Terms of Service

Last updated: 30 August 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Hallows Group LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("Hallows Group", "we", "us"), covering the DinnerSwipe mobile app and the DinnerSwipe website (together, "DinnerSwipe" or "the service"). By creating or joining a dinner room, or by otherwise using DinnerSwipe, you agree to these terms. If you create an account, we also record which version you accepted and when. If you do not accept them, please do not use the service.

1. What DinnerSwipe is

DinnerSwipe helps two to four people agree on a restaurant by swiping independently until they all like the same one. It then hands you off to a maps app for directions, or to a search for delivery.

We are a suggestion tool, not a booking or ordering service. We do not take reservations, process orders, deliver food, or act as an agent for any restaurant.

2. Eligibility and where we operate

You must be at least 18 years old to use DinnerSwipe. We do not permit minors to use the app. By accepting these terms you confirm you are 18 or older and are able to enter into this agreement.

DinnerSwipe is intended for users in the United States. We do not direct the service to, or market it in, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom. The website is reachable from anywhere, but that does not mean we offer the service in your country, and we make no claim that DinnerSwipe complies with local law outside the United States. If you use it from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for your own local law.

3. Accounts

You do not need an account. If you create one, you are responsible for keeping your password secure and for activity under your account. Tell us at support@dinner-swipe.app if you believe it has been compromised.

We send a confirmation link to the address you sign up with, so you must be able to receive mail there. See our Privacy Policy for what we store.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use DinnerSwipe for any unlawful purpose.
• Attempt to guess, enumerate, or brute-force room codes, or join sessions you were not invited to.
• Attempt to discover another participant's swipes or location.
• Use the service to harass, threaten, abuse, or send unwanted content to another participant.
• Bypass, disable, or circumvent access controls, usage limits, or rate limits.
• Access the service by automated means, or use scripts, bots, or scrapers.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source of the service, except where that restriction is unenforceable by law.
• Misrepresent your age or your identity.
• Scrape, resell, or redistribute restaurant data obtained through DinnerSwipe.
• Create sessions or generate load beyond normal personal use.
• Interfere with the service or with anyone else's use of it.

5. The other people in your session

DinnerSwipe puts you in a room with the people you chose to share a room code with, and may point you all to a restaurant in the physical world. You decide who to share a room code with, and you do so at your own discretion.

We do not verify anyone's identity, run background checks, or vet participants in any way, and we make no representation about who the other person in your session is. Take the same care you would arranging to meet anyone else.

6. Restaurant information

Restaurant details — names, ratings, price levels, opening hours, photos, and locations — come from third-party providers including Yelp, Google Places, Foursquare, and OpenStreetMap. We do not create or verify this information.

It may be out of date, incomplete, or wrong. Opening hours in particular change without notice. Confirm with the restaurant before you travel or place an order. We are not responsible for your experience at any restaurant we show you.

Where a delivery option is offered, it is a search for the restaurant on a delivery platform. We do not know whether that restaurant delivers to you, whether it is available, or what it will cost. Anything you order is a transaction between you, the delivery platform, and the restaurant.

7. Sessions expire

Sessions are deliberately short-lived, and anonymous session data is deleted on the schedule set out in our Privacy Policy. Do not rely on DinnerSwipe to store anything you need to keep.

8. Ads and paid features

The mobile app is supported by advertising. We may offer a paid ad-free upgrade; if we do, purchases are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play, and their refund policies apply.

9. Our intellectual property

The DinnerSwipe name, software, and design are ours. These terms grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the service for your own non-commercial purposes. Restaurant content remains the property of its respective providers and is subject to their terms.

10. Your feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or bug reports, we may use them to improve DinnerSwipe without any obligation to you and without compensation. You keep any rights you already had in what you sent; you are simply granting us permission to act on it. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential.

11. Availability

DinnerSwipe is provided as-is. We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of it at any time, and we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. This is a beta service.

12. Reports, monitoring, and legal requests

12.1 Reporting a problem

If someone misuses DinnerSwipe, email support@dinner-swipe.app with as much detail as you can, including roughly when it happened. We read what we receive and may act on it at our discretion.

We want to be straight with you about the limits. DinnerSwipe deletes session data about 24 hours after a session ends, and most people use it without an account. That is a deliberate privacy choice, and it means that by the time a report reaches us there is often nothing left to examine and no way to identify who was involved. We do not promise to investigate, to reach any particular outcome, or to respond within any particular time. If someone has harmed you or broken the law, please contact your local authorities — they can compel evidence that we may not hold.

