iOS App Privacy Policy

The short version

The app collects nothing about you. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party SDK of any kind. Nothing you do in the app is transmitted to us or to anyone else.

What stays on your device

• Favorites — the foods you star, stored locally with Apple's SwiftData framework.
• Filter and sort preferences — macro goals, dietary preferences, avoided allergens, and sort order.
• Interface state — whether you have seen the onboarding tour, and which menu stations you have collapsed.

This data never leaves your phone. Deleting the app deletes all of it. We cannot see it, cannot recover it, and receive no copy of it.

What the app sends over the network

The app makes anonymous, read-only requests to a public database to fetch dining hall menus and nutrition information. These requests contain only what is needed to load a menu — the dining hall, the date, and, when favorite alerts are enabled, the recipe numbers of your starred foods so upcoming menus can be matched against them.

No device identifier, advertising identifier, account identifier, or location data is sent. The requests are not linked to you or to any profile. All traffic uses HTTPS.

Your favorite foods are sent as anonymous recipe numbers only, and are used solely to generate the response for that request. They are not stored against any user record.

Notifications

Favorite alerts are local notifications, created and scheduled by the app on your own device. There is no push server and no Apple Push Notification service token. Notifications are only scheduled if you explicitly enable alerts and grant notification permission, and you can revoke that permission at any time in iOS Settings.

The app also registers a background refresh task so those local alerts stay accurate when menus change. It performs the same anonymous menu lookup described above and nothing else.

Data we collect

None. Under Apple's App Privacy definitions, this app is “Data Not Collected.”

Children

The app is rated 4+ and collects no data from anyone, including children under 13.

Third parties

The app contains no advertising networks, analytics providers, crash reporting SDKs, social media SDKs, or tracking technologies. Nothing about your usage is shared or sold, because nothing is gathered.

Menu data is served from a Supabase-hosted public database. Supabase processes the network request itself (including the originating IP address, as any web server does) in order to return the menu; it receives no personal information from the app.

Affiliation

Eat UNC is an unofficial, independently developed app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or Carolina Dining Services. Menu and nutrition information is published by UNC Dining and may change without notice; if you have a food allergy, always confirm allergen information posted at the dining hall.

Changes

If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date above will change with it. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us through our feedback page.