Privacy policy

Last updated November 9, 2026. This page explains what BourbonRadar (bourbonradar.com) collects, why, and the choices you have. Questions or requests: [email protected].

What we collect

• Sighting tips from the tip form: the bottle, store, price, rough quantity, when and where you saw it, an optional link, note and photo. We don’t ask for your name or email. Approved tips, including photos, are shown publicly on the site. We don’t store your IP address with a tip.
• Emailed tips sent to [email protected]: the subject, the text and any image attachments. Instead of your email address we keep a scrambled code (a keyed hash) made from it, so we can spot repeat senders without storing the address.
• Store claims from For stores: your name, role, work email and phone. We use them only to confirm you work at the store and to send your posting code. They are never shown on the site.
• Technical data. Our hosting providers, Cloudflare (website and email) and Supabase (database and photos), process things like your IP address and browser type to deliver the site, and may keep short-term logs.

Cookies and local storage

BourbonRadar itself doesn’t set cookies. It saves a few settings in your browser’s local storage: that you said you’re 21+, your ZIP code, the time of your recent tips (for a simple rate limit), and, if you ask it to, a store’s posting code. You can clear these any time in your browser settings.

Advertising

BourbonRadar may show ads from Google AdSense. When ads are on:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.
• Other ad networks that Google works with may also serve ads through AdSense and use their own cookies; the aboutads.info page above lets you opt out of many of them.
• Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and Google’s business data responsibility site.
• Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent through Google’s consent message before personalized ads are shown.

Analytics

We don’t use any analytics or tracking tools today. If we add one, we’ll list it here first.

Age

BourbonRadar is for adults 21 and over. We don’t knowingly collect information from anyone under 21.

Your choices

To ask us to remove a tip, photo, emailed tip or store claim you sent, email [email protected] with enough detail for us to find it.

Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top of this page.