Last updated 15 September 2026
Meat Locker is operated by theGadgetAid LLC, a Florida company, and published on the App Store by its owner, Matt Lake. This explains what the app collects, why it collects it, who else sees it, and how to make it go away.
The short version. We collect what the app needs to work and nothing else. We do not sell your information, we do not show advertising, and there is no analytics or tracking software in the app. Photographs are stripped of their camera metadata — including location — before they are stored. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your email address, from Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google | To identify your account. With Apple you can choose Hide My Email and Apple gives us a relay address instead, so we never see your real one. Google has no equivalent — signing in with Google gives us the address on that Google account. |
| Username, display name, bio, profile picture | Your public profile. You choose all of it, and you can change or clear it at any time. |
| Photographs you post, and the captions and tags on them | The app. Photographs are re-encoded when you post, which removes camera metadata such as GPS coordinates, device model and timestamps. |
| The equipment in your locker | Shown on your profile, and lets people browse by what things were cooked on. |
| Likes, comments, follows, blocks and reports | To make the app work, and to act on reports. |
| A push notification token, and whether you are on iOS or Android | Only if you turn notifications on. It is a delivery address, not an identifier we can read anything from. |
| Moderation records — decisions, reasons, and a history of usernames you have used | So a decision can be explained later, and so a released username cannot immediately be used to impersonate you. |
Only the companies that run the machinery, and only to run it:
We do not sell your information, and we do not share it for advertising. We would hand something over if we were legally required to, and we would tell you unless we were forbidden from doing so.
Anything you post is public: your username, display name, bio, profile picture, photographs, captions, tags, your locker, and who you follow. Assume anyone can see it, including people who have not installed the app. Your email address, notification settings and blocked list are not public.
If you cannot reach the app, write to matt@thegadgetaid.com from the address on your account and we will do it for you.
Your content stays until you delete it or your account. Photographs of posts that were turned away by a moderator are deleted at the moment of the decision. Records of rejections are kept for 30 days and then removed. Notification records are swept after three days.
Meat Locker is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. If you believe a child has an account, write to us and we will remove it.
Wherever you live, you can ask us what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Most of that is a button in the app; for the rest, write to matt@thegadgetaid.com and we will answer within 30 days. We will not treat you differently for asking.
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top is always the date of the current version.
theGadgetAid LLC
matt@thegadgetaid.com