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Terms of Service

Effective Date: September 29, 2026

These Terms of Service supersede the version dated August 4, 2026.

Welcome to Brewtanica. These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you ("User," "you," or "your") and Brewtanica LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), governing your access to and use of the Brewtanica mobile application (the "App"), including all features, content, and services made available through the App.

By downloading, installing, accessing, or using the App, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the App.

1. Eligibility and Age Requirements

1.1 Minimum Age. The App is intended for users who are of legal drinking age in their jurisdiction of residence. In the United States, you must be at least 21 years of age to create an account and use the App. In jurisdictions where the legal drinking age differs, you must meet the applicable minimum age requirement in that jurisdiction. By creating an account, you represent and warrant that you meet these age requirements.

1.2 Age Verification. We may require you to provide your date of birth during registration and may employ additional age-verification measures at our discretion. Providing false age information constitutes a material breach of these Terms and grounds for immediate account termination.

1.3 Parental/Guardian Notice. The App is not intended for use by anyone below the legal drinking age in their jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect personal information from such individuals. If we learn that a person below the applicable legal drinking age has provided personal information, we will take steps to delete such information promptly.

2. Account Registration and Security

2.1 Account Creation. To access certain features of the App, you must create an account by providing accurate, current, and complete information, including your name, email address, and date of birth. You agree to update your information promptly to keep it accurate and complete.

2.2 Account Security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. We are not liable for any loss arising from your failure to protect your account credentials.

2.3 Account Termination. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, for conduct that we determine, in our sole discretion, violates these Terms, is harmful to other users, or is otherwise objectionable.

3. App Description and Features

Brewtanica is a beer discovery, education, and social platform that allows users to:

  • Explore and learn about beer styles, breweries, and venues

  • Scan beer bottles and cans to log the beers they have tried and to contribute product information to the Brewtanica catalog

  • Upload photographs and share tasting notes

  • Earn badges and achievements based on their beer exploration journey

  • Discover nearby venues that serve craft beer

  • Connect with other beer enthusiasts through social features

  • Access Ale Intelligence, a conversational beer companion, subject to the subscription terms in Section 9

  • Sit, if they are subscribers who have reached the Malt Royalty tier and choose to, for an optional portrait badge generated from a photograph of their own face, on the terms in Section 6

Features may be added, modified, or removed at our discretion. We will make reasonable efforts to notify users of material changes to App functionality.

4. Responsible Use and Alcohol Policy

4.1 No Promotion of Excessive Consumption. Brewtanica is a platform for beer education, discovery, and appreciation. The App does not promote, encourage, or facilitate excessive or irresponsible alcohol consumption. Users agree not to use the App in any manner that promotes binge drinking, intoxication, or alcohol abuse.

4.2 Drink Responsibly. You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for your alcohol consumption decisions. The App is an informational and social tool and does not serve, sell, or deliver alcohol. Never drink and drive.

4.3 Alcohol-Related Content. Content within the App, including beer descriptions, ratings, and educational material, is provided for informational purposes only. Such content does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation to consume any particular product.

5. User-Generated Content and Catalog Contributions

5.1 Your Content. The App allows you to post, upload, and share content, including but not limited to beer ratings, reviews, tasting notes, photographs, and comments (collectively, "User Content"). You retain ownership of your User Content, subject to the license granted below.

5.2 License Grant. By submitting User Content, you grant Brewtanica LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, and display such User Content in connection with operating and promoting the App and our business. This license continues even if you stop using the App, to the extent your User Content has been shared with other users or incorporated into the App.

5.3 Content Standards. You agree that your User Content will not:

  • Contain content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, harassing, threatening, or discriminatory

  • Promote illegal drug use or underage drinking

  • Infringe any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights

  • Contain viruses, malware, or other harmful code

  • Include spam, advertising, or solicitations not authorized by us

  • Impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation

5.4 Content Moderation. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to review, monitor, edit, or remove User Content at our sole discretion, for any reason, including content that we determine violates these Terms or is otherwise objectionable.

