Privacy Policy
Last updated 14 August 2026 · applies to What to Eat: Shake & Decide for iOS
Short version: the app does not collect anything about you. There is no account, no sign-in, and no server. Everything you do stays on your phone.
What to Eat works entirely offline. The dishes, recipes and filters all ship inside the app itself, so it never needs to contact us to work — and it doesn’t.
What stays on your device
All of the following is stored only on your iPhone, in the app’s own storage. None of it is transmitted anywhere:
- Your filter preferences (diet, effort, budget, cuisines you skip)
- Your own meals and places added under My List
- Your decision history — what you picked and when
- Which options you have vetoed today
- Sound and vibration settings
Deleting the app deletes all of it. There is no copy anywhere else, which also means we cannot restore it for you.
Motion data
The app reads the accelerometer purely to notice when you shake the phone. The readings are used in the moment to trigger a pick and are never stored, logged or sent anywhere.
Location
The app never requests location access. In Eat Out mode, tapping “Find it” hands a plain search term such as “Thai restaurant” to Apple Maps. Maps takes over from there under Apple’s privacy policy. We do not receive your location, and we are not told what you searched or where you went.
If you subscribe
Subscriptions are handled by Apple. We never see your payment details, card number or billing address — Apple does not share them with us.
To know whether your subscription is active, the app uses RevenueCat, a subscription management service. RevenueCat processes an anonymous app-generated identifier and your purchase and renewal status. It does not receive your name, email address or anything you have entered in the app. If you never subscribe, RevenueCat holds nothing meaningful about you.
Advertising and tracking
This version of the app shows no advertisements and performs no tracking. It does not ask for permission to track you across other apps and websites, because it has nothing to track you for.
If advertising is ever introduced in a future version, this policy will be updated first, and iOS will ask for your permission through Apple’s own App Tracking Transparency prompt before anything is collected. Declining is always allowed, and the app keeps working the same either way.
Analytics
There are none. No crash reporting, no usage analytics, no third-party measurement SDKs.
Children
The app is rated 4+ and is safe for general audiences. Since it collects nothing from anyone, it collects nothing from children either.
Your rights
Regulations such as the GDPR and the Australian Privacy Act give you rights to access, correct and delete personal data held about you. In this app’s case there is nothing held to access, correct or delete — your data never leaves your phone, and removing the app removes it. For anything held by Apple or RevenueCat in connection with a purchase, contact them directly using the policies linked above.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected, the change will appear here with a new date before the version that does it is released.
Contact
Questions about this policy: joshsalway.com/contact