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2026-08-10

Terms

detsherlock searches public web pages for images containing a face you upload. These terms cover what you may use it for and what you get for your money.

What you may search for

  • Your own face, to find where your photos have been published.
  • The face of someone who has given you permission.
  • A face in a context you are legally entitled to investigate — verifying a person you are talking to online, or research you are authorised to carry out.

What you may not do

  • Stalk, harass, intimidate or surveil anyone.
  • Build profiles of people without a lawful basis, or resell results as a background-check or screening product.
  • Use results to make decisions about employment, housing, credit or insurance. This is not a consumer reporting service.
  • Search for a minor's face.
  • Upload an image you have no right to use.

What you pay for

  • A pack is a single payment. It buys a set number of searches, they stay on your account until you use them, and nothing renews.
  • A plan renews. The weekly plan is charged every week and adds its searches each time; the annual plan is charged once a year. Both keep charging at the price shown at checkout until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account, in one click: the plan then stays active until the renewal date shown there and simply stops.
  • The annual plan is sold as unlimited and is subject to fair use — up to 100 searches per plan year. Every search costs us money upstream, so the ceiling exists for the case that is not ordinary use. Reaching it does not lock you out: you can still use searches already on your account or buy a pack.
  • Payment runs the search. A search that returns no matches is still a completed search — the engine ran against the full index and found nothing, which is itself a result.
  • If a search fails on our side, contact us and we will re-run it at no cost or refund it.

What we do not promise

  • Results come from a third-party index and are ranked by similarity, not identity. A high score means two images look alike, not that they are the same person.
  • Coverage is partial. A face missing from the results may simply not be indexed.
  • Do not treat a report as proof of anything on its own.

Ending access

  • We log every search and will close accounts that use the service against these terms, without refund for the searches that broke them.