12.2 We do not monitor

We may review usage to operate the service, enforce these terms, or comply with the law, but we are not obliged to and we do not undertake to. Nothing in these terms makes us responsible for monitoring what people do with DinnerSwipe, and DinnerSwipe does not host public or shared user content.

12.3 Legal requests

We may preserve and disclose information where we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or that it is necessary to protect our rights, our users, or the public. As above, we generally hold very little data and not for very long.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, DinnerSwipe is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. This includes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty as to the accuracy, currency, or completeness of restaurant information.

We do not warrant that the service will meet your requirements, that a session will produce a match, that any restaurant shown is open, available, or suitable for you, or that defects will be corrected.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Hallows Group and its members, officers, employees, and suppliers are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages; nor for lost profits, lost data, loss of goodwill, or the cost of substitute services; nor for any loss arising from your dealings with a restaurant, a delivery platform, a maps provider, or another participant. This applies whatever the legal theory, and even if we were told such damages were possible.

Our total liability to you for all claims combined, arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars (US$100).

These limits apply even if a remedy in these terms is found to have failed of its essential purpose. They allocate risk between us and are part of the basis on which DinnerSwipe is offered to you free of charge.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for gross negligence or wilful misconduct — and nothing in them affects your statutory consumer rights.

15. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Hallows Group and its members, officers, employees, and agents from any third-party claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to:

• your use of DinnerSwipe;
• your breach of these terms, including the acceptable-use rules in section 4;
• your violation of any law or of anyone else's rights; or
• your dealings with any restaurant, delivery platform, or other participant.

We will tell you promptly about any claim we seek indemnity for, and you may control the defence — except that we may take over the defence at our own expense, and you may not settle a claim in a way that imposes any obligation or admission on us without our written consent. This section does not apply to any claim arising from our own gross negligence or wilful misconduct, and it does not apply where the law does not allow it.

16. Governing law and where disputes are heard

16.1 General

These terms and any dispute arising out of them or out of DinnerSwipe are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and by applicable United States federal law. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

For any dispute, you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Travis County, Texas, and each of us consents to personal jurisdiction there.

16.2 Mandatory consumer rights

If you use DinnerSwipe as a consumer and the law of the country where you live gives you rights that these terms would otherwise limit — including the right to bring proceedings in your own local courts — those rights prevail, and section 16.1 does not apply to you to that extent.

17. Apple and Google

If you obtained the DinnerSwipe app from the Apple App Store:

• These terms are between you and Hallows Group only, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any support or maintenance for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability, legal or regulatory non-compliance, or consumer protection claims.
• Apple is not responsible for investigating, defending, or resolving any third-party claim that the app infringes intellectual property rights.
• You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and that you are not on any US Government restricted-party list.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

If you obtained the app from Google Play, your use is also subject to the Google Play Terms of Service, and Google is not a party to these terms.

18. Suspension and termination

18.1 Ending it yourself

You may stop using DinnerSwipe at any time. You can delete your account yourself in the app or on the web — see Delete your account — or email privacy@dinner-swipe.app.

18.2 Our rights

We may, at our discretion and at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice:

• suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to DinnerSwipe, in whole or in part;
• decline to provide the service to anyone;
• suspend access while we look into a suspected breach of these terms; and
• set, change, or enforce usage limits, rate limits, and other technical controls.

We are more likely to do this if you breach section 4, but we do not have to establish a breach first. These are rights we reserve, not commitments we make: nothing here obliges us to suspend or terminate anyone, or to do so in any particular case or timeframe.

18.3 After termination

If we terminate or restrict your access, you agree not to use DinnerSwipe again, and not to circumvent the restriction — including by creating another account or using the service anonymously. Your sessions end, and your data is handled as described in our Privacy Policy. We do not refund any paid upgrade except as the Apple App Store or Google Play requires.

18.4 What survives

Sections 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19 survive the end of this agreement.

19. General

• Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about DinnerSwipe, and replace anything said before.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent needed, or severed, and the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these terms. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, on notice to you.
• Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, including outages at our hosting or restaurant-data providers.
• Notices. We may give you notice in the app, on this site, or by email. You may give us notice at support@dinner-swipe.app or at 5900 Balcones Drive #31966, Austin, TX 78731, USA.
• No third-party beneficiaries, other than Apple as stated in section 17.

20. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will change the date at the top of this page whenever we do, and for material changes we will tell you in the app or by email. Continuing to use DinnerSwipe after a change means you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the service and, if you have one, delete your account.

21. Contact

Questions about these terms, reports of misuse, and legal notices: support@dinner-swipe.app
Privacy questions and data requests: privacy@dinner-swipe.app

Hallows Group LLC
5900 Balcones Drive #31966
Austin, TX 78731
United States