Privacy Policy

You do not need an account to look for deals. When you use the site:

• The state, city or ZIP code you type is used to show nearby results. It appears in the page address and in our server logs.
• We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and to count taps on ride and delivery buttons. This is aggregate usage data. We do not run advertising cookies of our own.
• Our hosting provider logs technical details such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested.

We do not collect your device's location. When you tap a ride button, the Uber or Lyft app or website opens, and they may ask for your location under their own policies.

When the food truck map loads, your browser requests map images from OpenStreetMap's servers, which can see your IP address. See OpenStreetMap's privacy policy for how they handle it.

If you create an owner account, we store:

• Your name, email address and a protected (hashed) version of your password.
• A sign-in cookie that keeps you signed in. It is not used for advertising.
• The claims and verification details you submit, and the listings, specials and changes you make.
• If you ask to reset your password, a request with your email address and a one-time link. Our team sees it so we can send you the link after checking it is you.

Food trucks can choose to share a live location. If you do, we store the coordinates, the name you give the spot, and the time you will be there. They are shown publicly until that time passes or you stop sharing. We keep only your most recent shared location, and we record when it was set or cleared.

You can tap Still works, Changed or Gone on a deal without an account. We store your answer, which deal it was about, and when. To stop one person voting over and over, we also store a scrambled code made from your IP address. We do not store the IP address itself with your vote, and we cannot turn the code back into an address. Only votes from the last 30 days are counted.

To write a review you need a free account. We store:

• Your name, email address and a protected (hashed) version of your password, plus a sign-in cookie.
• Your star rating, the text of your review, and when you wrote or changed it.

A published review shows your first name and last initial, never your email address. Our admins can see your email address when they check a review. If a business owner replies to your review, the reply is public. Deleting your account deletes your reviews. You can also ask us to remove a review or an account through our contact page.

You can install Cheapo Drinko to your home screen. This is the same website, kept on your phone. It does not collect anything extra.

If you turn on flash deal alerts, your browser gives us a private address for sending you notifications. We store that address, the ZIP code you typed, how many miles you chose, and when we last sent you an alert. We also store a scrambled code made from your IP address to stop one person signing up hundreds of times. We do not collect your device's location, your name or your email address for alerts.

We use this only to send alerts about one-day sponsored specials near your ZIP code, at most one every few hours. Every alert says it is sponsored. You can turn alerts off on the home page at any time, which deletes what we stored, or switch notifications off in your browser or phone settings. We delete a sign-up automatically once your browser tells us it is no longer valid.

If you send a message through the contact or advertising forms, we store your name, email address, optional phone number, business name and message so we can reply.

Buttons for Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub and Google Maps take you to those companies. They have their own privacy policies. Cheapo Drinko does not take orders or book rides, and we do not see your orders, payment details or accounts with them.

Some delivery links may be affiliate links. If you click one, the partner or its affiliate network may set cookies so they can credit us, and we may earn a commission if you order, at no extra cost to you. When affiliate links are active, we say so in the site footer.

• To run the site and show deals and listings.
• To review owner claims and listings and keep accounts secure.
• To answer your messages.
• To show reviews and deal feedback and to keep them honest and free of abuse.
• To understand how the site is used and to prevent abuse.

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with:

• Service providers that run the site for us, such as hosting, database and analytics providers.
• Authorities, when the law requires it.
• A successor, if the business is sold or reorganized.

Listing details, specials and shared truck locations are public by design.

We keep account and listing information while the account or listing exists, and messages for as long as needed to handle them. Server logs are kept for a limited time set by our hosting provider. You can ask us to delete your information at any time.

You can ask to see, correct or delete your information, or ask us to remove a listing, through our contact page. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under local law. Owners can stop sharing a live location at any time from the Manage page.

Cheapo Drinko covers alcohol and is for adults of legal drinking age (21 or older in the U.S.). We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 21.

We use reasonable measures to protect your information, such as hashing passwords and limiting who can manage a listing. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page.