Privacy

The short version

• Photos you scan are uploaded to our server and stored, to measure and improve pricing.
• There is no account. We never ask for your name, your email or your contacts.
• Your device identifier and IP address are stored only as salted hashes, never as the raw values.
• There is no advertising and no ad tracking in the app.
• Photos contain whatever the camera was pointed at. Don’t scan anything you wouldn’t be comfortable sharing.

What the app sends, and what we keep

Photos

When you price something, the photo is uploaded to the Worth server. The server stores the photo as uploaded, along with the answer it produced. If you add a second photo to sharpen a price, that photo is uploaded and stored the same way.

The answer

With each photo we store the name, category, price range, confidence and reasoning that came back, how long it took, and any market lookup made for it.

Your feedback

If you tap thumbs up or thumbs down, tell us what something is actually worth, add a note, or add a fact to sharpen a price, that is stored with the scan it belongs to. Corrections are used to improve later prices for the same item, including prices shown to other people. They see the adjusted price and a line such as “Adjusted for an owner’s correction”. They do not see who made the correction.

A little about how the app is used

The app reports how long a scan took on your phone, and whether you bookmarked, shared or retook it. That is stored with the scan too.

Identifiers

The app sends the identifier Apple gives it for your device (Apple’s “identifier for vendor”, which other companies’ apps cannot see) and its own version number. The server also sees the IP address the request came from. Before anything is stored, the device identifier and the IP address are each turned into a salted hash. The raw values are not written to the archive. The hashes let us tell that two scans came from the same phone, which is how “one voice per phone” works, and let us limit abuse.

What stays on your phone

Your history and bookmarks live on your phone, in the app’s own storage. Deleting a scan from your history removes it from your phone. It does not remove the copy on our server.

Who else sees what

• The pricing model. To produce a price, our server sends your photo to an AI model run by a third-party provider. With the live market check switched on, the model may also run web searches about the item.
• eBay. To show what an item is listed for right now, our server sends the item’s name to eBay. Your photo is not sent to eBay.
• Stores and maps. The rows under “Where to buy” open a store’s own search, or Maps, outside the app, with the item’s name or the kind of shop filled in. Some store links may carry a referral tag. What happens there is covered by that service’s own policy. Worth never asks for your location.
• Apple. The app is distributed through the App Store, which has its own data practices.

The archive is not sold, and it is not used for advertising.

What we don’t collect

• No account, name, email address or phone number.
• No contacts.
• No location.
• No advertising identifiers and no third-party analytics or advertising code.

Be careful what you photograph

A photo can contain faces, house numbers, licence plates, documents and screens. We do not blur or remove any of that. Whatever is in the frame is uploaded and stored, so frame the item and leave the rest out.

Keeping and deleting

Scans are kept so pricing can be measured and improved, and there is no fixed period after which they are removed. Because there is no account, the app has no way yet to show you what the server holds or to delete it from there. We would rather say that plainly than promise a control that doesn’t exist.

This website

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics, trackers or third-party scripts. Its fonts and images are served from the site itself. Like any website, the company hosting it may keep ordinary server logs.

Changes

When Worth changes what it collects or how it is used, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.

Questions

Ask at hello@area21.io.