Privacy Policy

Last updated: 1 November 2026

This privacy policy (the "Policy") sets out what information is kept when any person uses Qder.ai or contacts Qder, including as a diner, as a person booking a table or as a business (any such person, the "User"); who sees that information; where it is sent; how long it is kept; and what the User can do in respect of it. The Policy has been written so that it can be understood without a lawyer, and every line of it has been checked against what the code actually does.

This English text is provided for convenience. The Hebrew version of this document is the governing version: מדיניות פרטיות.

1. Responsibility for the information

Qder.ai is operated by Itay Funes, an exempt dealer (עוסק פטור), trading as "Qder" (קיודר) (the dealer number is provided to businesses in the agreement and on every receipt) (hereinafter "Qder"). Qder operates the platform. The restaurant at which the User is sitting, has placed an order or has booked a table, as the case may be (the "Restaurant"), is an independent business, and it owns the information concerning the User's order, visit and booking.

In the terms of the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981 (as amended by Amendment 13): with respect to orders, visits and bookings, the Restaurant is the controller of the information, and Qder holds and processes it on the Restaurant's behalf; with respect to personal accounts, business accounts, applications to join and security records, Qder is the controller. In the terms of the GDPR, to the extent that it applies: with respect to the order, the Restaurant is the controller and Qder is the processor; with respect to the account, Qder is the controller.

In this Policy, words in one gender include every other gender.

1A. Voluntary provision of information

The User is under no legal obligation to provide information to Qder, and the provision of information depends on the User's own choice. The User may order and pay without an account; an account cannot be opened without a telephone number and a date of birth; and, where no allergies have been saved, the digital waiter takes into account only what the User tells it in the conversation. The purposes, the recipients and the period for which information is kept are set out in sections 2–6. As to the right to inspect the information concerning the User and to request its correction or deletion (sections 13 and 14 of the Protection of Privacy Law): see the page Your rights over your data (Hebrew), or write to privacy@qder.ai.

2. Information kept concerning diners

By default, the User is anonymous. The User may scan a code, ask questions, order and pay without providing a name, a telephone number or an email address. The following is kept in every case:

InformationPurposeRetention period
The table session: the branch, the table number, the time at which the session was opened, and the last time at which the phone communicated with the serverTo identify the table to which an order belongs, and to flag in the panel a table whose phone has been silent for three quarters of an hour with no open bill4 hours, after which it is deleted
The order: the dishes, the quantities, the prices, the time at which it was sent and the time at which it was servedTo transmit it to the kitchen, to produce a bill, and to measure for the Restaurant how long serving takesKept by the Restaurant as a sales record; see Keeping and deleting data
An allergy note or a request to the kitchen, if the User wrote oneTo transmit it to the kitchen verbatimTogether with the order
The manner in which the User asked for each dish to be prepared (the degree of doneness, the level of spiciness, extras, and a free-text request concerning a dish, such as "no onion", if the User wrote one)To transmit it to the kitchen together with the dish, and to price a paid extra, if the User chose oneTogether with the order, as part of the dish line
The most recent messages in the conversation with the digital waiter, linked to the table session (and not to the User)So that the digital waiter remembers what was said a moment earlier, and so that words cannot be falsely attributed to it from the browser24 hours, after which they are deleted from the server
The conversation log: what was asked and what was answered, after email addresses, telephone numbers and long numbers (such as identity and card numbers) have been replaced with a generic marker; without any name and without any link to an accountTo improve the digital waiter: to identify which questions it answers poorly, and to enable a manager to correct it. Recurring failure patterns are also examined across restaurants, but only after the name, the restaurant, the chain and the dish names have been replaced with a generic marker; what is kept from that examination is the pattern, and neither the conversation nor the restaurant. The conversation itself is never provided to another restaurant, and is not used to train models90 days, after which it is deleted. The log itself carries no account identifier; however, for as long as the table session that the User opened as a signed-in diner exists (up to 4 hours), the rows can be linked to it, and they are accordingly included in the User's data export and deleted together with the User's account. Any account holder may switch this off on the account page
A question asked by the User that the digital waiter could not answer from the Restaurant's details (it stated that it would check with the staff): the words of the question only, after email addresses, telephone numbers, long numbers and any name that the User gave as his or her own have been replaced with a generic marker; without any account, table session, table number or replySo that the Restaurant answers it once, after which the digital waiter gives that answer to every diner. The Restaurant sees the question without knowing who asked it. Before that, the question is checked at the AI model provider (see section 5) against the Restaurant's details: the menu, the hours and the details about the place. If the answer was already there, the error is the digital waiter's and no information is missing at the Restaurant, and the question is therefore not sent to the Restaurant: Qder's team sees it in order to fix the digital waiter, and it becomes a test case that the digital waiter must pass from then on, without the names of the dish, the restaurant and the chain. This constitutes a test, not model training. The same question, expressed in other words or in another language, is merged into one180 days from the last time a diner asked it, after which it is deleted. If the Restaurant answered it, the topic of the question and the answer remain in the branch's details for as long as the Restaurant keeps them. A test case derived from it: without time limit. Not kept at all in respect of any person who has switched off the keeping of conversations in the log on the account page
A problem report (the "Something not working?" button, or "Send for review" on the safeguards notice): what the User wrote, the table and the branch; and, if the User ticked "attach the conversation" in the report or tapped "Send for review", also a copy of the conversation with the digital waiter, namely what the User's screen showed and what the model received and answered, including spoken turns, after email addresses, telephone numbers and long numbers have been replaced with a generic marker; without any name and without any link to an accountTo establish what went wrong and to fix the digital waiter. The report and any attached conversation are read only by Qder's team, are never provided to the Restaurant and are not used to train models. Attaching the conversation is at the User's choice, separately for each report: the box is unticked at the outset, and "Send for review" sends only when the User taps itThe report: 180 days. The attached conversation: 90 days, after which it is deleted, even if the report itself is still kept. If the fault was the digital waiter's, Qder may keep the questions that the User typed or said in that conversation (without the digital waiter's replies, the User's name, contact details or the dish names) as a test case that the digital waiter must pass from then on, without time limit. This constitutes a test, not model training
A 👍/👎 under a reply of the digital waiter: only what Qder knew about that reply (which model answered, the kind of question, the language, and which of Qder's checks were triggered by it), and never a word of what was written or said; and, if after a 👎 the User chose to write under "What went wrong?", the line that the User wroteTo count where the digital waiter is weak. The vote is counted, and is not kept with the conversation. A line written by the User becomes a problem report and a test case as in the row above: the User's questions only, without the digital waiter's replies, the User's name or the dish names. It tests the digital waiter; no vote and no line is ever used to train a modelWhat Qder knew about the reply: one day, after which it is deleted; only the day's count of votes remains. The line: as for a problem report
The User's chat history: the concierge conversations and the tables, as shown in the app and on the website, linked to the User's accountSo that the User sees the same conversations on every device and can continue a conversation that stopped. It is the User's alone: no restaurant sees it, and it is not used to improve the digital waiter or to train models12 months from the last message, after which it is deleted. Kept only for signed-in diners, and only while the "keep my chats" switch in the settings is on (which is the default); switching it off deletes what was kept. The User may delete one chat or all of them from the menu; they are included in the User's data export and deleted together with the User's account
An email address, if the User entered one at payment in order to receive a confirmationTo send a payment confirmation, and to notify the User if the Restaurant issued a refund400 days together with the visit details, after which it is removed from the payment record
A link for paying part of the bill, if the User shared oneTo enable a person sitting with the User to pay his or her shareThe link is signed and is not stored; it expires after 6 hours
IP addressRate limiting only, in order to prevent the guessing of table codes, mass form submission and repeated sign-in attemptsUntil the end of the limiting window (up to a quarter of an hour); it is not written to a log and is not kept with the order

Personal account

An account is a matter of choice, not a condition. Where the User has opened an account, the following are also kept: the email address; the name; the telephone number (which is mandatory, so that the Restaurant can reach the User if something about the order goes wrong; it is provided only to the restaurant at which the User is sitting); the date of birth (used so that alcoholic drinks are not sold through the system to anyone under 18, and, on the User's birthday, so that the digital waiter may wish the User a happy birthday on the User's own screen; the date and the age are not provided to the Restaurant and are not shown to any person); and whatever the User wrote in the allergies and dietary preference fields. Qder does not keep the User's password at all: identity is managed at Supabase, where the password is stored as a one-way hash. The User's visits are linked to the User's account, so that the User can see them on the account page.

