Effective October 12, 2026. Last updated October 12, 2026.

Terms of Service

These Terms are an agreement between you and Odd Pair Ventures LLC ("BRGR", "we", "us"), about the BRGR app — the iPhone app we publish under the name BRGR: Burger Ratings, whether you have it from TestFlight or from the App Store — and the pages at getbrgr.com. Our address is in §19.

By making a BRGR account you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not make an account.

These Terms sit alongside the Privacy Policy at getbrgr.com/privacy, which describes what BRGR collects and what it does with it. Where the two documents cover the same ground, the Privacy Policy is the one to read about data — including the disclosures your state may require about data, which live there and not here.

How these Terms are built

BRGR lists New York restaurants, but you can download it and use it anywhere in the United States — so the people reading this live in fifty states, and consumer law is not the same in any two of them. Rather than write fifty documents, we wrote one, on three rules. They are at the top because they change how everything below is read:

1. New York law governs, and New York courts hear disputes (§16). That is where BRGR is run from and where every restaurant it lists is.
2. Where the law of the state you live in gives you a right you cannot sign away, that right wins — over anything in these Terms, including the limits in §14 and the forum in §16. We do not ask you to give up what your state says you may not give up, and if we have accidentally written something that asks you to, it does not work and the rest of the document carries on.
3. If a clause fails where you live, only that clause fails. It is read down to whatever your state does allow, and if it cannot be read down it drops out and everything else still stands (§17).

What we are not saying. We are not telling you these Terms comply with every state's law. They have not been reviewed against fifty statutes and we are not going to claim otherwise. What we are telling you is how they are built to behave when a state's law disagrees with them: your state wins, and the document survives.

1. What BRGR is

BRGR is a journal for rating burgers. You rate one exact burger at one address — not a restaurant. Four layers (Patty, Toppings, Bun, Build) and a few one-tap answers become one Bite Score, kept in your journal, and published only if you choose to publish it.

BRGR is free. There is nothing to buy in it, and no subscription.

BRGR lists restaurants in New York only.

2. Who can use BRGR

You must be at least 13 years old to make a BRGR account. We do not ask your age and we have no way to check it, so this is a promise you make to us when you sign up.

If we learn that an account belongs to someone younger, we will take down what it has published — its photographs and its public notes. We cannot delete somebody else's account. Deleting a BRGR account takes the phone that signs into it and a word typed on that phone, so if the account is a child's, write to dor@urbero.com and we will walk whoever holds the phone through deleting it.

You need a working mobile phone number to sign in.

3. Your account

You sign in with your phone number and a code we text you. Your carrier may charge you for the message; that is between you and your carrier.

Keep your phone and your number to yourself. Anyone who can receive your texts can sign into your account. If you lose a phone, sign out of every device from Settings → Sign out everywhere, which ends every session on every phone.

A sign-in lasts 90 days and does not renew itself; after that you sign in again.

Signing out removes the account from that phone. It does not delete anything. Deleting your account is a separate action, described in §11.

4. What you post, who owns it, and what we may do with it

You keep everything you make. Your photographs and the descriptions you write for them, your notes, your scores and your Top 10 are yours. Making a BRGR account does not transfer any ownership to us, and we do not claim any.

You promise us three things about anything you post: that it is yours to post; that posting it does not break anyone else's rights; and that if a person's face or private information is in a photograph, they agreed to be photographed and to have the picture shown.

The licence you give us. So that BRGR can work, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy, reformat and display what you post — only to run BRGR as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy. Specifically, that licence lets us:

• keep a copy of your photographs and your journal on our servers, so it survives a new phone — including things you have never published;
• strip a photograph's metadata and rebuild its file before we store it (location, camera and editing data are removed), and change the file's format or size so it can be shown. We do not edit the picture itself;
• show a photograph, the description you wrote for it, and your one-line public note on that burger's page, and show the photograph wherever that burger appears in BRGR's own lists — the browse list and the map — credited to your handle, for as long as you have them published and public. A description goes up and comes down with its photograph; it is not published or hidden on its own;
• decide which of a burger's photographs leads that burger's page and its card in those lists, including choosing one by hand;
• show a photograph you have published to BRGR's reviewers, whether or not anyone has reported it;
• serve copies through caches, which hold a published photograph for up to five minutes;
• keep a count, for our own use, of how often a published photograph has been served. That number is about the picture, not about who looked at it — no account, no address, no record of any viewer — and it is never shown to anyone but us;
• show a photograph you have published in BRGR's own App Store screenshots and app previews, and nowhere else outside BRGR. Never with your handle or your display name on it. §8 sets the conditions, including an age limit.

