Bean On Bar
HOW WE OPERATE
Bean On Bar scores coffee by whether the label shows its work. These pages hold us to the same standard: how the service runs, what happens to your data, and what our scores do and don't claim.
01 — TERMS OF SERVICE
By using the Service you agree to these terms. They are short because the architecture does most of the protecting for us.
The core of Bean On Bar — bag recognition, recipe guidance, and your coffee notebook — runs on your device. Network sync and hosted infrastructure are optional, user-initiated extensions, never a requirement to use the core features.
The Service is currently free during its development phase. Paid tiers may be introduced later. If pricing changes, your saved beans, tasting notes, and brewing profiles should remain easy to export in open formats such as JSON or CSV.
Bean On Bar's designs, scoring approach, and interface remain our property. Coffee facts entered by users or parsed from packaging — origins, varieties, processes — should be treated as descriptive product information. In return, we ask that you do not run automated scrapers or resource-heavy requests against the Service's infrastructure.
Bean On Bar does not sell paid placements, sponsored score boosts, or ad-network tracking. Where revenue exists — memberships, roaster tooling, purchase links, or aggregated market reports — it should support useful workflows without changing how a bean is scored.
02 — PRIVACY & DATA
Designed around a simple principle: keep personal coffee memories local unless a user chooses features that need sharing or sync.
By default, your tasting logs, scorecards, and saved coffees live in your device's local storage. If you never link an account or enable sync, Bean On Bar is designed not to receive that personal notebook data.
Features that need a server — cross-device sync, community bean discovery, public reviews — collect only minimal account identifiers used to keep your sync permissions straight. Anything you explicitly post to the public community becomes shared, non-exclusive community knowledge that helps others buy and brew better. We do not sell your consumption patterns, trade your location history, or run advertising trackers.
You can request deletion from any sync services we operate, check what account data is held, and export your own records where export tools are available. Community posts may remain visible where they have already been shared publicly, but we will provide a correction or removal path for reasonable requests.
03 — SCORING & FAIR USE
Transparent scoring only works if its limits are just as transparent.
Transparent Scores and buying suggestions are automated, algorithmic expressions based exclusively on visible label data, freshness signals, and public market benchmarks. They are not objective statements of quality, value, or safety, and carry no warranty about how a coffee will actually taste or perform. Purchasing decisions remain yours.
Because every score is computed from visible signals, a lower score should be read as a description of what the available label data discloses — not a statement about a roaster's integrity or the objective quality of the coffee. Roasters can request corrections where data is outdated, incomplete, or wrongly attributed.
Roaster names, blend names, and packaging text shown in Bean On Bar belong to their respective owners. They are used to help users identify coffees and do not imply partnership, affiliation, or endorsement unless clearly stated.