Privacy Notice

Last updated: 4 October 2026

This notice covers justpick.lol and justpick.wtf: restaurant searches, your device preferences, group rooms and optional statistics.

Who we are

JustPick, a Bascorp product, is based in Pretoria, South Africa. For privacy requests or the Information Officer, email [email protected]. See Legal & Company Information.

What we use and why

Location and searches: your browser coordinates, if you choose Use my location and grant permission, or the area you type, are used with your cuisine, budget and other filters to find nearby places. Your coordinates and search details are sent to location and place-listing services. You can type an area instead of granting location access. These are steps you request to provide the service.
Group rooms: the nickname you enter, restaurant deck, area and filters, your yes/no choices, room membership and result are stored to run the room you request. Room members can see nicknames, progress and the group's result, including who picked the winning place. Anyone with a room link may try to join; share it with people you trust. A nickname is required. Use a nickname without personal or sensitive details.
Recent picks: your browser keeps up to five recent restaurant choices, including names, addresses, images and ratings, until replaced or you clear site storage. This list is held on your device; opening a saved image or place link still makes a request to the relevant service.
Technical and security information: connection details, including IP address and approximate country, help deliver the site, show regional prices and prevent abuse. This serves our legitimate interest in keeping the service safe and working.
Correspondence: if you email us, we use your address and message to answer and handle your request. Sending an email does not subscribe you to marketing.
Optional statistics: with your permission, visit and interaction reports help us understand and improve the service.

Most information comes from you or your browser; approximate location and device categories are derived from the connection. Giving information is voluntary. Without an area or browser location we cannot find nearby restaurants; without a nickname you cannot join a room.

Optional visit statistics

Only after Allow optional, your browser stores random identifiers for returning visits and separate session identifiers. These distinguish this browser over time, even though they are not your name or contact details. Two reporting systems receive visit and screen paths, time and duration, approximate country/region/city, browser/device categories, screen-size category, language, referring website hostname and campaign tags. They also count searches, the number of cuisines selected, matches, room creation/joining/results, errors and sharing actions.

On a sample of visits we also record tap positions, element types and scroll depth. Reports do not include your room nickname, typed field values, precise browser coordinates, IP address or full browser identity string. Connection and security logs are separate. This is not a video recording of a session. We use reports for site statistics, not advertising.

Scheduled cleanup removes statistics event records older than 400 days and visits inactive for 400 days. The browser identifiers remain until you clear them or turn optional statistics off. You can change your choice in Cookie settings. Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track keeps optional statistics off.

Who receives information

Our team and providers receive what they need for hosting and infrastructure, security, location and place listings, statistics and email delivery. Advisers or authorities may receive information where necessary for a legal duty, a dispute or safety. Room participants receive the room information described above. We do not sell your personal information.

Place information uses Google Maps content. The Google Privacy Policy is incorporated here for that service. Photos and reviews retain their authors' credits. If you open maps, restaurant websites, delivery or tip services, or use sharing apps, those services receive the information you choose to send and their own policies apply. Share buttons open only when you choose them.

Information outside South Africa

Some providers process information outside South Africa, including the United States and Europe. Transfers must have protection under law or binding agreements comparable to POPIA, or another lawful transfer ground such as a transfer needed for the service you request.

How long information stays

Rooms expire 24 hours after creation. They become unavailable at expiry; scheduled deletion removes the room records, with an expiry check on subsequent requests if the schedule runs late. Your tab's room pass stays in session storage until it is replaced, cleared or the browsing session ends; browser session restoration can preserve it. An expired pass cannot reopen an expired room.

Search results and area lookups are temporarily cached to answer searches. These can include the requested area or coordinates and place results; they are not personal accounts. Service and security logs can also record requests. We retain correspondence for as long as needed to answer, handle a dispute or meet legal duties. Statistics and device-storage periods are described above. Provider logs and backups can have separate periods; we do not promise that application expiry deletes every provider copy.

Cookies and browser storage

Necessary storage holds recent picks and the room pass you request. Your statistics choice lasts six months. Optional storage holds the random visitor/session identifiers and reporting state and starts only after your permission. Necessary only stops future optional reports and clears their identifiers in this browser. You can clear site storage through browser settings. If storage cannot save or remove a choice, we keep statistics off and explain the problem.

Safeguards

We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards. No online service is completely secure. We will notify affected people and the Information Regulator of a security compromise as required by law.

Your rights

Ask whether we hold information about you and request access.
Ask for correction or deletion of information we are no longer authorised to keep.
Object on reasonable grounds relating to your situation to processing based on legitimate interests; object to direct marketing at any time.
Withdraw consent without affecting earlier lawful processing.
Complain to the Information Regulator.

Requests and objections are free by email to [email protected]; no special form is required. Tell us if you need another accessible way to make a request. We may ask for reasonable proof of identity. Within 30 days after receiving a correction or deletion request, we will tell you in writing what action we have taken or why we cannot make the change. If a record-access fee is legally permitted, we will give a written estimate first.

Information Regulator (South Africa)
Woodmead North Office Park, 54 Maxwell Drive, Woodmead, Johannesburg 2191
[email protected] · [email protected]
010 023 5200 · 0800 017 160 · Contact and complaints

Children and teens

JustPick is intended for adults. If you are under 18, ask a parent or guardian to use it with you and agree before you share location or a nickname. Avoid personal details in room names. Parents or guardians can email us to ask about, correct or request deletion of a child's information.

Changes

We will update the date and give notice on the site before important changes apply.