Does AI face search store my photo somewhere permanently?

The system stores the uploaded event photos in the gallery (as any photo gallery would) and generates numerical embeddings used for matching — it isn't sending your face off to a separate facial recognition company to build a profile.

Do I need to create an account to use face search?

No. Guests typically take a quick reference photo right in the gallery and the system searches against it — no login or app download required, consistent with how the rest of a QR-code photo gallery works.

Will face search find every photo I'm in?

It will find most of them, especially clear, front-facing shots. Distant, blurry, or heavily obscured faces are harder to match reliably, so it's a strong shortcut rather than a perfect guarantee.

Is this the same technology as Facebook or Google Photos face tagging?

The underlying concept — detect a face, generate an embedding, compare embeddings — is similar to how most face-matching systems work generally, but Snapsy's implementation is self-hosted rather than routed through a named third-party recognition vendor.