Privacy Policy

Who operates UpcycleMe

UpcycleMe is an initiative of Simply Green LLC. Questions, access requests, and deletion requests can be sent to simplygreenks@gmail.com.

Photographs we process

UpcycleMe processes the photograph you choose only after you select the required consent checkbox. The photograph is resized and compressed on your device, then securely sent through UpcycleMe’s server to the Lovable AI Gateway and its OpenAI model for safety screening, material recognition, and project suggestions.

UpcycleMe does not upload photographs to its application storage or create a public photograph URL. The compressed image is held only in memory for the duration of the analysis request and is not saved in the UpcycleMe database.

What you must not upload

Do not upload people, faces, children, animals, identity or financial documents, registration plates, correspondence, medical details, readable personal information, inappropriate content, or material that may be hazardous or contaminated. Automated screening may reject prohibited photographs.

Anonymous activity information

UpcycleMe stores a random browser session identifier as a one-way hash, event type, event key, and timestamp to count visits, scans, guides opened, and sessions active in the last five minutes. It does not store names or email addresses for these counters. Network information may be used transiently and hashed to prevent abuse; raw addresses are not saved in the counter records.

Why information is processed

Photographs are processed to check whether they are permitted, identify one of the four supported material categories, and provide four practical ideas. Anonymous activity information is processed to operate honest public counters, prevent abuse, and understand basic service use.

Providers and retention

Lovable Cloud provides the application backend and database. Photograph analysis is sent from UpcycleMe’s server to the Lovable AI Gateway, which routes the request to the OpenAI model gpt-6-astra. This is the only AI provider and model used by the production scanner.

UpcycleMe’s own photograph retention period is zero. The compressed image exists only in memory during the request; it is not written to application storage, no public photograph address is created, and no copy is saved in the UpcycleMe database.

The gateway keeps an operational record of each analysis request: date and time, model, request status, duration, token counts and credit cost. Request and response content is not retained in full in these records; where any payload appears it is stored only in redacted or truncated form for troubleshooting. OpenAI processes the photograph to return the analysis and, under its published API policy, may hold request content for a short abuse-monitoring period of up to thirty days and does not use it to train its models.

Temporary rate-limit and active-session records are deleted after 24 hours through operational maintenance. Anonymous usage events are retained to provide cumulative counts.

Consent and your choices

You provide consent for each photograph by selecting the checkbox before analysis. You can withdraw before processing by leaving the box unselected, choosing another photograph, or closing the page. Once a request has been sent, it cannot be recalled from an analysis already in progress.

To ask about access or deletion, email simplygreenks@gmail.com. Because public counters use one-way anonymous identifiers, UpcycleMe may be unable to link a counter record to you without the identifier stored on your device.