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How to read your evidence photos
Each visit photo from Plontiv carries its place, its times and a file fingerprint. This guide explains each detail and what the photo checks confirm.
2 minutes to readPublished official requirements and Plontiv's own usual times
- Usual time
- 5 to 10 working days
- Service fee
- USD 130
- Originals needed
- None
Photos from a property visit are part of the record of your order. Beside each photo, the app shows the details that let you check where and when it was taken, and that the file has not changed since our server received it.
The details beside each photo
A photo's details look like this example:
Taken at -17.82921, 31.05224 (within 6 m) · Device time 2026-09-03 09:42 · Received by Plontiv 2026-09-03 09:43 · File fingerprint 3f9a…c21b
Each part means:
- Taken at. The GPS location of the phone when the photo was taken, as latitude and longitude. Within 6 m is how accurate the phone reported that location to be.
- Device time. The time on the phone when the photo was taken.
- Received by Plontiv. The time our server received the photo, from the server's own clock.
- File fingerprint. A short form of a code calculated from the photo file. If anything in the file is changed after upload, its fingerprint no longer matches.
What the photo checks confirm
When a photo shows Photo checks passed: place, time, file unchanged, three checks agreed:
- Place. The GPS location falls at the property the visit was for.
- Time. The device time and the time our server received the photo are close together.
- File unchanged. The file's fingerprint matches the fingerprint recorded when it was received.
Reading photos across visits
For building visits and property watch, photos are grouped by visit, so you can compare the same view from one visit to the next. Changes since the previous visit are described with both visit dates.
What photos do not tell you
The report records what our team saw and the documents we collected, with dates, places and photos. It is not a structural or engineering inspection. It gives no view on what the property is worth, and no opinion on the property, the people there or any sale.
If you want advice on what a change means for you, a registered attorney can help.
This guide describes published requirements and how Plontiv works. It is not legal advice. For advice on the law, a registered attorney can help.
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