Wine Cave is a personal wine cellar app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android. This page says what it collects, where it is kept, who else sees it, and how to delete all of it.
The short version. Your cellar is a single file on your own device. The file is not uploaded unless you turn on sync, which is off until you choose it. Wine Cave has no analytics, no advertising identifier and no tracking library. The AI features are optional and need an account, which holds your email address and what each request cost. When you use an AI feature, what it needs is sent to an AI company, through our service, at the moment you tap it: Anthropic (Claude) answers, and OpenAI or Google stand in if Anthropic is unavailable. What is sent: a question you typed, a photo, the facts about one wine — and, in the Assistant, an index of your cellar so it can answer from what you own. Section 5 lists exactly what each feature sends.
1Who runs Wine Cave
Wine Cave is made by Fabrique Futur LLC. Write to dev@fafutur.com with any question about your data.
2The account, and what it is for
The cellar needs no account. You can install Wine Cave, keep every bottle, every tasting and every verdict in it, and never sign in to anything.
The AI features need one. They run on somebody's money, and an account is how that is counted. Signing in creates a Fabrique Accounts account — Fabrique Futur LLC's shared sign-in, used by our other apps too — with an email address and a password, or with a sign-in link sent by email, or with Sign in with Apple or Google. It holds an email address, an account id, and, for each AI request, which model answered, how many tokens it used and what it cost in euros. It never receives your cellar file.
Every account has a free monthly AI allowance. When it is used up, the AI features pause until the next month and the app says so. Everything else keeps working.
Wine Cave asks for no name, no date of birth, no location and no contacts. Nothing is bought or sold in the app.
3Your cellar lives on your device
Everything you enter — wines, purchases, tastings, verdicts, guests, blind tasting rounds, suppliers, the palate built from your verdicts — is written to one JSON file in the app's own storage on your device. Unless you turn on sync, Wine Cave does not upload that file to us and we keep no copy of it. Parts of it are sent to the AI company when you use the Assistant, as section 5 describes.
iCloud sync, if you choose it. Settings → Sync is Off until you choose a cloud. iCloud is offered on Apple devices only. With iCloud chosen, a copy of the cellar file is kept in the private iCloud database of your own Apple Account, so your iPhone, iPad and Mac see the same cellar. That copy is stored by Apple under Apple's privacy policy; only devices signed in to your Apple Account can read it, and we cannot read it, list it or delete it. Turning sync off stops it and leaves the copy in your iCloud; to remove it, delete Wine Cave's data in your iCloud storage settings (Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage on an iPhone).
Account sync, if you choose it. Settings → Sync → Wine Cave account keeps a copy of the cellar file with your Wine Cave account, so your other devices, Apple or Android, see the same cellar. Wine Cave asks you to agree before the first upload. The copy is one JSON document per account, stored in the Fabrique Accounts database (Supabase), exactly as the app writes the file, together with the name of the device that saved it. It is not end-to-end encrypted. Only the account service can read it, and it hands it back only to you, signed in to that account; we do not look at it, and it is not used for advertising. The Assistant sends the AI company only what section 5 lists, never the stored copy. Turning sync off, or switching to iCloud, stops it and leaves the stored copy until you delete your account; deleting the account deletes the copy with it.
Backups are kept the same way: on the device, in the app's storage, made before an import or a delete. Export puts the file where you choose to put it — a share sheet, another app, your own computer. Import replaces the cellar with a file you pick. Both are your choice, and neither passes through us.
4No analytics, no ads, no tracking
There is no analytics tool, no crash reporter of our own, no advertising identifier and no tracking library in the app or on this website. Nothing about you is sold, and nothing about you is shared with an advertiser. Wine Cave does not read your location.
If you have chosen to share crash reports and usage statistics with app developers in your device's settings, Apple may share them with us, in aggregate. That is Apple's own reporting, under Apple's terms, and it does not include your cellar. On Android, if you have chosen to share usage and diagnostics with Google, Google Play may show us crash reports for the app. That is Google's own reporting, under Google's terms, and it does not include your cellar either.
