Privacy

What this site stores

• In your browser only (localStorage): your filter preferences and cached restaurant results, so repeat hunts are instant and free. Nothing leaves your device. Clear your browser data and it's gone.
• No accounts, no tracking pixels, no cross-site anything. The only measurement we do, if any, is GoatCounter, a cookie-free counter that tallies "someone visited a page," never who. It also counts which town each hunt was for (the town and state or country, never a street or a GPS fix), how many review lookups people open, and how often hunts and review lookups fail, so we know which cities people care about and when Google cut us off. We don't know who you are, and frankly the mystery suits you.

What happens when you hunt

• Your searched location is sent to our server, which asks Google Places for the restaurant data and caches the answer for everyone (so each city is fetched once, not per person). Locations are snapped to a coarse grid; we never see or keep a precise GPS fix.
• Your IP address is used transiently for rate limiting (abuse prevention) and standard hosting logs at Netlify. We don't store it ourselves.
• Each time a request reaches our server (a fresh restaurant hunt, a review lookup, or a request we turn away), it writes one short log line: your country and state from Netlify's location lookup, whether you're on a phone or a computer, what Google said if we asked, and for a hunt the coarse grid cell. A random 20% of fresh hunts also try two targeted food searches; the log records how many extra rated places they found, without names or place IDs. No IP address, city, or browser details go in. Our host keeps these logs for up to seven days. Hunts and reviews that are already cached never reach our server, so they leave no log line.
• Share links name the town you hunted (like "Austin, TX"), not the address you typed. If you reshare a link someone sent you, it keeps that link's place name. When you open a share link, the page removes the place name from the address bar before anything is counted. The link's coarse map square stays, so the link keeps working.
• Typed location lookups may use Google's autocomplete or OpenStreetMap's geocoder.

Reviews and ratings

All ratings, review excerpts, and reviewer names shown on the site come from public Google reviews, with attribution and links to their authors. The tags ("allegedly") are automated keyword summaries of those public reviews. They're commentary, not our claims of fact.

The tip jar links go to Ko-fi, which has its own privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, takedown requests, or compliments about our restraint: email digitalizedveer@gmail.com, open an issue on github.com/digitalveer, or see the contact page.

That's the whole policy. We checked twice.