Privacy
Your idea stays yours.
The short version
Your idea is yours. We use what you send us to roast it and to send you the verdict. We never publish your idea, your roast or your name without your written permission, and we never sell your data.
Who we are
The Roast Council is a product of Eternal Raine Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16505815). We are the controller of the personal data described here. Contact: [email protected].
What we collect, and why
| What | Why | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address and first name | To send you your roast and reply to you | Contract: you asked for a roast |
| What you tell us about your idea (the brief) | To roast it, on screen; not stored by us afterwards | Contract |
| The page you came from | To know which content brings people to us | Legitimate interest |
| Anonymous usage statistics (Google Analytics) | To understand how the site is used | Consent, where required |
Who processes it for us
- Google (Google Sheets and Gmail): stores your request and sends your emails.
- Anthropic (the Claude AI models): reads your idea to produce the roast. Anthropic does not use data sent through its commercial services to train its models.
- Vercel: hosts this website.
- Stripe: takes payments and holds card details.
Each acts on our instructions. Some of them process data outside the UK under the safeguards UK law requires.
How long we keep it
Your request and your roast are kept for 24 months so we can follow up on how your decision turned out, if you want us to, and then deleted. Ask us to delete them sooner at any time.
The roast on screen, and Debate Coach
- Your brief and your debate. What you type is sent to Anthropic's Claude models to produce the verdict, the rebuttals, the coaching and the feedback. For a roast, a research step also runs live web searches through Anthropic about your idea's market; the searches describe the idea, never you. Anthropic does not use data sent through its commercial services to train its models. We keep no copy of your brief, your roast or your debate on our servers: a roast exists on your screen (save it as a PDF if you want it), and a debate travels in a signed token held in your browser tab for up to 24 hours.
- Your email, for a free roast. We ask for it so we can reply if you want a Certified rating later. It goes to our Google Sheet with the date, your first name if given, and the page you used, and you receive one short letter. We never email your brief anywhere.
- Payments. Stripe takes the payment and holds your card details; we never see them. Stripe sends us your email and the payment reference, and we store a count of unused roasts or debates on that payment reference so your purchase can be honoured. Stripe's privacy notice applies to the payment itself.
- Speaking instead of typing. If you tap the microphone, your browser's own speech recognition turns your voice into text, which you can edit before anything is sent. In Chrome and Edge that recognition is provided by Google, which receives the audio; in Safari by Apple. We never receive audio, nothing is recorded on page load, and the microphone is only requested when you tap it.
- Analytics. We record that a roast or debate started, finished or failed, how long it took, the verdict category, and the mode, level and device type. We never send your idea, your words, your email or any name to analytics or to error logs.
- Sharing. A PDF or report is created in your browser and saved to your device. Nothing is published, and there are no public links, profiles or leaderboards. A Certified rating, which you ask for separately, is the only thing we ever publish, and only with your written permission.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, or object to how we use it, by emailing [email protected]. We reply within one month. If you are unhappy with our answer you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
Publishing
We sometimes roast ideas in public, because that is how people learn. We only ever do that with your explicit written permission, and we remove any detail you ask us to.
Last updated 11 October 2026.