Terms of Service
BrewTinker
Effective Date: 2026-07-16 Last reviewed against codebase: 2026-07-16 Contact: support@brewtinker.com Full version online: https://brewtinker.com/terms/
Acceptance
By downloading or using BrewTinker, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.
Description Of Service
BrewTinker is a personal coffee brewing record and analysis app. It helps you:
- Record brew parameters and tasting outcomes.
- Reuse beans, recipes, and past records.
- Compare controlled experiments.
- Export records for backup, spreadsheet review, or external regression analysis.
- Optionally connect compatible BLE brewing devices for local weight and temperature readings.
The current app is local-first. Historical cloud sync and Firebase documents are archived and are not the active service baseline.
Purchases And BrewTinker Pro
BrewTinker Pro is optional. The current purchase strategy for this release is Lifetime Pro only as a one-time App Store purchase. Annual subscription purchase UI is not shown in this build.
Current Pro benefits are:
- Home Screen widgets for brew stats and bean freshness.
- Shortcuts to start brewing or open Brew Log.
- Multiple grinder and dripper profiles.
Core brewing, records, experiments, recipe forks, and manual export remain available without Pro.
Purchases, refunds, payment methods, taxes, and family sharing behavior are handled by Apple's App Store systems and policies. Use Restore Purchases if App Store entitlement state needs to be refreshed.
Accounts And Cloud Services
The current source tree does not include a production account, Firebase Auth, Firestore Sync, Google Sign-In, Firebase Analytics, or Firebase Crashlytics implementation.
If you use a build that later reintroduces account or cloud features, those features must be governed by updated terms and privacy disclosures before release.
Bluetooth Device Support
BLE device support is optional and compatibility may vary by device model, firmware, and iOS environment.
Current direct Bluetooth data is limited to weight and temperature. Flow-rate charts are derived locally from saved weight readings and are not a separate BLE sensor stream.
Local Notifications And Widgets
Daily reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device. BrewTinker does not operate a push-notification service.
Widgets may show compact summaries using data stored locally or in the local App Group container.
Your Content
You retain ownership of brew records, notes, recipes, bean data, and optional photos you create or import into BrewTinker.
You are responsible for exported or shared content after you save or share it.
Acceptable Use
You agree not to:
- Use the app for unlawful activity.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app except where allowed by law.
- Scrape or automate extraction of app content in a way that harms the service or violates applicable law.
- Misrepresent exported data or device compatibility claims.
Intellectual Property
The app, code, design, trademarks, and bundled content are owned by or licensed to BrewTinker. You receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the app for personal purposes.
Disclaimers
BrewTinker is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.
Coffee recommendations, brew parameters, flow-rate curves, experiment comparisons, and exported analysis fields are informational tools. Taste and extraction outcomes depend on beans, water, grinder, equipment, technique, and measurement quality.
We do not guarantee that:
- The app will be error-free or uninterrupted.
- BLE readings will be available for every device.
- Exported data will be sufficient for every statistical method.
- A suggested brew change will improve taste.
Limitation Of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, BrewTinker is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of data or loss of expected results.
Changes
We may update these terms. Material changes should be reflected in the app and in this document before release.
Contact
If you have questions, contact: support@brewtinker.com