Use employee photos with full legal certainty – backed by properly collected consents.
Website, intranet or badge: every use of an employee photo needs a legal basis. betterPortrait collects consents right at photo upload, documents them in an audit-proof way and enforces them automatically – compliant with the Swiss FADP and the GDPR.
Freely configurable purposes
You define per company what consents are collected for – website, intranet, social media or badge. Each purpose has its own legal texts per language and form of address, its own legal basis, and can be required, optional or withdrawable. You can even set different rules per department.
Consent right at upload
Employees give their consent exactly where they upload their photo: in the digital onboarding, at the photo kiosk or in the portal. One click is enough – anyone who wants to can adjust the selection per purpose. Declines are documented just as cleanly.
Self-service withdrawal
Employees can see in the portal at any time which consents they have given and withdraw withdrawable purposes on their own. HR is notified automatically and the photo is excluded from future exports.
Audit-proof evidence
Every decision is recorded with the exact wording, version, timestamp and origin – immutably. If a supervisory authority or an employee asks, you have the complete evidence at hand in seconds.
Enforced all the way to export
With us, consents are not PDFs in a drawer: every export integration and the delivery API only release a photo if the required consent is in place. If it is withdrawn, the export stops automatically.
Consent API for your systems
Your HR and IT systems can query the consent status at any time via a read-only API – per person and per photo. That keeps the system landscape outside of betterPortrait consistent as well.
Anchored in the file metadata
The consent status is written directly into the metadata of the delivered image files – as part of the signed Content Credentials based on the C2PA standard. The information stays attached to the image even outside of betterPortrait – wherever it is used next.
Works with your own photographer
You work with a photographer and don’t need our image editing at all? No problem: simply upload or import the finished photos – betterPortrait collects the consents by email afterwards and manages them centrally. Existing photo confirmations are transferred with a single click.
Reminders & requests, automated
If a consent is missing, betterPortrait can automatically send a request by email – for example when HR uploaded a photo on someone’s behalf. You can see the status per person and per photo in the dashboard at any time.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The system covers the core requirements of both laws: informed, freely given and purpose-specific consents, withdrawal at any time, audit-proof documentation of the exact wording, and different legal bases (consent, legitimate interest, contract, legal obligation).
The withdrawal is recorded, HR is notified, and the photo is automatically excluded from all future exports and deliveries. Materials that are already printed are not affected – but HR receives the information needed to act.
Yes – consent management works independently of our image editing. Photographer photos are uploaded or imported, the consents are collected by email and managed centrally, including withdrawal and evidence.
Existing photo confirmations can be transferred as consents for your configured purposes with a single action. You don’t start from zero, and only genuinely open cases are requested again.
Yes. Purposes with a different legal basis – such as the employee badge based on the employment contract – do not require active consent and are shown transparently. Required consent purposes must be granted before the photo is used; optional ones can be freely declined.
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