Privacy Policy

Information we handle

When you use Tin & Tell, we may handle:

• An anonymous account identifier, plus your email address and name if you choose to create or connect an account.
• Your collection, wishlist, favourites, ratings, tasting notes, product details, barcodes, dates, photographs and approximate tasting areas you choose to save.
• The display name, tasting details and up to four photographs you explicitly publish as an unlisted tasting. An approximate tasting area is included only when you separately choose to share it.
• Label photographs submitted for identification.
• Feedback, suggestions, links, screenshots or evidence photographs you choose to send.
• Your email address if you join the website Android waitlist.
• Basic technical information needed to operate and protect the service, such as network, device and app information.

How we use information

We use information to:

• provide, save and synchronise your collection;
• authenticate and secure accounts;
• identify tins from their labels;
• review feedback and improve Tin & Tell;
• send Android availability updates you have requested;
• prevent misuse and technical problems; and
• meet legal obligations.

Your collection, notes and photographs are private by default. If you choose Publish & share, the confirmed display name and tasting fields shown in the summary become available to anyone with that unlisted link. Tin & Tell does not sell personal data, show third-party advertising or use advertising or analytics trackers.

We process information where necessary to provide Tin & Tell, where we have a legitimate interest in operating and protecting the service, where you have consented to Android availability emails, or where required by law.

Camera, voice and location features

Barcode scanning happens on your device.

When you choose label-photo recognition, the photograph is processed using Google’s Gemini service. Tin & Tell does not keep the photograph after returning the result.

Voice input is handled by your device’s speech-recognition service. Tin & Tell receives the resulting text rather than the audio.

Location is requested only when you tap Use current area while editing a tasting. The device coordinates and reported accuracy are saved in your private tasting, together with a separate broad map area. On iOS and Android, Apple or Google's device location service may use the coordinates to suggest an editable city label. Exact coordinates stay private. If you separately include the location on an unlisted tasting page, only the broad area, country and optional city or neighbourhood label are published.

Service providers

We use a small number of service providers:

• Google and Firebase provide accounts, cloud storage and label recognition. Google Cloud also checks text and photographs that you choose to publish for safety categories.
• Apple and Google may provide sign-in and device services you choose to use.
• Formspree processes Android waitlist submissions.
• Cloudflare hosts and protects the website.

These providers process information only as needed to supply their services and under their own contractual and legal data-protection obligations. Some processing may take place outside the United Kingdom using recognised safeguards.

Retention and deletion

Account, collection and photograph data is kept while your account exists or until you delete the relevant content.

You can delete your account and collection from the app’s Profile section. This removes the active account, collection, photographs, approximate tasting areas and public tastings. You can also remove an area from a tasting or revoke an individual public tasting from its tasting page. If you cannot access the app, follow our account-deletion instructions. Limited copies may remain temporarily in service-provider backups.

Label photographs are not retained by Tin & Tell after recognition. Short-lived security and usage records are kept only as long as needed to protect the service.

Android waitlist details are kept until you unsubscribe or the Android availability updates are complete. Feedback and catalogue submissions are kept only while reasonably needed to review them, then deleted or anonymised. Non-personal catalogue facts may remain.

Information may be kept longer where necessary for security, disputes or legal obligations.

Your choices and rights

You can remove collection items and photographs in the app, delete your account, and revoke camera, photo-library, microphone or speech-recognition or location access through your device settings. You can revoke a public tasting without deleting the private tasting.

You may ask us to access, correct, delete, restrict or provide a copy of your personal data, or object to certain uses. You can withdraw from Android availability emails at any time.

Contact hello@tinandtell.com to exercise these rights or raise a complaint. We will acknowledge privacy complaints within 30 days and investigate them appropriately. You may also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Children

Tin & Tell is a general-audience app and is not directed to children under 13. Please contact us if you believe a child under 13 has provided personal data.

Changes

We may update this policy when Tin & Tell changes. The current version and its updated date will always appear on this page.