5.5 Catalog Contributions. Brewtanica is a crowdsourced encyclopedia of beer, and the catalog it produces is a permanent public reference work.

When you scan a beer bottle or can, the factual product information derived from that scan — including the label or container photograph, barcode data, ABV, brewery information, nutritional information where available, and any regional variation — is incorporated into the Brewtanica catalog (a "Catalog Contribution"). Catalog Contributions are reference records about commercially available products; they are not personal to you.

You grant Brewtanica LLC a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, and display Catalog Contributions as part of the catalog, including after you stop using the App and after you delete your account.

Catalog Contributions are permanent and survive account deletion. Upon deletion of your account, we sever the link between your identity and your Catalog Contributions: the product record remains in the catalog, and any credit associated with it becomes anonymous. Badges you earned are likewise preserved in de-identified form as part of the catalog's historical record. Our Privacy Policy explains the legal basis for this retention.

This Section 5.5 survives termination of these Terms.

6. Portrait Badges and Likeness License

6.1 The Feature. Users who reach the Malt Royalty tier receive the standard Malt Royalty badge automatically. Subscribers who reach that tier may additionally choose to sit for a portrait badge: you take one photograph of your face in the App, and we generate from it a sculpted portrait rendered into the fixed Malt Royalty badge design. Malt Royalty is reached separately in each badge family, and a portrait badge is generated for one family at a time — each family you wish to personalize requires its own sitting, its own consent, and its own photograph. The portrait badge is optional. Declining it does not affect the standard badge, your tier, your points, or any other part of your account.

6.2 Consent Is Required Before Capture. No photograph is captured for this purpose until you have read the in-App portrait badge consent notice and affirmatively agreed to it. We record the fact, time, and version of your agreement in an append-only consent ledger. If we revise the consent notice, your prior agreement no longer authorizes a new sitting and you will be asked again. You may withdraw at any time under Section 6.7.

6.3 Your Representations. By agreeing to the consent notice and completing a sitting, you represent and warrant that:

  • (a) you are the only person depicted in the photograph, and it is a photograph of you taken by you in the App at that time;

  • (b) you are of legal drinking age in your jurisdiction of residence, as required by Section 1;

  • (c) you have the full right and authority to grant the license in Section 6.4, and no other person's consent, release, or permission is required;

  • (d) the photograph does not depict any other identifiable person, any minor, any deceased person, any public figure you are not, or any image in which any third party holds rights; and

  • (e) the photograph does not contain content prohibited by Section 5.3, and you are not using the feature to impersonate anyone or to misrepresent your identity.

You may sit only for yourself. Submitting another person's likeness — whether or not that person consented, and whether or not you obtained it lawfully — is a material breach of these Terms.

6.4 Limited License You Grant Us. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, and solely for the purposes described in this Section 6, you grant Brewtanica LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, and publicly display your photographic likeness for the following purposes and no others:

  • (i) to prepare a greyscale reference study from your photograph;

  • (ii) to transmit that study to our image-generation provider, and to permit that provider to process it for the sole purpose of returning the generated badge to us;

  • (iii) to generate, store, and reproduce the resulting portrait badge; and

  • (iv) to display the resulting portrait badge to you at the reveal and on your badge detail screen; and, once you have separately chosen to publish it, on the further surfaces enumerated in Section 5.6 of our Privacy Policy — your profile and badge collection, the activity feed, leaderboards, and publicly accessible share cards — and on no other surface. We will not add a surface to that list without updating the Privacy Policy first.

This license is limited, purpose-bound, and revocable. It is not sublicensable except to the image-generation provider for purpose (ii) and to our hosting and content-delivery providers as necessary to store and serve the badge. It is not transferable except as part of a transaction described in Section 19.4. It terminates when you withdraw your consent, when you delete your account, or when we remove the badge under Section 6.8 — subject only to Section 6.9.

