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Privacy
Pick a Damn Place is for casual group planning. No account is required. Please don’t use session names or display names to share sensitive information.
Updated November 2, 2026. This notice covers pickadamnplace.com and its installed web app.
Who operates this site
Pick a Damn Place is an independently operated restaurant-picking app. For privacy questions or requests, contact the site’s owner at topgravy@proton.me.
Location and restaurant searches
Your browser asks before sharing your location. Starting a search sends your coordinates to this app and to Google Maps Platform to find restaurants. The chosen search origin and radius belong to the session. Search coordinates can reveal a location meaningful to you, so start sessions only where you are comfortable sharing that area with your group.
Restaurant details are retrieved for display and are not saved in party data, localStorage, or the service worker. Google place IDs are stored to keep everyone’s restaurant choices aligned. Google photos open on Google Maps rather than being downloaded by the app.
What your group can see
The invitation link grants access to a party. Anyone with that link can view the session name, participant names, choices, and search location, and can try to join. The app is not designed for confidential information. Share invitations only with people you are comfortable seeing that data.
We store session and participant names, restaurant IDs, search coordinates and settings, keeps and passes, Must try nominations, readiness, and votes so the session works across devices.
Retention and browser storage
A party stays active for about twelve hours. Resetting the round renews that period. Expired parties are inaccessible and are deleted on subsequent session requests; expiration does not promise an immediate physical deletion at the exact deadline.
Your browser stores participant credentials and session-recovery information so you can return on the same device. Closing a tab does not erase those credentials. You can dismiss a session from the resume list or clear this site’s browser storage. Clearing storage removes your local access information; it does not by itself delete a shared party for everyone.
The web app caches its own offline screen and icons. Restaurant images may also be held temporarily in memory or by normal browser caching. External image hosts can receive your network address and request information when a logo or website image loads.
Security and abuse prevention
The app uses a short-lived hash of the network address supplied by Cloudflare to limit repeated requests. The raw address is not saved in the app’s rate-limit table. Those records expire within about two hours. Anonymous monthly counters limit Google API usage. Cloudflare, which hosts the service, may maintain its own operational and security logs under its privacy policy.
Advertising cookies and your choices
A labeled Google AdSense banner may appear on the start screen when space allows. Published Google regional privacy messages can appear there when applicable, and Google provides controls for revisiting privacy choices. There are no app-placed ads on the How it works guide, invitation, swipe, review, voting, error, or legal-information screens. Advertising does not affect restaurant results, matches, Must try nominations, or votes.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this and other sites. Ad serving may also involve web beacons, IP addresses, device information, and similar identifiers to deliver and measure advertising and prevent fraud.
You can manage Google personalized advertising through My Ad Center. You can also learn about participating third-party advertisers’ opt-out choices at YourAdChoices. Browser settings can restrict or remove cookies, though doing so may also remove your saved session access.
Where required, Google’s consent message should provide regional advertising choices before relevant advertising technologies are used. Available consent controls depend on the message configured for your region. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services and read the Google Privacy Policy.
External services and links
Opening a restaurant website, a menu, or Google Maps takes you to a service with its own policies. Restaurant information is supplied by Google Maps Platform; website imagery and public logos may be provided by other hosts. The app does not control what those services collect when you visit them.
Questions and changes
Email topgravy@proton.me about your data or a deletion request. Provide only what is needed to identify the issue. We may ask for additional information to locate the session or verify a request. This notice may change as the app changes; the updated date above identifies the current version.