Privacy Policy
Effective date: 30 September 2026 Last updated: 26 October 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how StirHour ("we," "us," or "our") handles information when you use our home-bartender application and related pages (the "Service"). The Service saves shelf information on your device and provides bottle recognition and AI replies locally. Accounts, cloud synchronization, and live AI/OCR processing are not currently provided. If these features are introduced, an updated notice will describe the actual processing and any required consent choices.
1. Who We Are and How to Contact Us
The data fiduciary/controller responsible for your personal data is BRIGHTSIDE TECHNOLOGY SDN. BHD.
Website: https://www.brightsidetechltd.com/stirhour/ Privacy: service@brightsidetechltd.com General support: service@brightsidetechltd.com
If different entities operate the Service in different countries, the applicable entity and contact details will be shown in the app and store listing.
2. Scope and Regions
This Policy applies to the StirHour client, the website at https://www.brightsidetechltd.com/stirhour/, recognition and AI features (when enabled), and support services that link to this Policy. It does not apply to third-party websites, app stores, photo libraries, operating systems, browsers, or external links; those services have their own policies.
Your mandatory rights under applicable law are preserved. References to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDP Act") and its rules apply to the extent the relevant provisions are in force and applicable to the processing concerned.
3. Information We Handle
3.1 Shelf Items and Preferences
When you add, edit, or remove items, the Service may handle the bottle or mixer name, category, alcohol by volume (ABV), estimated level, internal item ID, image reference, and taste preferences such as Crisp, Low sugar, No egg white, Low-ABV, or Alcohol-free. We use this information to display your shelf, show makeable recipes using its matching rules, filter content, and explain recommendations.
These values are saved in your browser’s local storage. The Service has no account-based cloud synchronization. Removing an item or changing a preference updates the local copy.
3.2 Saved Recipes and Tasting Log
If you save a recipe or select “I made this,” the Service saves the recipe ID, saved/favorite state, or completion timestamp on your device. This supports the Saved list and tasting log. These entries reflect your actions in the Service; they do not measure actual alcohol consumption or provide a clinical assessment.
3.3 Age Selection
Each time the Service loads, it asks whether you meet the legal drinking age where you are located. The answer selects the full recipe collection or the collection labelled 0% ABV. The Service saves a full-bar or alcohol-free choice; it does not ask for your date of birth or identity documents. This answer does not establish your exact age.
The choice filters content and does not verify identity or establish permission to drink. Alcohol laws in India vary by state or union territory, beverage category, and local restrictions, including prohibition. Selecting the full-bar route does not override those laws. The separate rules for children’s personal data are explained in Section 13.
3.4 Bottle Photos, Camera, and Photo Library
When you choose a bottle photo, the Service displays the image temporarily on your device and provides recognition results. The photo selector grants access to the file you select, not your entire photo library. The “Capture label” control does not start a live camera; it works with the photo you select. You can close the scanner or cancel photo selection.
The scanner does not upload the selected image through an application upload function. The temporary image reference is released when the scanner is closed or restarted; this does not delete the original image from your device or photo library.
3.5 AI Bartender Inputs and Outputs
You may enter an occasion, flavor, or substitution request. The AI Bartender keeps messages in the open page and returns generated responses. Starting a new conversation or reloading the page clears that conversation. Suggestions and explanations may be inaccurate, including claims about what ingredients you have.
The current chat feature does not send your messages to a model provider. Agreeing to the Terms or choosing an age route does not by itself provide consent to unrelated model training.
Please avoid entering names, addresses, identity documents, medical or allergy histories, or other personal information unnecessary for a drink request. The Service is not a place to store health records.
3.6 Technical Information, Logs, and Local Storage
The Service uses browser local storage for shelf items, preferences, favorites, completion records, the age-mode choice, scan history, and a settings-version marker. It has no application feature requesting location, contacts, microphone, or notifications, and no embedded advertising or analytics component. This description concerns the app itself; access to a hosted website and use of a separate support channel can generate additional information.
You can block or clear the Service’s local storage in browser settings. This may remove your shelf, favorites, preferences, scan history, and tasting log or prevent changes from being saved. The Service asks the age question on each new page load even if a previous answer was stored.
3.7 Support and Privacy Requests
If you contact us, we receive the contact details, message, and attachments you choose to send, and the correspondence needed to respond. Please share only information needed to resolve the issue. The support channel and any service provider, retention period, and deletion arrangements are included in Sections 8 and 10.
3.8 Accounts and Payments
The Service currently allows guest use, does not create user accounts, and has no checkout or subscription feature. If these services are introduced, the notice will describe account fields, authentication providers, purchase records, and account deletion before they are used.
4. Purposes and Legal Bases
We handle information to operate the shelf, recipe, favorite, tasting-log, content-filtering, and matching features you use; retain your local settings; respond to support and privacy requests; and carry out the disclosed website-delivery, security, or legal purposes. Additional purposes will be described before new processing begins.
Where the DPDP Act’s relevant provisions apply, processing must be for a lawful purpose with consent or within a specific “certain legitimate use” permitted by that Act. Consent requests will identify the data and purpose. Optional consent can be refused without preventing features that do not need that processing.
We do not treat an age selection as identity verification or infer a birth date merely because you select the adult route.
5. Permissions and Choices
- Photo selection: choose a single file or cancel the picker. If a later version requests device permission, you can refuse or revoke that permission in device settings; this is separate from consent to upload or process the image.
- Shelf, preferences and favorites: edit or remove them using available controls. Clear site data to remove all information held only in that browser, including records without an individual delete control.
