Privacy

Draft of 10 November 2026. Not yet reviewed by a lawyer.

Rickhouse is built to be private by default. Your collection lives on a server you run, not on ours.

This website

getrickhouse.com has no accounts, no analytics, no cookies and no third-party scripts, fonts or embeds. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which may keep ordinary server logs (IP address, page, time) for security and troubleshooting.

The Rickhouse server and apps

• Your data stays on your server. Bottles, labels, tastings, notes, photos and accounts are stored on the machine you run Rickhouse on. We don't receive them.
• The iPhone app talks only to the server address you enter. It doesn't send your collection anywhere else.
• Camera and photos. The camera is used to photograph bottles and scan barcodes. Location data in photos is removed when they're uploaded.
• Backups and CSV. Exports are made on your server and are yours to keep, move or delete.

What you can choose to share

Both of these are off until you turn them on.

• Catalog lookups send a label name or barcode, and nothing else, to look up facts about a spirit.
• Contributions share flavor tags from a fixed vocabulary, and nothing else. Free-text notes and descriptions never leave your data.

Optional services on your own server

If you switch on bot protection (Cloudflare Turnstile) or single sign-on with a provider you choose, that provider's own privacy terms apply to what it receives. Rickhouse doesn't require either.

Deleting your data

You hold the database. Delete the server's data to remove everything. Nothing about your collection is kept elsewhere unless you opted in above.

Contact

Questions about this policy: email help@getrickhouse.com, open an issue on GitHub, or see Support.