6.5 Relationship to Section 5. Section 5.2 grants us a broad, continuing license in User Content generally. Section 6.4 governs your photographic likeness and your portrait badge instead of Section 5.2, and controls in the event of any conflict. Your sitting photograph and your portrait badge are not treated as ordinary User Content, are not incorporated into the Brewtanica catalog, and are not retained in de-identified form after deletion.

6.6 What the Portrait Is, and What We Do Not Promise. The portrait badge is an interpretive, monochrome sculptural rendering, not a photograph and not a photographic filter. The badge design, materials, framing, and every element other than the face are fixed by the template and do not vary. Certain features are deliberately normalized by the template so that the tier reads consistently across users. Generation is automated and its output varies between attempts. We do not warrant that the portrait will resemble you to any particular degree, that any particular sitting will succeed, or that a portrait will be produced at all. If our automated quality check rejects an output, we discard it and try again; we do not publish a rejected render.

6.7 Publication, Re-Sittings, and Withdrawal.

  • Publication is yours to choose. A finished portrait badge is shown to you first and to nobody else. It reaches surfaces other people can see only when you separately choose to publish it. You may hold it unpublished indefinitely without affecting the badge, your tier, or your account.

  • Re-sittings. Each Malt Royalty badge family for which you are eligible allows a limited number of re-sittings — currently three (3) — after a sitting has been exhausted. We may change this allowance. When your re-sittings for a family are spent, the standard Malt Royalty badge for that family remains yours. A re-sitting is a new sitting and requires a new photograph; it is not a re-use of the one you already gave, which has been destroyed.

  • Withdrawal. You may withdraw your consent at any time from the badge screen. On withdrawal, we delete the portrait badge, restore the standard Malt Royalty badge on every surface where the portrait appeared, and delete any underlying image that remains in storage. Withdrawal does not affect your tier, your badges, your points, or your subscription. You may sit again afterward, subject to the re-sitting allowance.

6.8 Screening, Refusal, and Removal. Every sitting is screened by an automated content check before generation and again before publication, and sittings that the check cannot clear are held for review by a member of our team. We may decline a sitting, refuse to publish a generated badge, or remove a published portrait badge at any time, with or without notice, where a screening check rejects or holds it, where we reasonably believe that Section 6.3 has been breached, that the image or the resulting badge violates Section 5.3, that the feature is being used to impersonate another person, or that removal is necessary to comply with law or with the requirements of an app store. Removal restores the standard Malt Royalty badge. Repeated or serious misuse is grounds for suspension or termination of your account under Section 2.3.

6.9 Residual Copies. After withdrawal or removal, a copy of your portrait badge may persist for a limited period in caches, content-delivery networks, and routine system backups until those are refreshed or expire in the ordinary course, and in any copy that another person made — for example, a screenshot, or a share card that a third party saved or reposted — which is outside our control. We do not make new use of your likeness after withdrawal, and we do not re-publish it.

6.10 No Rights in the Badge Design. The Malt Royalty badge design, template, materials, and all other elements of the badge are owned by Brewtanica LLC under Section 7. Your license in Section 6.4 grants us rights in your likeness; it grants you no rights in the badge design, and nothing in this Section 6 transfers ownership of the generated badge image to you. You may share and display your portrait badge through the features the App provides.

7. Intellectual Property

7.1 Our Property. The App and all of its content, features, and functionality (including but not limited to the Brewtanica name, the Ale Intelligence name, the Brewtanica logo, badge designs, beer style descriptions, software, text, graphics, the compiled catalog, and user interface) are owned by Brewtanica LLC or its licensors and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, and other intellectual property laws.

7.2 Limited License. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to download, install, and use the App on a mobile device that you own or control, solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

7.3 Restrictions. You agree not to:

  • Copy, modify, or distribute the App or any portion thereof

  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the App

  • Remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices

  • Use the App for any commercial purpose without our prior written consent

  • Use automated means (bots, scrapers, crawlers) to access or collect data from the App or the catalog

8. Location-Based Services

8.1 Location Data. Certain features of the App, such as venue discovery and check-ins, may use location data from your device. You may enable or disable location services through your device settings. Disabling location services may limit certain features of the App.

