Effective date: September 27, 2026
This policy covers the Yes Chef Food Fest app and nothing else.
Buying a ticket, the website and our marketing emails are covered by the Yes Chef Food Fest privacy policy, which is a separate document.
THE SHORT VERSION
The app is free. There are no ads and no in-app purchases. We ask for an account so the stamps you collect follow you to a new phone. We don't sell your data, and nothing you do in the app is visible to anyone else.
WHAT WE COLLECT
Your email address. This is how you sign in. If you use Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google, we receive the email from them. We never see your password, and if you use Apple's Hide My Email we only ever see the relay address.
Your name, when Apple or Google provide it with your sign-in. We store it on your profile. The app has no name field and never asks you to type one.
An internal user ID that ties your stamps to your account.
Your food stamps - which spots you tasted, which free tastings you tried, the booth and lot, the cuisine tag, and the date you earned each stamp.
A push notification token, if you turn notifications on.
Crash reports and performance traces. If the app crashes or stalls, a report goes to Sentry with the stack trace, the app version, your device model and iOS version, and your internal user ID so we can tell whether one person or everyone is affected. A sample of screen-load timings goes the same way.
Usage events. Which screens you open and which buttons you tap - "opened the map", "stamped a spot" - go to PostHog, again keyed to your internal user ID. No session replay, no keystrokes, no email address in the event.
WHAT WE USE IT FOR
Signing you in, and keeping your stamps attached to your account.
Recording a stamp when you earn one, and counting them.
Sending the push notifications you opted into - the free tastings coming out, something on the main stage starting. The whole night is about ten of them.
Finding and fixing crashes, and seeing which parts of the app people actually use so we can improve them.
No advertising, no profiling, no selling, no tracking across other apps or websites. The crash and usage data is never combined with data from other companies' apps or websites and is never used for advertising.
YOUR LOCATION STAYS ON YOUR PHONE
The map can draw a dot where you are standing, and turn it to face the way you are facing. That is the only thing location is used for, and iOS asks your permission before it happens.
We never receive it. Your position is read on your phone, drawn on the map on your phone, and thrown away. It is not sent to our servers, not stored anywhere, not attached to your account or your stamps, and not shared with anyone. We could not tell you where you were at the festival, because we never knew.
The app only ever asks for location while you are using it - never in the background. Say no and everything else works exactly the same; the map simply does not draw the dot. You can change your mind at any time in iOS Settings → Yes Chef Food Fest → Location.
WHO SEES YOUR STAMPS
Only you. The app has no feed, no friends, no sharing and no public profile. Nothing you do in the app is visible to another person using the app.
SHARING
We do not sell your personal information and we have never shared it with anyone for advertising.
The only companies that touch your data are the infrastructure providers we use to run the app - hosting, the sign-in and database service, the services that deliver push notifications and app updates, and the crash-reporting (Sentry) and product-analytics (PostHog) services described above. They process it on our behalf and for nothing else. Beyond those, we disclose data only when the law requires it, to protect our rights or prevent fraud, or if the business is ever sold or merged - in which case this policy travels with it.
WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES
On servers in the United States. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, that means your data is transferred to the US to be processed. We rely on standard contractual clauses with our providers for that transfer.
RETENTION AND DELETION
We keep your account data for as long as your account exists.
You can delete your account from inside the app, at any time, without asking us. Open the app, tap the gear in the top right of TODAY, then SETTINGS → ACCOUNT → DELETE MY ACCOUNT. You will be asked to type DELETE to confirm. That removes your sign-in, your profile, every stamp you have earned, your favourites and your push token, permanently and immediately. It cannot be undone.
If you would rather we did it, email app@yeschef.group and we will complete it within 30 days.
CHILDREN
You must be at least 13 to have an account in the app. The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you think a child under 13 has an account, email us and we will remove it.
YOUR RIGHTS
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, restrict or erase your personal data, and to object to certain processing. Email us and we will honour those requests whatever country you are in.
SECURITY
We use reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards. Sign-in tokens are held in the iOS keychain on your device, the database sits behind deny-all row-level security, and the app talks to our API over HTTPS only. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, and we cannot promise otherwise.
CHANGES
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top and say so in the app.
CONTACT
Yes Chef Group LLC, New York, NY
