Last updated 9 November 2026
CarneAtlas (carneatlas.com) is run by Roger Scott. This page explains what the site collects, why, who processes it, and what you can ask for. Contact: roger@carneatlas.com.
You can use the site without giving us anything
Reading pages, searching and playing Guess the Cut need no account and no email. Things you save without an account stay in your own browser (local storage) and never reach us unless you later sign in to keep them.
What we collect
- Usage analytics. PostHog records pages viewed, which parts of a page came into view, clicks on site features, approximate location from your IP address, device and browser. It can also record sessions (mouse movement, scrolling and clicks) to show us how pages are used; text you type into forms is masked. Google Analytics 4, loaded through Google Tag Manager, measures visits in aggregate.
- Email, if you give it. Signing in to the Meat Notebook, subscribing to the Thursday email, or leaving an email on a correction, photo or cut request. We use it to sign you in, send the email you asked for, or tell you when your contribution is live. Nothing else.
- Photos you upload. Photos sent to the identifier are stripped of location and camera data before storage and sent to Google's Gemini model to identify the cut. Without an account they are deleted after 30 days. Photos you submit for publication are kept with the credit you chose.
- What you send us. Searches, quiz answers, name corrections and cut requests are stored so we can improve the catalog.
- Abuse protection. To rate-limit forms and filter bots from shop links, we store a salted, one-way hash of your IP address, never the address itself.
Cookies and similar technology
- Essential: a sign-in session cookie if you have an account, and a security token for shop links.
- Analytics: PostHog and Google Analytics.
- Shop referrals: when you follow a shop link, Amazon or Awin (and the merchant) may set a cookie that credits the purchase to us. See the affiliate disclosure.
- Grow by Mediavine: lets you bookmark pages and recommends related ones; it may set its own cookies.
In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Google Analytics runs with storage denied by default (Google consent mode). You can also block or clear cookies in your browser; the site keeps working without them.
Who processes it
- PostHog (analytics, US)
- Google (Analytics, Tag Manager, and Gemini for photo identification)
- Mediavine (Grow)
- Cloudinary (image storage)
- Brevo (email delivery)
- OVHcloud (hosting and database)
- Amazon Associates and Awin (shop referrals)
These services may process data outside your country, including in the United States. We do not sell personal data, and we do not show ads targeted from data we hold.
How long we keep it
Identification photos without an account: 30 days. Account and email data: until you close the account or unsubscribe. Analytics follow each provider's retention settings. Contributions and their records are kept while they are used on the site.
Your choices and rights
Every email has an unsubscribe link. You can ask for a copy of the data we hold about you, for it to be corrected, or for it to be deleted, by writing to roger@carneatlas.com. Depending on where you live you may have further rights, including complaining to your data protection authority.
Children
The site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.