Is Chick-fil-A safe to use?

Chick-fil-A integrates 9 third-party SDKs spanning security, analytics, and media. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Location, and Contact Info and 4 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Chick-fil-A need?

Chick-fil-A requests 3 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, and Location (When In Use).

What data does Chick-fil-A collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Chick-fil-A collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does Chick-fil-A have?

Chick-fil-A integrates 9 third-party SDKs. 3 for analytics and 1 for infrastructure. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Chick-fil-A access your location?

Yes. Chick-fil-A requests location access. The developer states: "We’ll use your location to find nearby restaurants when placing a mobile order, enable delivery, and locate any rewards available in your area.".

Does Chick-fil-A access your camera or microphone?

Chick-fil-A requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We only use your camera to scan codes". Microphone access is for "Enable mic access to use Voice Ordering". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Chick-fil-A run in the background?

Yes. Chick-fil-A registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Chick-fil-A?

Other food & drink apps include DoorDash , Grubhub , Instacart , McDonald's , Starbucks , and Uber Eats . Each app takes a different approach to food & drink and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Food & Drink · Privacy report

Chick-fil-A

Free · ★4.9 · Chick-fil-A, Inc.

Is Chick-fil-A safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. Chick-fil-A carries 3 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 8 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 2020 appsModerate

Trackers from other companies3 · some

typical apps: 4

Data the app links to you8 types · some

typical apps: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Chick-fil-A links 8 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Chick-fil-A ties to your identity.

PurchasesFinancial InfoLocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among apps.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one app app. Chick-fil-A sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 9 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 3 are third-party trackers.

3analytics

6standard libraries

3 of the 9 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesanalytics

MoEngage Analytics · MoEngage

Analytics SDKAnalytics

mParticle

Standard libraries6 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v2026.6.0, 2026-04-01.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 2020 apps in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 4.