What is this app for?

The Food Challenge is an app for cooking for each other with friends and other home cooks, rating each other's dishes and keeping score. It's just for fun: there are no prizes with monetary value. The app is offered by Angel IT.

Who can take part?

• Anyone who creates an account and agrees to these terms and the privacy statement.
• Under 16? Then you need permission from a parent or guardian.
• You can only join tastings with alcohol if you are 18 or older.

Everyone sees each other

The app is deliberately built so that the participants of a challenge can see each other. By taking part you agree that the other participants can see this about you:

• your name, avatar and colour;
• which challenges you take part in and when you cook;
• your scores, your place on the scoreboard, your badges, your cooking style profile and any certificates (after a challenge ends);
• your recipes, your drink, the cooking report and the location of the dinner you host;
• your spending and receipts (after a challenge ends);
• whether you're listed as a couple with someone in the app.

Interim standings stay secret until a challenge is finished. Nobody sees who gave which score. Only you can see your notes on a rating.

What we store and why

• Email address: for invitations, reminders and results. Other participants don't see it.
• Postcode: only to determine whether a challenge is near you. Others only see a distance, not your postcode.
• Allergies and what you don't eat: are taken into account in every challenge you take part in. Others see the challenge's list, not who each allergy belongs to.
• Two-step verification: to secure your account.

You can read more in the privacy statement.

AI

For themes, budget advice, mystery ingredients, cooking reports and translations the app uses OpenAI. First names, dishes and vague rating labels may be sent, but never your email address, postcode, password or exact scores. Everyone has a daily AI allowance.

Support the app

You can voluntarily contribute to the costs of the app, once or monthly. Payment goes through Mollie. A contribution never gives points, XP or any other advantage. You can stop monthly support yourself at any time. A contribution is a gift: you don't receive a product in return.

Your own responsibility

• Enter your allergies yourself in My account. The cook takes them into account, but you eat and drink at your own risk.
• Agreements about money (budget, your own contribution for a Mega Challenge) are made among yourselves; the app doesn't handle those payments.
• Drink in moderation and don't drive if you drink alcohol.
• Meeting at the home of someone you don't know yet? Be sensible and meet first at a place where you feel comfortable.

Be nice to each other

• Rate fairly and with respect.
• No spam, ads, fake accounts, hate or harassment. See something that's not right? Report it with the 🚩 button.
• What you see about others in the app, you don't share outside the app.
• The admin may remove messages and block accounts if these rules are broken.

The app itself

We do our best to keep the app working well, but we can't promise it's always available or free of errors. Angel IT is not liable for damage from using the app, unless the law says otherwise.

Stopping

You can always delete your account yourself in My account. Your data is then erased, as described in the privacy statement. If these terms change, we'll ask you to agree again.