Barfly Diners — Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 23, 2026 Operator: Barfly Diners, operated by Barfly Diners LLC (a Texas limited liability company)

Contact: support@barflydiners.com

Plain-English summary: Your journal lives on your phone, not our servers. We don't make you create an account, we don't ask for your name, and we don't sell or share your personal data. We use your location only to find bars near you, and we collect anonymous, aggregate usage stats to improve the app. That's it.

1. Who we are

Barfly Diners is a private, local-first dining journal: you keep the bars and restaurants you love, remember who to ask for and what to order, and log your visits. This policy explains what data the app handles and how.

2. The data that stays on your device (we never receive it)

Everything you put into your journal is stored only on your device (in your browser/app storage):

The places you save, your status for each (Love / On List / Pass)
Your notes (staff, food & drink, who you met, general notes)
Your visits and visit notes
Photos you add to a place
App settings (theme, etc.)

We do not have a copy of any of this. No account is created, and nothing about your journal is uploaded to us. If you create a backup file (Settings → Back up), that file is saved wherever you choose (Files, iCloud, email) — we never receive it.

3. Location

When you tap "Bars near me" or "I'm here now," the app uses your device location only to find nearby places. Your coordinates are sent to our backend service, which queries place providers (see §5) and returns results. We do not store your location — it's used to answer that one request and discarded. You can also search by a city/ZIP you type, or by place name, without sharing your device location.

4. Anonymous usage analytics

To understand how the app is used and improve it, we collect anonymous, aggregate usage signals — for example, that the app was opened, a place was added, or a status was set. These signals:

contain no name, email, account, or device identifier that identifies you;
are counted in aggregate and are not used to build a profile of you;
never include your notes, photos, or the contents of your journal.

If and when venue-interest features are added (e.g. how many people have a given public venue on their list), those counts are likewise anonymous and aggregate — tied to the public place, not to you, and kept separate from any device signal so they can't be combined into a profile.

5. Place data providers (third parties)

The app fetches place information through our backend service from:

Google Places — bar/restaurant listings for "bars near me." (Google's terms and privacy

policy apply to their data: https://policies.google.com/privacy)

OpenStreetMap (Photon / Nominatim) — place name search and city/ZIP lookup.

These providers receive only what's needed to answer a search (e.g. a coordinate or a query string). We do not send them anything from your journal.

6. What we do NOT do

We do not sell or rent your personal data.
We do not use advertising trackers.
We do not track you across other apps or websites.
We do not require an account or collect your name, email, or contacts.

7. Notifications (when available)

A future version may let venues you've Loved or added to your List send you their deals or events. This is designed to be anonymous: the venue can reach people who favorited it **without knowing who you are, and you can mute** any place's notifications individually, or turn notifications off entirely.

8. Your choices & deleting your data

Because your journal lives on your device:

Delete everything: use Settings → Delete all my data, or simply uninstall the app — your

journal is gone, because there was no server copy.

Move it: export a backup and restore it on another device.
Location: you can deny or revoke the location permission in your device settings at any time;

search-by-name and search-by-city still work.

9. Children

Barfly Diners is an alcohol-related app intended for adults of legal drinking age. It is **not directed to children** and carries a 17+ store age rating. Do not use the app if you are under the legal drinking age in your location.

10. Security

Requests between the app and our backend use encrypted connections (HTTPS). Because your journal stays on your device, its security also depends on your device's own protections (passcode, encryption).

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the app evolves. Material changes will be reflected here with a new effective date.

12. Text messaging (SMS)

If you contact our business line (205) 922-7359 by call or text, or give us your mobile number when submitting a venue claim or a support request, Barfly Diners' owners and staff may reply and follow up with you by SMS about your claim, account, or question. This is one-to-one, conversational messaging — not marketing, and consent is your own act of contacting us.

Message frequency varies based on your conversation with us.
Message and data rates may apply.
Reply STOP to any message to opt out of further texts; reply HELP for help.
We do not sell, rent, or share mobile phone numbers or SMS consent data with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes. No mobile information is shared with third parties for such purposes.

13. Contact

Questions? support@barflydiners.com