Privacy Policy

Yummy Dish Diary is a personal food diary and social posting app that helps you save meals, photos, ratings, restaurant details, notes, and food memories. This Privacy Policy applies to the Yummy Dish Diary mobile app, this marketing website, public share pages, and related support or online services.

This app is designed for personal food journaling. It is not a medical, nutrition, or healthcare service, even though meal notes may reveal dietary preferences or other sensitive details you choose to save.

Depending on how you use the app, we may collect:

• Account and sign-in details, such as your email address, sign-in provider, authentication identifiers, display name, profile photo URL, account creation time, and last sign-in time.
• Age and account-eligibility information linked to your account, such as the coarse age range you select (under 13, 13–15, 16–17, or 18+) or that is provided through a supported platform age-range signal; whether the source was your selection, a platform signal, or a support correction; eligibility, teen-account, social-feature, and advertising statuses; platform and policy version; and assessment and update times. We do not ask for or store your full birth date as part of this eligibility process.
• Profile details, such as your handle, avatar, uploaded avatar or banner images, bio, profile visibility, follower counts, default currency, privacy settings, and notification preferences.
• Push notification information, such as notification permission status, notification preference choices, push token records, app version, build number, platform, token update times, and token disablement records.
• Food diary content you create, such as meal names, ratings, notes, tags, restaurant names, restaurant details, photos, prices, recipe links, favorites, dish categories, and timestamps.
• Social and sharing content, such as public posts, comments, comment replies, comment hearts, public share-link payloads, follower or following relationships, follow requests, reactions, in-app social activity records, reports, blocks, hidden posts, and public-post activity signals such as impressions, views, dwell time, hide actions, source surfaces, source rank, session identifiers, and event identifiers.
• Data export and account-deletion request records, including status, download availability, and operational audit information needed to complete or troubleshoot those requests.
• Device, diagnostics, and usage information, such as app version, build number, device model, system version, locale, time zone, crash logs, performance data, approximate region, feature interactions, support diagnostics, and recommendation signal summaries used to improve or personalize discovery.
• Advertising and ad privacy information processed when Google fallback ads are available, such as ad impressions and interactions, device identifiers, device and app information, IP-address-derived general location, diagnostics, and your consent or privacy choices. We configure these ad requests for non-personalized advertising and do not request Apple tracking permission for this use.
• Support information you send us, including your contact details and the contents of your request.

We do not intentionally collect payment card details. If paid App Store features are offered, Apple processes payment information under Apple’s own terms and privacy practices.

You may choose to add meal photos, profile images, restaurant names, addresses, map details, coordinates, or other location-related notes. We use that information to show and organize your diary, favorites, restaurant history, posts, share pages, and related app features.

Yummy Dish Diary is not designed to track your precise location in the background. If a feature requests device location access, your device should provide a permission prompt and you can change that permission in system settings.

We use information to:

• Provide, sync, back up, and personalize your food diary.
• Authenticate your account and protect your data.
• Confirm that you meet the 13+ account requirement, prevent under-13 account access, apply age-appropriate social and advertising eligibility, close accounts that are not eligible, and support safety or eligibility reviews and corrections.
• Display app features such as search, favorites, restaurant grouping, public and follower recommendations, personalized or ranked discovery, profile controls, comments, replies, comment hearts, reactions, follows, reports, blocks, public share links, and in-app activity notices.
• Process account deletion requests, data export requests, short-lived export download links, and related support or troubleshooting records.
• Send service messages, support replies, and in-app activity notices you request or allow.
• Send opt-in push notifications for supported public-post activity, such as new comments and Loved it reactions, when your device and app settings allow them.
• Maintain safety, prevent abuse, review content with automated moderation tools, debug errors, and improve performance.
• Analyze aggregate app usage and public-post activity signals so we can improve recommendation quality, ranking, safety, and product performance.
• Display in-app restaurant promotions and non-personalized Google fallback ads, manage ad privacy choices, measure delivery, and help detect advertising fraud or abuse.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We may share information in these limited cases:

• With service providers that help us host, store, secure, analyze, and operate the app, such as Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase App Check, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Analytics when enabled, Google Mobile Ads, Google’s User Messaging Platform, Google Cloud services, and sign-in providers.
• With safety and moderation service providers, including OpenAI moderation services, when needed to review public, publishable, comment, report, profile, image, or private-share content for abuse prevention and service integrity.
• With Apple or other platform providers when needed for app distribution, sign-in, notifications, purchases, or device-level services.
• With other users, website visitors, or people who receive a share link when you choose to make content public, publish a post, comment on or reply to a post, use a public profile, follow someone, approve followers, react to posts or comments, or use a social feature.
• For legal, safety, security, or fraud-prevention reasons when we believe disclosure is necessary.
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, subject to appropriate protections for user information.

