Privacy Policy

We don't collect personal data. We don't track you. We don't sell anything to advertisers.

Last updated: April 30, 2026

    The short version: Freshie (the website and the browser extension) doesn't collect, store, or share any personal information. There's no signup, no account, no analytics tracking, no advertising partners. The only data you generate is the date code you type into the scanner, and that doesn't leave your device unless you use the camera scan feature.
  

What data we don't collect

We make a deliberate choice not to collect:

Names, email addresses, phone numbers, or any account information
IP addresses for tracking purposes (Cloudflare logs them at the network level for abuse prevention only)
Browsing behavior, pages visited, or clicks
Date codes or scan results you've checked
Cookies for tracking or advertising
Device identifiers

The website (freshiebeer.com)

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare may log IP addresses at the network level for security and abuse prevention. We don't read those logs and we don't use any analytics tool — no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, nothing.

The brewery and style data displayed on the site is static content. The freshness scanner runs entirely in your browser; no data is sent to our servers when you decode a date code manually.

The camera scanner

If you use the "Scan with camera" feature on the website, the photo is sent to our Vision API (a Cloudflare Worker at api.freshiebeer.com) which forwards it to Google Gemini for OCR processing. The photo is processed in real time and is not stored anywhere — not on our servers, not in any database. Once Gemini returns the extracted text, the photo is discarded.

Google Gemini's API terms apply to the OCR processing step. Per Google's developer terms, API requests are not used to train models when called via the paid API tier we use.

The browser extension

The Freshie browser extension runs entirely in your browser. It does NOT:

Send any data to our servers
Track which products you view or which sites you visit
Read or modify any content on pages outside the supported retailers
Access your browsing history
Use cookies or any persistent identifiers

The extension uses Chrome's storage permission to cache the brewery list locally on your device. Once per day, the extension may fetch an updated brewery list from freshiebeer.com/breweries.json. This is a normal HTTPS request from your browser to our website; we don't track it beyond standard Cloudflare network-level logs.

Third-party services we use

Cloudflare: hosts the website and the Vision API worker. Cloudflare's privacy policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy
Google Gemini API: processes camera photos for OCR. Google's API privacy: policies.google.com/privacy
Google Fonts: serves the typefaces used on the site. Google logs font requests at the IP level. To avoid this, use a privacy-focused browser or a fonts-blocking extension.

Children's privacy

Freshie is intended for adults of legal drinking age. We don't knowingly collect any information from minors. If you believe a minor has used the site or extension, contact us and we'll address it (though again — we don't collect any data, so there's nothing to delete).

Your rights

Since we don't collect personal data, GDPR / CCPA / data-deletion requests are functionally moot — there's no profile to delete and no data to export. You can:

Stop using the site or uninstall the extension at any time
Use private/incognito browsing mode if you want to avoid Cloudflare network-level IP logging
Block freshiebeer.com in your browser's site settings

Changes to this policy

If we ever start collecting any data — for example, if we add user accounts or product reviews — we'll update this page and announce the change prominently on the site before it takes effect. As of the date above, the answer to "what does Freshie collect about me?" is "nothing."

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email hello@veryation.com or open an issue on our GitHub repository.