Privacy Policy
Proof Hunter (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is operated by Quickhop, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you use the Proof Hunter mobile app, website, notifications, community features, and related services (the “Service”), how we use and share it, and the choices you have.
Summary
- Proof Hunter is for users of legal drinking age.
- Sightings are community content and are shared with other users by default.
- Location is core to nearby sightings, proof, radius alerts, fraud prevention, and state leaderboards.
- We do not sell personal information or precise location data tied to any individual user. We may share aggregated, de-identified industry insights (such as bottle popularity, store demand, regional trends) with retailers, distilleries, and other parties.
- We use service providers such as hosting, authentication, storage, push delivery, analytics, crash reporting, image labeling, subscription management, and mapping providers to operate the Service.
- Payments for Proof Hunter Pro are processed by Apple. We receive subscription status — never your full payment card details.
Information we collect
Account information
When you create a Proof Hunter account, we collect information such as your display name, email address, authentication identifier, account settings, age or legal-drinking-age confirmation, sign-in method, and support communications. We may use identity providers such as Auth0, Sign in with Apple, or Google sign-in to authenticate your account.
Profile and community information
We collect profile and community activity such as display name, your hunter handle (a user-chosen public identifier — once you set it, you cannot change it yourself; an administrator can change it for you on request), avatar or initials if provided, state or general region, sightings submitted, proof confirmations and denies cast on other hunters’ sightings, ratings, flag reports you submit against sightings (including the sighting flagged, the reason if provided, and timestamp), badges, contribution counts, leaderboard position, and other reputation or participation signals.
Purchases and subscriptions
If you subscribe to Proof Hunter Pro, the purchase is made through Apple’s In-App Purchase system and payment is processed by Apple — we never receive your full payment card details. We and our subscription-management provider (RevenueCat) receive and store subscription information such as the product purchased, subscription status, purchase, renewal, and expiration timestamps, and transaction identifiers, tied to your account so we can provide the features you paid for. We also record complimentary or promotional entitlements, such as Pro access awarded through the Founder’s Club.
Location data
If you grant location permission, we collect and use your device location to show nearby sightings, associate sightings with stores, support proof confirmations, power radius-based hunt alerts, prevent fraud, and generate state or regional community signals. When you submit a sighting, we may store the device-reported location, store location, timestamp, and related location confidence data to preserve the integrity of the sighting.
We do not sell precise location data. We do not share precise location data with advertisers. We do not use location data to track individual users outside the Service. We retain location data only as long as reasonably needed to operate sightings, proof, anti-fraud, safety, legal, analytics, and backup functions. If exact coordinates are not needed for a user-facing feature, we may use generalized, rounded, aggregated, or de-identified location data.
Sightings, photos, and metadata
When you submit a sighting, we collect the photo, bottle or product information, observed price, notes, rating, timestamp, device-reported location, store you associated it with, and moderation or confidence signals. Sightings are intended to be shared with the Proof Hunter community by default.
Photos may contain embedded metadata, such as EXIF data, device information, timestamps, or location information. Where practical, we strip or limit photo metadata before displaying photos to other users. We may still process metadata for upload handling, abuse prevention, moderation, fraud detection, security, debugging, or legal purposes.
Device, usage, and diagnostics
We collect technical information such as app version, device type, operating system, browser type, IP address, approximate network location, device identifiers, push notification tokens, crash logs, performance data, feature interactions, and anonymous or pseudonymous usage events.
Support and communications
If you contact us, report a sighting, request deletion, request a store correction, or send feedback, we collect the information you provide and related account, device, and diagnostic context needed to respond.
How we use information
- To operate the core Find, Prove, and Track features.
- To create, display, rank, and update sightings, proofs, prices, ratings, store references, and bottle references.
- To provide state leaderboards, badges, contribution counts, and other community features.
- To provide and manage subscriptions and promotional programs (such as the Founder’s Club), verify entitlements, and prevent purchase fraud.
- To send notifications you enable, including hunt alerts, account messages, security notices, and product updates.
- To authenticate accounts, maintain security, prevent fraud, detect fake sightings, and enforce our Terms.
- To moderate content, review reports, respond to store or brand inquiries, and protect users and the public.
- To improve product quality through analytics, diagnostics, testing, and aggregate or de-identified insights.
- To comply with law, respond to lawful requests, resolve disputes, and protect legal rights.
What other users may see
Proof Hunter is a community service. Other users may see information associated with your submitted sightings and activity, such as your hunter handle, sighting photo, bottle, store, observed price, timestamp, proof status, rating, notes, general location or store location, state or region, leaderboard rank, badges, and contribution counts.
