No email address, no password, no login. Nothing we collect is linked to your identity.
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.
Everything below is collected as data not linked to you — it is not associated with your name, email address, or any other identifier that identifies you personally, because the app never asks you for one.
The app collects seven types of data, in the five categories grouped below. None of them are linked to your identity.
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
| Usage data | ||
| Product Interaction | How you use the app: which restaurants you swipe right or left on, screens you open, filters you set, and games you finish. | App functionality, analytics, product personalization, our own advertising and marketing |
| 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, on our own systems, and none of it is linked to your identity.
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 use one third-party service provider, named below. 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.
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.
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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