Privacy Policy

Sip is a personal wine journal and taste profiling app created by Tristan Thomas. This policy explains what information the app processes and how it is used.

Information you provide in the app

Sip stores the wines, ratings, notes and other details you add to your journal, together with the taste profile it creates for you.

If you use the camera or photo library, Sip processes the bottle or wine-list images you choose so it can identify wines and fill in their details.

How your data is used

Sip uses your data to:

• Save and display your wine journal entries.
• Generate your taste profile and tasting summaries.
• Let you search across wines you have rated.
• Identify wines from barcodes, bottle photos and wine-list photos when you use those features.
• Look up wine information online when you use search, Predict and enrichment features.
• Test and improve Sip's bottle-photo and wine-list scanning.

Improving photo scanning

When you use AI Scan or scan a wine list, Sip automatically keeps a copy of the photo after it has been prepared for scanning, together with the result produced at the time. This includes scans that succeed and scans that fail. These examples are used to check whether future versions and models identify wines more accurately.

Sip removes hidden metadata from the source photo, waits a random period before sending it and stores it under a random reference. The later photo upload does not include Sip's normal app session or an identifier for your installation. The stored contribution also does not include your name, email address, account details, device identifier, exact app build number or location.

The visible content of a photo may still identify someone or somewhere. For example, it could include people, reflections, handwriting, venue details or surroundings. Avoid including visible information that you do not want stored.

Contributed scan photos and their results are stored privately with Cloudflare and retained indefinitely for review, testing and improving future scanning models. They are not sold or used for advertising.

Improving taste predictions

Sip sends your wine ratings, rating dates, the predictions shown at the time and useful wine details such as names, producers, vintages, regions, grapes and characteristics. This helps test and improve Sip's taste predictions.

Ratings are grouped using a separate identifier so they can be evaluated together. Sip does not attach your name, email, notes, photos, price or your location. Deleting a wine from your journal also tells the service to remove its contributed rating.

Contributed ratings are stored with Cloudflare. A contribution set is removed after two years without an update.

Online search and enrichment

When you use online search, prediction or enrichment, Sip sends only the query, barcode, wine details or image needed to provide that feature. Cloudflare and the relevant search or AI provider process the request and return the result.

Storage and syncing

Your journal is stored on your device. If iCloud syncing is available and enabled, it is also stored in your iCloud account so it stays in sync across your devices.

Accounts

Sip does not require you to create an account.

Data sharing

Sip does not sell your data. It is shared only with the service providers needed to run Sip's online features and with Apple when you use iCloud.

Contact

If you have privacy questions about Sip, contact t@tristanthomas.me.