People reach this page with three questions. Which countries does Deliveroo serve, and who owns it now? Does a proxy or a VPN help? And how do you get its data? This page answers from DoorDash and Deliveroo documents and from what the site did to our server. The short answer: Deliveroo belongs to DoorDash and runs sites in seven countries. Its UK site opened for our US server. Its terms name IP masking as a way of gaming offers, and its APIs are for partners.
Deliveroo and DoorDash: which countries
DoorDash announced on 2 October 2025 that it had completed the acquisition. The release listed the countries at that date: "Deliveroo operates across 9 countries". On 25 February 2026 DoorDash announced it is exiting four countries across its Deliveroo and Wolt brands: Qatar, Singapore, Japan and Uzbekistan. In September 2026 the UK front page links sites for seven countries.
| country | on the list of October 2025 | linked in September 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | yes | yes |
| Ireland | yes | yes |
| France | yes | yes |
| Belgium | yes | yes |
| Italy | yes | yes |
| United Arab Emirates | yes | yes |
| Kuwait | yes | yes |
| Qatar | yes | no, exit announced |
| Singapore | yes | no, exit announced |
What Deliveroo did to our server
We sent plain requests from our server in St. Louis on 28 September 2026, with a browser user agent and no JavaScript.
| request | answer |
|---|---|
| the UK front page | HTTP 200, the page asking for a postcode |
| the legal page with the terms | HTTP 200, the full terms |
| robots.txt | HTTP 200, the file |
| the API reference | HTTP 403 and a check page |
So the UK site does not need a UK address to open. The front page says: "Enter a postcode to see what we deliver". The terms explain why the postcode matters: "Each Partner has a prescribed delivery area". An order outside that area, or outside opening hours, is not possible. The robots.txt file asks crawlers to stay out of the /api/ and graphql paths, accounts, orders and the login page.
What the terms say
The Terms of Service were last updated on 9 July 2026. On accounts they are plain: you must use your own email address, and "only one account per customer" is allowed. The company may also ask for more proof of identity, or close an account it suspects of fraud.
The terms for vouchers and account credit describe proxy use without the word. They list ways to "manipulate our Site and our offers of Credits", among them "masking identity by manipulating IP addresses" and "any other automated means". Such an attempt makes the order and the credit invalid, and the account may be closed. The terms for restaurant offers in Deliveroo Plus carry the same list.
The terms of use for the website add a general rule. You may not "access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt" any part of the site or the service.
The official route for data: the partner APIs
The developer portal offers three suites of APIs. The Partner Platform Suite covers "Essential APIs for running a restaurant on Deliveroo". The Retail Platform Suite serves grocers, and the Signature Suite builds a custom delivery site.
The portal terms set who gets in. Access is "on a temporary, invitation-only basis". The sandbox lets a partner send and receive test data. It also helps a partner decide whether to go live, which needs "a separate agreement with Deliveroo". The API reference answered our server with HTTP 403 and a page titled "Hello there, human!", so we could not read it. For an API key, the route is the portal: an invitation, then an agreement as a partner.
If you use proxies for other work
Nothing on this page routes Deliveroo traffic through a proxy. The site opened without one, and the terms treat IP masking for offers as manipulation. For other work where a proxy is allowed, see datacenter and residential proxies, sticky and rotating sessions and how to use proxies with Playwright. Our free proxy list, its UK proxies and our proxy checker cost nothing. Our residential and ISP proxies are on the pricing page, and residential traffic starts at $0.44/GB.
The limits of this page
We made plain requests without JavaScript, from one server in the United States. We did not enter a postcode, log in, order, or test whether the site detects a VPN or a proxy. The robots.txt file asks crawlers to stay out of the legal page too; we opened it once, as a reader would, to quote the terms. The API reference was closed to our server. The two DoorDash releases come from archived copies, because the investor site answered our server with a bot check. This page is due for a check by 28 December 2026.
Sources
We read every source below on 28 September 2026.
- Deliveroo, Legal: Terms of Service (last updated 9 July 2026), Terms of Use for Website and Applications (last updated 30 May 2025), Voucher and Account Credit Terms, and Plus Partner Offer Terms.
- Deliveroo, Developer Portal and its terms of use.
- DoorDash, DoorDash Completes Acquisition of Deliveroo, 2 October 2025, and DoorDash to Wind Down Deliveroo and Wolt Operations in Four Countries, 25 February 2026, both read from Internet Archive copies.
- Our requests to the site from our own server, 28 September 2026.
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