privacy policy

Effective: 2026-05-27.

drinks by peckish is an iOS app from peckish hospitality. This policy explains what data the app handles, what stays on your device, and what doesn't. It's short because the app's data story is short — we built it that way on purpose.

what stays on your device

Everything that belongs to you stays on your phone:

• Your bottles — the inventory you build by adding bottles via camera, photo, voice, or typing.
• Your cocktail picks — the curatorial drinks the app suggests for moments you name.
• Your subscription state — whether you've upgraded and which tier.

We do not collect any of this. We do not see it. We do not store it on a server. If you delete the app, all of this data is removed with it.

what leaves your device — briefly — to make the app work

To do what the app does, three kinds of requests go from your device to Anthropic's API (the company behind Claude, the language model the app uses for identification and curation):

• Camera or photo input — when you snap or pick a bottle image, the image is sent to Anthropic so the model can read what's on the label. We don't keep the image. Anthropic doesn't use the image to train models (per their public data policy). The processed response comes back to your phone and the image is discarded.
• Bottle name parsing — when you type or speak a bottle name, the name is sent to Anthropic so the model can categorize it (gin, vermouth, etc.). Same handling: not stored by us, not used by Anthropic for training, response comes back to your phone.
• Cocktail curation — when you ask for a pick, your current bottle list + the moment you've named are sent to Anthropic. Same handling.

These requests are not linked to a user identity. The app has no account system, no email collection, no user ID. We never receive copies of these requests on our own servers — the traffic is directly from your device to Anthropic, and we never see it.

For more on Anthropic's data handling, see Anthropic's privacy policy.

what we use UserDefaults for

The app keeps a small amount of internal state in iOS UserDefaults — Apple's standard local-storage system. Specifically:

• Your daily pick count (so the free tier knows when you've hit the five-picks-a-day limit, and resets at midnight).
• Cost-tracking totals for the developer (debug builds only — visible to us during testing, never to users).
• A cached flag indicating whether you've upgraded (so the app can apply the right tier at launch without waiting for StoreKit to respond).

This is on-device, used solely to operate the app, and not linked to any user identity. It's declared in the app's Privacy Manifest under Apple's reason code CA92.1 — "information used solely by the app to implement app functionality."

when you tell us a bottle was misidentified

If the app gets a bottle wrong, you can tap "wrong bottle?" in the bottle's ••• menu — or long-press the confirmation row — to send a report to us. The report includes:

• The image you captured (when the wrong identification came from camera or photo input; voice and typed inputs have no image).
• What the app thought the bottle was — name, category, subcategory, confidence, alternatives.
• The originating input modality (camera / photo / voice / typed) and a timestamp.
• Your app version and device model (e.g., "iPhone").

We use these reports to improve the bottle identification model — the misidentifications you flag become the corpus we iterate the identification logic against, and the image lets us see what the model was actually looking at.

The reports are stored on Cloudflare R2 (a private object storage bucket only the peckish team has access to) and notify us via email at [email protected]. We don't make them public. We don't sell them. We don't link them to any user identity (the app has no user accounts).

This is opt-in per report — nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly tap "wrong bottle?" on a specific identification you want to flag. If you never tap it, we never receive anything.

To request deletion of any specific reports you've sent, write to [email protected].

in-app purchases

Subscriptions and the lifetime unlock are handled entirely by Apple's StoreKit framework. The app receives a verified transaction from Apple confirming purchase status; we do not handle your payment information — Apple does. Subscription management goes through Apple: Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions on your device.

what we don't do

We named these explicitly so the picture is clear:

• No third-party analytics. No Mixpanel, Amplitude, Firebase Analytics, Google Analytics, or anything like them.
• No advertising SDKs. No Facebook SDK, no Google Ads, no AdMob, nothing.
• No third-party crash reporters. Crash data flows only through Apple's standard system (and only if you've opted in via iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements).
• No tracking across apps or websites. The Privacy Manifest declares NSPrivacyTracking = false and an empty tracking-domains list. We are not part of any cross-app or cross-site identity graph.
• No selling of any data, ever. We have no data to sell.

age requirement

drinks by peckish carries an 18+ App Store age rating because cocktails contain alcohol. The app is not intended for, and should not be used by, anyone under that age. We do not knowingly collect data from minors. (We do not knowingly collect data from anyone — see above.)

your rights — and why most of them don't apply

Privacy laws like GDPR (European Union) and CCPA (California) give you rights to access, correct, and delete data that companies hold about you. We honor those rights — and the easiest way to exercise them is to delete the app, which removes all of your data from your device. We don't have a server-side copy to access or delete because we never collected one.

For requests related to data processed by Anthropic during your use of the app, reach out to Anthropic directly per their privacy policy.

changes to this policy

If anything about how the app handles data changes — a new feature that collects something new, a different cloud provider, a new on-device storage approach — we'll update this page and the effective date at the top. There is no separate email notification because we have no email addresses to notify. The page is the canonical source.

contact

For privacy questions, write to [email protected]. We read and respond to every message.

peckish hospitality LLC · drinks by peckish v1.0 — 2026