Privacy

1. Who we are
2. What we keep
3. Who sees what
4. What's public
5. Services that help us
6. Your location
7. Why we may use it
8. How long we keep it
9. Your rights
10. Deleting your account
11. Age
12. Changes and contact

1. Who we are

Decanté is an iPhone app and this website, getdecante.com. Decanté is run by Entropical Solutions S.L., Calle Pintor Salvador Abril 8 2, 46005 Valencia, Spain (NIF B75524595), the data controller for everything on this page. Write to us about anything on this page at support@getdecante.com.

2. What we keep

Your account

• How you sign in. With Apple: the ID Apple gives us for you, the email address Apple shares (which can be a private relay address), and a token from Apple that lets us disconnect Decanté from your Apple Account when you delete it. With email: your address.
• Your name, handle and photo. If you sign in with email, we start your name from the part of your address before the @; you can change it, and your handle, on Me. Your photo is optional.
• Your settings, such as who sees new check-ins, whether friends see what you paid, and whether your name is shown on wine lists you add.
• Sign-in codes. When you ask for a code by email, we keep the address, when you asked and the internet (IP) address the request came from, to stop people from flooding someone's inbox. We never store the code itself, only a scrambled check of it.

What you put in

• Tables: where you were, who was there, when, and the name if someone gave it one.
• Check-ins: the wine, your rating, your note, the place, where the bottle came from and what you paid, if you add those.
• Photos: of labels, wine lists and moments at the table, your profile photo, and photos you send for a place's page. Wine lists can also come as a PDF or a link.
• Labels you give your wines. Only you see them.
• Your conversations with the app, at a table and on your own. Only you see your side of them.
• What the AI was asked and answered. Each request to the AI model and its answer, with the model used and how long it took, so we can see where it goes wrong and make Decanté read wine better. Photos are kept once, with your conversation, not again with each request.
• Friends, friend requests, invitations to tables and requests to join one; cheers and comments at a table.
• Places you pick from Apple Maps or type in.

What we work out

From the wines you rate, Decanté works out what you like: groups of wines you love (“crisp whites”), what isn't for you, an atlas of the countries, regions and grapes you've had, and stamps. Wine details (region, grapes, how it tastes) are worked out from the label and the web, and are shared by everyone who has the same wine.

Your device

If you allow notifications, the token Apple gives us to send them to your phone. It goes when you sign out.

Server logs

Like any website, our servers note each request as it comes in (which page or feature was asked for, the time, and the IP address it came from) so we can keep the service running and safe. Where you are is never part of what's noted.

We have no analytics, advertising or tracking tools in the app.

3. Who sees what

At Decanté, the people who check wine lists and place photos before they go public see those, with the name of whoever sent them. Beyond that we look at your data only when we need to: to fix something, to look into a report, or because the law requires it.

When you share a recap of a table to Instagram or anywhere else, you choose to; it's made on your phone, and whoever you share it with sees what's in it, including the people at the table. Please share photos of people only if they're happy with it.

4. What's public

• Photos you send for a place's page. Once we've approved one, anyone can see it, on Decanté and on the web, credited to you unless you turned your name off. You can take it back at any time.
• A place's wine list. When a wine list read at a table has been checked by us, its lines (not your photo) become that place's list for the next table there, with “added by” and your name, unless you turned that off in settings.
• Your taste link, if you make one: a page with your name, what you love, a few of your favourite wines and what isn't for you. Anyone with the link can open it; you can change or remove it. Anyone at a table can also share the table's taste link while the table is on: it shows the first names of the people at it, what each loves and what isn't for them, and stops working when the table ends.
• Your join link shows your name to whoever opens it, so they know whose friend request they're sending.

5. Services that help us

We don't sell your data and we don't share it with advertisers. These services handle it on our behalf, only to run Decanté:

Your moments (photos shared with the table), your notes and your labels are never sent to the AI service.

Scaleway keeps nothing that's sent to the AI model once it has answered, and doesn't use it for anything else. Jina AI is part of Elastic and works under Elastic's data processing terms.

6. Your location

Decanté only uses where you are if you let it, in iPhone settings. Then it uses it to:

• suggest the place you're at when you start a table;
• show wine bars and restaurants near you;
• answer questions like “anywhere good near here?”.

Your location is sent with the request that needs it and isn't stored with your account. One exception: if you type in a place that isn't on Apple Maps, we pin it where your phone is, so the next person looking for it finds the same one. That pin is shown to nobody but you until we've checked the place. A home never keeps a location.

7. Why we may use it

Under European data protection law we need a reason for each use:

• To give you the app you signed up for (performing our agreement with you): your account, tables, check-ins, photos, friends, reading labels and lists, and the places near you.
• Legitimate interests, which we weigh against yours: keeping Decanté safe and working (logs, limits on sign-in codes, checking reports), checking wine lists and place photos before they're public, and improving the app.
• Your permission, which you can take back at any time: sending your photos and questions to the AI model (asked in the app before the first one; take it back in Settings), location and notifications (in iPhone settings), and putting your name on a list or a place photo.
• Legal obligations, when the law requires us to keep or hand over something.

Teaching an AI of our own. To read wine better, we may train an AI model of our own on what we've learned about wines: the names and details read off wine lists and labels, what we found about them on the web, and the profiles made from that. That's about wines, not about you, and it doesn't include your photos, your questions or your conversations.

Outside Europe. Almost everything stays in the European Union. Apple (sign-in, notifications and maps) and Jina AI (part of Elastic, for web searches about a wine) may handle what they get outside it; where they do, they rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

8. How long we keep it

• Your account and what you put in: until you delete it, or delete the account.
• What the AI was asked and answered: until you delete your account.
• Sign-in code records: 30 days.
• Server logs: 7 days.
• Backups of our database: up to 7 days after something is deleted, after which it's gone from them too.

9. Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of what we have about you, to correct it, to delete it, to receive it in a format you can take elsewhere, or to stop or limit a use of it. Most of it you can change yourself in the app. For the rest, write to support@getdecante.com from the address you sign in with, and we'll answer within a month. If you think we've got it wrong, you can complain to your data protection authority; ours is Spain's Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, and you can also go to the one where you live.

10. Deleting your account

On Me, tap the gear, then Delete account. That deletes your account, your check-ins, ratings, notes, labels, photos (the files too), the photos you sent for places, your friends, your conversations with the app, the sign-in codes we mailed you and everything we worked out from them, straight away. A table you started stays with the people still at it; one you were at alone goes. If you signed in with Apple, it also disconnects Decanté from your Apple Account. You can also do it by disconnecting Decanté in your Apple Account settings, or by writing to us.

What stays is what was never only yours: a wine's details, which other people share; the check-ins and photos of other people at your tables; and a place you typed in, without its location. A wine list you read for a place goes with your account, though tables that already opened it keep their copy.

11. Age

Decanté is about wine, so it's only for people who are 18 or older and of legal drinking age where they live. We don't knowingly keep data about anyone younger; if you think we do, tell us and we'll delete it.

12. Changes and contact

If we change this page in a way that matters, we'll say so in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top says when it last changed.

Questions, requests or worries: support@getdecante.com.