Overview

PicToPassport is free, needs no account and runs in your browser; what happens to your photo is covered on the privacy page, not here. These terms cover three things: what you may do with the site, what we do and do not promise about the photo it produces, and who owns what. They are short on purpose, and a clause that would mean nothing on a site where nothing you make ever reaches us has been left out rather than padded.

1. Using the site

You can use the editor, the tools and the guides for anything, commercial work included. No permission needed, no account needed, no fee.
Do not use the site for anything unlawful, and do not try to break it, overload the host, or lift the code and content into a site of your own. Reading it, quoting it with a link, and running your own copy for your own users are all fine.
Only run photos you have the right to use. That is between you and whoever is in them, not a question for us.

2. What the photo is, and what it is not

The editor measures your photo, crops it to the preset for your document, and draws a head-height box so you can judge the proportions yourself. That measurement is a guide, not a verdict.

No badge on this site is a decision by the authority that will look at your picture. The 100 percent mark means our own checks passed — dimensions, head height, eye line, background — and nothing more. What the officer at the counter makes of the result is not something we can see or promise.

Requirements change without warning, and they differ between embassies of the same country. Every country guide links to the authority it was checked against, so you can confirm the figure yourself. If a number here does not match what your application told you, the contact page reaches a person who will correct the page.

3. Who owns what

Whatever you make here belongs to you. We claim no rights in your photo, we never receive it, and there is nothing to delete because nothing was stored. Your face, your document and the measurements read off them stay yours too.

The code, design, text, country guides and illustrations are ours and protected by copyright. Read them, quote them with a link, use the photos anywhere you like. What you may not do is republish this site or its content as your own product.

Cropping, background removal and export are ordinary canvas operations rather than something invented here, so the claim is over this implementation and nothing wider.

4. What we do not promise

The site is offered as it is. We do not promise that it will be available at all times, free of errors, or correct on every device, because the editor depends on your browser, your GPU and two model files it fetches at runtime. A tool that breaks on a particular phone is a bug we want to hear about, not a warranty you were given.

We do not promise that a photo made here will be accepted either. That is scope rather than pessimism: the decision belongs to the issuing authority, and a tool that claimed otherwise would be lying to you.

5. If a photo is refused

A refused photo costs a second appointment, a fee, or a few days. None of that can be undone from here, and so far as the law allows us to limit it we are not responsible for it. The same goes for knock-on loss: the rebooking charge, the holiday you moved, a visa delayed by a month over a cropped forehead.

Two things stay outside that limit, because they have to: our own fraud, and anything the law says we cannot limit. If we have broken a rule written on this page, say so on the contact page and it gets dealt with.

6. What sits outside the site

The editor pulls four things from other servers while it works: the typefaces from Google Fonts, the country flags from flagcdn.com, the face model from a Google CDN and the background-removal model from imgly's. All four are listed on the privacy page, and none of them receives your photo.

The country guides link out to the issuing authorities they quote, which is the whole point of quoting them. We do not control those pages and we are not responsible for what they say. When an authority revises its rule, the page that links to it is out of date until somebody tells us — which is what the contact form is for.

7. Changes to these terms

The date at the top of this page is the date of the most recent revision, and it moves only when the wording changes. Using the site after a revision means you accept the revised text.

8. Contact

Questions about these terms go to the same shared inbox as everything else on this site — see the contact page.

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