No email address, no password, no login. What we collect is held against a random identifier for your install, not your name.
Your location is used to find restaurants near you and is never published to other players.
No advertising in the app, no advertising identifier, and nothing shared with ad networks.
Chicken Tender, Inc (“Chicken Tender”, “we”, “us”) makes the Chicken Tender™ app (the “app”), a free app that helps groups decide where to eat. This policy explains what the app collects, why, who it is shared with, and the choices you have. Using the app is also governed by our Terms of Use.
The app never asks for your name, email address or phone number. What we collect is held against a random identifier for your install, along with information such as your location, your activity in the app, your favorites and any visits you record at a restaurant. We don’t try to work out who you are from this information.
The app collects eleven types of data, in the six categories grouped below.
| Data | What it is | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Location | ||
| Precise Location | Your device’s exact location, used to find and rank restaurants near you and to show distances on cards. | App functionality, analytics, product personalization, our own advertising and marketing |
| Coarse Location | Your approximate area, used when precise location isn’t available or isn’t granted. | Analytics, product personalization, our own advertising and marketing |
| User content | ||
| Other User Content | The note you write on a favorite restaurant, and the menu items you list there. You choose whether to write anything at all. Both are stored on our servers against the identifier for your install so your favorites come back to you, and neither is ever shown to other players in your game. | App functionality, analytics, product personalization |
| Offers and Chicken Tender Rewards | ||
| Coupon Claims | When you claim a restaurant’s offer, a record of it: which offer, the code issued for it, the offer’s wording and terms at that moment, when you claimed it, when it expires, and whether it was used or given back. It is stored on our servers against the identifier for your install, so the code is there when you show it and the restaurant’s staff can confirm it. Nothing is recorded unless you claim an offer. | App functionality, analytics |
| Chicken Tender Rewards Activity |
If you join a restaurant’s Chicken Tender Rewards: the program, your progress, the date and time of each recorded visit, your check-in and reward codes, your reward’s wording and expiry, whether it was used, and which staff device or login recorded it. It is stored on our servers against the identifier for your install. Nothing is recorded unless you join. | App functionality, analytics, messages from restaurants |
| Search history | ||
| Search History | What you search for in the app, including neighborhoods you pin and cuisines you filter by. | App functionality, analytics, product personalization, our own advertising and marketing |
| Identifiers and device information | ||
| App ID | A random identifier the app generates for your install so a game session works, your preferences carry across sessions, and your favorites come back to you. It is deliberately stored outside the app’s own files — in the iOS Keychain, or in your Android backup — so that reinstalling the app or setting up a new phone returns you to your own favorites rather than a blank list. It is not your name or email, and it is not the advertising identifier your operating system provides — the app does not read or use that. | App functionality, analytics, product personalization |
| Push Token | A token from Apple or Google that lets us send notifications to your device. It is stored on our servers against the identifier for your install. | App functionality, messages from restaurants |
| Device Information | Your device model, operating system and version, and app version. | App functionality, analytics |
| Usage data | ||
| Product Interaction | How you use the app: which restaurants you swipe right or left on and which you favorite, which offer a card you swiped carried, screens you open, filters you set, and games you finish. | App functionality, analytics, product personalization, our own advertising and marketing, messages from restaurants |
| Other Usage Data | Other activity in the app, such as session frequency and length. | App functionality, analytics, product personalization, our own advertising and marketing |
The purposes named in the table above mean the following:
Chicken Tender uses Bluetooth to discover other phones running the app nearby, so a group can play together without sharing links or creating accounts. This is a direct, device-to-device connection between the phones in your group.
Chicken Tender shows no advertising, does not use the advertising identifier your operating system provides, and does not work with third-party advertisers or ad networks. No advertising data is collected, and nothing is shared with anyone for the purpose of advertising to you.
We do look at how the app is used in aggregate — which features people reach, which restaurants get swiped on — so we can fix problems and improve it. That analysis is our own rather than a third-party analytics service’s, and it does not use your name or email address, because we never ask for them.
We also advertise Chicken Tender itself in the ordinary way, on other platforms. That is our own marketing and it does not involve tracking you: we do not build advertising profiles, and we do not hand your data to an ad network to target you.
A plain statement about “selling” and “sharing”: we do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising as those terms are defined in U.S. state privacy laws.
We use no third-party analytics vendors and no advertising vendors. We do use the service providers named below to run the app. Otherwise we share information only in the circumstances that follow.
Restaurant listings, hours, photos and popular times are served from our own systems. Menus, ordering and reservation links, directions and phone numbers point to services run by the restaurant or by another company — the restaurant’s own site, your maps app, your phone dialer. Once you follow one of those you have left Chicken Tender, and that service’s privacy policy governs what happens there. Opening the details of a restaurant found through Apple Maps, rather than in our own catalog, opens that place’s Apple Maps page in the in-app browser in the same way.
If you open a Chicken Tender Rewards QR code or a shared restaurant link in a browser instead of the app, or visit this website, the page loads fonts from Google, so your browser’s IP address reaches Google. Google’s privacy policy governs that.
Usage and swipe data is retained for as long as it is useful for the purposes described above, and aggregated trend data may be retained indefinitely in a form that does not identify any device or person.
Your favorites — including any note and menu items you added — are kept until you remove them, in the app or by asking us. They are held against the identifier for your install, and because that identifier is meant to outlive the install, deleting the app does not delete them. On Android, restoring the identifier depends on your device backup being switched on; if it is not, a reinstall starts you with a new list, and the old one stays with us until you ask us to delete it.
A code you claim stays in the app until you use it, give it back, or it expires. A code you have used stays visible in the app for 30 days so you can check whether you already used an offer. Our record that an offer was claimed, and whether it was used, is kept as part of the restaurant’s reporting on its offers, in the same way as the usage data above.
Your Chicken Tender Rewards progress, recorded visits and rewards are kept as part of the restaurant’s program and reporting, in the same way as the usage data above, until you ask us to delete them or they are removed with the restaurant’s listing. A reward stays available in the app until you use it or it expires. Removing a favorite or deleting the app does not delete this activity.
Our record that a restaurant’s message was sent to your install is kept for a limited time so we can enforce limits on how many you receive, and is then deleted.
Data held only on your device, including your display name and photo, is removed when you delete the app.
We use commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information we collect, including encryption in transit. No method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
The app is not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child under 16 has provided us with information, contact us and we will delete it promptly.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request its deletion or correction, to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising, and not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights. We do not sell or share personal information and we do not run targeted advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of on that front. To exercise any of your other rights, use the device-level controls in section 7 or email us at info@chickentenderapp.com.
Chicken Tender is offered in the United States, and this policy is written for United States users. The only official distribution channels for the app are the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, and this policy applies only to versions of the app obtained through those channels.
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the top of this page, and material changes will be reflected in the app’s store listing. Continued use of the app after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
Questions about this policy, or about the data the app collects?
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