Where those fields are empty, the digital waiter asks once, before the User's first order, whether there are any allergies or anything that the kitchen should know. What the User says is included in the order. The system then asks whether to save it to the User's account, so that the User does not have to repeat it, and saves it only if the User agrees; otherwise, it is not kept on the account. Qder records that the User was asked, so as not to ask again. The User may change or delete it at any time on the account page.

Signing in with Google or Microsoft. Where the User has chosen to sign in through either of them, the provider verifies the User's identity and passes to Qder, through Supabase, the email address and the name registered with that provider. Nothing else is received: Qder has no access to the User's mailbox, contacts or files, and publishes nothing on the User's behalf. If the User already had an account with that email address, the sign-in leads to that same account.

Passkeys. Where the User has added a passkey, the User's device holds the private key, and Supabase keeps only the public key and a friendly name for the device. The User's fingerprint or face never leaves the device and never reaches Qder. (Optional age verification, described below, is different: there, the User chooses to send a photograph of the User's identity document and a selfie for a single check.)

Health information. What the User writes in the allergies field is information about the User's health, and under Israeli law such information is information of special sensitivity. It is kept only in order to be communicated to the kitchen and to the digital waiter; it is sent to the restaurant at which the User is sitting and to no other restaurant; and the User may delete it from the account at any time.

Age verification (optional)

The User may verify, on the account page, that he or she is 18 or over. The User photographs a passport (the photo page) or a biometric identity card (the front), and then takes a short selfie: one picture looking straight ahead and a series of small pictures while the User rolls his or her head in a full circle, as when setting up Face ID. During the selfie, a component in the page follows the User's head in order to guide the User; it runs only on the User's phone and sends nothing. Before starting, the User ticks the consent on the card, and Qder keeps a record of the wording to which the User agreed. The images are sent to Qder once, checked in memory and deleted at the end of the check: Qder does not keep them.

Everything is performed by Qder's own service, which runs on Cloudflare's infrastructure without internet access, and no image is sent to any other company: reading the date of birth and the expiry date from the document (in a passport, the machine-readable lines, being those containing <<<; in an identity card, the dates printed on its front, together with a check that the identity number is valid), comparing the face with the photograph in the document, checking that the head moved as asked, and checking that it is a live face rather than a photograph or a screen. Only the document type and the two dates are taken from the document; the name and the document number are not kept and never leave the service. If the date of birth on the User's account indicates that the User is not yet 18, the User cannot verify, and no image of the User is processed.

Qder keeps only the following: whether the check passed or failed, when it took place, the document type, reason codes and how closely the faces matched (a single number, not a face template; attempts are deleted after 30 days); and the consent wording, for as long as the verification stands. Qder does not keep the User's name, identity number, any image or any face template. Once the User has been verified, an order containing an alcoholic drink reaches the staff marked "age verified", with nothing else about the User. A face image and an identity document are especially sensitive information, and verification is therefore entirely optional: the User may order exactly as before without it, and may withdraw it at any time on the account page; changing the User's date of birth or deleting the User's account withdraws it. Verification does not replace a venue's right to ask for identification.

Table bookings

A booking requires a name and a telephone number, so that whoever is at the door knows whose table it is and can call if anything has changed. The following are kept: the name, the telephone number, the number of diners, the time, a note (if the User wrote one) and the link to the User's account. The booking confirmation and any cancellation notice are sent to the account's email address. The name and the telephone number are deleted 90 days after the date of the booking; the fact that there was a booking, and whether the User arrived, remain with the Restaurant for a further year as an operational figure, without a name. While the User is sitting at the table that the User booked, the note is also conveyed to the digital waiter, so that it knows, for example, that the User is celebrating a birthday.

