Privacy
Last updated September 27, 2026
Bin12 is a wine journal for the table. You log what you drink, rate it, and share it with the people you drink with. This page explains, in plain English, what we collect, who gets to see it, and how to ask us to delete it.
What we collect
When you create an account:
- Your name and email address.
- A password. We never see it: our login provider (Supabase) stores a hash, not the password.
In your profile, if you choose to add them:
- Your home zip code, so we can show you tastings nearby.
- Your timezone and preferred currency.
What you log while using Bin12:
- Wines, ratings, tasting notes, and bottle photos.
- Purchases and the shops you bought them from.
- Your answers to the taste quiz.
- The tastings you attend or host, and your friends on Bin12.
If you save a public tasting, we collect the email you give us, and your name if the form asks for it. Saving starts a free Bin12 account at that address; the confirmation email is what opens it, and an account nobody opens is deleted.
If you ask for our weekly email of tastings near you, we keep the email address and zip code you give us, how far you’ll travel, and which page you signed up on. You don’t need an account. We use them only to send that email; we never give them to shops. If you save a tasting, follow a shop or take the taste quiz from that email, that starts a free Bin12 account at your address, and what you add to it is covered by the account section above. If you never confirm, we delete them after a week. If you unsubscribe, we delete them after 30 days.
If you ask to claim a shop’s page, list a new shop, or have a listing removed, we collect the name, email, and message you give us on that form.
If you rate a tasting as a guest from a QR code, no account needed, we keep your scores and notes. If you want your ratings emailed to you, we also keep that email address, and your name if you add it.
Who sees what
- The other members of a cellar see what’s logged in that cellar.
- People at a tasting see the lineup and the ratings shared at that tasting.
- Friends on Bin12 can compare their taste with yours.
- A shop sees headcounts and anonymous totals by default. Your ratings of its wines reach it only if you check that box, and your name and email only if you tick that one too. You can change these choices from your profile’s sharing settings.
Public pages
Some pages on Bin12 are public: shop pages and their tasting listings, a tasting group’s page once it has a web address, and recaps of tastings a host chose to share. A shared recap shows the wines, scores and the photos marked public: never who gave which score.
Once a shop’s public tasting is over and at least three scores are in, its event page shows the table’s average for each wine that two or more people rated, never who gave which score.
Emails we send
- Account confirmation and password reset.
- RSVP confirmations, and a note if a tasting you RSVP’d to is canceled.
- For a tasting you saved or RSVP’d to: one reminder (the morning of an afternoon or evening tasting, the day before a morning one) and one follow-up the morning after. Removing the tasting stops both.
- Tastings near you, inside the letter we send every other week.
- If you asked for it: the week’s tastings near you, every Thursday, with a link in each one to change your zip or unsubscribe.
- A day-after reminder to rate a tasting you attended.
- Invites to cellars and tastings.
- Your ratings, if you rated as a guest and asked for them.
- Replies to a shop claim or listing request.
- One question, once, if a shop claims its page after you saved one of its tastings: whether it may see your name and email. Doing nothing means no.
- Announcements from a shop you’re connected to, each with a one-click unsubscribe link.
- Now and then, a note from Bin12 about your own wine (what you’ve rated lately, how your palate is shaping up) and what’s new. Every one has a one-click unsubscribe link, and stopping them never stops the emails above.
Who helps us run this
We share data with a small set of service providers, only as needed to run Bin12:
- Supabase: our database, login, and photo storage.
- Vercel: hosting.
- Resend: sending the emails above.
- Cloudflare Turnstile: a bot check on our forms.
- Anthropic: the AI behind tasting and serving notes, label and lineup photo scans, taste profile summaries, and pairing suggestions. The photos you scan and the wine details involved are sent to generate these; your name and email are not.
Usage data
We record which features get used (for example, that a tasting was started), and we count views of our public pages without identifying who was looking.
Cookies
We use cookies to keep you logged in and to finish a password reset. Cloudflare’s bot check may set its own. No advertising cookies and no third-party tracking scripts.
We don’t sell your personal data
Not your name, your email, or anything that says it’s you, not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Shops can pay Bin12 for extra tools, like more promoted tastings and a better spot in listings, but paying never gets a shop anyone’s name or email. Those reach a shop only if you checked the box to share them with that shop, whatever plan it’s on.
We may sell pooled wine data. How a grape or region rates across Bin12, say, or what people in a metro are buying. It’s combined across enough people that no one can be picked out, and it never includes names, emails, zip codes, photos, or notes in your own words. It may count how many people in a metro get our weekly tastings email, never who. Anyone who buys it agrees in writing not to try to work out who’s in it, and we don’t try either.
Deletion and export
There is no delete button yet. Email hello@bin12.com and we’ll delete your account and its data.
Age
Bin12 is a wine app. You must be 21 or older (or the legal drinking age where you are) to use it.
Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.
Questions
Email hello@bin12.com, or write to Bin12, PO Box 1454, Oak Park, IL 60304.
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