The licence covers nothing else. We do not sell what you post, we do not licence it to anyone else, and we do not use it in advertising. It is not on getbrgr.com, not in press, and not on social media — the pictures on our marketing pages are openly licensed photographs of other restaurants' burgers, and they say so. The one place outside BRGR your photograph can appear is the App Store screenshots and previews described in §8.

The licence ends when the content does. Take a photograph down, make your profile private, or delete your account, and our right to show it ends at the next read. Copies already sent out can keep showing for up to five minutes while caches expire. What we cannot do is reach copies other people already have: anything that has been public can have been saved, screenshotted or re-posted by someone else, and taking it down here does not take it down there.

One thing outlives the take-down, and you should know it before you publish. An App Store screenshot we have already shipped is artwork attached to a released version of the app, and it cannot be recalled on demand. If you take a photograph down, we leave it out of the next version we submit; until that version is live, the screenshot stands. It carries no handle and no name, so it does not point at you.

Your own sharing. When you make a share card in BRGR, the picture on it is your own photograph, never a picture of someone else's. Sending that card to Instagram or anywhere else is your action, not ours, and what happens to it there is governed by that service's terms.

5. What is public, and what never is

One switch decides. Your profile's Public/Private setting (Settings → Privacy) governs your profile, your Top 10 and every rating you have made or will make. There is no per-rating choice. Turning it on publishes all of them; turning it off takes all of them down. A public profile needs a handle, because published things are credited to it.

When your profile is public, other people can see your display name, your handle, your Top 10 in the order you set it, your ratings and their scores, and any one-line public note you wrote. The app shows a public rating by the month you saved it; the data behind it carries the time it was saved.

These are never shown to anyone, on any setting: your private notes, the prices you paid, your Want to Try list, and drafts you have not saved.

Auto publish. While your profile is public and has a handle, photographs you attach are published on that burger's page, credited to that handle. You do not have to do anything to publish one. Each photograph carries its own Auto publish switch, where you attach it and in the burger's photo gallery afterwards, and turning that switch off takes the photograph down. Photographs you attached earlier may already be published this way; each one's switch, in the burger's photo gallery, says which. A photograph is shown only while all of these hold: its Auto publish switch is on; the rating it belongs to is public; your profile is public and has a handle; the listing is one we have verified; and we have not taken the photograph down. If any of those stops being true, it stops being shown at the next read.

Published means published. Published photographs and published pages are served over the internet without a sign-in, so anyone who has the address can fetch them. Treat anything you publish as public to everyone, not only to other BRGR users.

Aggregates. A burger's community score appears only once two people have rated it publicly, so a single person's answers never appear as a public number.

6. Acceptable use

There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users on BRGR.

Do not post, and do not use BRGR to do, any of the following:

• anything unlawful, or that encourages something unlawful;
• content that attacks, degrades, threatens or harasses a person or a group, including on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age;
• sexual content, nudity, or anything involving the sexual exploitation of a child, which we remove and may report to the authorities;
• someone else's private information — a name, address, phone number, or a face — posted without their agreement;
• impersonating a person, a restaurant or BRGR itself, including in your handle or display name;
• scores, notes or photographs that did not come from a meal you actually ate, including anything posted to promote or to damage a business;
• spam, advertising, or automated posting;
• holding more than one account, or using anyone else's, to push a burger's score up or down;
• photographs that are not of the burger you are rating;
• listings for places or menu items that do not exist;
• interfering with BRGR: scraping it, attacking it, working around its limits, reverse-engineering it, or using it through anything but the app.

Reports are limited to 50 per account per day.

7. Scores are opinions

Every score, note and photograph in BRGR is one person's opinion about one meal on one day. It is that person's statement, not ours.

We do not verify anybody's score, note or photograph before it appears, and we do not check whether a rating describes what a restaurant actually served. Scores are not statements of fact about any business, and nothing in BRGR is a statement by us about the quality, cleanliness, safety or lawfulness of any restaurant.

A community score is an average of individual opinions and appears only after two people have rated that burger publicly. Prices and menus change, and a rating can be out of date the day after it is written.

Nothing in BRGR is advice about food safety, allergens, nutrition or health. If something you eat matters to your health, ask the restaurant, not us.

8. Photographs

A photograph next to a restaurant's name is a claim about what that restaurant serves. That is why a published photograph carries your handle, when it was taken, and the fact that it was taken while ranking: it is your testimony, attributed, and dated.

Only photographs of the burger you are rating, taken by you, may be published.

We do not look at a photograph before it appears. A photograph you publish is public straight away. If someone reports it, or we see it ourselves, we can take it down — and taking it down is not deleting it: it stays in your own journal, and you can still remove it yourself.

