered by Transformers.js by Hugging Face (Apache-2.0). Content Credentials verification powered by c2pa-web by the Content Authenticity Initiative (Apache-2.0). Face comparison powered by face-api.js (MIT). Community Forensics weights are used in both 224px and 384px variants (MIT, with community-corrected 384 weights per the model repository).