Two lawful ways

This is how we recommend using the program. Photos of children are personal data, and automatic grouping by face counts as processing biometric data under GDPR, which needs the parents’ explicit consent. So the program offers two ways. Both are sound, and both give you an album per child.

WAY 1

With face recognition — with the parents’ consent

The program separates the children by their faces on its own. All you need to take care of is the consent.

  1. Before the shoot, collect a signed consent form from the parents. Template to download (PDF)
  2. You need a signed form for every child in the shoot. If anyone hasn’t signed, use way 2 for that group.
  3. When uploading, choose “With face recognition”.

Advantage: fully automatic, and accompanying parents’ photos go to their own child too. The facial data is deleted automatically when the session is closed.

WAY 2

With separator cards — no face recognition

Without consent, the children are separated by cards you photograph during the shoot. The program does no face recognition, and no facial data is created.

  1. Open the cards on your phone, or print them.
  2. Before each child’s portraits, photograph the “New child” card; before photos with a sibling, friend or parent, the “Group photos with the previous child” card.
  3. When uploading, choose “With separator cards”.

Advantage: no consent is needed for face recognition. Quality filtering (blinks, blur, near-duplicates) works the same way.

What a shoot with cards looks like

NEW CHILD
→
child 1’s portraits
→
NEW CHILD
→
child 2’s portraits
→
GROUP PHOTOS WITH THE PREVIOUS CHILD
→
child 2 with a sibling

The result in the gallery:

Child 01 — portraits Child 02 — portraits + group photos

Card shots are left out of the gallery. If a card shot was missed, you can fix it in the gallery with one click (“New album from here”, “Merge with previous”). You can rename the albums.

Open the cards

Which one should you choose?

With face recognitionWith separator cards
Parental consentrequired, for every child in the shootnot needed for face recognition
During the shootnothing extraa card before each child
Facial datacreated, deleted when the session closesnone created
Resultan album per child, automaticallyan album per child, by the cards

Tip: if every parent in the group has signed, face recognition is the more convenient way. If even one is missing, or there’s no time for the forms, use the cards — you can decide group by group.