Privacy

What we keep, and why.

Last updated 5 October 2026

Red Carpet is a photo booth that runs in a web browser. It takes photographs at parties and puts them on guests’ phones. This page says what it collects to do that, who can see it, and how to have it removed.

Who we are

Red Carpet is a Wade.Technology product, provided by Wade Technology. Questions about this page, or about your information, go to [email protected].

Two kinds of people use it. Hosts set up an event and run the booth. Guests stand in front of it. A guest needs no account and gives us nothing to get their photos.

What we collect

Host accounts

Hosts sign in with Google or Apple through the Wade.Technology sign-in service (auth.wade.technology). Red Carpet receives an account id, your email address and your name, and records which events you host or help run, and in what role.

The Request access form asks for your name, your email address and a line about your event. It is passed to the sign-in service so a person can approve you by hand.

Events

What you enter about an event: its name, venue and city, time zone, booth settings, and the brief you give Higgins — who the day is for, how to spot them (what they will be wearing), and the occasion or theme.

If you upload a photo of your invitation, it is sent to our AI service once, to read the details off it so you do not have to type them. The picture itself is not stored. The details it reads are filled into the form for you to check and save.

Photos

Each photo taken at the booth is stored, with its size and the date and time it was taken, grouped by the guest’s turn at the booth. Photos are kept in Wade.Technology’s storage: on our own server, or in Cloudflare R2 cloud storage. They are served to you through this site, never from a public storage address.

We count how many times each guest’s link is opened, so the host can see how many guests picked their photos up.

Requests to take a photo down

Under every photo a guest can see there is an Ask to remove this photo button. A request records the photo, the event, the time, and a note of up to 280 characters if the guest writes one — and later, whether the host hid the photo or dismissed the request. It does not record who asked: no name, no email address, no account and no IP address. To stop the button being pressed over and over, the server keeps a scrambled form of the requesting address in memory for ten minutes, scrambled with a key that is never written down and changes whenever the server restarts.

Guest lists and the gallery email

A host may paste a guest list — names and email addresses, and any short label they add — so that after the event everyone on it gets one email with a link to the event’s photos. The event’s hosts are added to the list too. Nothing is sent until a host has seen the list and scheduled the email. We record, for each address, whether the email went out.

The email contains a greeting, the event’s name, the name of the person it was for if the host gave one, the number of photos, and the link. It is sent from a wade.technology address through our mail provider, Migadu.

“Keep these forever”

A guest may give their email address on their gallery page to keep an account for their photos. The address goes to the Wade.Technology sign-in service, which sends them a link to sign in with. Once they sign in, we record that the account belongs to that event and to their turn at the booth, so the photos are there on any phone later.

Hosts can also invite co-hosts, operators or guests by email; the address is stored with the invitation.

Statistics

Hosts see counts for their own events: turns at the booth, photos, links opened, accounts kept, and how Higgins’s AI calls went (how long they took and what they cost). We do not run advertising or third-party analytics on this site.

Higgins and the camera

Higgins is the booth’s photographer. When the booth’s AI setting is on (it is on unless the host turns it off), the booth sends one small still frame from the camera when a guest starts, and a small copy of each photo just taken so he can react to the pose, to Wade.Technology’s AI gateway (Aspen). The gateway passes it to an AI model, run by a third-party AI provider, which reads the scene and writes Higgins’s next lines. The event’s brief goes with it.

These frames are not stored and not logged by Red Carpet. Each is used for that one request. (The photos themselves are stored, as above.)

To pitch his tone, the model makes a rough read of the group: how many people, how they are grouped, the general energy, and a broad sense of the age mix (for example, whether children seem to be there). That read is used for that shoot and shown on the booth’s operator panel. It is not stored, and Higgins never says it aloud: anything he would say about a person’s age, gender, body, skin, ethnicity, disability, clothing or looks is blocked before it is spoken. He addresses people by where they stand.

What is stored, for the host’s Higgins log: the head count, the tone he chose, the lines he said, and a short note on what he reacted to, described by position and action. No image is kept with it.

Higgins does not recognise faces or identify anyone. If the host tells him who the day is for and what they are wearing, he may greet someone by that name when he sees that outfit — nothing more.

His voice is generated from the text of each line through the same gateway. No image is sent for that.

Who can see the photos

Anyone holding a link or QR code. The code shown after a guest’s turn opens that turn’s photos. A single-photo code opens one photo. The gallery link in the email opens every visible photo of the event. These links work without signing in, so whoever has one can see what it opens. We store only a scrambled form of each link, never the link itself, and we do not record who was given which link.
Every guest, unless the host says otherwise. By default an event’s photos are shared with its guests, and the booth says so on screen before anyone steps up: “Photos from this booth are shared with this event’s guests.” A host can instead choose each guest sees only their own set. Then the gallery link and the gallery email are switched off, the booth says the photos go to the guests in them and the hosts, and each guest’s own code and any single-photo code still work.
Guests at the booth. For thirty minutes after a turn, the booth can show it among at most twelve recent turns, so a guest who missed their code can find it.
The event’s hosts and operators see every photo of the event.
Wade.Technology staff who run the service can reach stored photos when they need to, for example to answer a removal request.

A host or operator can hide a photo: it disappears from every gallery and link but still exists, and can be brought back. Only a host can delete one: it is removed from the gallery and from our storage, and it cannot be brought back.

A host can reset the gallery link: every gallery link handed out so far, including the one in the email, stops working at once, and a new one is made. The codes guests scanned at the booth are not affected.

Guest galleries, single-photo pages and the photos themselves tell search engines not to index them.

How long we keep it

There is no automatic deletion. Photos, events, guest lists, requests to take a photo down and the Higgins log stay until the host deletes them, or until you ask us to. Deleting a photo deletes the requests about it.

Cookies and storage on your device

When you sign in, we set one cookie, rc_session, that keeps you signed in on that device for up to thirty days. It cannot be read by scripts on the page. Signing out removes it. A guest who only opens their photos gets no cookie from us.

The device running the booth keeps its own booth settings (camera calibration, voice, style) in the browser’s local storage. Nothing else is stored on your device by Red Carpet.

Help from Steward

Signed-in hosts may ask Steward, Wade.Technology’s assistant, a question from the event page. The question, your account id and email address, and the event it is about go to Steward to answer it.

Your choices

To see what we hold about you, or to have it deleted, email [email protected].
To have a photo of you removed, press Ask to remove this photo under it: the host sees the request and can hide it at once. You do not have to say who you are. You can also ask the host directly, or email us and we will.
To be taken off a guest list, ask the host, or email us.

Changes

When what Red Carpet does with information changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.