Yeet or Eat Privacy Policy
Effective November 9, 2026
Yeet or Eat helps you and your friends decide where to eat. You swipe through nearby restaurants and the app finds the place you all like. This policy covers what the app collects, why, who else handles it, and how to delete it.
Yeet or Eat is run by Hunter Mott ("we"). Questions go to support@yeetoreat.app.
The short version
- We collect only what the app needs to work: your account ID, the name you show friends, your saved places, and your swipes in group rooms.
- Your location is used to find restaurants near you. A group room stores the spot it searches around so everyone gets the same restaurants. We don't track where you go.
- No ads, no analytics SDKs, no tracking across apps or websites, and we never sell your data.
- You can delete your account and its data any time in the app: Profile > Delete account.
What we collect and why
Your account
When you start, you either continue as a guest or sign in with Apple.
- Guest: we create an anonymous account with a random ID. No email, no name, no phone number.
- Sign in with Apple: Apple gives us a stable account ID and an email address. You can choose Apple's "Hide My Email", in which case we only get a private relay address. On your first sign-in Apple may also share your name, which we use to pre-fill your display name. We don't send you email.
We keep your account ID to keep you signed in and to tie your saved places and rooms to you. Your sign-in session is stored in your iPhone's Keychain.
Your profile
You pick a display name (up to 40 characters) and an avatar color. Friends in the same room see them so they know who's swiping. You can change both any time in Profile.
Group rooms
When you start or join a room, we store what's needed to run it:
- The room code, mode (First match wins, Rank them all, or Plan ahead), the match rule, a Plan ahead room's results deadline and time zone, and filters (distance, cuisines, price, open now)
- The search area: its name (like "East Austin") and its center point as map coordinates, so everyone gets the same restaurants
- Who's in the room, and each member's swipes (yes or no on each restaurant)
- Any "Add a spot" picks. Other members don't see who added a spot, but we store it to enforce the 3-per-person limit.
- Matches and final results
Rooms close when the group finishes, or after 24 hours. A Plan ahead room stays open until a few hours after its deadline, which can be up to 7 days away.
Notifications
If you turn on notifications, your iPhone gives us a push token, a random string Apple uses to deliver notifications to your device. We store it with your account and use it only to tell you about rooms you're in: a friend joined, an hour is left before a deadline, or results are in. We keep the text of each notification for a short time while it's being sent. Turn notifications off any time in Settings > Notifications > Yeet or Eat. Signing out or deleting your account removes your push tokens.
Saved and visited places
If you save a restaurant or mark it visited, we store a copy of that restaurant's public details (name, address, rating, photos reference) and when you saved it. They sync to your account so they survive a reinstall or a new phone.
Your location
Yeet or Eat asks for location access only while you're using the app, never in the background.
- When you start a deck, the app gets one location fix and sends its coordinates to our server, which looks up restaurants nearby. For solo swiping, we use the coordinates for that search only and don't save them to your account. Search results are cached under a one-way hash of the area and filters, not under your account.
- When you host a room, the room's search center (your location, or the area you picked) is saved with the room, as described above.
- The app turns coordinates into a neighborhood name using Apple Maps. If you search for an area by name, that search goes to Apple Maps too.
- If you'd rather not share location, you can pick an area by name instead. The app remembers that choice on your device.
Stored only on your device
Some things never leave your iPhone: tonight's shortlist (it clears itself after 12 hours), your last filters, the area you picked, your light/dark setting, whether you've seen onboarding, and room votes waiting to send while you're offline. Deleting the app removes them.
Who else handles data
We don't sell or rent your data, and we don't share it for advertising. These services help run the app:
- Supabase hosts our database, accounts and server functions. It stores everything listed above under "What we collect".
- Google Maps Platform (Places API) provides the restaurant data. Our server sends Google the search area, filters, and any restaurant name you type in "Add a spot". It doesn't send your name, email or account ID. Restaurant photos are loaded straight from Google's image servers, so Google sees your device's IP address when a photo loads, as it would for any website image. See Google's privacy policy.
- Apple handles Sign in with Apple, push notifications (through the Apple Push Notification service), and the Apple Maps lookups described above, under Apple's privacy policy.
Like most online services, these providers keep short-lived server logs, including IP addresses, for security and reliability. Our own server keeps a one-way hash of your IP address, and counts of rooms created and wrong room codes tried from your account, for up to a day to rate-limit abuse.
When you tap Directions, Call or Website, the app hands off to Apple Maps, your phone app, or your browser. Their own privacy policies apply from there.
We may disclose information if the law requires it.
How long we keep it
- Account, profile, saved places, push tokens: until you delete your account. Push tokens also go away when you sign out, or when Apple tells us a token no longer works.
- Notification text: up to a few days, while it's queued and sent.
- Room memberships, swipes and picks: until you delete your account. The room record itself (code, area, filters, results) can remain after that, but no longer linked to you.
- Restaurant search and photo caches: a few days at most. They contain no personal information.
- Rate-limit records: about a day.
Deleting your data
Open Profile > Delete account in the app. This immediately and permanently deletes your account, your profile, your saved and visited places, your room memberships, your swipes, your picks and your push tokens. If you were hosting an active room, another member takes over as host. It can't be undone.
If you can't get into the app, email support@yeetoreat.app from the address tied to your account, or include your display name, and we'll delete it for you.
If you signed in with Apple, you can also stop using Apple ID with Yeet or Eat in Settings: tap your name, then Sign-In & Security > Sign in with Apple.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under GDPR in the EU/UK or CCPA in California), you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, or to object to how we use it. Email support@yeetoreat.app and we'll respond within 30 days. We don't sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Children
Yeet or Eat isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you think a child has made an account, email us and we'll delete it.
Security
Data travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Database rules let each person read and change only their own data and the rooms they're in. Our Google key stays on our server and is never shipped in the app. No system is perfectly secure, but we keep what we hold to the minimum.
Changes
If we change this policy we'll update the date at the top, and for significant changes we'll tell you in the app.