Cellar Privacy Policy

Last updated: 22 August 2026

Cellar is a personal wine-cellar app: you log the bottles you own, rate them, and ask an AI sommelier what to open or what to order. This policy explains exactly what the app stores, where it goes, and how to get rid of it. It covers the Cellar app on Google Play and on the App Store.

Cellar is an independent app made and operated by an individual developer ("we", "us"), reachable at waraidev@gmail.com.

No account, no sign-up

Cellar has no user accounts. We never ask for your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, or any other identity information, and we do not collect them in the background. The app connects to its own backend using a shared access token that you paste into Settings; that token identifies a cellar, not a person.

What the app stores

• Wine records you enter: bottle name, producer, vintage, grapes, colour, country and region, quantity and bottle size, where the bottle is stored at home, the price you paid, your tasting notes and your ratings.
• Photos you take or choose: pictures of wine labels, restaurant menus and wine lists, used to fill in a bottle's details or to suggest something to order.
• Sommelier conversations: the questions you ask the in-app sommelier and its replies, kept so a conversation survives closing the app.
• A taste profile: a short summary generated from the ratings and notes in your cellar, so recommendations match what you actually like.

That is the whole list. Cellar does not collect your location, contacts, calendar, health data, browsing history, advertising identifiers, or a list of the other apps on your device.

Where it is stored

Your cellar lives in a private database and file store operated by us on Cloudflare (Cloudflare D1 and Cloudflare R2), reached over an encrypted HTTPS connection. A copy is also cached on your own device so the app works while offline.

Photos are stored under long, randomly-derived filenames so the app can display them without a login. The links are never published or listed anywhere and are impractical to guess, but they are not individually password-protected: anyone holding the exact link to a photo could open it.

AI features and who processes your data

Several features work by sending the relevant content to an AI provider, which processes it and sends back a result:

• Anthropic (the Claude API) receives details about the wines in your cellar and the messages you send the sommelier, in order to fill in bottle information, suggest food pairings, and answer your questions.
• Google (the Gemini API) receives photos you take of menus and wine lists, in order to read the wines printed on them.

These providers act as processors for the request and handle the content under their own terms and privacy policies. We do not send them your identity, because we do not have it.

Camera and photo permissions

Cellar asks for camera access to photograph labels, menus and wine lists, and for photo-library access so you can pick an existing picture instead. Both prompts appear only when you use a feature that needs them, and the app only ever reads the specific images you choose or capture. It does not scan your photo library in the background.

What we do not do

• No advertising, and no advertising or attribution SDKs in the app.
• No analytics or tracking SDKs, and no third-party tracking across apps or websites.
• We do not sell or rent your data, and we do not share it with anyone beyond the providers listed above who are needed to run the features you use.

How long it is kept, and how to delete it

Your data is kept for as long as you keep using the app. Deleting a bottle in the app deletes its record. Uninstalling the app removes the on-device copy but not the copy in the cellar database. To have an entire cellar and its photos permanently deleted, email waraidev@gmail.com and we will delete it, normally within 30 days.

Children

Cellar is about alcoholic drinks and is not directed to children. It is intended for adults of legal drinking age in their country, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, or delete the information held about you, and to object to its processing. Because the app holds no identity information, the practical route is to email waraidev@gmail.com from a device that has access to the cellar in question, and we will help you.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version is published at this same address with a new "last updated" date above.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or deletion requests: waraidev@gmail.com.