Pass the Glass Nederlands

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 3 November 2026

In short

There is no account, no advertising and no tracking. What you enter stays on your own phone or iPad. Only when you taste together on your own phones does that tasting pass through our server for a while; it is gone from there at the latest 12 hours after the last message (see below).

What the app stores

The app stores only on your phone or iPad:

• tastings: the name of the tasting, the names of the tasters, the wines (with vintage, price and who brought the bottle, if you enter them) and the scores;
• groups you save: a name and the names of the tasters;
• My Wines: your own wines with your score and notes, and the wines of finished tastings with the group's score;
• photos of labels that you take, choose from your photo library or drag into the app from another app (such as Safari).

We cannot see this data. It is not sent anywhere, except as described below under Tasting together on your own phones.

Camera

The app asks for camera access so you can take a photo of the label and scan the QR code of a wine box with Scan Wine Box. You can also choose a photo from your photo library; the app then only sees that one photo. The app also uses the camera to scan the QR code of a tasting when you join. A label photo is kept only inside the app and is not sent anywhere, except when tasting together: after the reveal the other phones get a downscaled copy. The camera image used for scanning is not kept.

Opening a wine box

You open a wine box by scanning the QR code on the card: with your iPhone or iPad camera (then tap the banner), or in the app with Scan Wine Box. The app then fetches the wines from the address in the QR code. Usually that's passtheglass.app, where we put boxes online for wine shops; a shop can also put a box on its own website. The label photos come from the addresses listed with the box; that can be another server too, such as Dropbox or a web shop platform.

The app sends no data about you: no account, no cookies, nothing you entered in the app. As with any website visit, those servers do see your IP address and the versions of the app and of iOS. passtheglass.app runs on GitHub Pages; what GitHub does with that is covered by GitHub's privacy statement. We get no visitor data from GitHub and don't keep track of who opens a box. If a box is on a shop's own website, what the shop does with that is covered by the shop's privacy policy. The fetched wines and photos are then kept only on your phone or iPad.

Tasting together on your own phones

In a tasting you can let others join on their own phone, with a QR code, a six-digit code or a link. The phones reach each other through our server at Cloudflare (tafel.passtheglass.app). For this, the server passes on: the name and date of the tasting, the names of the tasters, which phone belongs to which taster, the wines with what you entered for them (such as producer, grape, vintage, notes, price and who brought the bottle), a downscaled label photo after the reveal, and the scores. Wines that are still blind go without any details; price and bringer only after the scores. Everyone who joins gets the tasting, with the names, scores and label photos, in their own Tastings on their own phone afterwards.

There is no account. A phone only gets a random number with a secret only that phone knows, so the table recognises it after a lost connection and nobody else can pose as that phone. The server keeps only the latest state of the tasting, so a phone that was briefly away can carry on. When the host stops the tasting, we delete everything at once; otherwise at the latest 12 hours after the table’s last message, and in any case within a day. If you want something gone sooner, ask the host to stop the tasting, or email us. We don’t look at it and don’t use it for anything. As with any connection, the server sees your IP address; we don’t store it.

The server runs at Cloudflare. As with any connection, Cloudflare processes your IP address; what Cloudflare does with it is in Cloudflare’s privacy policy. We keep no logs ourselves.

If you don’t join on your own phone, nothing goes through the server.

Sharing

You can share a result or a wine as an image. A result shows the wines, the scores and the names of the tasters. Sharing only happens when you tap the share button, through the iOS share sheet, to the app or person you choose. If you choose "Save Image", iOS asks whether the app may add the image to your Photos. What another app does with the image is covered by that app's privacy policy.

Rating

After a few tastings, iOS may ask you once per version to rate the app in the App Store. This goes through Apple; we cannot see who rates what.

Feedback

If you tap Feedback in the app, your own mail app opens with an email to us. If you send it, we receive your email address and your message, as with any other email. We only use them to read and answer your question or idea. The app itself sends nothing.

Backups

If you use iCloud Backup or a backup on your computer, iOS includes the app's data in it. You control this in your iPhone or iPad settings.

Deleting

You can delete tastings and wines in the app. If you delete the app, all of its data is gone.

Age

The app is about wine and is intended for people aged 18 and over. Please drink responsibly.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will publish the new version on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions? Email qurk.wijn@gmail.com.