Photographs must be JPEG, no larger than 5 MB, no more than 2048 pixels on a side, and no more than 3,145,728 pixels in total. We may refuse a file that does not meet those limits or that is not a well-formed picture. The app encodes at 1440 pixels on the longest side, so a photograph taken in BRGR is always well inside them.

BRGR's App Store screenshots. Apple's store page shows pictures of the app. A photograph you have published may be one of them — only if you were 18 or over when you published it. That is the only place outside BRGR itself where we use your photograph: not on getbrgr.com, not in press, not on social media, not in advertising.

Two rules go with it, and they are ours to keep:

• No handle and no display name. A store screenshot carries a placeholder credit or no credit at all. Your name does not go on Apple's store page.
• Nobody else's face. We do not put a photograph with a recognisable person in it into a store screenshot.

We cannot check anyone's age — §2 says so plainly — so the 18-or-over line is a limit on what you are granting us, not a check we perform. If you are under 18, do not publish a photograph you would not want used this way. If you have published one and you want it kept out of our store screenshots, write to dor@urbero.com and we will keep it out; see §4 for what happens to a screenshot that has already shipped.

9. Restaurants and other businesses named in BRGR

The restaurants in BRGR did not agree to be there. BRGR lists real businesses, real addresses and real menu items, compiled by us from public sources — menus, public records and maps. No restaurant asked to be listed, and no restaurant decides what BRGR says about it. No restaurant can claim, edit, approve or remove its own listing. We do not tell a restaurant when a burger of theirs is added, rated, photographed or discussed — except where a restaurant has agreed to display a BRGR code, which is described below.

Nothing BRGR publishes about a business is a statement by that business, and nothing in BRGR implies that a business endorses BRGR or has anything to do with it. Restaurant names are used to identify a place and a dish, which is all they are for.

Some restaurants agree to display a BRGR code. A card on a counter or a table, with a code that opens one of that restaurant's burgers in BRGR, is placed with the restaurant's permission. That permission covers the card and nothing else. It does not make the restaurant a partner, it does not let it claim, edit, approve or remove its listing, and it does not let it see, change or remove anybody's score. A card is not an endorsement of BRGR by the restaurant, or of the restaurant by BRGR, and we take a card back out of any restaurant that asks.

No money changes hands, in either direction. We do not pay a restaurant to display a card, and a restaurant does not pay us — not for the card, not to be listed, and not for anything about how it appears in BRGR. BRGR has no paid placement, no sponsored listing and no advertising. If that ever changes we will say so here, under §15. What will not change is this: nothing a restaurant pays for will ever move a burger's score, its order on the map, or whether it is listed at all.

If you run a restaurant we list and something about the listing is wrong, or you want it removed, write to dor@urbero.com. That address reaches the person who builds BRGR, and it is the only channel there is.

10. Reporting, moderation and removal

Reporting. Every burger, photograph, public note and profile in the app has a report control. You can report a wrong listing, something that is not a real burger, offensive or abusive content, spam or fake ratings, someone's private information, or anything else with a sentence of your own.

Be clear about what a report does. A report is stored and read by us. We do not reply to reports, and you will not hear the outcome of one. The app says the same thing where you send it. Sending a report does not guarantee that anything is removed.

What we can remove. We can remove anything on BRGR that breaks these Terms, at our discretion, and we can do it without telling you first. Today we do not notify you when we remove something. If something of yours is gone from a burger's page and you do not know why, write to dor@urbero.com and ask; that is the only route there is, and it is also how you ask us to reconsider.

We can take down a photograph, hide a public note, and remove a listing.

A removal is not a deletion. A photograph we take down stays in your own journal. A listing we remove keeps every rating anyone made against it, including yours.

Ending an account. We can suspend or end your access to BRGR if you break these Terms, and immediately if the reason is serious — sexual content involving children, credible threats, or an attack on the service. If we end your account for a reason you think is wrong, write to dor@urbero.com.

Blocking. You can block another person's handle. A block hides them from your own view of BRGR on that phone. It does not tell them, does not stop them using BRGR, and does not hide you from them.

11. Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time, from Settings → Data, analytics and deletion. You type the word DELETE to confirm, and you can export your journal as JSON from the same screen first. That export holds your ratings and their scores, your notes, your prices, your lists and any description you wrote for a photograph. It does not hold the photographs themselves — keep those in your phone's own photo library.

