Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 8, 2026

FakeEats ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application. The short version: we never ask for your name, email, or account — but the game's social features (leaderboards, streaks, leagues) run on our servers, and this page explains exactly what that involves.

Information We Collect

Location (with your permission)

When you use the delivery tracking experience, we may ask for permission to use your device's location. We use location only to show your position on the in-app delivery map during the simulation. GPS location is used in real time on your device and is not stored by us and not sent to our servers or to analytics. If you deny permission, the map still works using a default area.

Approximate region (no permission needed, no GPS)

Like most internet services, our servers see your IP address when the app talks to them and derive a country-level region from it. Separately, your device's timezone setting (e.g. "America/New York") gives us an approximate city. This is coarse by construction — we never collect or store GPS coordinates, street addresses, or anything more precise than a timezone city and a country.

Usage Data: We collect usage statistics tied to a randomly generated device identifier (not your name or email), including:

• Features used within the app (fake orders, quests, streaks, leagues)
• Session frequency, device type, operating system, and app version
• Craving patterns (pseudonymous, used to improve the experience)

Data You Provide:

• Onboarding preferences (craving triggers, timing)
• In-app activity (fake orders, mood check-ins)
• Stats and achievements
• Feedback messages, if you choose to send them

Journal entries and mood notes stay on your device. They are not uploaded to our servers.

Public Game Features

FakeEats has public leaderboards (The Arena) and weekly leagues. If you appear on a leaderboard, other players can see:

• Your randomly generated Arena handle (never your real name — we don't have it)
• Gameplay stats: streaks, victories, XP, restaurants tried, engagement
• Your country flag and approximate city (derived from your device timezone, not GPS)
• The date you last played

If you'd like your entry removed from public leaderboards, email us and we'll take care of it.

Push Notifications

With your permission, we send push notifications (delivery updates, streak reminders, and similar). To do this we store your device's push token and timezone on our servers so reminders arrive at a reasonable local hour. You can turn notifications off anytime in your device Settings, which invalidates the token.

How We Use Your Information

• To provide and maintain the app's core functionality
• To run streaks, quests, leagues, and leaderboards
• To track your progress and display personalized statistics
• To improve and optimize the app experience
• To send push notifications (with your permission)

We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers or data brokers. There are no third-party ads in FakeEats.

Data Storage

Journal entries and mood notes are stored locally on your device. Gameplay stats (streaks, victories, XP) and pseudonymous usage events are stored on our servers, hosted on Cloudflare's infrastructure, keyed to a random device identifier. We do not maintain user accounts and never store your name, email, or contact details — we never ask for them in the first place.

Third-Party Services

We use the following services to run FakeEats:

• Cloudflare: Hosts our servers and game database; provides privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics on this website
• Mixpanel: Pseudonymous usage analytics
• RevenueCat: In-app purchase management
• Expo: Push notification delivery
• Apple App Store: App distribution and payments

Data Retention

Data on your device remains until you delete the app or use the in-app reset. Server-side gameplay stats and usage events are retained while we operate the service so that leaderboards and streaks keep working; analytics data is retained for up to 24 months. You can request deletion of your server-side data at any time (see Your Rights).

Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access your data (your stats are visible within the app)
• Delete your on-device data (uninstall the app or use the reset feature)
• Request deletion of your server-side data, including your leaderboard entry (email us with your Arena handle)
• Opt out of analytics (contact us)

Children's Privacy

FakeEats is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, or want your data deleted, please contact us at:

[email protected]