Orders placed through a waiter, where a name and telephone number are given

Where a waiter enters the User's order on the User's behalf, the waiter may ask for the User's name and telephone number. Giving them is at the User's choice: the User may order through the waiter without giving them. If the User does give them, the Restaurant keeps a card on the User in its guest book, containing the name, the telephone number, how many times the User has visited and when the User last did so, what the User ordered there, the User's allergies (only if the User asked for them to be remembered) and the staff's notes. The card is shared only among the branches of that chain, and is used for two purposes: to recognise the User on the User's next visit (by name, and by the allergies that the User asked to have remembered), and to reach the User if a bill is left open. A waiter sees the name, the allergies and the notes, but not the telephone number; the branch manager also sees the telephone number. Neither the Restaurant nor any other branch of its chain with which the card is shared may use the card for marketing without the User's separate consent. The card is deleted two years after the User's last visit, or immediately when the User asks the Restaurant to delete it. The Restaurant is the controller of this information, and Qder holds it on the Restaurant's behalf.

Restaurant ratings

After paying the bill by card on the Qder platform, the User may rate the Restaurant (1–5 stars) and may, if the User so wishes, add a sentence. The rating is kept with the User's account and with the visit. Other diners see only the average and the number of ratings, and only once there are at least 10 ratings. The Restaurant sees its own ratings and sentences, by day only, without any name or contact details, and cannot edit or delete them. When the User deletes the account, the sentence and the link to the User are deleted, and the stars remain in the Restaurant's average, linked to no one; otherwise, the rating is kept in the same way as visit data (see the retention policy).

Taste memory (optional)

Taste memory is off, and is switched on only if the User personally switches it on: on the account page, or by an explicit "yes" when the digital waiter asks about it. The digital waiter asks only once, after an order on a return visit, and if the User says no or does not answer, it never asks again. While taste memory is on, the digital waiter remembers the kinds of dishes to which the User keeps returning at every restaurant that works with Qder (for example, a cheeseburger), and suggests a dish of that kind when the menu at the restaurant at which the User is sitting includes one.

The referral program (optional)

A diner aged 18 or over, and a business through the administrator of its chain, may join the referral program and receive a personal referral link. Joining is at the User's own initiative only, on the account page or in the chain panel.

The chat on the website

The pages of Qder's website include a chat with Qubi, Qder's digital assistant, and the User may ask at any time for a person from Qder's team. No account is needed, and the User does not have to give a name.

3. Information not kept

4. Information kept concerning businesses

4A. Kin

Kin is a desktop application operated by Qder, in which the User gives tasks to several coding agents in one conversation ("Kin"). In this section, an "Agent" means a third-party program, such as Claude Code or Codex, that the User has installed on the User's computer and signed in to with the User's own account at its provider; and the "Buyer" means a User who has purchased a paid plan in Kin. In respect of the information described in this section, Qder is the controller.

This information is used to provide the service, to collect payment, to manage the team and to comply with legal obligations. Qder does not use it for marketing and does not pass it to others, except as set out in section 5. The retention periods are set out in the retention policy (Hebrew).

5. Recipients of the information

The restaurant at which the User is sitting

The order, the allergy note and the table number reach the kitchen screen of that branch. No other restaurant, not even another branch of the same chain, sees them. The chain manager sees the figures for all of that manager's branches, without diners' names, except in the case of a bill left unpaid (see the next paragraph). If the User ordered while signed in to an account, the branch manager sees, on the screen for the table at which the User is sitting only: the User's name, the User's telephone number (if the User gave one), and the allergies and preferences saved in the User's account. That serves a single purpose: that whoever comes to the table knows what not to bring. The account of a branch waiter sees only the allergies and preferences on that screen, without the name and the telephone number. The information disappears from the screen when the table is cleared. An email address that the User entered at payment is kept in the Restaurant's payment record, in order to send a confirmation and to notify the User of a refund. In the case of a booking, the Restaurant sees the name and telephone number that the User gave, and branch staff see in the panel only that day's bookings, not the whole booking diary.

