Privacy

SipLeague uses a mix of account-backed data and browser storage so drink discovery and game-night features can keep working across devices and during temporary network problems.

Accounts and age confirmation

Permanent SipLeague accounts are for people aged 18 or older. Your date of birth is checked when you create an account. The account record keeps an 18+ age band and confirmation timestamps rather than storing the submitted date of birth. A session token keeps you signed in until it expires or you sign out.

My Sips and browser storage

Curated SipLeague drink saves, favourites and ratings can sync to a signed-in account. Saved barcode products, packaged favourites and packaged ratings can also sync to that account while remaining a separate data type from curated drink slugs. The browser keeps local copies for responsive and offline-tolerant use. Open Food Facts catalogue lookup data is cached separately on the device and is not treated as account-owned My Sips history.

Multiplayer and Game Guests

Live rooms store the minimum state needed to run and recover a game, including room membership, display names, roles, votes or answers, scores and reconnect information. All Ages rooms can admit temporary Game Guests without creating permanent SipLeague accounts. SipLeague does not provide free-form public reviews or comments.

Discovery sources

Some packaged-product facts come from Open Food Facts and some brewery-directory records come from Open Brewery DB. SipLeague keeps those source boundaries visible and does not treat catalogue or directory data as proof of current venue stock, menus or opening hours.

Your data and password recovery

While signed in, open your profile and choose Download my data to export your account profile, private drink history, saved packaged drinks and completed match results. The export does not include password hashes, recovery-code hashes, session tokens or other players' account records.

You can create a recovery code from your profile by confirming your current password. Store that code privately: it is displayed once, and SipLeague stores its hash. A replacement code invalidates the previous one. A successful recovery resets your password, consumes the code, invalidates existing account sessions and releases your active room membership. Recovery requires a code created beforehand; there is currently no email-based recovery.

Storage limits

Account profiles and drink history persist without an automatic deletion date. Account sessions expire after 30 days. Completed sports history keeps the most recent 100 saved matches. Self-service account deletion is available from your signed-in profile after you leave any active room, confirm your current password and type DELETE. It removes the live account profile, sign-in credentials, recovery code, private drink history, saved packaged drinks and saved sports results. The support contact workflow still needs completion. Clearing browser storage does not delete server-side account data.

Account deletion and copies

Download your data before deletion if you want to keep a copy. Deletion invalidates all account sessions immediately; remaining session records are removed where possible or expire within 30 days. Local account copies are cleared on the device used to delete the account. Other devices and downloaded exports may retain copies that you need to clear separately. Existing backups may retain historical copies until they rotate; deletion does not currently rewrite backups. Shared game records held by other players are not removed. A deleted username can be used for a new account, which receives a new identity and none of the previous account data.

Device controls

Clearing browser storage can remove device-only data and cached copies. Signing out revokes the current account session, clears the account-backed packaged My Sips view from that browser, and removes the account from its active multiplayer room when applicable. The separate Open Food Facts lookup cache may remain available for catalogue resilience.

Contact

Use the contact page for privacy questions, corrections or requests. SipLeague will not publish a made-up contact address.