Privacy
The short version: we use your photo to roast it, we keep it for a limited time, and we never sell it or use it for anything else.
What we collect
- Your photo. Your browser shrinks it and strips location and camera data before uploading.
- The roast the AI wrote about it.
- Upload and usage details: your IP address, browser/device user-agent, browser language, referring website origin and upload time. The technical details are encrypted and available only to the site administrator for moderation, managing usage and investigating abuse. They are deleted after 30 days.
- A random browser visitor ID in the
selfies_visitorcookie, lasting 30 days from your latest upload. It links that browser's uploads during the last 30 days; it is not a verified identity or an account. The link is removed from older upload records. - A separate daily IP hash for rate limiting, deleted after two days.
We use the browser visitor cookie for upload moderation and abuse prevention. We do not collect your name or email address when you upload.
To stop bots running up our AI bill, the Roast me button uses Cloudflare Turnstile to check you're a person. Cloudflare processes technical details such as your IP address and browser to do this.
How your photo is used
Your photo is sent to our AI provider, whose AI writes your roast. It's processed under their paid API terms, which don't allow it to be used to train their models.
We keep photos for up to 30 days so the site owner can moderate content and keep the service running. After that they're deleted automatically.
Swimwear alone is not explicit content. If the AI is unsure about a photo, it can still give you a roast and flag it for a person to check. Photos flagged for review may be kept for up to 14 days and are shown blurred to moderators. Clear explicit or harmful content is held instead of roasted. Explicit sexual photos are only stored when restricted review is enabled, as described below; otherwise only the moderation record is kept. Photos that may show someone under 18, and photos refused outright by the AI provider, are never stored.
Restricted moderator review
When the AI confidently identifies explicit sexual content, the photo may be held for a moderator to check:
- It's stored encrypted, separately from other photos, together with your IP address (also encrypted).
- It's shown to a moderator blurred, and only revealed if they choose to. Every view is logged.
- The restricted copy and its associated IP copy are deleted automatically after 72 hours, or sooner once reviewed. The separate upload details above have a 30-day retention window.
- If a moderator believes it may show someone under 18, it's locked and marked for reporting to the police. The locked copy expires after 30 days unless removed sooner.
Photos the AI thinks may show anyone under 18 are never stored on upload. You can contact us about your data using the details below.
Roast videos
If you tap Make it a video, the words of your roast (not your photo) are sent to our voice provider to be read out by an AI voice. The video is put together on your own device, and we don't get or keep a copy of it.
Optional analytics and advertising cookies
If you click Allow on the cookie banner, we use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people use. It sets cookies whose names start with _ga, which last up to two years. Google collects details such as your device, browser, rough location and the pages you visit, and processes them for us. It never sees your photos or your roast, and it's never used for advertising.
If you click Allow on the cookie banner, we load Google Tag Manager, which runs the analytics and advertising tools we use (such as Google Analytics). They set cookies, some lasting up to two years, and collect details such as your device, browser, rough location, the pages you visit and how you found the site, so we can see what's working and measure our marketing. The companies behind those tools (such as Google) process this data. None of them sees your photos or your roast.
If you click No thanks, or don't answer, none of this is loaded. You can change your mind at any time with the Cookies link at the bottom of every page.
Your rights
You can ask us to delete your photo at any time, or ask what we hold about you. Email [email protected], telling us roughly when you used the site so we can find it.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Please be sensible
The site is for over-18s only. Only upload photos of yourself, or of people who are up for being roasted. The roasts are comedy: rude, sweary, and not meant personally.