Unpaid bills

If the User left the table while the bill was still open, the User's contact details (the name, telephone number and email address on the User's account, and an email address that the User typed on a payment page that was not completed) are shown to the branch and to the chain's management, so that they can contact the User and collect what is owed. That is the only purpose, and the legal basis is the Restaurant's legitimate interest in collecting a debt. The details are not stored anywhere else: they are read from the User's account at that moment, shown only while the bill is open, and leave the screen as soon as the bill is settled or voided. Where the User ordered without an account and without starting a payment, Qder has nothing to provide, and will provide nothing. The business undertakes to Qder, in the engagement agreement, to use these details for collecting that bill alone, and not for marketing.

Qder's sub-processors

EntityFunctionInformation receivedLocation
CloudflareHosts the website, the server and the database; counts page views (Web Analytics, without cookies and without any device identifier; this can be switched off); protects Qder's internal operations console (Cloudflare Access; applies to Qder's staff only, and not to diners or to restaurants); and runs Qder's own age-verification service (reading the document and comparing the face)Everything kept in the system; if the User chose to verify his or her age, the photograph of the identity document and the selfies, in memory only and for the duration of the check; for the page count: the page address, the page from which the User arrived, the browser type and load timings, without any identifierThe database is in Western Europe; the network is global
SupabaseIdentity management: passwords and their reset, signing in with Google and Microsoft, passkeys (WebAuthn) and two-factor sign-in with an authenticator application; and storage of the documents attached to applicationsEmail address and password, for accounts; the public key of a passkey; the secret of an authenticator application; business documentsFrankfurt, Germany
Google and Microsoft (only if the User chose to sign in through them)Verify the User's identity at sign-inThey see that the User asked to sign in to Qder.ai; what reaches Qder is the User's name and email address, and nothing moreIn accordance with the provider's policy
OpenAIRuns the language model behind the digital waiter, the business assistant, the kitchen and bar screen assistant and Qubi in the website chat and on WhatsApp, and transcribes a recording if the User chose to speak instead of typing (and a recording of an employee speaking to a kitchen or bar screen); at restaurants that have turned on the spoken conversation, also conducts that conversation itself (the voice passes through Qder's server and is not kept)See Use of artificial intelligence: the message, the menu, what has been ordered, the note written in the booking of the table and, if the User has an account, the allergies, the previous visit to that chain, and whether the User is under 18 or has a birthday today (neither the date itself nor the age), as well as, if the User has turned on taste memory, the kinds of dishes that the User tends to choose (see section 2, "Taste memory"). Not a name, email address, telephone number or IP address. From the kitchen and bar screen assistant: what the employee said or typed (or the recording, for transcription only), that station's menu, and that screen's open orders, namely the table number, dishes, preparation notes and the order's allergy note, without any diner's name, telephone number or email address. From the website chat: the messages of the conversation, after email addresses, telephone numbers and identifying numbers have been removed, and passages from the website's public pagesUnited States
AnthropicDrafts Qder's messages to businesses that left their details in one of Qder's advertisements (the first reply and up to two follow-ups)The contact's first name, the business name, city, number of branches, the form's answers and the messages already sent. Not an email address or telephone number. Nothing about diners is sent to itUnited States
KapsoConnects Qder's WhatsApp number to WhatsApp's business platform and passes messages between WhatsApp and QderThe telephone number and the name shown on WhatsApp of whoever writes to Qder there, and the messages in the conversation, including earlier messages on Qder's number from before it was connected. Nothing from diners' ordersUnited States
Cloudflare (email service) and Resend (backup)Send Qder's emailThe email address and the content of the message: booking confirmation, cancellation, application approval, a link to set a password, and a payment confirmation and a refund notice to the address that the User enteredCloudflare: global network; Resend: United States
The Restaurant's payment processor (PayPlus, Hyp, Grow, Cardcom, Tranzila or Rapyd, depending on which of them the Restaurant works with)Takes the paymentWhat the User types on its page and, if the User is signed in to an account or entered an email address at payment, the User's name and email address, so that the Restaurant's payment page and receipt are in the User's name. Without an account, only the table number is passed on. Subject to the processor's own policy and that of the Restaurant, not to Qder'sIsrael
SUMIT (Qder's accounting and card-processing provider)Keeps the credit card of a business and of a Kin Buyer, charges the subscription fee and the Kin plans, and produces the receiptsThe card details (directly from the browser or from Kin, not through Qder), the business name, the company or dealer number, the billing contact's name and email address, the charge lines and the receipts; and for a Kin Buyer: the cardholder's name, the email address, an identity number for an Israeli card, and the charge lines. Nothing from diners and nothing from ordersIsrael
UPay (SUMIT's card acquirer)Clears the card charges for the subscription and for Kin plansThe card transaction, as passed on by SUMIT. Nothing from diners and nothing from ordersIsrael
iCount (Qder's accounting provider until 23 October 2026)Keeps the transaction accounts and the receipts produced there until that dateThe business name, the company or dealer number, the billing contact's name and email address, the account lines and the documents. Nothing from diners and nothing from ordersIsrael
HubSpot (management of Qder's contact with businesses)Holds Qder's conversations with businesses that contacted Qder, or that Qder approaches, before they become customers: who, at what stage, and the next stepThe business contact's name, the business name, city, number of branches, email address, telephone number and role, and the stage of Qder's conversation with them; only businesses recorded from 23 September 2026 onwards, and never applicants or customers. Never any diner dataHubSpot's EU data centre

