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Fair play & privacy

What happens to your photos and your location, how long SNAP keeps them, and what SNAP checks on every catch.

Your photos

A catch photo uploads privately. Only you see it until you post it.
Before upload, the app saves it as a fresh JPEG. That drops the hidden data in the file (EXIF), including where it was taken. SNAP’s server re-encodes it again.
A photo is public only while a visible post shows it. Delete the post and SNAP stops serving it. A copy someone already loaded can stay in their browser.
Photos you don’t post are deleted: card photos after 12 hours, stock-catch photos after 7 days. Posted photos stay while the post is up. Deleting a post restarts that clock.

While you play, the app sends your location (latitude, longitude and accuracy) to SNAP’s server.
The server keeps your latest position and stamps it with its own time. It checks your location on every update, when you reserve and when you catch.
Where you caught something stays private on the server. A post shows only a landmark’s name, “On the street” or “A card drop”, never coordinates.
Inside an in-app browser that SNAP detects, it doesn’t ask for your location until you choose to continue there.
Records of rejected locations are kept for 7 days, and review flags for 30 days.

SNAP checks every catch:

Your location, every time. A jump no one could travel is rejected: “Your location jumped. Stay put a moment while it settles.” A rejected location creates and reserves nothing.
Repeated jumps. If your location keeps jumping, your wallet is flagged for a quick review, and its payouts are held for the next 24 hours. If nothing else looks off, each one is released automatically 24 hours after it was held, or 24 hours after your location last jumped if that is later. For example, if the flag comes at 09:00 and you catch a drop at 17:00, that payout is held at 17:00 and released at 17:00 the next day.
The lock-on. Every catch waits 15 seconds after reserving, and your location must be within 150 m both when you reserve and when you shoot.
Photos. Each photo file works for one catch, ever.
Where drops go. SNAP’s server decides where drops appear; the app can’t place them.
Reports. Players can report posts that aren’t real snaps. Feed & board

Your photo is used only for your catch and, if you post it, your post.