Verdine Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 3, 2026

Verdine is a general-audience restaurant trust service operated by Yaqin Works Inc. that helps people understand restaurant trust signals using public health inspection information, place discovery, and app-generated context. This policy applies to the Verdine mobile app and website and explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to you. In this policy, "Verdine," "we," "us," and "our" refer to Yaqin Works Inc.

Information We Collect

Verdine does not require an account and does not ask you to submit profile information to use the app. If you grant location permission in the mobile app, Verdine may process your current device location to rank restaurant search results near you. Verdine does not store precise device location. When you use Verdine, we may process the following information:

Location for search relevance: optional current device location used only to bias restaurant search results when you grant location permission.
Search and restaurant activity: restaurant search text, selected place or restaurant identifiers, viewed restaurant records, match status, inspection history and sharing interactions, and optional match feedback you submit.
Website analytics: the public page URL viewed, referring page or campaign source, browser and device context, session timestamps, a Google Analytics browser identifier, and approximate region derived from the IP address.
App and device context: a randomly generated installation ID, a Firebase-generated app-instance identifier, app version, platform, session and request timestamps, IP address, and basic request metadata used to operate, protect, and understand use of the service.
Security and integrity signals: app or device verification signals used to help protect Verdine from automated misuse and invalid app traffic.
Crash and reliability data: crash type, stack trace, app version, platform, device model and operating-system context, and a Firebase app-instance identifier used to diagnose stability problems. Verdine does not add search text, restaurant or place identifiers, names, addresses, or precise location to crash reports.
Public restaurant source data: public inspection records, restaurant source mappings, and place-discovery information used to produce Verdine trust summaries. Verdine does not currently store third-party review text or review author profiles.

How We Use Information

Provide restaurant search, restaurant detail, and inspection-context features.
Rank search results near your current area when you grant location permission.
Match restaurants carefully against public health inspection records.
Protect the API from abuse, automated misuse, and invalid app traffic.
Measure aggregate website and app adoption, referral traffic, retention, and feature engagement.
Monitor reliability, troubleshoot errors, maintain security, and improve quality.
Respond to support, privacy, and legal requests.

Verdine does not sell personal information, serve ads, or provide account-based social features. Verdine uses Google Analytics to measure aggregate website page views, referral sources, and engagement, Google Firebase Analytics to measure production app usage, and Firebase Crashlytics to diagnose production stability. Verdine disables Google Signals and advertising personalization for website analytics and does not send a Verdine user ID, search text, precise location, or a separate custom restaurant identifier through website analytics. A public restaurant page URL can identify which public restaurant page was viewed. Verdine's custom mobile analytics and crash instrumentation does not send search text, precise location, restaurant or place identifiers, restaurant names or addresses, advertising identifiers, or a Verdine user ID.

Service Providers and Public Sources

Verdine relies on service providers for hosting, database infrastructure, security, service reliability, analytics, and place discovery. Google provides Google Analytics for website reporting and Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics for the mobile app. Google processes browser identifiers, public page URLs, referral, session, device, app-instance, product-interaction, crash, and diagnostic information to provide aggregate usage and stability reporting. These providers process information only as needed to provide their services to Verdine.

Verdine also uses public government or health-authority inspection sources. Those public records remain subject to the source that publishes them.

Retention and Security

We retain website, app, and service records for as long as reasonably needed to provide Verdine, maintain security, prevent abuse, troubleshoot issues, comply with legal obligations, and improve service reliability. Public inspection and restaurant source records may be retained as part of Verdine's restaurant trust database. Analytics, installation-level request, diagnostic, and feedback records may be deleted, aggregated, or de-identified when they are no longer needed for these purposes.

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect information, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Your Choices and Requests

You can stop using Verdine at any time.
You can block or delete website analytics cookies through your browser settings.
You can clear app data or reinstall the app where supported by your platform to reset local app data stored on your device. Server-side records already created by your use of Verdine may continue to be retained, deleted, or de-identified as described above.
You can contact us to request access, deletion, correction, or other privacy support related to information reasonably associated with your use of Verdine.

Changes and Contact

We may update this policy as Verdine changes. If we make material changes, we will update this page and the effective date.

For privacy questions or requests, contact [email protected].