Privacy Policy

Effective 10 November 2026 · Applies to the Dishorb app for iPhone, iPad and Android, and the same app in a browser at dishorb.com/app

Dishorb is where people rank the dishes they eat, one to five orbs, and follow each other's taste. This policy says what we collect, why, who else sees it and what you can do about it.

Who we are

Dishorb is run by AlmaOrb, LLC, a Florida limited liability company ("Dishorb", "we", "us"). Write to us at [email protected].

Who distributes the app. On Apple's App Store the app is listed under the seller name In2website LLC, and on Google Play under the developer account of MyHoma, LLC, both on behalf of AlmaOrb, LLC. AlmaOrb, LLC provides Dishorb and is solely responsible for it and for your personal information. The publishers do not receive your account or what you post.

What we collect

Your account: your phone number (to sign you in with a text code), your name, your username, your city and, if you add them, a profile photo and a short bio. If you sign in with Apple, Google, Facebook or TikTok, we receive the name and email address that service shares.
What you post: your dish rankings (the orbs, an optional note and photo), the dishes and restaurants you save, your likes and comments, and who you follow.
Food preferences: allergies and diet choices you add to your profile (for example "peanuts" or "vegetarian"). We use them only to flag dishes for you; they are never shown to other people.
Notes to a kitchen: when you send a private note to a restaurant, we deliver the text to that restaurant's staff without your name or contact details, and keep it with your account so we can stop abuse.
Contacts, only if you allow it: to find friends already on Dishorb, the app sends the phone numbers in your contacts to our server, which answers with the matching accounts. We do not keep the numbers of people who are not on Dishorb, and we never message your contacts.
Location, only if you allow it: your device's location while you use the app, to show dishes and restaurants near you. We do not keep a history of where you have been.
Technical data: the app version, device type and server logs (address and time of each request), to run and secure the service.

What other people see

Your name, username, photo, city, rankings, notes, photos, likes, comments and who you follow are public to other Dishorb users and may appear on dish, restaurant and leaderboard pages. Your phone number, email, food preferences and notes to kitchens are never shown.

Why we use it

To run Dishorb: sign you in, show your feed, rank dishes, build city leaderboards and recommend dishes and people you may like.
To keep it honest and safe: detect fake accounts, spam and rankings that break our Terms.
To send you what you asked for: sign-in codes, and notices about your account.

We do not sell your personal information, we do not share it for advertising, and we show no ads.

Services that help us

These providers handle data for us only to provide their service, and are bound by contract to protect it with the same or equal protection as this policy:

Google Maps Platform (places, city search and maps), Photon by Komoot (city search) and OpenStreetMap (map tiles): they receive the places and areas you look at, not your account.
AI providers — Google (Gemini) and Anthropic (Claude) — read restaurant menus and the dish photos you post to recognize dishes. They do not use this data to train their models.
A text-message provider sends your sign-in codes.
Apple and Google deliver the app and, if you use them, sign you in.

Restaurant names, addresses and places come in part from Overture Maps Foundation open data.

We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect people from harm, or as part of a sale or merger of the business (the buyer would remain bound by this policy).

How long we keep it

While your account is open. When you delete it, your account and everything tied to it leaves our live systems immediately; encrypted backups and server logs roll off within 30 days.

Your choices

Edit or delete any ranking, photo, note or comment at any time.
Turn off contacts or location access in your device's settings.
Delete your account in the app (Settings → Delete account) or as described at dishorb.com/delete-account.
Ask for a copy of your data, or for a correction, by writing to [email protected]. Depending on where you live (for example California, Virginia, Colorado or the European Union) you have these rights by law; we give them to everyone.

Security

Data travels encrypted (HTTPS) and is stored on servers we run. Access is limited to the people who run Dishorb.

Children

Dishorb is for people 13 or older. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13; if we learn we have, we delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy we update the date above, and tell you in the app before a change that matters takes effect. See also the Terms of Use.

AlmaOrb, LLC, a Florida limited liability company · [email protected]