Privacy policy
Effective Date: 07/31, 2026
At Mukjah, we believe great restaurants are built on great relationships. Our mission is to help restaurants build and maintain meaningful relationships with their customers while helping people discover, remember, and share exceptional dining experiences.
Your privacy matters to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and the choices you have regarding your personal information when using the Mukjah mobile application and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By creating an account, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
1. Who We Are
Mukjah is operated by A&K Systems, Inc., a California software company focused on building technology that strengthens the relationship between restaurants and their customers.
Contact: yo@mukjah.com
2. Information We Collect
Account Information: Email address, password, display name, profile photo, and biography for account management and authentication.
Onboarding & Taste Preferences: During onboarding, we ask about your cultural/regional background, taste badges (including dietary restrictions and allergies), who you usually dine with, how often you eat out, restaurants you already consider your "regulars," neighborhoods you frequent, and how you heard about Mukjah. Every onboarding question can be skipped. Some of these answers — in particular your background selection and allergy/dietary badges — may reveal information about your ethnicity or health-related dietary needs. We collect them solely to power taste-badge matching and restaurant recommendations, never for advertising.
Location Information: With your permission, we collect precise or approximate location to display nearby restaurants, verify visits, improve recommendations, and power map features. You may disable location permissions at any time. Background location is not collected unless explicitly required and authorized. Precise location may be treated as sensitive personal information under California law — see Section 10.
Photos and Media: We only access photos and videos you explicitly choose to upload. For photos, we may read limited metadata such as capture time and GPS coordinates solely for visit verification and maintaining community integrity; that metadata is removed from the photo before it is stored. Videos are uploaded as you selected them, so any audio they contain — and any location metadata the recording device embedded in the file — is uploaded with them. Photos and videos attached to a card are publicly viewable. Do not upload a video containing someone's voice or likeness without their consent.
User-Generated Content: Reviews, Insider Order Cards, ratings, comments, notes, lists, saved restaurants, favorite dishes, profile information, photos, and videos (including any audio they contain). You retain ownership of your content while granting Mukjah a limited, non-exclusive license to host, display, and promote it in order to operate and improve the Service. This license ends when you delete the content or your account.
Reports and Blocks: When you report content or another user, or block another user, we store that record to enforce our Community Guidelines and keep the Service safe.
Technical Information: Device type, operating system, app version, IP address, and language settings, used to operate, secure, and troubleshoot the Service. We do not currently use third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDKs; if we add them in the future, we will update this Policy and our App Store privacy disclosures beforehand.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to manage accounts, authenticate users, recommend restaurants and dishes, match you with users who share your taste preferences, verify visits, provide Insider Order Cards, personalize recommendations, improve search, detect fraud, moderate content, respond to support requests, improve the Service, and comply with legal obligations. We do not sell personal information or use it for third-party behavioral advertising.
4. What Other Users Can See
Your display name, handle, profile photo, bio, taste badges, and your Eater/Regular/Based level for each restaurant are visible to other users of the Service. Insider Order Cards you write — including your taste badges and level at the time of writing — are visible to other users and to the restaurant you wrote about. Do not include information in your profile or content that you do not want to be public.
5. Restaurant Relationships
In addition to the public visibility described in Section 4, restaurants may receive aggregated, anonymized, or user-authorized information that helps them improve customer experiences. We do not provide private personal information (such as your email or precise location history) unless you authorize it, a requested feature requires it, or the law requires it.
6. Sharing Your Information
We share information only with trusted providers necessary to operate the Service, including authentication, hosting, storage, database, and mapping providers, or when legally required to protect users, prevent fraud, or enforce our Terms. We do not sell personal information.
7. Third-Party Service Providers
Current providers include Supabase (authentication, database, storage) and Google Maps Platform (maps and location services). Additional providers may be added as the Service evolves; this Policy will be updated accordingly.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information only as long as necessary. When you delete your account from the Profile screen, your profile, taste badges, visit history, content, and saved lists are deleted or anonymized in our active systems immediately. Limited records may remain in secure backups for up to 30 days after deletion, after which they are permanently purged, except where longer retention is required for legal, fraud-prevention, dispute resolution, or security purposes.
9. Your Privacy Rights
You may access, update, correct, delete, or request a copy of your information where applicable. You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Delete account in the app, or by contacting us at yo@mukjah.com.
10. California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)
If you are a California resident, you have the right to:
- Know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources, the business purpose for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it (see Sections 2, 3, 6, and 7 above).
- Delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
- Correct inaccurate personal information.
- Limit the use of sensitive personal information. We treat precise geolocation as sensitive personal information. We only use it for the purposes described in Section 2 (nearby restaurants, visit verification, recommendations, map features) and do not use it to infer characteristics about you or for advertising, so no opt-out is required — but you may still disable location permissions at any time.
- Non-discrimination: We will not deny you goods or services, charge different prices, or provide a different level of service because you exercised any of these rights.
Mukjah does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
To exercise these rights, contact yo@mukjah.com. We will respond within the time required by law (generally 45 days, extendable once by an additional 45 days with notice). You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf; we may require verification of the agent's authority and your identity.
11. Children's Privacy
Mukjah is intended for users age 13 and older. By creating an account, you confirm that you are 13 or older, consistent with our Terms of Service. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 and will promptly delete such information if discovered.
12. Security
We use HTTPS/TLS encryption, secure authentication, password hashing, Row Level Security where applicable, access controls, secure cloud infrastructure, and ongoing security improvements.
13. Community Integrity and Moderation
We use automated systems and human review to identify spam, fake visits, fraud, impersonation, abuse, and Community Guideline violations. Visit verification may use uploaded photos, timestamps, and location information. Users may appeal moderation decisions by contacting yo@mukjah.com.
14. International Users
Mukjah is currently intended for use only within the United States, and our service area is limited to LA Koreatown. If you access the Service from outside the United States, please be aware that your information will be processed and stored in the United States, which may not offer the same level of data protection as your home country. If we expand availability outside the United States, we will update this Policy to describe the additional protections that apply.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Material changes will be communicated through the app or by updating the Effective Date.
16. Contact Us
Mukjah Operated by A&K Systems, Inc. Email: yo@mukjah.com
We appreciate the trust you place in Mukjah and are committed to protecting your privacy while helping restaurants and customers build lasting relationships.