Privacy Notice

This is a beta privacy notice. We are building the service carefully, with data minimization and clear choices in mind. Please do not submit highly sensitive personal, financial, medical, or other confidential information in chats.

1. What this notice covers

This notice describes how MeatGPT (“we,” “us,” or “our”) handles information when you use our open-beta product, including its chat-based food and butcher-assistance features. It does not change any rights you may have under applicable law.

2. Information we collect

To provide and operate the beta, we collect:

• Account sign-in information. You can create an account with email or continue with Google. For email accounts, we first send an eight-digit verification code to the address; after the code is accepted, you choose a password and Supabase stores only its cryptographic hash. We do not use SMS one-time codes to create or sign in to accounts.
• Google Sign-In account data. When you choose to continue with Google, we receive the basic profile information Google makes available, such as your name and email address. We use it only to create or sign you into your MeatGPT account and manage that account.
• Phone number. After you create an account, we ask for a US phone number as part of profile setup so we can complete and protect your account. We do not use it for SMS marketing or SMS login.
• City and state. We require your city and state to tailor responses and understand the regions served by the beta. During account setup, your browser may ask for location access so we can suggest your current city and state. Coordinates are used only for that suggestion, are not stored, and you can edit the suggestion before continuing.
• Guest chat on this browser. If you chat without an account, those messages stay on this device until you sign in or create an account. Guest chats are not stored in your MeatGPT account.
• Chat content. We collect the questions, messages, and information you choose to include in chats, along with the responses generated for you. If you sign in after guest chat, you may choose to move that browser history into your account.
• Chat images. Signed-in users may attach JPEG, PNG, or WebP photos to a chat message. Those files are stored privately under your account and are sent to Google Gemini only as needed to answer that message. Guests can see the image control but must sign in before uploading.
• Knowledge files. Signed-in users may upload supported documents and images to a private account library. MeatGPT extracts text or a factual visual description, divides it into searchable chunks, and creates embeddings so relevant excerpts can be used in later chats and Deep Research. Uploaded files and derived context remain scoped to the uploading account and may be deleted in Settings.
• Saved business facts. After you provide your phone number and city/state, account setup asks whether MeatGPT may remember concise business and preference facts from your chats so you do not have to repeat them later. The control starts on, but nothing is saved until you continue, and chat is not available until you record that choice. You can turn this off during setup or later in Settings. If you leave it on, MeatGPT may extract and store short facts from later chats. Credentials, payment details, government IDs, and similar secrets are not saved as facts.
• Promotional credit usage. For eligible accounts, we record provider request identifiers, feature and model information, token and tool usage, estimated or provider-reported API costs, credit grants and adjustments, and the resulting promotional-credit balance. These records are used to show and reconcile the balance, prevent duplicate charges, enforce exhaustion, investigate errors, and protect the promotion.
• Service and technical information. This may include account identifiers, timestamps, device or browser information, IP address, logs, and information needed to secure, diagnose, and improve the service, including limiting abusive sign-up attempts.
• Communications. If you contact us, we collect the message and related contact details you provide.

3. How we use information

We use information to provide the service; authenticate and support you; personalize region-relevant assistance; meter and reconcile promotional-credit usage; maintain, secure, and troubleshoot the beta; understand usage; detect misuse; comply with legal obligations; and improve our products. When saved memory is enabled, we use saved business facts to tailor later replies. We may review chat and service data in limited circumstances for support, safety, quality assurance, and improvement. If your promotional balance is exhausted, we send an operational notice to the MeatGPT owner containing your display name, account email, phone, city/state, user ID, grant date, and exhaustion time so we can respond if you request additional credits. That notice never includes chats, saved memories, passwords, or authentication tokens.

4. AI and third-party processing

To generate or research responses, chat prompts and related context may be processed by third-party AI providers, including Google Gemini and Perplexity. If you attach an image, Gemini may process that image for the related reply. Google Gemini may also extract text or factual visual descriptions and create embeddings from knowledge files. Relevant extracted excerpts may be provided to Gemini or Perplexity for chat and Deep Research; raw private files are not sent to Perplexity. If saved memory is enabled, relevant saved facts may also be included. Those providers process information under their applicable terms and privacy practices. We send only the information reasonably needed for the requested feature, but you should avoid uploading or entering sensitive personal information.

We use Supabase to provide authentication, including Google Sign-In. We do not use Google Sign-In account data for advertising. We may also use service providers for hosting, communications, analytics, security, and operational support. Providers may handle information only as needed to perform services for us or as otherwise required by law.

5. How we share information

We do not sell personal information. We may disclose information to our service providers, including the AI providers described above; when required by law or a valid legal process; to protect people, our rights, or the security of the service; or in connection with a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or financing. We may use and share aggregated or de-identified information where permitted by law.

6. Retention

We retain account details, phone number, city/state, chat content, uploaded chat images, knowledge files, extracted text or visual descriptions, embeddings, saved business facts, and operational logs for as long as reasonably necessary to run the beta, provide support, maintain security, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, and improve the service. Guest chats remain on this browser until you clear site data, sign in, or they are replaced by later guest messages. Knowledge files and their derived embeddings are kept until you delete the file or your account. Saved business facts are kept until you delete them, clear them in Settings, or delete your account. Turning saved memory off immediately stops new saving and retrieval; existing facts remain until you delete them. Beta retention periods may change as the service matures. We aim to limit retention to what is reasonably needed for these purposes.

7. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information, such as access controls, encryption where appropriate, logging, and secure service-provider practices. No internet service or storage system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

8. Your choices and requests

In Settings, you can turn saved memory on or off, delete individual saved facts, clear all saved facts, and delete uploaded knowledge files together with their searchable context. You can also permanently delete your account, which removes associated chats, saved facts, uploaded files, derived embeddings, and profile data. Data export is not yet available during the open beta. You may still request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you, subject to applicable law and legitimate operational, security, and legal needs. We will evaluate requests case by case and may need to verify your identity before responding.

9. Children

The beta is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, please contact us so we can review the issue.

10. Food safety and AI limitations

The service provides general informational assistance, not professional food-safety, medical, veterinary, legal, or regulatory advice. AI-generated responses can be incomplete or incorrect. You are responsible for using appropriate judgment and following current guidance from qualified professionals and applicable local, state, and federal authorities. Do not rely on the service for emergency or time-sensitive food-safety decisions.

11. Changes to this notice

We may update this notice as the beta evolves. We will post the revised version here and update its effective date. Material changes may also be communicated through the service or by another reasonable method.

12. Contact us

For privacy questions or requests, contact: a@tantalus.systems.