Privacy Policy: 3DC Tasting Notes
Effective date: 2026-10-16 · Applies to the iPhone and Android apps, version 1.0.
3DC Tasting Notes is a tasting notebook that keeps your notes on your phone. There is no account and no 3DC server that stores your notebook. This page explains what stays on your phone, and the few times something you do with the app goes over the internet.
The short version
- We don't collect your data. No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. We can't see your notebook.
- The app itself makes no internet connections. The iPhone app contains no networking code. The Android app is built without Android's internet permission, so it cannot connect at all.
- Sharing does use the internet, through the apps you choose. When you send your palate card from The Snug, or a shelf tag, dram pack or curriculum, it goes out as a link through whichever app you pick (Messages, WhatsApp, email and so on), and that app's service carries it. The card rides inside the link. 3DC never receives a copy.
- Some phone services you can use from the app go online on their own: dictation, cloud folders for backups, and on Android, the download of Google's barcode scanner. Details below.
What we collect
Nothing through the app. We do not collect, sell, or share personal information, and the app contains no analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking code. Two things reach us indirectly, and both are described below: an ordinary page request when a share link is opened in a web browser (see "Opening a share link"), and the statistics and opt-in crash reports Apple and Google give every developer (see "App store statistics and crash reports").
What stays on your phone
Your tastings, ratings, notes, flavor tags, photos, bottle details, blind flights, drill results, curricula and your progress in them, your settings, and the palate cards friends have sent you (their palate summary and, if they set one, their display name) are stored on your device, in the app's private storage.
When the internet is involved
Sharing (The Snug and other shares)
When you tap Share your card in The Snug, or share a shelf tag, dram pack, curriculum or graduation card, your phone's share sheet opens and you choose where it goes. The app you pick (Messages, WhatsApp, Mail and so on) sends it over its own service, under its own privacy policy.
Links look like https://3drunkencelts.com/i/fp#d=.... What you shared is packed into the part after
the #. Browsers never send that part to a website, and neither do the link previews some messaging apps
fetch, so a preview reaches 3drunkencelts.com as an ordinary page request without the card. You can also show a QR
code for a friend to scan in person, which uses no network at all.
Opening a share link
- App installed: the link opens straight in the app and is read on the phone. Nothing is sent anywhere. (When the app is installed or updated, your phone, or Apple on its behalf, fetches a small file from 3drunkencelts.com that confirms its links belong to the app. That check carries nothing about you or your cards.)
- App not installed, or a chat app opens the link in its own browser: the browser loads a page
from 3drunkencelts.com that says where to get the app. Our web host receives what every website receives: your
IP address, the time, your browser type, and the address up to the
#(for example/i/fp). It does not receive the card, and the page runs no scripts, so nothing on it can read the card either. - Links made by early test versions put the data before the
#(?d=instead of#d=). Opened in a browser, those reach the web server's access log like any web address. Current versions never make them.
Downloading the Android app from our website
If you download the Android app from 3drunkencelts.com, our web host logs that download the way it logs any page: your IP address, the time, your browser type and the file's address. The app itself still makes no connections.
Dictation
Dictating a note uses your phone's speech service. On iPhone that is Apple's speech recognition: when your iPhone can recognize speech on the device, the app requires it, so the audio stays on the phone; when it can't, Apple's service may process the audio on Apple's servers. On Android the app hands dictation to your phone's speech app (usually Google's), which may process the audio on a server depending on your phone and settings. Either way the app doesn't keep or send the audio, and only the resulting text goes into your note.
Barcode scanning on Android
On Android, barcode and QR scanning use Google's code scanner, part of Google Play services. Google Play services downloads the scanner once, when the app is installed or the first time you scan, and the scanning itself runs on the phone. That download is made by Google Play services under Google's terms, not by our app. On iPhone, scanning uses Apple's scanner on the phone and downloads nothing.
Backups to a cloud folder
If the folder you choose for backups is in iCloud Drive, Google Drive or another cloud service, that provider uploads the backup files under its own terms. We never receive them. See "Backups and exports".
Help and privacy links
The Support and Privacy Policy links in Settings open your web browser at 3drunkencelts.com, where the website's own policy applies (see "The website").