None of them is permitted to use the information for its own purposes. Qder does not sell information and does not pass it on to advertisers. Qder will not provide information to a competent authority unless the law requires it to do so.

6. Transfer of information outside Israel

Information is stored in Europe (Cloudflare, Supabase and HubSpot). Information is transferred outside Israel and Europe to the following recipients, as set out in the table in section 5: the AI model provider (OpenAI, United States), for conversations with the digital waiter, the assistants and Qubi, and for the spoken conversation; Anthropic (United States), for drafting messages to businesses that left their details; Kapso (United States), for relaying WhatsApp messages; Resend (United States), as a backup for sending email, which is ordinarily sent through Cloudflare's global network; and Google or Microsoft, under their own policies, if the User chose to sign in through them. The transfer is necessary in order to provide the service that the User asked for, and it is made to providers that are contractually bound to maintain information security and not to use the information for their own purposes, in accordance with the Protection of Privacy Regulations (Transfer of Information to Databases Abroad), 5761-2001.

7. Age

A personal account opens from the age of 13, with a date of birth. Opening an account and ordering through it are acts customary for persons of that age and do not require a parent's consent. If the date of birth shows that the account holder is not yet 13, the account and all the information collected in it will be deleted. A person younger than that is able to order without an account, and Qder does not knowingly collect identifying information from children under 13; if Qder learns by other means that such an account has been opened, Qder will delete it. Alcoholic drinks are sold only from the age of 18: the system will not add them to an order for any person whose date of birth on the account indicates that he or she is not yet 18, and it marks every order containing alcohol for the Restaurant's staff to check identification. A diner who has verified his or her age (see section 2) is marked "age verified" to the staff, and the Restaurant may nevertheless ask for identification. The actual check rests with the Restaurant, as the seller.

8. The User's rights

The User has the right to know what is kept concerning the User, to receive a copy of it, to correct it and to delete it. A full copy can be downloaded as a file in a single click, for diners and businesses alike (a business receives all of the chain's or the branch's data, including an export to Excel). At Qder, these are buttons on the account page, not forms. The full explanation, including whom to contact if the User does not have an account, is on the page Your rights over your data.

9. Amendments to this Policy

If Qder changes anything material (what information is collected, who it reaches or how long it is kept), Qder will update the date at the top of the page and show it in the system. Qder does not amend this Policy in order to widen the uses of information already collected.