- AI messages: choose not to enter a message, start a new chat, or reload the page to clear the current conversation.
- Consent withdrawal: use the method listed above or contact the privacy address. Where the DPDP Act applies, withdrawal will be as easy as giving consent. It does not invalidate lawful earlier processing; it may prevent the specific feature that needs the information.
6. AI, Automated Processing, and Human Review
Recommendations are suggestions for general information and entertainment. They do not determine a legal right, credit decision, employment decision, medical treatment, or fitness to drive. They may be incomplete, inaccurate, or unsuitable. Check the actual ingredients, bottle labels, ABV, amounts, allergens, equipment, and applicable law rather than relying on an automated statement.
The Service has no remote review queue for your images or messages. If a service later uses staff or provider review for support, safety, or quality, the notice will explain which content is reviewed, for what purpose, who can access it, how long it is retained, and what choices you have.
7. Health, Allergens, and Responsible Drinking
StirHour is a drink and recipe information tool, not a medical, nutrition, sobriety, diagnostic, treatment, or emergency service. ABV, sugar, calorie, substitute, and allergen information may be incomplete and may vary by brand, serving size, or preparation. Read product labels and consult a qualified professional when needed.
Drink alcohol only where lawful and when you meet the applicable legal age. Do not drink and drive or operate machinery. Hydration does not reverse impairment or make drinking safe. If you are pregnant, taking medication, or have a relevant health condition or allergy, avoid unsafe consumption and seek qualified advice. A recipe labelled “alcohol-free” or “0% ABV” does not establish that every substituted ingredient is alcohol-free or suitable for you; check the actual labels.
8. Sharing, Processors, and Third-Party Services
Information saved only in your browser is not automatically available to our support team. Where we receive or host information, authorized personnel and service providers may handle the minimum needed for the disclosed service, support, security, or legal purpose. We remain responsible for our obligations regarding processors; using a provider does not remove those obligations.
We may disclose information when required by a valid legal obligation or lawful request, or as lawfully necessary to protect people or the Service. We may transfer relevant information in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of the Service, subject to purpose limits, confidentiality safeguards, and legally required notice or consent. Any sharing at your request is limited to the choice you make.
9. International Transfers
The Service’s local shelf and chat functions do not themselves send those entries abroad. Any transfer must comply with the law applicable to that data; use of the Service does not override a transfer restriction.
10. Retention and Deletion
Local shelf data, preferences, favorites, and age settings remain until you remove them, clear site data, or the browser removes them. The Service retains up to 100 completion entries and 20 scan-history entries, replacing older entries when those limits are reached. These are record-count limits, not day-based retention periods. An app-version change can reset shelf and scan history. Chat messages are held in the open page and are cleared by a new chat or reload. Releasing a selected image does not delete the original photo.
We will erase data when its purpose ends or valid consent is withdrawn, unless applicable law requires or permits specific continued retention. Any retained data will be limited to that purpose and period.
You can request deletion of information we hold using the privacy contact. We will explain any lawful exception and the expected completion time. Clearing local site data does not delete separate support messages or server data. The Service currently has no account to close. If account creation is introduced, the Service will explain in-app deletion and, where required, a public web deletion route.
11. Security
We take reasonable safeguards appropriate to the information and processing involved. No system is completely secure. Local browser data can be accessed by people with access to your device or browser profile. If a breach affects personal data we hold, we will take the response and notification steps required by applicable law.
12. Your Rights
Where the relevant DPDP Act provisions apply, you may request a summary of your personal data and processing, the required information about recipients, correction/completion/updating and erasure, grievance redressal, and nomination of another person to exercise your rights in the event of death or incapacity. Consent can be withdrawn as described in Section 5. These rights are subject to applicable conditions and exceptions. Additional rights, such as portability, objection, or review of a significant automated decision, apply only if provided by the law that covers you or by an expressly offered feature.
Submit requests to service@brightsidetechltd.com. We may ask for proportionate verification to protect your data; we will not request unrelated documents. Where the DPDP Act requires it, use our grievance route before approaching the Data Protection Board of India. This does not restrict any other mandatory remedy available to you.
For data held only in your browser, we may be unable to retrieve or delete it remotely because we do not have that copy. You can manage it directly through the available app controls or clear the Service’s browser storage.
13. Children and Age Restrictions
Service eligibility: You must be 18 years of age or older to use the Service. The Service is not intended for, and does not permit, use by anyone under 18. Under the DPDP Act, a child is a person under 18; this is separate from the local drinking age. A person aged 18 or over may still be below the legal drinking age in a particular location. Choosing the alcohol-free route does not establish adulthood, verify a parent, or supply parental consent. Where applicable law requires verifiable parental consent or restricts tracking, behavioural monitoring, targeted advertising, or harmful processing involving children, those requirements apply independently of the content filter.
If you believe a child has provided personal information without the consent or safeguards required by law, contact the privacy address. We will investigate, restrict further processing as appropriate, and arrange deletion or other required action. Do not send a child’s identity documents in an initial report.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy when features, processors, law, or security measures change. We will provide notice of material changes through the app, page, or another appropriate channel and obtain fresh consent where required. The revised version will show a new effective date. Processing that requires consent will not rely only on continued use.
15. App Stores and Platforms
App stores, browsers, photo services, and device platforms have their own policies for their separate processing. A StirHour notice does not replace those policies. We remain responsible for the processing for which we act as data fiduciary/controller. Questions about this Policy can be sent to the contact in Section 1.