Privacy
Privacy Policy
Short version: your personal collection lives on your iPhone, encrypted at rest by iOS. Drambook has no account system, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs. The app may contact Drambook servers to check and download signed catalog updates, but your shelf, tasting notes, pour log, exports, and photos are not uploaded.
Who we are
Drambook is an iOS application published by an independent developer ("we", "us"). The app's bundle identifier is com.drambook.app. Contact: [email protected].
What data we collect
No personal collection data. Drambook does not collect, transmit, or store the contents of your collection on any server. Specifically, we do not collect:
- Your name, email address, phone number, or contact details
- Your location
- Your device identifiers (IDFA, IDFV) for advertising or analytics
- Your usage of the app (taps, screens viewed, time spent)
- The contents of your collection, tasting notes, pours, or photos
- Crash reports, performance metrics, or telemetry of any kind
When the app checks for signed catalog updates, normal internet infrastructure may process request metadata such as IP address, user agent, timestamp, and requested URL. We use this only to deliver and protect the catalog update service, not to build user profiles, run analytics, or track your behavior in the app.
What stays on your device
Everything you create in Drambook stays on your iPhone:
- Your collection of bottles (custom and catalog-referenced)
- Your tasting notes (nose, palate, finish, ratings)
- Your pour log
- Bottle photos you attach
- Your purchase prices, locations, and provenance details
- App settings and theme preferences
This data is stored using Apple's SwiftData framework in the app's local sandbox. iOS encrypts the device at rest. If you have iCloud Backup enabled, your iPhone backup includes Drambook's data in its encrypted form, Apple manages that backup, not us.
Catalog updates
Drambook ships with an offline whiskey catalog. The app may check drambook.keltek.ai for a signed manifest and catalog payload so the reference catalog can improve over time. Catalog downloads are verified before being used by the app.
Catalog updates are about reference bottle data, not your personal collection. Your bottle entries, tasting notes, pour log, photos, exports, settings, and purchase details are not sent with catalog update requests.
Camera and photo library access
Drambook asks for camera and photo library permission only when you choose to attach a photo to a bottle. The relevant prompts read:
- "Drambook uses the camera so you can attach a photo of a bottle to your collection. Photos stay on your device."
- "Drambook lets you pick existing bottle photos from your library to attach to your collection. Photos stay on your device."
If you grant permission, the photo you select or capture is stored locally as part of your collection. The photo is never transmitted to any server. You can revoke camera or photo permission at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security.
Purchases and the App Store
Drambook is free to start and offers an optional lifetime unlock. Purchase processing, and any restoration of purchases on a new device, is handled entirely by Apple's StoreKit framework. We do not see your payment details, your Apple ID email, or your transaction information. Apple's own privacy policy governs that flow: apple.com/legal/privacy.
Third-party SDKs and tracking
Drambook contains no third-party SDKs. There are no analytics libraries (Firebase, Mixpanel, Amplitude, etc.), no advertising SDKs, no crash-reporting SDKs, no social-login SDKs. The app is built with Apple's native frameworks only.
Drambook does not use Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework because there is nothing to track.
Children
Drambook is rated for adults of legal drinking age in your jurisdiction (typically 18+ or 21+). The app contains references to alcoholic products. Drambook is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area), and we do not knowingly collect any data from children, both because no data is collected from anyone, and because the app is age-gated on first launch.
Your rights under GDPR, CCPA, and similar laws
Many privacy laws give you rights to access, correct, port, or delete your personal data. Because Drambook does not collect your personal collection data, there is no collection database in our possession to access, correct, port, or delete. The data inside the app on your iPhone is yours, you can edit or delete it at any time within the app, and you can delete the app entirely from your iPhone (Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Drambook → Delete App) which removes all associated data.
Data retention
Your app data is retained on your iPhone until you delete it, either within the app or by uninstalling Drambook. Server-side catalog delivery logs, if present, are operational infrastructure records and do not contain your collection, notes, pours, or photos.
International transfers
Your personal collection data is not transmitted to Drambook. Catalog update requests may be routed through hosting and delivery infrastructure outside your country.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, for example, if Drambook ever adds an optional cloud-sync feature in a future version, we will update this page and the "Last updated" date at the top, and we will notify users via the App Store version notes for that release. Any new data collection would be opt-in.
Contact
Questions about this policy or about your privacy in Drambook: [email protected].