Privacy

Looking at restaurants and dishes

You don’t need an account, and the site sets no cookies and gives you no identifier. We count what is looked at so restaurants can see how they are found: that a menu was opened, which dishes were looked at, which words were searched. Each count has nothing about who: no name, no address of your computer, no browser details.

• Words about allergies, intolerances, diets or health are removed from searches before anything is counted.
• Where you are is never kept. When you share it (Near me), it is used to measure distances and then forgotten; counts keep only a distance band, such as “under 250 m”.
• For our own view of the whole site we also count pages opened, searches (and whether they found anything), which partner’s link a visit came from, and which parts of the map were looked at up close, as squares of about 500 m, never a point.
• If your browser asks sites not to track you (Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control), it sends nothing at all.
• Single visits are deleted after 7 days (never more than 90); what remains are daily totals per restaurant. A searched word is kept only if it was searched at least 3 times that day, for up to 13 months.

The map

The map’s pictures come from OpenFreeMap, so your browser asks their servers for them, as it would for any map. Directions open in Google Maps only when you tap Directions.

AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude)

An assistant can search MindMeal for you. We receive only what it sends to search with, and we keep none of it: not the words, not the allergens you asked to avoid, not the place. We count only that a restaurant was shown to an assistant, which of our tools it used, and the name of the assistant app (such as “ChatGPT”).

• If the assistant looks up a place by its name (“near the Sagrada Família”), that name is sent to OpenStreetMap’s place search. Nothing else is.
• A “near me” link from an assistant opens our map, and your phone asks you whether to share where you are. Your location goes from your phone to our page, never through the assistant.
• What you tell the assistant itself is between you and its maker; see their privacy policy.

Restaurants

What we show about a restaurant is what it publishes itself: its menu, address, phone, website. A restaurant can ask us to correct or remove anything.

Someone who runs a restaurant can have an account: their name, email and a password we keep only in a form that can’t be turned back into it. Signing in sets one cookie that keeps them signed in; it is used for nothing else. To prove they run a restaurant they may send photos; those are seen only by MindMeal staff and deleted 7 days after we decide. The decision itself is kept.

Emails

We only send emails you need: a sign-in link, a claim link, an answer to a claim. No newsletters, no marketing.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, or to stop using it, and you can complain to a data protection authority: in Estonia the Andmekaitse Inspektsioon, in Spain the AEPD. For a diner there is usually nothing to find, because we keep nothing about who you are.

Who we are

MindMeal, a company being set up in Estonia, made by Vasyl Vasyliev. Write to info@mindmeal.net about anything here. More about us on the About page.