Privacy policy

Last updated 6 October 2026

The short version: Dhaba Dash has no accounts, no adverts and no tracking, and never asks for your name or email. To make the game better we collect anonymous gameplay information — which levels you play, how you score, where you get stuck — and short screen recordings of play, through a service called PostHog. None of it is linked to who you are, and you can switch it off in the game's Settings at any time. Your scores and settings are saved on your device.

This policy explains what happens to information when you play Dhaba Dash on an iPhone. It is deliberately short, because the game does very little with data. Dhaba Dash is made by a small independent team, who are responsible for the information described here.

What the game saves on your device

Dhaba Dash saves a small amount of information locally, using iOS's standard storage. This includes:

your best score and star rating for each kitchen;
which character you last played as;
your settings — joystick style and size, sound and music volume, haptics, larger text, reduced flashing, station labels, and whether Ammi is switched on.

This saved information is not transmitted anywhere. It stays on your device, and we have no way to read it. It is stored in the app's own storage area, which other apps cannot access.

You can clear it at any time. Settings inside the game has Erase progress (scores and stars) and Reset settings. Deleting the app removes all of it.

Online co-op

When you host or join a co-op game, the two phones need to talk to each other. They do this through a relay service run by Supabase (servers in the EU, Ireland). During a match it passes game information between the two phones: the four-letter room code, where each chef is standing and what they are doing, which character was picked, and the state of the kitchen, orders and score.

That is all it carries. There is no name, account, email address, contacts or advertising identifier involved, and the messages are not stored — they are passed on in real time and discarded. Like any internet connection, the relay necessarily sees the network address your phone connects from while the match is running; we do not log or keep it.

Game Center leaderboards

Dhaba Dash uses Apple Game Center for its leaderboards. This is optional. If you are signed in to Game Center on your device, your best score for each kitchen and your combined total are submitted to Apple's leaderboards so you can compare them with other players.

That information is handled by Apple, under Apple's privacy policy — not by us. We do not receive a copy of your scores and we cannot see who is playing. If you are not signed in to Game Center, the game works exactly the same way; no scores are submitted, and nothing else changes.

Gameplay analytics and screen recordings

So we can see which kitchens are too hard, which recipes confuse people and what to build next, the game sends anonymous gameplay information to PostHog, an analytics service (data stored in the EU). This includes:

things that happen in the game — opening the app, starting and finishing a level, your score and stars, orders that ran out, quitting a round, finishing the tutorial;
which chef you played as, and whether it was a solo or co-op game;
basic technical details — phone model, iOS version, app version and screen size;
for some play sessions, a screen recording of the game and where you touched the screen. Text boxes (such as the co-op room code) are hidden in recordings. Recordings are deleted automatically after 30 days.

PostHog gives your copy of the game a random anonymous ID. It is not your name, email, Apple ID, Game Center ID or advertising identifier, and we have no way to connect it to you. We have told PostHog not to store IP addresses. We do not use this information for advertising, we do not combine it with other data, and we do not sell it.

You can switch it off. In the game, go to Settings and tap Share data so it reads Off. From then on nothing is sent — no gameplay information and no recordings.

We rely on our legitimate interest in understanding how the game is played so we can fix problems and improve it, with the switch above as your way to say no.

Feedback you send us

The game sometimes asks how you are finding it, and has a Feedback button in the pause menu and in Settings. Anything you choose to type or select there is sent to PostHog along with the same anonymous ID, and we read it to decide what to improve. Answering is always optional. Please do not include your name, email address or other personal details in feedback — if you would like a reply, email us instead (see Contact).

What the game does not do

No adverts and no advertising networks.
No in-app purchases. There is nothing to buy.
No accounts. There is no sign-up, login, email address or password.
No tracking. We do not follow you across other apps or websites, and the game does not use the advertising identifier. The only analytics in the app are the anonymous gameplay information described above.
No location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone access. The game never asks for these because it never uses them.
No data sold or shared. We have no data to sell or share.

Information Apple may give us

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device's Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, Apple may provide us with aggregated, anonymised statistics — for example how many people installed the app, or a crash report with no identifying information attached. This comes from Apple, is not linked to you, and cannot be used to identify anyone. You can turn it off in that same iOS setting at any time.

Children

Dhaba Dash is suitable for all ages and contains nothing unsuitable for children. The game never asks anyone for their name, email or other personal information, and the gameplay information described above is anonymous. A parent can switch it off at any time with Share data in the game's Settings.

Your rights

Privacy laws such as the UK GDPR give you rights over personal data held about you — to access it, correct it, have it erased, or object to its use. The gameplay information we collect is anonymous, so in most cases we cannot tell which records are yours. You can stop any more being collected with Share data in Settings, and if you would like us to try to find and delete what has already been sent, email us and we will help. The information the game saves on your device is under your control, and you can erase it from within the game or by deleting the app. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Changes to this policy

If the game ever changes in a way that affects this policy — for example if a feature were added that needed to send information somewhere — this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything else in the game, are welcome at rajib@dheet.studio.