Privacy Policy

The Bourbon Brother™ · McKillop Creative LLC · Last updated July 29, 2026

Your tasting journal — private to your account, on every device

Your Palate Profile — every session, read, and reveal you save — is stored on your device and, when you add your email, synced to your private account so your history follows you across browsers and devices (the whole point of tracking your progress). It's tied to your email, never shared, never sold, and never used to train anything. You can export it as a file any time, and you can permanently delete it — from your device and our servers — whenever you like. It remains yours even if you cancel a membership or request a refund. Enter no email and it simply stays on the device you poured on.

Bottle photos stay on your device

If you add a photo of your bottle at the Reveal, it is stored only on the device you took it on, in that browser's local storage. It is never uploaded, never sent to our servers, never sent to our AI provider, and never included when your tasting journal syncs across devices — which is also why a photo taken on your phone won't appear on your laptop. It prints into your Tasting Book from that device, "delete my history" erases it along with everything else, and clearing your browser storage removes it too. Adding a photo is entirely optional, and nothing else in the app depends on it.

Email, and your choice about it

When you add your email to sync your journal, we store it to key your account and keep your history in sync across devices. If — and only if — you check the optional "occasional pours and updates" box, we also add your email to our mailing list; leave it unchecked and we never email you marketing. Either way we never sell your email, and every marketing message carries a one-click unsubscribe.

What our servers see, and what they keep

When you run a session, your inputs are sent to our server and relayed to our AI provider (Anthropic) to generate the guide's responses. Our server logs record only counts, timings, and status codes — never bottle names, your tasting notes, or the guide's responses. Session content is processed to answer you and is not stored by us.

Anonymous identifiers

We store a random, anonymous identifier in your browser to count free sessions and prevent abuse. It is not linked to your name, email, or any profile.

Payments

Paid memberships are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card details. To unlock access, we verify your purchase with Stripe and store a signed access token in your browser. If you use "Restore access," the email you enter is sent to Stripe to locate your membership — we do not keep it.

If you join the list

If you choose to give us your email address — like signing up from the All-Time Favs list — we store it and use it to send occasional updates and offers from The Bourbon Brother and the Bourbon Brothers universe. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link, we never sell or share the list, and you can ask us to delete your address entirely at any time: [email protected].

Analytics & advertising

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a cookie-free, privacy-first measurement tool.

We also use the Meta Pixel, a measurement tool from Meta Platforms, Inc. — on our pages and inside the app — to measure our advertising and build ad audiences. It sets cookies and reports a limited, fixed set of ad-measurement events to Meta: that a page was viewed, that someone joined the mailing list, started a tasting session, reached a Reveal, started a checkout, began a trial, or completed a purchase, along with the amount for the money events.

Because many browsers block advertising trackers, we also send some of those same events to Meta from our own server instead of relying on your browser, so that our advertising reporting is accurate. When we do, we include the technical details Meta needs to match an event to an ad click: the event name and its fixed label, the amount and currency for money events, the page address, your IP address, your browser's user-agent string, and Meta's own cookie identifiers if your browser has them. These are the same events, not additional ones, and each one is counted once rather than twice.

We never send Meta your name, your email address, your bottle names, your tasting notes, or anything else you type, and we do not use Meta's "advanced matching" feature. Meta's use of this data is described in Meta's Privacy Policy. You can opt out: we honor the Global Privacy Control browser signal — when your browser sends it, the pixel stays off entirely — and you can limit ad tracking through your browser settings or Meta's Ad Preferences.

Age

This service is for adults of legal drinking age (21+ in the US). We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 21.

Your choices and rights

We do not sell personal information. Sharing limited ad-measurement events with Meta, as described above, may count as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising under some U.S. state privacy laws — you can opt out of it at any time through the Global Privacy Control browser signal (which we honor) or Meta's Ad Preferences. Deleting your journal is in your hands: clear it from the app or your browser storage any time, and if you've synced it to your account, the app's "delete my history" also wipes the server copy. For any privacy question or request — access, deletion, or anything else — email us and we will respond: [email protected].

Where this service operates

The Bourbon Brother is operated from the United States and intended for U.S. users of legal drinking age. If you use it from elsewhere, you're responsible for compliance with your local rules on alcohol-related content.

Contact

Questions: [email protected]