App store statistics and crash reports
Apple and Google give every developer download and sales numbers. If you agreed in your phone's settings to share analytics or diagnostics with app developers, they may also pass us anonymous crash reports and usage statistics. These come from Apple or Google, not from the app, and don't include your notes. If you test a beta version through TestFlight, Apple also passes us any feedback and screenshots you choose to send.
Device features, and what each one does
Each feature runs only when you use it, on the phone.
- Camera. Scans bottle barcodes and friends' QR cards, and photographs labels. On iPhone the app asks for camera permission. On Android the app has no camera permission: label photos are taken by your phone's camera app and scanning by Google's code scanner.
- Photos. You pick a photo with your phone's photo picker, so the app never sees the rest of your library. A photo you attach is copied into the app's private storage.
- Label reading (Read Label). Text on a label photo is recognized on your device (Apple's Vision framework on iPhone; a text-recognition model bundled in the app on Android). The photo is not uploaded.
- Face ID, Touch ID, fingerprint, or device PIN. Used only to unlock the app if you turn on App Lock. Your phone's operating system does the check, and the result never leaves it.
Third-party code (Android). The Android app includes Google's ML Kit for label reading. ML Kit can send anonymous diagnostics to Google, but the Android app has no internet permission, so it can't. The app declares only permissions Android grants by itself: biometric unlock for App Lock, and checking whether the phone is online, which ML Kit asks about.
What each share contains
- Palate card (The Snug): your average Viscosity, Boldness and Length of Story; your flavor leanings; how many tastings it covers and which categories; your grade average and spread; your cool- and warm-season averages, once you have enough tastings in each; your consistency score, once it reaches 90; when the card was made; your display name, if you set one; and a random card ID the app makes once on your phone, so a friend's app can replace your older card with a newer one. The ID is not tied to your phone's hardware or to any account.
- Shelf tag: one tasting's three ratings, grade, maker, age, category and up to five flavor tags. Never your name.
- Dram pack: several shelf-tag entries, an optional pack name, and your display name, if set.
- Curriculum: its title, description and steps. Not your progress or reflections.
- Graduation card, tasting card or text: exactly what you see in the image or text.
Links and QR codes never include your Nose, Flavor or Finish notes, or your photos.
Backups and exports
You can export a backup (3dc-backup.json) or a CSV, or choose a folder for automatic backups (for
example a folder in your iCloud Drive on iPhone, or Google Drive on Android). Those files are yours: they are handled
by you and your chosen storage provider, and we never receive them. Backup files are not encrypted,
so keep the folder somewhere private.
A backup holds your tastings and their ratings and notes, blind flights, bottle details, drill results, curricula,
and your palate card's ID (so friends' apps still recognize your card after you move to a new phone). It does
not hold photos, friends' palate cards, or app settings. Automatic backup keeps the latest copy and one previous copy (3dc-backup.prev.json) in your folder. If a new backup would hold fewer than half the tastings of the one it replaces, the old one is kept for good as 3dc-backup.kept-<date and time>.json, and it will never replace a backup with an empty notebook.
On iPhone, if you back up your whole phone to iCloud or a computer, that backup includes this app's data like any other app's. It is handled by Apple, and we never receive it. The Android app opts out of Android's automatic cloud backup, so its data is not copied to Google's backup service.
Keeping and deleting your data
- Your data stays on your device until you delete it. Delete a tasting in The Library to remove it and its photo. Remove a friend's palate card in The Snug: open it and choose Remove (or, on iPhone, long-press it; on Android, tap its trash icon).
- Uninstalling the app deletes everything it stored on that device: tastings, photos, friends' cards and settings.
- Backups and exports you made, and cards or links you sent to other people, are files and messages you control. Delete them yourself where you saved or sent them; we can't reach them.
- Because we hold no copy and there is no account, we can't restore or delete your data for you. If you lose your phone and have no backup, the notebook goes with it.
Children
The app references alcohol and is intended for adults of legal drinking age. It is not directed at children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new effective date above.
The website
This policy covers the app. The website at 3drunkencelts.com, including its cookies and statistics, is covered by the privacy section of its Terms and Policies page.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email privacy@3drunkencelts.com.