5The AI features are optional
Before any AI feature runs, Wine Cave asks once for your permission and names Anthropic (Claude) as the company that will receive what is sent, with OpenAI and Google as backups if Anthropic is unavailable. If you agreed to an earlier wording that named only OpenAI, the app keeps using OpenAI for you, and nothing goes to Anthropic or Google, until you agree to the current wording; it asks once, the next time you use an AI feature, and Settings has a link to it. You can turn AI off again in Settings (Turn off AI, under Account). The features run only when you trigger them — never in the background, on a schedule, or while the app is idle. Every other screen works signed out, with no network at all.
This is what each feature sends:
- Tonight's ask: the text you typed, such as "something red for veal".
- Adding wines: a photo of a label, a receipt or a bottle that you take or pick, or the text of an order file or receipt you hand it; and, when it fills in a wine's profile — grapes, region, style, drinking window — the wine's producer, name and vintage.
- A briefing on a bottle: that wine's details.
- Stocktake: the photo of the rack.
- Restock: the text of a shop's page or catalogue that you hand it, when you ask it to read one.
- The Assistant — a chat about your cellar: the message you typed and any photos you attached, together with an index of your cellar so it can answer from what you own. The index lists each wine's producer, name, vintage, colour, origin, grapes, number of bottles, price paid, shop and shelf location, and the first 80 characters of its note, plus your 15 most recent tastings. The chat itself is stored on your device only.
These requests go to the AI company's API by way of the Fabrique Accounts service, run by Fabrique Futur LLC, which forwards them and counts what each one cost. It records your account id, which model answered, how many tokens each way, and what that came to in euros. It does not keep the content of your requests, your photos or the replies; it passes them on and keeps nothing of them.
6What we store on our server
Once you sign in, and only this:
| What | Why it is there |
|---|---|
| Your account | The email address you signed up with, or the identity Apple or Google gave us — which, with Sign in with Apple, can be a relay address that hides your real one if you choose that. Plus the account id every row below is counted against. |
| Model used | Which model answered, because they cost different amounts. |
| Token counts and cost | How much of the month's allowance a request used, and how much is left. |
| Timestamps | When a request was made, so that abuse and runaway loops can be seen and stopped. |
What is not stored: not your ask, not your photos, not the model's replies, not your wines, not your tastings, not your cellar file, not your chat, not your name, not your IP address as a record of you, and no advertising or device identifier. The service forwards the content of a request and keeps none of it.
7What the AI companies receive
The company that answers receives what section 5 lists for the feature you used, for that one request, together with a short instruction. It returns one answer. Anthropic (Claude) answers by default. If Anthropic cannot answer, our service sends the same request to OpenAI and, failing that, to Google (Gemini). If you agreed only to the earlier wording, OpenAI answers and the other two receive nothing.
Each company processes that content under its own API terms, which govern whether it may be used to train its models. We make no promise on their behalf. Under OpenAI's API data policy, content sent through its API is not used to train its models. Read the terms at anthropic.com/legal, openai.com/policies and ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms.
8Suppliers and links
Restock opens a supplier's page in your browser. From that moment you are on their website, under their privacy policy, and they see what any visitor's browser tells them. Wine Cave sends them nothing about you, buys nothing, handles no payment and never asks for a card.
9How long it is kept
Your cellar is kept until you delete it. There is no expiry: a cellar history is the point of the app. The usage rows in section 6 are kept while your account exists, so that a monthly allowance means something; deleting the account deletes them with it. If you sync through your Wine Cave account, the stored copy of your cellar is kept the same way and is deleted with the account.
10Deleting everything
Settings → Data → Delete everything removes every wine, tasting and guest from the device, behind one confirmation. Deleting the app from your device removes the cellar file and the backups with it. It does not remove a copy stored with your Wine Cave account or in iCloud.
To delete your account, open Settings → Account → Delete account. That removes the account, its usage rows and any cellar stored with it. You can also write to dev@fafutur.com and ask us to delete it.
11Age
Wine Cave is about wine. It is rated for adults, and it is for people of legal drinking age where they live. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
12Your rights, and changes to this policy
Your cellar is on your own device, so you can read it, correct it, export it and delete it yourself, without asking us. For your account and the usage rows in section 6, write to dev@fafutur.com and we will tell you what is stored against it, correct it, send it to you or delete it. If you are in the EU or the UK you can also complain to your national data protection authority.
The date at the top of this page changes when the policy changes. If a change matters to you, the app will say so before it takes effect.