Privacy

Last updated 29 October 2026

Taste Hunter plans beer and wine hunts and keeps a journal of what you taste. We built it to need as little of your data as possible. This page explains what the app uses, where it goes, and how to reach us.

Who we are

Taste Hunter is run by Ronan Kenupp, Belgium. For anything about your data, write to [email protected].

No ads

The app shows no ads, contains no advertising trackers, and we never sell or share your data for marketing.

Your account

You can explore breweries and wineries and get directions without an account. To plan a hunt you need a free account, made with your email address (we send a 6-digit code, and you can add a password if you like) or with Sign in with Apple or Google. Accounts are stored by Supabase in the EU (Frankfurt). Your account holds your email address, your first name if Apple or Google share it, the tastings you log (name, rating, style and producer, not your photos) and your check-ins (which brewery or winery and on which day, not your position), so you keep them on any phone. Tastings logged before you create an account stay only on your phone until you do. You can delete your account at any time in the app under Profile, "Delete account"; this removes it and the tastings saved in it for good.

Hunts with friends

If you share a hunt with friends, the hunt (its days, stops and bookings), your first name and what you change or vote on are stored by Supabase in the EU, so everyone who joins with the invite link sees the same plan.

Anonymous usage stats and error reports

To know how many people use the app and for how long, the app sends anonymous usage stats to PostHog, hosted in the EU (Frankfurt). They contain a random id created on your phone, when the app is opened and closed, which screens and brewery or winery pages are opened and how long each stays open, the app version, whether it is iPhone, Android or web, and the country you are in, worked out from your internet connection. If the app runs into an error or crashes, it also sends an error report (what went wrong, on which screen, the app version and phone type) so we can fix it. They never contain your name, email, precise location, hunts or tastings, and your IP address is not stored. Breweries and wineries may be shown totals for their own page, such as views per day, never who viewed it. You can turn this off at any time in the app under Profile, Privacy, "Share anonymous usage stats".

What stays on your phone

• Your hunts and favourites are saved on your phone, unless you share a hunt with friends. Tastings are saved on your phone and, once you have an account, in your account.
• Photos you take of labels or drinks stay on your phone. They are not uploaded, unless you send us a drink that is missing from our list (see below). Reading a label with the camera happens on your phone.
• Deleting the app deletes all of this.

What the app sends, and to whom

• Your location, only if you allow it, is used to find breweries and wineries near you and to plan routes. To calculate a route, the start and stop points are sent to the OpenStreetMap routing service (routing.openstreetmap.de). When you search for a town, the text you type is sent to Google Places (or to the Photon search service by Komoot when Google is unavailable). To check in at a stop, the app compares your position with the stop on your phone; your position is not sent anywhere.
• Drinks you look up: the name or barcode you type or scan is sent to Open Food Facts and Wikidata to find the drink and its producer's logo.
• Drink descriptions: when a beer or wine has no description yet, its name, maker and style are sent to Anthropic (Claude) to write a short description, which is then kept for everyone. No personal data is sent.
• Drinks you send us: if you use "Can't find it? Send it to us", the name, the photos you add and the barcode go to Supabase (EU) and are emailed to us so we can add the drink.
• Reports: when you flag a wrong venue photo, a closed venue or a mistake in a description, only that report (which venue or drink) is stored, not who sent it.
• Contacting us on WhatsApp: "Chat with us" opens WhatsApp, which handles that conversation under its own privacy terms.
• Translations: when you tap "Translate" on a text, that text is sent to Google Cloud Translation.
• Venue details: when you open a brewery or winery, its name and position (not yours) are sent to Google Places to show its Google rating, photos, opening hours, website and phone.
• Maps: on iPhone the map is drawn by Apple Maps, on Android by Google Maps, under their own privacy terms.
• Account: your email address, sign-in and saved tastings go to Supabase (EU). Sign-in codes are emailed through Google's mail service. If you sign in with Apple or Google, they confirm who you are under their own privacy terms.
• Usage stats: see "Anonymous usage stats and error reports" above (PostHog, EU).
• App updates: the app checks Expo's update service for new versions. This sends technical information such as the app version and device platform, not personal data.

These services receive only what is needed for each request. Apart from your account and the anonymous usage stats, we do not receive or store a copy.

Brewers and winemakers

Venue listings come from public sources such as OpenStreetMap. If you run a brewery or winery, you can ask us to correct or remove your listing at [email protected].

Terms

Using the app is also covered by our terms of use.

Age

Taste Hunter is about alcoholic drinks and is meant for adults of legal drinking age (18+, 21+ in the USA).

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what data we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, or object to its use. Since the app keeps your data on your phone, there is usually nothing on our side, but write to us and we will check. You can also complain to the Belgian Data Protection Authority (dataprotectionauthority.be).

Changes

When the app starts offering new features that use your data, such as bookings made inside the app, this page will be updated before those features go live.