Last updated: August 2026

Fabrics – AI Transparency Notice

August 2026

This notice explains what automated systems Fabrics actually runs today, what they do and do not do, and what rights users have in relation to AI-assisted decisions. It supplements the Fabrics Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

1. Overview

Fabrics uses automated systems in a small number of places: ordering what you see in feeds, forums, search and explore; resizing images you upload; applying age-based restrictions; and limiting who can be shown ads. This notice describes what those systems actually do today. Capabilities we have not built are listed in section 4 rather than described here, so that this notice can be relied on. Decisions that affect your account or your content are made by a person, not automatically.

2. What automated systems do today

2.1 Ranking and recommendations

Automated ranking determines the order of posts in your feed, which forum threads appear prominently, what appears in explore, and how search results are ordered. This is scoring based on signals — it does not interpret the content of your images.

  • Signals include engagement (likes, comments, votes), how recent or active something is, topics and hashtags you have interacted with, and your region.
  • For accounts in the 13–17 age bands, personalised discovery is reduced, and under-13 accounts are excluded from stranger recommendations entirely.
  • Ranking never uses your photos to infer anything about you as a person.

2.2 Safety and enforcement

Safety on Fabrics is currently report-driven. There is no automated scanning of images or messages.

  • When you report content, that report is recorded and reviewed by a person.
  • If an account accumulates a threshold number of open reports within a rolling window, it is automatically placed in a restricted pending-review state. That restriction is a pause, not a verdict — a person reviews it before any lasting action.
  • Every enforcement outcome — removal, restriction, ban, reinstatement — is decided by a person.

2.3 Age-based restrictions

Your age band is derived from the date of birth you provide at sign-up, and we do not currently verify it. It governs who can message you, how your privacy defaults are set, whether you can see age-restricted content, and whether you can be shown ads.

  • Content marked as adult is declared by the person posting it. We do not detect it automatically.
  • Because age is self-declared, these restrictions depend on accurate information being given. Strengthening this is described in section 5.

2.4 Advertising

Advertisers choose a region and an age range. Ads are matched to that targeting.

  • Accounts under 18 are excluded from advertising audiences entirely — they are not addressable, not merely un-personalised.
  • Ads are not targeted using behavioural profiling, message content, or anything inferred from your photos.
  • Ad creatives are reviewed by a person before they can run. This review is not automated.
  • Fabrics does not sell your data, and does not use automated systems to identify individuals for advertising.

2.5 Image processing

Uploaded images are automatically resized and re-encoded so they load quickly. This is format conversion only — nothing about the content of the image is analysed, categorised or stored as a description.

3. Wardrobe details you enter yourself

Categories, brands, colours, materials and prices attached to your wardrobe items and outfit posts are entered by you. Fabrics does not infer any of them from your photographs, and nothing in the app suggests them for you.

4. What we do not do

The following are stated plainly because we do not want this notice to imply protections that are not in place. Fabrics does not currently:

  • Automatically detect nudity, sexual content, hate symbols or extremist imagery.
  • Automatically detect harassment, abusive language, spam, bots or coordinated manipulation.
  • Automatically detect copyright or intellectual-property issues.
  • Automatically classify the contents of your photographs.
  • Use facial recognition, or attempt to identify people in images.
  • Estimate your age from your behaviour.
  • Infer sensitive personal attributes such as race, ethnicity, religion, political views, sexual orientation or health status.
  • Sell or license your content to third parties for AI training.
  • Take lasting action against your account or content without a person deciding it.

5. What we are working towards

These are planned and not yet in place. They are listed separately from section 2 so that nothing here reads as a current protection.

  • Detection and reporting of child sexual abuse material, using industry hash-matching services.
  • Automated detection of nudity and sexual content, to support rather than replace human review.
  • Automated detection of abusive language, again as an aid to human review.
  • Stronger age assurance than a self-declared date of birth.
  • A tracked appeals process, in place of the email route described in section 7.

6. Images and model training

Images from your posts are not used to train anything unless you turn this on. It is off by default, and you can change it at any time in Settings. No images have been collected for training to date. If you do turn it on, only images from posts you have made public may be copied into an internal dataset used to improve Fabrics' own features, such as recognising garment types. Private posts, direct messages and wardrobe items that you have not made public are never included. This dataset is internal — it is not shared, sold or licensed, and it is not used to train third-party or publicly available models. One limitation to be aware of before you turn it on: copies in this dataset are stored separately from your post, so deleting a post does not currently remove the copy already taken. Turning the setting off stops any further copies being made.

7. Your rights

  • Ask how automated ranking affects the visibility of your content.
  • Ask for a person to review any enforcement decision. Because all enforcement is already decided by a person, this means a second review.
  • Appeal a removal, restriction or account action. Appeals are currently handled by email through our support address rather than an in-app process.
  • Request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, in line with the Privacy Policy and applicable law.
  • Correct wardrobe or profile details, all of which you entered and can edit.

8. Data protection

These systems operate under the Fabrics Privacy Policy and applicable data protection law, including UK and EU GDPR. Ranking signals are held only as long as they remain useful for ranking. Reports and enforcement records are retained so decisions can be reviewed and appealed.

9. Changes to this notice

This notice describes what is in place at the date shown above, and will be updated as systems change. When something in section 5 ships, it moves into section 2 — this notice is meant to track the product, not lead it.

10. Contact

Questions about automated systems on Fabrics can be raised through in-app support or our published support address.