Website privacy

The Pour Judgment is a wine and spirits shopping guide. You can use the guide without an account. This notice covers how the site handles guest and account information.

Account information

When you sign in with Google or Apple, The Pour Judgment receives your account identifier, email address and basic profile details the provider supplies. The Pour Judgment uses that information to create or find your account and keep you signed in. The Google connection requests your basic profile and email address.

If you create an account with email and password, The Pour Judgment stores your email address and a password hash. Its email delivery service receives your address and a link when it sends a verification or password reset message.

Sessions and shopping lists

The Pour Judgment stores account, sign-in and session information in its Cloudflare database. Account records can include authentication tokens returned by the provider. The site uses a session cookie and records browser and network information to manage sessions and limit repeated sign-in attempts.

Lists you save are stored in your browser. The site uses the bottle counts and budget you enter to build a list from retailer offers. If you open a retailer link, that retailer’s privacy practices apply.

The site uses network information to limit repeated requests. If you turn on Rachel’s live voice, audio is sent to Google Gemini Live to respond to you. When you request wine picks from a menu, the menu photo or text and the preferences you enter are sent to Google Gemini to generate those picks.