Legal
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how the operator of RangeBites handles information. It is part of your agreement to use the Service, together with the Terms of Use.
1. Operator
RangeBites is a non-tracking food information website. The Operator does not build a profile of you and does not save GPS.
1a. Non-tracking
RangeBites is an information-only food app at rangebites.com, designed, published, and operated by an individual website developer (the “Operator”). No account is required. The Operator does not run a diner email list. RangeBites is not a reservation service, not legal, tax, or financial advice, and not RangeBits or any finance product.
2. Information we do not collect
The Operator does not create user accounts, does not collect diner email addresses, does not use advertising trackers, and does not store a location history. The Operator does not store your latitude or longitude in cookies, local storage, or on the host as a profile.
3. Locate Me and city search
If you choose Locate Me, your device may share a coordinate with the browser so the Service can request nearby restaurants. That coordinate is held in memory for the current search and is cleared when you leave the page. It is not saved as a GPS trail.
If you search a city, that text is sent to look up the area. This device may remember range, filter choices, distance units (mi or km as text), and last city as text only, not coordinates.
4. Saved restaurants (hearts)
If you heart a listing, this device may store its OpenStreetMap identifier, name, and address. That list does not include latitude or longitude and is not a GPS trail. Hearts remain on this device. You may unheart a restaurant or clear saved restaurants in Filters.
5. What is transmitted to provide the Service
To display listings, the host or a same-origin proxy forwards a search (a map area or a city) to OpenStreetMap Overpass and Nominatim. The host necessarily sees that search request and your IP address in order to fetch results and limit abuse. A secondary Overpass host may be used if the primary host fails. Map tiles are served by OpenStreetMap. The Operator does not claim that a location never leaves your device: the proxy, tile servers, and Overpass services receive what they need to return a map.
Restaurants may optionally submit an offer and a contact email on the Specials page for review. That is restaurant contact, not a diner mailing list.
The site is served over HTTPS. Files are hosted on here.now (Cloudflare).
6. Analytics and tracking
The Operator does not use Amplitude or similar product-analytics services to track you. The application does not log Locate Me, search, or deal taps as a user profile. If the host retains a first-party page-open count, that record is a kind label and a time. It does not include coordinates, name, or email.
7. Listings
Restaurant names, hours, and maps come from OpenStreetMap as-is and may be wrong. There is no warranty that a listing is accurate, open, or still there.
8. What we do not do
The Operator does not sell personal information, does not require an account to browse, does not store reservations, does not use advertising trackers, and does not collect diner emails.
9. Third parties
Restaurant listings and hours come from OpenStreetMap contributors. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation Privacy Policy. When you open Google Maps, Apple Maps, or a restaurant website, those services’ policies apply. RangeBites does not scrape those services or display their star ratings on our pages.
10. Your choices
You may deny location permission and still search any city. You may unheart restaurants or clear saved city and filters on this device. Closing the page clears in-memory search results.
11. Children
The Service is intended for persons 13 years of age and older. It is not directed to children under 13. The Operator does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
12. Changes
The Operator may update this Policy by posting a revised version with a new effective date. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. This Policy is not legal advice to you.