Privacy policy
Last updated October 29, 2026
The short version:
- You don't need an account. We never ask for your name, email or phone number.
- Your location is used on your phone to show nearby deals. We don't store it on our servers.
- There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and we never sell your data.
- The only things that leave your phone for our servers are your deal votes and your deal alerts, tied to a random ID the app makes up.
This policy explains what the hungry cat app ("the app", "we") collects, why, and who else is involved. It covers the hungry cat app for iOS and Android and this website.
Your location
If you allow it, the app reads your phone's location when it opens so it can show deals near you. It uses your location on your phone to:
- pick which deals and restaurant branches are within your chosen range, and
- turn it into a place name (like "Austin, TX") for the top of the screen. Your phone's built-in location service (from Apple or Google) does this.
To show street addresses for nearby branches, the app downloads address files from our website for the small map area around you. Like any web request, this tells our hosting provider roughly which area you're browsing.
You can also type a city, address or ZIP code, for your deals or for an alert. That text is sent to OpenStreetMap's search service (Nominatim) to find where it is. If Nominatim can't find it and you've allowed location, your phone's location service tries instead.
We never store your location on our servers. The one exception is the city you choose for a deal alert (see below). You can turn location access off at any time in your phone's settings.
Deal votes
When you give a deal a thumbs up or thumbs down, the app sends our database the deal, your vote, the reasons you picked (like "Great value" or "Expired"), and a random ID the app created when it was installed. The random ID isn't tied to your name, phone number or device hardware. It just lets you change your vote instead of voting twice. Everyone sees only the totals for each deal.
Deal alerts
When you create an alert, the app sends our database:
- the word or phrase you entered (like "ice cream"),
- the city you chose and the coordinates of its center,
- a push notification token for your phone, so we can send the alert, and
- the app's random ID and the deals you've already been notified about, so you don't get the same alert twice.
Our deal collector checks new deals against saved alerts and sends matching notifications through Expo's push service, which passes them to Apple or Google to deliver. When you delete an alert in the app, it's deleted from our database too. If notifications aren't available, the app checks for matching deals on your phone instead.
What stays on your phone
The app keeps some things only on your phone: your last location and search range, deals you've pinned or hidden, your own votes, your alerts, and a copy of the latest deals so the app works offline. Deleting the app removes all of it.
Services the app uses
The app relies on these services to work. Each one receives your phone's IP address, as any internet request does, and each has its own privacy policy.
| Service | What it's used for |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages | Hosts this website and the deal, branch and address files the app downloads. |
| Supabase | Our database for deal votes and deal alerts. |
| Expo, Apple and Google | Delivering deal alert notifications. |
| Google Maps | Showing the map on the Map tab. |
| Loading restaurant logos. The app asks Google's icon service for each restaurant website's icon. | |
| OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) | Finding a city, address or ZIP code you type in. |
| Your phone's location service (Apple or Google) | Turning your location into a place name, and looking up a typed place when Nominatim can't find it. |
| Google Play (Android only) | If you install the app from a shared deal link, the app reads which deal it was once, so it can open that deal for you. |
Links to other sites
Deals link to the original posts, restaurant websites and map apps. Those sites have their own privacy policies, and we don't control what they collect.
What we don't do
- We don't sell, rent or share your data for advertising.
- We don't use analytics, ad networks or tracking across other apps and websites.
- We don't build a profile of you or try to work out who you are.
Keeping and deleting your data
Votes and alerts stay in our database until they're deleted. You can delete an alert in the app at any time. To remove your votes too, email us (below). We'll need your app's random ID, so we may ask you to tell us roughly when and on which deals you voted. Deleting the app removes everything stored on your phone.
Changes to this policy
If the app starts collecting something new, we'll update this page and the date at the top before that version of the app is released.
Contact
Questions or requests about your data: hungrycat.app@gmail.com