Privacy, terms & responsible drinking.

Alcohol Disclaimer & Age Restriction

Barely A Bar provides cocktail recipes and educational content for personal, lawful enjoyment. We advocate for the responsible and moderate consumption of alcohol. Never drink and drive, do not consume alcohol if you are pregnant, and be aware of how alcohol interacts with medication and medical conditions.

Content is provided for general informational and entertainment purposes only and is not medical, health or professional advice. If you choose not to consume alcohol, most of our recipes can be adapted into non-alcoholic versions.

If you or someone you know needs support, in Australia contact the National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline on 1800 250 015; elsewhere, please contact your local alcohol or drug support service or your doctor.

Mobile App Store Compliance — Data & Account Deletion

This section covers the Barely A Bar mobile app and supports our app store listings. It sets out exactly what the app collects, what it deliberately does not collect, and how to delete your account and data.

Using the app without an account (Guest mode)

The app can be used in guest mode without creating an account. In guest mode we do not collect account information such as your name or email address.

Data the app collects

• Account information — if you choose to sign in (with Google, Apple, or an email address and password, via Firebase Authentication): your email address, an optional display name (this is blank in guest mode, or if you use Apple’s “Hide My Email”), and a Firebase user ID that identifies your account.
• Your content — the recipes you save, your bar inventory, favourites, collections and ratings. This is stored in Firebase Firestore, linked to your account so it stays in sync across your devices.
• Camera & photo images — when you use the “scan your bar” feature, the image is sent to our vision provider (Cloudflare Workers AI) to detect the bottles and ingredients in it. Images are processed transiently to return that result and are not stored.
• Crash, error & performance data — collected via Sentry so we can detect, diagnose and fix crashes, errors and performance issues in the app.

What the app does not collect

We keep the app deliberately lean. It contains:

• No analytics SDK — we do not track your in-app behaviour for analytics.
• No advertising and no advertising identifiers — there are no ads and we do not access your Advertising ID (AD_ID).
• No push notifications — we do not collect push tokens.
• No location, contacts, or device identifiers.

We never sell your data and never share it for third-party marketing.

Who processes app data

The app relies on a small set of service providers that process data on our behalf under contract: Google Firebase (Authentication, and Firestore storage of your account and content), Cloudflare Workers AI (transient image analysis for bar scanning), and Sentry (crash, error and performance diagnostics). These providers operate global infrastructure, so data may be processed outside Australia, including in the United States, under appropriate safeguards.

Data protection

All collection happens over encrypted connections. Access to stored data is restricted to Barely A Bar and the processors named above. API credentials for our services are stored as protected secrets and are never exposed in the app.

Business Details

This website and the Barely A Bar mobile app are operated by:

• Joel Vargas trading as Barely A Bar (sole trader)
• ABN 20 139 356 926 (registered for GST)
• Level 3, 2 Brandon Park Drive, Wheelers Hill VIC 3150, Australia
• General enquiries: dash@barelyabar.com
• Privacy & data requests: privacy@barelyabar.com

We aim to respond to direct enquiries promptly by email.

Legal Terms

By accessing this website and the Barely A Bar app you agree to these terms.

Use of content

All content—text, recipes, branding, illustrations and code—is the intellectual property of Barely A Bar unless otherwise stated, and may not be reproduced commercially without permission. You may use recipes for personal, non-commercial purposes.

Limitation of liability

Barely A Bar is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site, the app, recommended products, or the consumption of alcohol. You are solely responsible for drinking lawfully and responsibly.

Changes

We may update these terms and our policies from time to time. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance. Material changes will be reflected in the “last updated” date above.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State.

Privacy Policy

Barely A Bar (“we”, “us”) respects your privacy. This policy explains what we collect, why, the legal bases we rely on, and the rights you have. The data controller is Barely A Bar.

The section below covers data collected through this website (newsletter sign-ups and enquiries). Data collected by the Barely A Bar mobile app is set out separately in Mobile App Store Compliance — Data & Account Deletion above.

What we collect

• Newsletter sign-ups: your first name (optional) and email address, plus the date/time and record of your consent.
• Contact & partnership enquiries: your name, brand/company (optional), email address and the message you send.
• Technical data: limited server logs and a spam-protection token (Cloudflare Turnstile) needed to operate and secure the site.

We do not use invasive third-party tracking or advertising frameworks on this website, and we do not run heavy analytics scripts.

Why we collect it & our legal bases

• Newsletter — to send the updates you asked for. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
• Enquiries — to respond to you and discuss a possible partnership. Legal basis: steps taken at your request prior to a contract and our legitimate interest in answering enquiries.
• Security & delivery — spam filtering, logging and hosting. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure and operational.

Where it is stored & how it is protected

Submissions are transmitted over encrypted HTTPS and processed at the edge by a Cloudflare Pages Function. Data is stored in a Cloudflare D1 database, notification emails are delivered via Resend, and spam is filtered with Cloudflare Turnstile. These providers act only as our service providers/processors under contract.

International data transfers

Our processors (Cloudflare and Resend) run global infrastructure, so your data may be processed or stored outside Australia and the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Where required, such transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

Cookies

We use only strictly necessary cookies: a functional cookie that remembers site/preview access, and the Cloudflare Turnstile cookie used for spam protection. We do not use advertising, profiling or analytics cookies, so no cookie-consent banner is required. If we introduce any non-essential cookies in future, we will ask for your consent first.

Retention

• Newsletter: kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete your data.
• Enquiries: kept for up to 24 months after our last correspondence, then deleted.
• Server logs: retained only briefly for security and troubleshooting.

Your rights

You can ask us to access, correct, delete, restrict or port your data, object to certain processing, and withdraw your consent at any time. To exercise any of these, email privacy@barelyabar.com (see also our data & account deletion process). If you are unhappy with how we handle your data you can complain to a privacy regulator — in Australia, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC); in the EU/EEA, your local data protection supervisory authority.

Unsubscribe / withdraw consent

You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in any newsletter email, or by emailing privacy@barelyabar.com. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.