Deleting the account removes from our servers: your ratings and their scores, your private notes and the prices you paid, every photograph you uploaded — published or not — its description, and the image files themselves, your Top 10, your profile and handle, the reports and burger suggestions you sent, the share and invite links you made, the fingerprint that let people find you by your number, every follow in both directions, and the account itself. The same action clears the journal from your phone.

What deletion does not do. Community averages for the burgers you rated are recalculated without your ratings, so the numbers on those burgers can change. A report that somebody else made about your content belongs to them, not to you, and is not deleted with your account. The records BRGR keeps to stop the service being abused — the log of sign-in code requests, which holds the phone number that asked, and the record of recent writes, which holds the account that made them — are not deleted by deleting your account. They are swept out as the service runs. Usage analytics already sent carry no account, name or number and cannot be traced back to you to be removed. One thing outside our servers outlives deletion too: an App Store screenshot we have already shipped, described in §4.

12. How long we keep things

We keep your journal and your profile until you delete your account, or until we end it.

• Usage analytics: up to 12 months.
• Sessions: 90 days, unless you sign out sooner.
• Reports and burger suggestions you send: 12 months from the day you send one, whether or not anybody has read it. Deleting your account deletes the ones you sent, sooner.
• The short-lived records that stop the service being abused: a record of a sign-in code request lasts 24 hours; a record of a contact lookup, and a record of a change you saved, last an hour each. Each is cleared the next time anybody makes a request of that kind, so none outlives its window by more than the quiet between requests.

13. BRGR's own things

The app, its design, its name, its scoring method and its catalog of listings are ours. These Terms give you permission to use BRGR as a customer, and nothing more. Do not copy, scrape, resell or build a competing catalog out of what BRGR shows you.

Map data in BRGR comes from MapTiler and OpenStreetMap contributors, and is credited in the app.

14. No warranty, and the limit of what we owe you

BRGR is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the fullest extent the law allows — including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not promise that BRGR will be available, that it will be free of errors, that a listing is accurate, that a rating is truthful, or that anything you store with us will not be lost. Keep your own copy of anything you would mind losing. The JSON export in §11 covers your ratings, notes and prices; it does not cover your photographs, so keep those in your phone's own photo library.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, lost profits or lost goodwill.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for everything arising out of or relating to BRGR is limited to fifty US dollars ($50). This limit does not apply to death or personal injury caused by our negligence, to fraud, to gross negligence, or to anything the law does not allow us to limit.

Some states do not allow these exclusions, or do not allow them this far. Where that is so, they do not apply to you — the disclaimer and the limit are cut back to whatever your state does allow, and if your state allows neither, you keep every right it gives you as though this section were not here. Nothing in it takes away a right you cannot give up. See the three rules at the top and §17.

What you cover. If someone brings a claim against us because of something you posted or something you did on BRGR, you will cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it, to the extent the law allows.

15. Changes to these Terms

We can change these Terms. When we do, we post the new version at getbrgr.com/terms and change the date at the top.

How you will find out. BRGR does not have your email address and does not send you notifications, so we cannot write to you. Checking the page is the notice. Using BRGR after a change takes effect means you accept it; if you do not, delete your account.

16. Which law, and how disagreements are settled

These Terms are governed by the law of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to BRGR goes to the state or federal courts sitting in New York County, New York, and you and we each agree to those courts.

Why there. BRGR is run from New York and lists New York restaurants only. Every dispute we can realistically foresee — about a listing, a photograph, a rating, a meal — is about a New York restaurant. A clause like this should name the place where the side that wrote it will actually turn up, and this one does.

And you can sue where you live, if your state says you can. New York County is where we agree to be. It is not a wall in front of you. If the law of the state you live in gives you the right to bring a claim in your own state — or in a small-claims court near you — and that right cannot be signed away, then you have it, and this section does not touch it. You can always use your local small-claims court for a claim that qualifies.

No arbitration, and no class-action waiver. We do not require you to arbitrate, and we do not ask you to give up your right to join with other people in a claim.

What this does not take away. Nothing here removes a right you have that the law does not let you give up. New York gives you one worth naming, because New York law is the law we have chosen: General Business Law §349(h) lets a person injured by a deceptive act recover "actual damages or fifty dollars, whichever is greater"; lets a court increase that award up to three times actual damages, to a maximum of one thousand dollars, if it finds the violation willful or knowing; and lets a court award a winning plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees. The limit in §14 does not reach any of that.

Why there is no list of the other forty-nine. Every state has its own consumer-protection statute, and several of them say in terms that you cannot be made to waive them — California's Consumer Legal Remedies Act, for one, at Civil Code §1751. A list of them here would be out of date within a year, and a document that is wrong about the law is worse than one that does not recite it. So we did the other thing: §17 gives all of them effect at once, by saying that whatever your state will not let you sign away, you have not signed away.