Yummy Dish Diary may show promotions supplied directly by participating restaurants. When that inventory is unavailable, the app may show a Google native fallback ad on iOS or Android. Google ads are visibly labeled as ads and include Google’s AdChoices control.

We configure Google fallback ad requests to disable ad personalization and publisher first-party identifiers, and the app does not request Apple’s App Tracking Transparency permission for this advertising. Google may still process device identifiers, device and app information, IP-address-derived general location, ad interactions, and diagnostics to deliver, measure, secure, and prevent fraud in connection with those ads.

Where required, Google’s User Messaging Platform presents consent choices before Google ads can be requested and makes privacy options available again from the app’s Settings screen. You can also report an ad through Settings. Learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services in Google’s partner sites and apps notice.

When you publish a meal post, the app may display a sanitized snapshot of that post, including meal, restaurant, photo, rating, caption, tag, category, price, and currency details you chose to save or share, related comments and replies, comment activity counts, and your public profile details to the audience allowed by your profile and sharing settings. Public-profile posts may also be available on public web share pages at yummydishdiary.com.

If you opt in to aggregate or nearby recommendations, eligible meals may contribute to public spot or dish summaries. Those aggregate summaries are designed to remove your name, private notes, prices, and visit dates, but they may include restaurant or location details, counts, ratings, top dishes, and optionally public photo URLs.

We may use public-post activity signals, such as views, dwell time, hides, Loved it reactions, Want to try actions, comments, shares, reports, and follow activity, to maintain aggregate post stats and private recommendation summaries. These signals help rank public recommendations and personalize discovery without exposing raw internal score maps to other users.

We use automated moderation and administrative review tools to help protect public, publishable, comment, report, private-share, and profile surfaces. Moderation may review text and image URLs you submit or choose to share, and backend-only audit records may store moderation status, model, flags, scores, and related review metadata. Public or publishable content, including comments and replies, may be blocked, hidden, removed, or held for review if safety systems flag it or are unavailable.

Private-only diary content may still be saved if automated moderation is unavailable, but review metadata may be created so we can investigate safety issues without turning every private note into a public moderation record.

You can update or delete certain profile, diary, photo, comment, social, visibility, search, post-sharing, and settings information inside the app when those controls are available. You can also request a data export, delete your account, or contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or export of personal information.

Depending on your state, including California and other US state privacy laws, you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of, or appeal decisions about your personal information. You may also have rights to opt out of certain uses. We will not discriminate against you for exercising applicable privacy rights.

California residents may ask us to disclose the categories or specific pieces of personal information we collect, the categories of sources, the purposes for collection, the categories of third parties or service providers involved, and the categories of information disclosed. California residents may also request deletion or correction, use an authorized agent where allowed by law, and opt out of sale or sharing if those practices ever apply. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

To make a privacy request, contact us at support@yummydishdiary.com. We may need to verify your request before acting on it.

If your coarse age range or account-eligibility result is incorrect, contact us at the same address or use our support form. Because this information protects the 13+ account requirement, we may verify the request and complete a safety or support review before correcting the linked eligibility record or restoring access.

When Google’s ad privacy options are required for you, you can reopen them from Settings in the app. You can also report an ad from Settings or contact us at the address above.

We keep personal information for as long as needed to provide the app, maintain your account, process exports and deletion requests, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect the service. If you delete your account or request deletion, we will delete or de-identify personal information unless we need to keep limited information for legitimate legal, safety, security, audit, or operational reasons.

We retain linked coarse age-range and account-eligibility information while your account is active and as needed to enforce the current eligibility decision. When account deletion completes, including an account closure based on an under-13 result, the linked eligibility record is deleted. If deletion cannot complete, we may temporarily retain a blocked eligibility record to prevent account access and resolve the deletion failure. Any limited record retained after a deletion request is used only for the legal, safety, security, audit, or operational purposes described above.

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. No internet or storage system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Yummy Dish Diary. The service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly permit them to use it or intentionally collect their information for ongoing use.

If the eligibility process indicates that an account belongs to someone under 13, we block access and initiate deletion of the account and its associated data. As described above, a blocked eligibility record may be retained temporarily if the deletion cannot complete. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information, contact us so we can take appropriate action.

The app or website may link to restaurants, recipe pages, app stores, maps, sign-in providers, advertisements, or other third-party services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If changes are material, we will provide notice through the app, website, or another reasonable method. The updated policy will be effective when posted unless stated otherwise.

Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy can be sent to support@yummydishdiary.com.