Privacy
bitters.guide sets no cookies, carries no advertising, and has no accounts to sign in to. We run a self-hosted analytics solution and do not follow you across other sites or between your devices. We never sell what we collect or pass personal data to anyone else. Below is everything the site records, in full.
| What | Why | How long | Who else sees it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page visited, referring site, country, browser language, browser and system family, device type, campaign tag from the link you followed, time on the page | To see which pages are worth writing more of | Kept indefinitely | No one — our own server |
| An anonymous visitor flag, no cookie involved | To count visitors without identifying them | Rotates every 24 hours | No one — our own server |
| Web server access log: IP address, browser User-Agent, page requested | Security, abuse prevention, keeping the site running | About a week, then overwritten | No one — our own server |
| Daily totals from those logs — counts only, no IP addresses, no browser identifiers | To tell how much of our traffic is automated | Kept indefinitely | No one — our own server |
| Star ratings you submit: the star value, which page, a random token your browser keeps, and the time | To show readers how others rated a recipe or bottle | Kept indefinitely | No one — our own server |
| Your IP address, so images, fonts and scripts can reach you | To load the site quickly wherever you are | 3 days, anonymised, in the CDN's own logs | Bunny.net, an EU company in Slovenia |
Your IP address is used for a moment to work out which country you are in, then discarded — the analytics store holds no IP addresses at all. And the content delivery network serves only images, fonts and scripts: the pages themselves come straight from our own server, so Bunny.net never sees which pages you read.
Stored in your browser
Your pinned recipes and your ounces-or-millilitres preference are kept in your browser's local storage. The unit preference never reaches us. Opening your pins page does send that list of recipes to our server so it can render the cards. Clearing your browser data removes both.
If you rate a recipe or bottle, a random token and your chosen stars are kept in local storage so a second vote replaces the first. The token is not linked to you and is only sent when you rate.
Your rights
If you have questions or a request about any of this, please write to hello@bitters.guide and a person will answer.
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