For barbershop customers

Photo, AI & Marketing Consent

Last updated: 10 August 2026

This page explains, in plain English, what you're agreeing to when you use a barbershop's Taper iPad or queue link. You can come back here any time. Each consent below is separate — you can say yes to one and no to another.

Quick summary. The barbershop decides why it needs your client details and Taper processes them to provide and secure the service. Using your photo once for an AI preview does not automatically allow the shop to save it. You can withdraw consent or request deletion by asking the shop or emailing privacy@taper.style or jai@aiandi.com.au.

1. One-time photo & AI haircut preview

What you're consenting to. The shop will take or upload a front-facing photo of your face and hair, send it to OpenAI's image model through Taper, and show you a preview of how the chosen haircut might look on you.

What happens to the photo:

  • It's sent to OpenAI to generate the preview, then returned to Taper.
  • OpenAI says API data is not used to train general AI models by default unless the API customer opts in. Taper does not opt in to training with customer photos.
  • OpenAI may still process inputs for safety, abuse monitoring, legal compliance, and service operation.
  • This consent lets Taper process the photo for this requested preview. It does not by itself allow persistent storage.
  • Taper removes customer photo and preview copies within 24 hours, including images shared with the barber. Saving a cut card does not extend this period.
  • The preview is a visualisation — not a guarantee of the final cut.

Taper does not use your photo for facial recognition, identity verification, surveillance, biometric matching, or to make decisions about you. It is used only to create the haircut preview and support the shop workflow you requested.

How to withdraw. Ask the shop to delete it, or email privacy@taper.style.

2. Save photo and preview to cut history (optional)

What you're consenting to. If you separately choose to share the images, the shop may view them to recognise you and discuss your haircut during this visit, for at most 24 hours. There is no permanent customer-photo library.

You can use the preview without sharing images with the barber. Ask the shop or Taper to delete them sooner. Text-only style preferences and notes can remain after images expire.

3. Contact details — name, mobile, email

What you're consenting to. The shop adds your name, mobile, and email (only the ones you give them) to its client list inside Taper, so they can find you on a return visit and confirm your booking.

This is for service communication only — appointment confirmations, reminders, and answers to questions you've asked. It is not marketing.

How to withdraw. Ask the shop to delete your record. They are required to do so within a reasonable time.

4. Optional email offers

Updated 10 September 2026. The separate email checkbox says: "Email me occasional specials and return-visit offers from this shop. Optional; unsubscribe at any time." It starts unticked. Joining the queue, providing contact details, or consenting to AI or photo storage is not consent to marketing.

When campaigns are activated, the named shop can use your completed visit history and services to select a relevant offer. This is not permission for other shops or Aiandi businesses to market to you. Email delivery uses Resend, which may process information overseas, including in the United States. SMS sending is Coming Soon and is not authorised by this email choice.

How to withdraw. Click an email's unsubscribe link without signing in, ask the shop, or contact hello@taper.style. Taper applies recorded blocks immediately; messages already in transit may arrive. The shop must promptly process requests it receives, within five working days at the latest. Unsubscribe methods must remain functional for at least 30 days after sending.

5. AI preview age limit

The photo flow requires you to confirm that you are 16 or older, or that a parent or guardian is present and consents on your behalf. The guardian path records the guardian's name and, in a staff-assisted flow, the acting staff account. Do not provide that assurance if it is not true.

Your rights

You can ask the shop, at any time, to:

If they don't respond, email privacy@taper.style or jai@aiandi.com.au. If you're still not satisfied, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).

What this is not

Contact

Privacy questions about Taper: privacy@taper.style or jai@aiandi.com.au
For the barbershop's own contact details: ask staff at the front desk.

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Customer-image retention update (15 September 2026). Customer originals, previews and thumbnails are limited to 24 hours in Taper. New disaster-recovery backups exclude customer images. Older restricted backups may still contain images until migration removes them; they are not used for routine access. Text-only customer records follow the separate retention periods in the Privacy Policy. AI providers operate under their own retention rules: OpenAI may retain API content in abuse-monitoring logs for up to 30 days by default, with exceptions and different approved account controls. Taper does not promise deletion of provider-held copies within 24 hours. Downloads or copies independently retained by a shop or customer are outside Taper storage; shops must handle them lawfully and must not use downloads to evade this retention policy.