Privacy
Last updated: November 12, 2026. Salon Brief is made by SoloFive LLC.
Your photos
When you make a look, the app sends your selfie and your inspiration photo to our server. We use them only to check your selfie, write your plan, and create the AI preview. The preview is made from your selfie, your inspiration photo and a text description of the look. To find the close-ups (hair, brows, eyes, lips, cheeks), the finished preview image is sent once more to Anthropic. If you add an "after my appointment" photo, it stays on your phone and is never sent.
Our server passes the photos on to the two companies below and doesn't keep them. They aren't written to our disk or our logs, and they aren't used for anything except making your look.
A random app ID created on your phone and your IP address are used only to enforce daily usage limits. They are kept in server memory and cleared daily, and are never linked to your photos or your identity. Deleting the app and installing it again gives you a new app ID.
Who processes your photos
Our server sends your photos to Anthropic (Claude), which checks your selfie and analyzes both photos, and to fal.ai, which generates the preview image. fal.ai uses the inspiration photo only as a reference for the hair and makeup. Each provider handles data under its own terms. What follows is our summary of those terms on the date above; please check their pages for the current wording.
Anthropic (Claude)
Anthropic says that, under its commercial terms, customer content sent through its API is not used to train its models by default. Its standard policy is to delete API inputs and outputs from its backend within 30 days, and it says content may be kept longer if its safety systems flag it or the law requires. See API and data retention and how long Anthropic stores data.
fal.ai
We ask fal.ai not to keep request inputs and outputs in its request history (the X-Fal-Store-IO: 0 setting). fal.ai says this setting covers request payloads only; generated image files sit on its CDN under its own media-expiration settings, and the rest falls under its policies. See fal.ai data retention and its privacy policy.
What stays on your phone
Your saved looks live only on your phone: the selfie, the inspiration photo, the preview, any "after" photo, and the plan. Deleting a look removes it, along with its reminders and its card link.
To save you a step next time, the app also remembers the last selfie that passed the check. It is kept apart from your looks, so deleting looks doesn't remove it. To delete it, start a new look and tap "Forget this selfie". Taking a new selfie replaces it.
Deleting the app removes your looks and the remembered selfie. On iPhone they are included in your phone's own iCloud or computer backup, like other app data, and come back if you restore from that backup. On Android the app opts out of backups.
Photos only leave the app another way when you choose to: saving your stylist card to Photos, or sharing it or your makeover image with the share sheet.
Card links
When you tap "Send to my salon", the app sends the card's text (no photos) to our server, and we store it for 30 days so the link works. You can delete it any time with "Delete link", or by deleting the look. After 30 days the link stops working, and the expired text is deleted from our server the next time anyone creates a card link.
Purchases
Looks are bought through Apple's App Store or Google Play, which handle your payment; we never see your card, your Apple ID or your Google account. RevenueCat, our purchase processor, receives the purchase record and a random ID the app creates on your phone, so we can count the looks you've bought. Our server stores only that count, under a scrambled form of that ID. The ID isn't linked to your name, email or photos.
Reminders
Upkeep reminders are local notifications scheduled on your phone. Nothing about them is sent to us. You can turn them off in the app, or delete the look.
Age
Salon Brief is for people 18 and older.
Contact
Questions? Email hello@solofive.co.