HungerStation

Is HungerStation safe?

HungerStation is safe to use for ordering food in Saudi Arabia, and its record is cleaner than its Gulf sister talabat: we found no fine, no regulator order and no confirmed breach. Its weak spot is tracking. Apple's privacy label lists nine kinds of data, from your location and payment details to what you type in reviews, as used to track you across other companies' apps and websites. We score it 54/100, between talabat (51) and foodpanda (56), and just ahead of its fast-growing rival Keeta (53).

Who runs HungerStation

HungerStation LLC is based in Riyadh, and its app has been on the App Store since 2013. It belongs to Delivery Hero SE in Berlin, which also owns talabat and foodpanda. Delivery Hero is HungerStation's main data processor, handling cloud hosting, platform security, marketing and customer care, and the app runs on the EU arms of Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.

That ownership may change. In July 2026 Uber agreed to buy Delivery Hero for about €12.9 billion, Gulf News reported, which would put HungerStation and Uber Eats under the same owner once the deal closes. HungerStation's founder, Ebrahim Al-Jassim, now runs a rival: he founded the Saudi delivery app Ninja in 2022.

The tracking label

The App Store label is one of the broadest we have seen on a delivery app. Under Data Used to Track You it lists purchases, financial info, location, contact info, user content, search history, identifiers, usage data and diagnostics. The same nine types are linked to your identity.

Google Play paints a narrower picture. It says HungerStation shares your name, user IDs, address and phone number with other companies, with user IDs used for advertising and analytics, and collects location, searches and purchase history for the app itself.

The privacy policy sounds stricter than either label. It says targeted advertising needs your consent under Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law, that ad audiences are built from aggregated, pseudonymised segments that may predict your age and gender, and that brands advertising inside the app get only performance figures. It says HungerStation will not sell or rent your data without explicit consent. When a policy and a label disagree, we score the broader of the two, and here that is Apple's label.

How the policy treats you

The policy is more careful than most in the region. It is written around the Saudi data protection law and explains a legal basis for each use. Account data is deleted when you close the account or after three years without activity. Support chats may use large language model chatbots, and the policy says your data is not given to outside companies to train their AI. Refunds and compensation may be calculated automatically, and you can ask for a person to review a decision.

Two gaps remain. The policy carries no date, so you cannot tell when it last changed. And deletion is a request to HungerStation rather than a button described in the policy, though Google Play says a deletion route exists.

Security

We found no confirmed breach of HungerStation customer accounts, and Google Play says data is encrypted in transit. Like talabat, it has no bug bounty. Delivery Hero's security page invites researchers to report flaws through a form and mentions work with HackerOne, but lists no rewards.

Fines and regulators

We searched English and Arabic sources and found no fine or order against HungerStation. In March 2025 Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Competition published draft rules for food delivery apps, naming practices it treats as abuse of dominance, such as exclusive deals with restaurants and self-preferencing, with a four-month grace period after adoption. The draft names no company, so it is not a finding against HungerStation. Delivery Hero's €329 million EU cartel fine in 2025 concerns its European business and does not name HungerStation either.

How to use HungerStation more safely

1. On iPhone, tap "Ask App Not to Track" when asked, and allow location only while using the app.
2. Refuse consent for personalised ads if the app or website asks; the policy says ads then become generic.
3. Never share a one-time code or card details with someone who calls about an order. Use the in-app help.
4. Ask for a human review if an automatic refund decision looks wrong; the policy gives you that right.
5. If you stop using the app, ask for deletion rather than leaving the account idle for three years.

How we scored it

Regulatory record (85) is HungerStation's strongest factor: no fines found in more than a decade, though no regulator has examined the app itself. Privacy (32) is the weakest, because Apple's label lists nine data types as used to track you. Transparency and control (62) gains from a detailed, Saudi-law policy with a fixed retention limit.