Matcha Crawl is built to be a small, useful NYC guide. This policy explains what we collect, why we collect it, and the choices you have when using the site.
Matcha Crawl collects the information you choose to send us, such as spot suggestions, corrections, feedback, and contact details included in a message. When you vote or use interactive features, we also collect basic technical signals needed to operate the feature, reduce duplicate votes, prevent abuse, and understand whether the site is working.
For community voting, we use anonymous first-party identifiers and hashed technical signals such as device cookie, browser/device class, approximate network prefix, timezone, and language. These signals help us count votes fairly and spot coordinated abuse. We do not need your name to submit a vote.
We use first-party cookies for voting identity and abuse prevention. These cookies are HTTP-only, same-site cookies set by Matcha Crawl, and they last up to one year. See the cookie policy for cookie names, purposes, and controls.
We may record product events such as searches, place views, ranking views, voting attempts, and API errors so we can improve the guide and diagnose problems. We try to keep analytics practical and minimal, and server logs are filtered to avoid storing obvious sensitive fields such as email, phone, address, raw IP, or full user-agent values.
The site links to and may embed content from third parties such as maps, cafe websites, Instagram, Cloudflare, and verification services like Turnstile. Those services may process data under their own privacy policies when you open their links, load their embeds, or complete a verification challenge.
We use information to publish and maintain the directory, review suggestions, operate voting and rankings, protect the site from spam or manipulation, troubleshoot bugs, improve search and browsing flows, and respond to messages.
We do not sell personal information. We may share information with service providers that help us host, secure, analyze, or operate the site, and we may disclose information if required by law or needed to protect the site, users, contributors, or third-party businesses.
We keep information for as long as it is useful for the directory, voting integrity, security, operations, or legal reasons. You can clear site cookies in your browser, avoid optional submissions, and contact us to ask about corrections or deletion of information you submitted.
Matcha Crawl is a general-audience NYC food discovery site and is not directed to children under 13. Please do not submit personal information for a child.
We may update this policy as the site changes. When we make meaningful changes, we will update the date on this page. Privacy questions, deletion requests, or correction requests can be sent through the contact page.
The cookie policy lists the specific Matcha Crawl cookies used for voting identity and abuse prevention.