Privacy Policy — Rate My Food
Last Updated: May 2026
Welcome to Rate My Food — the internet’s least emotionally supportive food critic.
At Rate My Food, you can upload your meals, receive brutally honest AI-powered food reviews, join the community, react to other people’s culinary disasters (or masterpieces), and take part in a social experience built around food, humour, creativity, and light-hearted roasting.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and your rights when using the app.
By using Rate My Food, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
1. Who We Are
Rate My Food is operated independently by Steve Stratford and the Rate My Food platform team.
The app is designed for entertainment, community interaction, food photography sharing, AI-generated food reviews, and social engagement.
This app is not intended to provide professional nutritional, medical, dietary, or food safety advice.
2. Information We Collect
A. Account Information
When you create an account, we may collect:
- Username
- Password (securely encrypted)
- Display name
- Profile picture
- Bio/about text
- Account preferences
- Device/session information
Guest browsing may be available without creating an account, but some features require registration.
B. Content You Upload
When using the app, you may upload:
- Food photos
- Captions
- Comments
- Reactions
- Profile images
- Community interactions
Anything you upload may become publicly visible inside the app depending on your privacy settings and moderation approval.
If you upload a plate that looks like it lost a fight with a microwave, the internet may have opinions.
C. AI Food Reviews
Uploaded food photos may be analysed by AI systems to:
- Generate food ratings
- Create humorous food critiques
- Detect whether an image actually contains food
- Improve moderation and safety systems
- Prevent abuse or misuse of the platform
AI reviews are automatically generated for entertainment purposes only and may occasionally be sarcastic, dramatic, exaggerated, emotionally devastating, or suspiciously accurate.
Please do not take culinary insults personally. Even Gordon Ramsay would probably survive this app.
3. Content Moderation & Safety
To keep the platform safe, we may automatically analyse uploaded content for:
- Nudity
- Violence
- Hate speech
- Harassment
- Illegal content
- Graphic imagery
- Spam
- Racist or abusive language
- Non-food uploads
- Harmful or inappropriate material
Content may be:
- Automatically rejected
- Temporarily hidden
- Sent to moderation review
- Removed permanently
- Reported where legally required
Accounts may also be suspended or permanently banned for violating platform rules.
We reserve the right to moderate content at our sole discretion.
4. Community Features
The app may include:
- Likes/reactions
- Follows
- Public profiles
- Leaderboards
- Comments
- Trending posts
- Challenges
- Notifications
- Social feeds
Any information you choose to share publicly may be visible to other users.
You are responsible for the content you post.
If you upload beans on toast expecting Michelin stars, that’s between you and the British public.
5. Analytics & App Performance
We may collect technical information such as:
- Device type
- Operating system
- App version
- Crash reports
- Usage activity
- Session performance
- Interaction metrics
- Approximate location region
- Network diagnostics
This helps us:
- Improve stability
- Prevent fraud
- Fix crashes
- Improve features
- Understand app usage
- Keep servers functioning correctly
6. Notifications
If enabled, the app may send notifications relating to:
- Likes/reactions
- New followers
- Comments
- AI reviews
- Moderation updates
- Feature announcements
- Challenges and events
Notification permissions can be controlled within your device settings.
7. Data Sharing
We do not sell your personal data.
However, information may be shared with trusted service providers that help operate the app, including services related to:
- Cloud storage
- Content moderation
- Analytics
- Infrastructure hosting
- Security protection
- Push notifications
- Authentication systems
These providers only receive the minimum information necessary to perform their services.
8. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as necessary to:
- Operate the app
- Maintain community safety
- Comply with legal obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce platform rules
Removed or deleted content may remain in backups, moderation systems, logs, or legal archives for a limited time.
9. Your Rights
Depending on your region, you may have rights to:
- Access your data
- Correct inaccurate information
- Delete your account
- Request removal of content
- Object to certain processing
- Request a copy of your data
You may also delete your account directly within the app where supported.
Some information may be retained where legally required or necessary for fraud prevention and platform safety.
10. Children’s Privacy
Rate My Food is not intended for young children.
Users must meet the minimum legal age required in their region to use social platforms and upload content.
If we discover underage accounts being used unlawfully, they may be removed.
11. Security
We use reasonable security measures designed to protect user data and platform integrity.
However, no online platform can guarantee absolute security.
Please use strong passwords and keep your login information private.
Sharing your password is riskier than serving dry turkey at Christmas dinner.
12. International Users
Your information may be processed and stored in countries outside your own depending on where infrastructure and service providers operate.
By using the app, you acknowledge this possibility.
13. Changes To This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically.
Updated versions will be posted inside the app or associated services.
Continued use of the app after updates means you accept the revised policy.
14. Contact
For privacy-related requests, moderation concerns, or account issues, contact:
Rate My Food Support
Steve Stratford
United Kingdom
15. Final Disclaimer
Rate My Food is intended as a fun, community-driven entertainment platform.
AI-generated ratings, scores, comments, and food critiques are fictionalised entertainment content and should not be interpreted as factual culinary assessments, nutritional guidance, or professional advice.
Sometimes your dinner wins.
Sometimes it gets emotionally destroyed by an AI chef named Chef Eleanourish.
That’s the risk you take uploading lasagne to the internet.