For families, PTAs & administrators
Picture day your family can actually check.
The thing parents ask first is simple: where does my child’s photo go? Here is the plain answer. When a parent looks up their own child, it is a lookup in the school’s own student list — not a face match. Your child’s photos are never sold without your permission, and facial recognition is off unless a parent turns it on.
Everything on this page is what works today, plus an honest label on the parts that are still opening up.
How “find my child” really works
A list lookup, not a face match
When you find your own child, the system matches against your school’s own student list — the same roster the school already keeps. It does not scan a face to find a match, so normally no face data is created at all. Shipped
Photos are never sold without your permission
A photo can be offered for sale only when a family’s permission allows it — that consent check runs at the system level so it cannot be skipped. A do-not-sell choice takes effect right away. Shipped
Facial recognition is off unless a parent turns it on
Face matching is not on by default. It stays off unless a parent chooses to turn it on for their own child — the school cannot flip it on for a family. Shipped
One permission decides everything
A single do-not-publish choice hides a child everywhere at once — the online edition, the pages, and any sale — and it is checked fresh every time, so a change takes effect right away. Shipped
Curious what a picture-day program looks like end to end? See a picture-day program →
The store only offers what permission allows
A photo can be offered for sale only when a family’s permission allows it — that consent check is part of the system today, decided one layer below the screen so it cannot be skipped by a busy staffer or an out-of-date copy. Consent gate shipped
The parent storefront where families find and buy their own child’s portraits is opening on top of that shipped consent gate, and when a school runs it as a fundraiser the whole gift goes to the school. We are not going to call it live before it is. Parent store in early access
A PTA memory book, from your own picture day
Parent groups keep asking for a simple keepsake — a small memory book built from the school’s own picture-day portraits, with no legacy-vendor minimum and the school setting its own price. A photo appears in it only when a family’s permission allows. This one is new, and we label it honestly rather than pretend it has shipped. PTA memory book in early access
What’s shipped, and what’s still opening up
The privacy story is live today: the student-list lookup instead of a face match, photos never sold without a family’s explicit permission, facial recognition off unless a parent turns it on, and the permission and consent gate the whole platform runs on. Still in early access: the parent storefront that opens on top of that consent gate, and the PTA memory book. We show you the parts that work and name the parts that don’t yet.