Privacy Policy

Beer KC ("Beer KC," "we," "us") is a Kansas City craft beer discovery app and website at beerkc.app. This policy covers the Beer KC website, web app and mobile apps (the "Platform"). Questions? Email support@beerkc.app.

Information you give us

• Your email address, which we use to send your sign-in code and to identify your account.
• Your username, avatar, city, state and home area, which you choose when you set up your profile.
• Your notification choices and the date you finished setup.
• What you do in the app: check-ins, beer and brewery ratings and reviews, favorites, event RSVPs, crawl progress, and the badges and level you earn from them.
• The questions you type into Ask Beer KC.
• If you are an advertiser: your business name, category, area, ad content, and billing details, which are handled by our payment processor (see section 4).
• Messages you send us, such as support requests.

Information from Google or Apple

If you choose to sign in with Google or Apple, they tell us your email address and may share your name and profile photo. We use the email to create or find your account. We do not receive your Google or Apple password.

Information collected automatically

• When you sign in (the time, so we can keep your session secure and see that accounts are active).
• Basic technical data any website receives, such as your IP address, browser type and the pages you request. Our hosting provider keeps these in short-lived logs for security and reliability.
• Data stored in your browser or phone (local storage) to keep you signed in and remember choices like your avatar and filters. We do not use advertising cookies or cross-site trackers.

• To run Beer KC: sign you in, show your profile, count your check-ins, award badges and levels, and rank the leaderboards.
• To show you breweries, beers, events and crawls near you and answer your questions in Ask Beer KC.
• To send the notifications you opted into. You can change these any time in Settings.
• To keep the Platform safe: preventing fraud and abuse, checking what members write and upload for hateful, sexual, threatening or abusive content (using automated tools, including an AI service), enforcing our Terms, and fixing problems.
• To count how many people see and tap each ad. These counts are anonymous and do not identify you.
• To meet legal obligations.

We do not use your information for behavioral advertising, and we do not sell it.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not give it to other companies for their own marketing, advertising or any other purpose of theirs, and we do not give it to breweries or advertisers.

Companies that help us run Beer KC. We use service providers for things like hosting, data storage, sign-in, email delivery, payment processing and artificial intelligence. They handle your information only on our behalf and on our instructions, under agreements with us that restrict their use of it to providing their service to us.

Artificial intelligence. Ask Beer KC and our safety checks use AI technology provided by a service provider. When you ask a question, we send it your question, the last few messages of the conversation and, if you are signed in, information such as your username, favorite beer styles and recent check-ins so answers can be personal. If you allow location, we also send your position to find places near you. When you submit a username, review, crawl description or photo, we send that text or photo to be checked for hateful, sexual, threatening or abusive content. We send only what is needed for the request, not your email address or other account details. We do not save the text of your Ask Beer KC questions in our database.

Maps, place search and typefaces. These are delivered by third-party services. When you view a map, search for a place or load a page, your device's IP address, and any search text you type, are sent to them so they can respond. They are not given your account details.

Signing in with Google or Apple. Only if you choose to. See the Google user data section below for exactly what we receive and how we use it.

Legal reasons and business changes. We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to protect people's safety, or as part of a sale or reorganization of Beer KC, in which case we will tell you if your information would be handled under a different policy.

If you choose Continue with Google, here is exactly how we handle what Google shares with us.

• What we receive: your Google email address and, if you allow it, your name and profile photo. We ask only for the basic sign-in permissions (OpenID, email and profile). We do not access your Gmail, Drive, Contacts, Calendar or any other Google data.
• How we use it: only to create your Beer KC account, recognize you when you return, and sign you in. We do not use it for advertising.
• Who we share it with: no one for their own purposes. It is stored securely by the service providers that help us run Beer KC and is used only to run Beer KC. We do not sell it, and we do not give it to breweries or advertisers.
• How long we keep it: while your account is open. See section 8 for deleting your account and requesting full erasure.
• Google's rules: Beer KC's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
• You can remove Beer KC's access at any time in your Google Account under Security, then Your connections to third-party apps and services.

Your username, avatar, level, badges, ratings and reviews can be seen by other people, and check-in counts appear on leaderboards and area rankings. Your email address, city, state and notification choices are not shown to other members. Please do not put personal information in your username or reviews.

Breweries and advertisers do not receive your personal information. The reports advertisers see are anonymous totals, such as how many times an ad was shown or tapped.

We ask your device for your location only when you use a feature that needs it, such as checking in at a brewery or sorting places by distance. You can say no, or turn location off in your browser or phone settings, and most of the app still works.

When you check in, we confirm you are close to the brewery and record how far away you were and how accurate your device's reading was. We do not store your coordinates.

• We keep your account information and activity for as long as your account is open.
• You can delete your account at any time in More → Account & Security → Delete account. This permanently deletes your sign-in account and email address, your profile (username, avatar, city, state and home area), your check-ins, ratings and reviews, favorites, event RSVPs, crawl progress, notification choices and sign-in history, and signs you out. It cannot be undone.
• If you also run advertising on Beer KC, or you are an administrator, email support@beerkc.app first so we can close your ads and billing, or hand over the administrator role, then we delete your account.
• Reports you filed about content stay for our moderators, without your name attached.
• Backups can hold deleted information for a limited time before they are overwritten.
• We may keep limited records we are required to keep to meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, or prevent fraud, such as proof that an account was removed and invoices for paid advertising.
• You can also ask us to delete your account by emailing support@beerkc.app from the address on your account. We will complete the request within 30 days.

• See and edit your profile in the app. Settings lets you change your username, location details and notifications.
• Ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, or to correct or delete it, by emailing support@beerkc.app.
• Say no to location, and withdraw location permission at any time.
• Stop notifications in Settings.

Depending on where you live, privacy laws may give you additional rights, such as the right to know what we collect, to delete it, to correct it, and not to be treated differently for using these rights. Email us and we will honor them as the law requires. We do not sell or "share" personal information as those terms are defined in state privacy laws.

We use industry-standard protections: encrypted connections, access rules that keep each member's data to that member, and limited staff access. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute security. If we learn of a breach that affects you, we will notify you as the law requires.

Beer KC is for people 21 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 21. If you believe someone under 21 has an account, email us and we will remove it.

We may update this policy as Beer KC grows. When we make a meaningful change we will update the date at the top and tell you in the app or by email. Using Beer KC after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Beer KC, Johnson County, Kansas · support@beerkc.app