Two California provisions did change how this document is written, so they are worth naming rather than hiding. Civil Code §1668 says a contract cannot exempt someone from responsibility for their own fraud or willful injury — which is why §14 carves fraud and gross negligence out of the limit instead of sweeping them in. Civil Code §1751 says a consumer's waiver of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act is void — which is why this document asks you to waive nothing and says so at the top.

If something goes wrong, write first. Email dor@urbero.com and say what happened. That is not something you have to do before going to court. BRGR is one person's mailbox, and §10 tells you plainly that we do not reply to reports; we are not going to turn a reply you cannot count on into a hurdle in front of your rights. It is simply the fastest way to get something fixed.

Whatever is settled here, it does not displace the licence agreement that covers the BRGR software itself (§18), which carries its own governing law and its own courts.

17. Rights you cannot sign away, and what happens when a clause fails

This is the section meant to let a single document work in fifty states, so it is written out rather than compressed into a line.

Your state's law wins. If the law of the state you live in gives you a right, a remedy or a protection that cannot be waived by agreement, you keep it, and it overrides anything in these Terms that would reduce it. That applies to every section, and it applies whether or not we have named your state's statute anywhere.

A clause that fails is read down before it is thrown out. If any part of these Terms is unenforceable where you live, it is first narrowed to the most it can do there. Only if it cannot be narrowed does it drop out — and when it drops out, it drops out for you, in your state, and nowhere else.

Everything else keeps working. One clause failing does not take the document with it. The remaining sections stay in force, and the agreement is read as though the failed part had been written the way your state requires.

The rest of the rest. If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given it up. You cannot transfer your rights under these Terms; we can transfer ours if BRGR changes hands. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about BRGR.

18. If you got BRGR from the App Store

These terms apply to the copy of BRGR you downloaded from Apple's App Store.

Your licence to run the BRGR software is Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement. It is Apple's document, not ours: it sets the scope of your licence, the refund Apple will give you if the app fails to conform to a warranty, and the law that governs the software licence itself. These Terms do not restate it and do not change it.

What these Terms add:

1. This agreement is with us, not Apple. These Terms are between you and us only. Apple is not a party to them. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for BRGR and everything in it.
2. Support is ours. We alone are responsible for maintaining and supporting BRGR. Apple has no obligation at all to furnish any maintenance or support for it. Our support is the address in §19.
3. Claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for dealing with any claim you or anyone else makes about BRGR or your use of it — including product liability claims, any claim that BRGR does not meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar law.
4. Intellectual property. If anyone claims that BRGR, or your use of it, infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
5. Legal compliance. You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
6. Who we are. Our name, address and contact details are in §19. Send any question, complaint or claim about BRGR there.
7. Other people's terms. You must keep to any other agreement that applies when you use BRGR — for example your mobile data agreement, and the terms of any service you share a BRGR card to.
8. Apple can enforce this. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and when you accept these Terms Apple has the right — and is deemed to have accepted the right — to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

19. How to reach us

Odd Pair Ventures LLC
418 Broadway STE N
Albany, NY 12207
+1 917 624 9340
dor@urbero.com

That email address reaches the person who builds BRGR. It is where to send a question, a complaint, a claim, a request about a restaurant listing, or a request to reconsider something we removed.

For a copyright complaint, use §20 — it names the same address and tells you what the notice has to contain.

20. Copyright complaints

BRGR stores photographs that the people using it upload. If you own a copyright and something on BRGR infringes it, write to our designated agent and we will act on it.

Our designated agent for copyright notices

Odd Pair Ventures LLC
418 Broadway STE N
Albany, NY 12207
+1 917 624 9340
dor@urbero.com

What to put in a notice. Identify the work you say is infringed. Identify what on BRGR you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it. Give your name, address, telephone number and email address. Say that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent, or the law. Say that the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the owner or are authorised to act for them. Sign it, on paper or electronically.

What we do with it. We read it, and if it holds up we take the photograph down. That is the same take-down §10 describes: it stops being served, and it stays in its owner's own journal.

If we took yours down and we were wrong. Write to the same address. Give your name, address, telephone number and email address, identify the photograph and where it was, say under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification, and say that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where you live — or, if you are outside the United States, for any district where we may be found — and that you will accept service from the person who complained.

Repeat infringers. It is our policy to end the account of anyone who repeatedly infringes other people's copyrights. That policy is this paragraph, and printing it here is how we tell you about it.

Do not send a notice you know is false. Saying that something infringes when you know it does not can make you liable for damages, including costs and attorney's fees.