Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to CatRoast! We're just cat lovers who built a fun roasting service to make people laugh. We'd love to trust everyone, but our cats have informed us that humans can't be trusted. So we're forced to do some tracking to keep the service fair for everyone.

Information We Collect

What We Collect (Our Cats Made Us Do It)

• Your cat photos: Processed locally and immediately deleted
• Usage metadata: Request patterns, timing, frequency (to catch abusers)
• Technical fingerprints: Browser info, IP patterns, behavior analysis
• Anti-abuse tracking: To detect if someone's trying to roast 7TB of cat photos
• Queue management data: So fair users don't wait 10 hours behind someone's automation

What We DON'T Collect

• Your name, email, or personal identity
• Your browsing history outside our site
• Your exact location (just general region for abuse detection)
• Your social media accounts
• Any data for AI training purposes

How We Use Your Information

What We Do With Your Data

• Roast your cat: The main event!
• Abuse detection: Spot automated requests and bulk uploaders
• Fair usage enforcement: Keep queues reasonable for everyone
• Bot blocking: Filter out script kiddies before they reach the page
• Service optimization: Make sure our GPU doesn't melt

What We DON'T Do

• Train AI models on your images
• Sell your data to anyone
• Share your images with third parties
• Build personal profiles (we don't care who you are!)
• Track you across other websites

Data Processing and Storage

AI Processing & Third-Party Services

• Local Image Analysis: Your cat photos are processed on our own GPU hardware using Ollama AI
• Text-Only to OpenAI: Only text descriptions (e.g., "orange tabby cat on windowsill") are sent to OpenAI GPT-4.1
• Image Privacy: Your actual photos never leave our servers and are never seen by OpenAI
• Immediate Deletion: Original images are deleted immediately after local processing
• No Training Data: Neither we nor OpenAI use your images for AI training
• Processed in Memory: Images are analyzed in RAM only, never saved to disk

What OpenAI Receives:

• ✅ Text description of your cat (generated by our local AI)
• ❌ Your actual cat photo
• ❌ Any identifying information about you
• ❌ Metadata from your image

Data Retention (24-Hour Rule)

• Images: Deleted immediately after roasting
• Usage metadata: Auto-deleted after 24 hours
• Abuse detection data: Kept for 24 hours, then gone
• Technical fingerprints: 24 hours max, then purged
• Server logs: Error logs only, 24 hours retention

Why 24 hours? Long enough to catch someone trying to roast their entire cat photo collection, short enough that we're not building a surveillance system!

Third-Party Services

None! (Mostly)

We process everything locally, so no third-party AI services get your images. The only external services we use:

• Social media sharing: If you click share buttons, you'll go to Twitter/Facebook (that's on you!)
• Affiliate links: We might link to cat toys or treats to support our cat food budget

Your Rights

Data Rights (Easy When There's No Data!)

• Right to know: We just told you everything above
• Right to deletion: Already deleted automatically
• Right to portability: Nothing to port since we don't store anything
• Right to stop using: Just close the browser tab

Seriously, we make this easy because we're not collecting anything worth protecting in the first place!

Security Measures

• HTTPS encryption: All data stays encrypted in transit
• Local processing: Your images never leave our server
• Multi-layer bot detection: Bots and script kiddies blocked before reaching the page
• Intelligent rate limiting: Fair users get priority, abusers get timeouts
• Behavior analysis: Automated detection of unusual patterns
• Auto-purge system: All tracking data self-destructs after 24 hours

Cookies and Tracking

We track you, but not creepily! Our cats insisted we monitor for abuse, so we do behavioral tracking to catch bad actors.

What We Track

• Request patterns: How often you upload, timing between requests
• Technical fingerprints: Browser signature, screen resolution, etc.
• Usage behavior: Are you acting like a human or a script?

What We Don't Track

• Your browsing on other websites
• Your personal conversations or content
• Your social media activity
• Long-term behavior patterns (24-hour limit!)

No Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel, no ad networks. Just enough tracking to keep the service fair!

Children's Privacy

Our service is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has used our service, please contact us.

Our Business Model (Cat Food Funding)

Here's our simple logic:

We don't need to know WHO you are personally. We already know:

• You like cats (you're here!)
• People who smile are more likely to buy things
• Cat people buy stuff for their cats
• Therefore: Show cat products = Happy cats get fed

Revenue sources:

• Affiliate links to cat toys, treats, and funny products
• That's literally it - no ads, no data sales, no subscriptions

Fair Usage Policy

Our cats have decreed that the service should be free and available to all cat lovers. However:

• Normal usage: A few cat photos? Go wild!
• Bulk usage: Hundreds of photos in minutes? That's a paddlin'
• Automation: Scripts and bots get blocked automatically
• Queue jumping: Fair users get priority over bulk uploaders

International Users

We're cat lovers worldwide! Since we auto-delete tracking data after 24 hours and don't collect personal info, we're pretty compliant with international privacy laws.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users of significant changes by updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy.

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