8.2 Accuracy. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of location-based information, including venue locations, hours of operation, or beer availability. Venue information is provided as a convenience and should be verified independently.

9. In-App Purchases and Subscriptions

9.1 Premium Features. The App offers premium features, content, and services available through in-app purchases or subscription plans ("Premium Services"). Pricing, features, and availability of Premium Services are subject to change. Premium Services currently include Ale Intelligence (Section 9.2) and eligibility to sit for a Malt Royalty portrait badge (Section 6). We also offer an ad-free subscription, which removes advertising from the App (Section 10.2) without the other Premium Services. A portrait sitting is a benefit of subscription, not a separate purchase; if your subscription lapses, any portrait badge you have already been granted remains yours, but you may not begin a new sitting until you resubscribe.

9.2 Ale Intelligence Subscription. Ale Intelligence, the App's conversational beer companion, is offered on a subscription basis. Every user receives a full-access free trial for fourteen (14) days beginning at account creation. At the conclusion of the trial, continued access to the conversational features of Ale Intelligence requires a paid subscription. Template-driven briefing content on the Discover page remains available without a subscription. We may change the duration of the trial, the scope of free and paid features, and subscription pricing at our discretion, with notice where required by applicable law.

9.3 Payment Processing. All in-app purchases and subscriptions are processed through the Apple App Store or Google Play Store (collectively, "App Stores"). By making a purchase, you agree to the applicable App Store's payment terms and conditions. We do not directly process or store payment information.

9.4 Subscription Terms. Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing period unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You may manage or cancel subscriptions through your App Store account settings.

9.5 Refunds. Refund requests are handled in accordance with the applicable App Store's refund policy. We encourage you to review those policies before making a purchase.

10. Third-Party Services and Commercial Content

10.1 Third-Party Services. The App may contain links to or integrations with third-party services, websites, or applications, including brewery purchase links and mapping applications. We do not endorse, control, or assume responsibility for any third-party services. Your use of third-party services is at your own risk and subject to their respective terms and policies.

10.2 Advertising in the App. The App includes a third-party advertising software development kit (Google AdMob, provided by Google LLC). As of the effective date of these Terms, advertising is not switched on, and the App does not display advertising. We may switch advertising on for the free version of the App at a later date. If we do: (a) advertising will be shown only to users of the free version, and never to Premium or ad-free subscribers or to users during their free trial; (b) advertising will be non-personalized unless you have given any permission that applicable law and your device require, including Apple's App Tracking Transparency permission on iOS; (c) we will not use your device's advertising identifier, or track your activity across other companies' apps and websites, without that permission; and (d) we will update our Privacy Policy before advertising is first displayed, and notify you in the App.

10.3 Website Advertising. Our public website at brewtanica.com is a separate service and does display third-party advertising, including advertising served through Google AdSense. Advertising on the website is governed by our Privacy Policy and by the terms of the applicable advertising vendors. Nothing in this Section 10.3 applies to the App.

10.4 Venue and Brewery Partnerships. The App may feature content from venue and brewery partners, including verified brewery profiles, purchase links, promotions, or affiliate arrangements. Sponsored or commercially arranged content will be identified as such where required by law. Such partner content is not third-party advertising within the meaning of Section 10.2.

11. Privacy

Your use of the App is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect, use, store, and share your personal information. The Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference. By using the App, you consent to the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

12. Disclaimers

THE APP IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE APP, INCLUDING BEER RATINGS, CATALOG ENTRIES, VENUE INFORMATION, USER-GENERATED CONTENT, AND OUTPUTS GENERATED BY ALE INTELLIGENCE.

ALE INTELLIGENCE IS AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND ITS RESPONSES MAY BE INACCURATE OR INCOMPLETE. ITS OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON AS PROFESSIONAL, MEDICAL, OR DIETARY ADVICE.

13. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL BREWTANICA LLC, ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, USE, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE APP, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE APP SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID TO US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS (USD $100.00).

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Brewtanica LLC, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the App; (b) your User Content or Catalog Contributions; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any applicable law or the rights of any third party.

15. Dispute Resolution

15.1 Governing Law. These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

15.2 Arbitration. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with its Consumer Arbitration Rules. Arbitration shall be conducted on an individual basis; class actions and class arbitrations are not permitted.

15.3 Exceptions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement of intellectual property rights.

15.4 Opt-Out. You may opt out of the arbitration provision by sending written notice to us at legal@brewtanica.com within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms. Your notice must include your name, account information, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration.

15.5 Local Law. Where the arbitration provision, the class-action waiver, or the choice of New Jersey law is unenforceable under the mandatory law of your jurisdiction of residence, that provision does not apply to you to the extent of the conflict, and the remaining provisions of this Section 15 continue in effect.

16. Modifications to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. When we make material changes, we will notify you through the App or by other reasonable means (such as email). Your continued use of the App after such notification constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms. If you do not agree to the modified Terms, you must stop using the App and delete your account.

Displaying personalized advertising in the App, or engaging in tracking as defined by Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework, would constitute a material change requiring advance notice under this Section 16.

17. Termination and Account Deletion

17.1 Deletion by You. You may terminate your account at any time by deleting your account through the App settings or by contacting us at legal@brewtanica.com.

17.2 Deletion Process. When you request deletion, your account enters a thirty-day cooling-off period during which the account is inaccessible to other users and during which you may cancel the deletion from within the App. You will be prompted to export your data before the deletion completes. You may also request revocation of all active sessions at the time of your request. If your account is suspended at the time of your request, deletion is handled through our support team.

17.3 What Is Deleted and What Is Retained. After the cooling-off period, your account, profile, and personal information are permanently deleted. Catalog Contributions and earned badges are retained in de-identified form as described in Section 5.5 and in our Privacy Policy. A Malt Royalty portrait badge is not retained in any form. It is deleted with your account, together with any underlying image, as described in Section 6.7 and in Section 5.6 of our Privacy Policy.

17.4 Effect of Termination. Upon termination, your right to use the App will immediately cease. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including but not limited to Section 5.5 (Catalog Contributions), intellectual property provisions, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution. The likeness license in Section 6.4 does not survive termination, except for the limited residual-copy allowance in Section 6.9.

18. App Store Terms

18.1 Apple App Store. If you download the App from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge that: (a) these Terms are between you and Brewtanica LLC, not Apple Inc. ("Apple"); (b) Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App; (c) in the event of any failure of the App to conform to applicable warranties, Apple's sole obligation is the refund of the purchase price, if any; (d) Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims relating to the App; and (e) Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

18.2 Google Play Store. If you download the App from the Google Play Store, you acknowledge that Google LLC ("Google") is not a party to these Terms and has no obligation or liability to you with respect to the App. You agree to comply with Google Play's Terms of Service in addition to these Terms.

19. General Provisions

19.1 Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Brewtanica LLC regarding the App and supersede all prior agreements and understandings.

19.2 Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

19.3 Waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that provision or any other provision.

19.4 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your rights hereunder without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and obligations under these Terms without restriction.

19.5 Notices. We may provide notices to you through the App, by email to the address associated with your account, or by other reasonable means. You may contact us at legal@brewtanica.com.

19.6 Force Majeure. We shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations where such failure or delay results from circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to natural disasters, acts of government, pandemics, or internet service failures.

19.7 Language. These Terms, our Privacy Policy, and the Portrait Badge Consent and Likeness Release are written in English. We may make translations available for your convenience. To the extent permitted by applicable law, if a translation differs from the English version, the English version controls.

20. Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback regarding these Terms, please contact us at:

Brewtanica LLC

Email: legal@brewtanica.com

Website: https://www.brewtanica.com

By using Brewtanica, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service.