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Privacy policy

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BeerCount is an app to keep count of the beers you drink. This policy explains what data we keep, why, who can see it and how to delete it.

In short

  • We only keep what the app needs to work.
  • Your drinking log and your body data are health data. We only process them with your explicit consent, and you can withdraw it at any time.
  • Your group friends never see your weight, height, age or sex, and your alcohol estimate is only shared if you turn it on.
  • We don't sell your data, there are no ads and we don't use third-party analytics tools.
  • You can delete your account and all your data at any time.

Who is responsible

The controller of your data is BeerCount. For anything about your data, write to privacidad@beercount.beer.

What data we keep

Account

What
Your email, your display name, how you sign in (encrypted password or Google account), when you signed up, when you confirmed you are an adult, and when you accepted the terms and gave your consent.
Why
To create your account, keep you signed in, check that you are 18 or over and be able to prove your consent.
Legal basis
Contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
Who sees it
Only you. Members of your groups also see your display name.

Drinking logHealth data

What
Every beer you log: date and time, size, strength, calories, price and brand. Also your usual beer and, if you set one, your weekly goal.
Why
The counter, your statistics, your weekly goal and the water and safety alerts.
Legal basis
Your explicit consent (Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR).
Who sees it
You. Your groups only see counts (tonight and this week) and whether you had a drink recently.

Body data (optional)Health data

What
Sex, year of birth, height and weight.
Why
To estimate your blood alcohol and how long until you are back to 0.
Legal basis
Your explicit consent (Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR).
Who sees it
Only you. If you turn on sharing your estimate, your groups see the result, never this data.

Groups

What
The groups you create or join: name, invite code, members, who the admin is and when each member joined. Also whether you have turned on sharing your alcohol estimate.
Why
So you can share how the night is going with your friends and look out for each other.
Legal basis
Contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
Who sees it
The members of each group.

Plan and subscription

What
Whether you are on the free or Premium plan, until when and how you got it. We never see your card details.
Why
To give you access to Premium features.
Legal basis
Contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
Who sees it
Only you.

Notifications and preferences

What
Your phone’s notification identifier, its system (Android or iOS), which alerts you have turned on, your language and the time of the last safety alert.
Why
To send you only the alerts you turn on, in your language, and no more than one safety alert every 12 hours.
Legal basis
Contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and your consent to receive notifications.
Who sees it
No one else.

Also:

  • Sign in with Google. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email and Google profile picture. If you use email and password, the password is stored encrypted and nobody can read it.
  • Technical logs. Our providers keep access logs (IP address, time and type of request) for a limited time to keep the service secure.
  • On your phone. The language and theme you choose are stored only on your device.

What we use it for

  • To make the app work: counter, statistics, groups, notifications and Premium.
  • To estimate your blood alcohol, only if you give us your body data. It is a rough estimate: it cannot tell you whether you can drive.
  • To answer your questions and your requests about your data.

We don't make automated decisions with legal effects on you, and we don't build advertising profiles.

What your group friends see

When you join a group, the other members see:

  • your display name;
  • how many beers you have logged tonight (last 12 hours) and this week, and whether you had a drink in the last 90 minutes;
  • the "Not driving" warning if you have logged any beer in the last 12 hours.

Your alcohol estimate is not shared unless you turn it on in the app ("Share my estimate"). If you do, your friends' app receives your beers from the last 12 hours and a value derived from your body data (your estimated total body water) to calculate it. It never receives your weight, height, age or sex. You can turn it off at any time.

If you turn on safety alerts, members of your groups who also have them on may get a notification with your name when your estimate goes above 0.5 g/L.

If you leave a group, its members stop seeing your data.

Who we share it with

We use these providers, who only process data to provide their service to us:

Provider What for Where
Supabase Database, sign-in and server functions European Union (France)
RevenueCat Managing Premium subscriptions, only once payments are active. Receives a user identifier and the status of your purchases United States
Google Payments on Google Play, notifications on Android (Firebase Cloud Messaging) and Sign in with Google United States and others
Expo Sending push notifications United States
Apple Payments on the App Store and notifications on iPhone, if you use the app on iOS United States and others
Vercel Hosting this website United States and others

When a provider is outside the European Economic Area, the transfer relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

Payments are processed by Google Play or the App Store: we never see your card details. We don't sell your data or share it with advertisers.

How long we keep it

For as long as you have an account. If you delete it, we delete your profile, your drinking log, your body data and your notification identifiers, and remove you from your groups. Our provider's backups are renewed periodically, and deleted data disappears from them in that cycle.

Your rights

You can ask for access, rectification, erasure, portability, restriction or objection by writing to privacidad@beercount.beer from your account's email. We will reply within one month at most.

You can do almost everything yourself in the app, under Profile → Privacy and data: download a copy of your data, change or delete your body data, delete any beer from your history and delete your account.

We ask for your consent to process health data when you create your account, and we keep the date. You can withdraw it at any time by deleting that data or your account. What we did with it before remains lawful.

If you think we have not handled your data properly, you can complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (aepd.es) or to the authority in your country.

Minors

BeerCount is for adults 18+ only. If we learn that an account belongs to a minor, we delete it.

Security

All communication is encrypted and your session is stored encrypted on your phone. The database has rules that stop any user from reading another user's data, and group data is shared only as described above.

Changes to this policy

If we change it, we will update the date at the top. If the change is important, we will let you know in the app.