For the Wine Cellar Database iOS app · Last updated 16 August 2026
The short version. Wine Cellar Database has no accounts and no sign-in. Your cellar — every wine, photo and note — is stored on your device and is never sent to us. We operate no server that your device talks to, and there is no server of ours that holds a copy of your cellar. The app does make network requests: to fetch exchange rates, to your own private iCloud storage if you turn iCloud Sync on, to process in-app purchases, and to show ads.
We do not collect, store or receive any personal information from this app. There is no account to create, nothing to log in to, and no server of ours that holds your data.
Everything you enter is saved locally, and is removed when you delete the app:
If you use iCloud device backups, or turn on the app's own iCloud Sync described below, this data may also be held under your own Apple Account. We have no access to it in either case.
The app includes a built-in catalogue of wine names you can search when adding a bottle. That catalogue ships inside the app: searching it makes no network request, and what you type is never sent anywhere.
The app asks for camera and photo library access only when you add a photo to a wine. Photos are stored inside the app on your device and are not uploaded anywhere by us. If you decline, every other part of the app continues to work.
To show your cellar's value in a currency other than the one you entered, the app downloads a public table of exchange rates from a free public rates API, served via Cloudflare Pages and the jsDelivr CDN.
This is a plain request for a public file. It contains nothing about you and nothing about your cellar — the same file is served to every user. As with any request to any website, the servers involved receive your device's IP address and can log it; that is handled under those providers' own policies, not ours.
The app can keep one cellar in step across your own iPhones and iPads using iCloud. This is off unless you turn it on, from the iCloud Sync screen in the app's Transfer menu.
When it is on, your wines, categories, saved filters and wine photos are stored in the private database of your own iCloud account, under your Apple Account — the same place your other apps' iCloud data lives. It is not sent to us, we are not given access to it, and we cannot read it. Apple's handling of it is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
You can turn sync off at any time and keep the copy on your device. The app also provides a screen that deletes the cellar held in your iCloud account outright, leaving your devices' own copies alone.
The app can write your whole cellar — the database, your full-size photos and a manifest — into a single backup file, and open one again on another device. That file is written wherever you choose to put it: the Files app, iCloud Drive, another storage app, an email, or AirDrop to a device beside you.
This is a plain file on your device. It is never sent to us, and we have no way to reach it. Where you send it, and who can then read it, is entirely your choice — the same as any other document. The same applies to spreadsheets you export from, or import into, the app.
The app sells one-time purchases that increase how many wines your cellar can hold. Payment is handled entirely by Apple — the app never sees or stores your payment details.
Purchases are managed through RevenueCat, which validates your receipt with Apple and tells the app what you own so it can restore your purchases on a new device. RevenueCat receives purchase and device information associated with a randomly generated identifier, not with your name or email. Their handling of it is described in RevenueCat's privacy policy.
The free version of the app displays advertising supplied by Google AdMob. Any in-app purchase removes ads. To serve and measure ads, Google may collect and process device and advertising data; this is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
The app asks for your permission before using your device's advertising identifier to personalise ads, using Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. If you decline, ads still appear but are not personalised, and nothing else in the app changes. Where local law requires it, you will also see a consent form for advertising and measurement before any ad loads. You can change your mind at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking on your device.
Your cellar is never shared with advertisers. Nothing you enter about your wines is used to target advertising.
The app includes no analytics or crash-reporting service of ours. Apple provides developers with anonymous, aggregated App Store statistics — such as download counts and crash totals — which cannot identify individual users, and only if you have opted in to sharing analytics with developers in your device settings.
This app is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect any information from children. Since the app collects no personal information from anyone, there is nothing for us to delete — but if you have a concern, please write to us at the address below.
Deleting the app removes your cellar and everything stored with it from your device. Copies you made yourself are unaffected: a backup file stays wherever you put it, and an exported spreadsheet stays where you saved it, until you delete them there.
If you turned iCloud Sync on, the cellar held in your own iCloud account is not removed by deleting the app. The app's own screen for deleting your iCloud cellar removes it, and you can also remove the app's iCloud data from Settings → your name → iCloud on your device. If you have an iCloud device backup, the data may persist in that backup under your own Apple Account until the backup is replaced or removed.
If the app's data practices change, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change with it. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Questions about this policy, or about privacy in the app, can be sent to winecellardatabase@icloud.com.