A per-bottle, per-store history view shows every sighting, proof confirmation, deny, and rating at that store over time. Each contribution is attributed by hunter handle, or shown generically as “Hunter” if you have not set a handle. Your flag reports against other sightings are visible to administrators, not to other users.
Do not submit information you do not want other users to see. We may also display aggregate or de-identified community information, such as top contributors by state, popular bottles, average observed prices, and regional activity trends.
How we share information
We share information with service providers who help us run the platform, such as cloud hosting, authentication, database, image storage, push notification, email, analytics, crash reporting, image labeling, mapping, security, moderation, and customer support providers. These providers are authorized to process information only for services they provide to Proof Hunter.
Examples may include AWS or similar cloud hosting, S3 or similar image storage, Auth0 or similar authentication, Expo push delivery or similar mobile push services, Anthropic Claude or similar third-party providers for bottle identification from photos and for matching bottle names against our catalog, RevenueCat or similar subscription-management providers, Apple for App Store payment processing, analytics and crash reporting tools, and mapping or geocoding providers.
We may disclose information when required by law, subpoena, court order, legal process, or government request; to enforce our Terms; to detect or prevent fraud, security incidents, or safety issues; or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Proof Hunter, users, stores, brands, or the public.
If Quickhop, LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this Privacy Policy or a policy with substantially similar protections.
Aggregated and de-identified data
Proof Hunter generates valuable industry information in aggregate: which bottles are most spotted, where demand is highest, which stores see the most hunter activity, observed price ranges by region, and overall proof and rating trends. We may share or sell this aggregated, de-identified information with retailers, distilleries, brand owners, market researchers, and other interested parties.
“Aggregated” means combined across many users and presented as totals, averages, or trends — not as individual records. “De-identified” means we remove identifiers and take reasonable measures so the information cannot be linked back to a specific user or device. We commit to maintain and use this information in deidentified form, we will not attempt to re-identify it, and recipients are contractually required to do the same.
Your individual location is never part of this. We will not sell, license, or share an individual user’s precise location, an individual user’s identity, or any combination of data that could reasonably identify a specific user, for any commercial purpose. That is a hard rule.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your personal information.
- We do not sell, license, or share precise location data tied to any individual user for any commercial purpose — no exceptions. (Like all information we hold, it can be subject to the legal-process disclosures described above.)
- We do not share precise location data with advertisers.
- We do not scrape or resell retailer inventory systems.
- We do not knowingly allow users under legal drinking age to use the Service.
- We do not share individual user identities with retailers or brands for their independent marketing without your explicit action or consent.
Your choices
- Location. You can grant, deny, or revoke location permission in your device settings. Nearby sightings, proof, store association, anti-fraud checks, and radius alerts may not work without location access.
- Notifications. You can disable push notifications in your device settings or in the app. Transactional or legal notices may still be sent by email where appropriate.
- Profile and leaderboard display. You may be able to change your display name or profile settings in the app. Some community activity may remain visible as part of sightings, moderation records, aggregate statistics, or leaderboard history.
- Delete account. You can request account deletion from inside the app or by emailing proofhunter@quickhop.com. We will delete or de-identify your profile and personal information, subject to backup retention, security records, legal obligations, dispute records, and information we reasonably need to preserve the integrity of sightings or prevent abuse.
- Access, correction, and export. Email proofhunter@quickhop.com to request access to, correction of, or a copy of personal information we hold about you.
- Appeals and complaints. If we deny a privacy request, you may reply to the decision or email us with “Privacy Appeal” in the subject line.
Retention
We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including operating the Service, maintaining community sightings, preventing fraud, resolving disputes, complying with law, enforcing our Terms, and maintaining backups.
Account data is generally retained while your account is active. Sightings may remain visible while they are useful to the community unless removed, expired, deleted, or de-identified. Backup copies may persist for a limited period after deletion. Security, fraud, support, and legal records may be retained longer where reasonably necessary.
State privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of, or opt out of certain uses of personal information. We will honor applicable privacy rights, including rights that apply under Tennessee and other state privacy laws when those laws apply to us.
To exercise privacy rights, email proofhunter@quickhop.com. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, subject to verification.
Children and age-restricted users
Proof Hunter is intended only for users of legal drinking age. In the United States, Proof Hunter is not intended for anyone under 21. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 21 in the United States. If you believe a minor has created an account or submitted information, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to remove it.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information, including TLS in transit, encryption at rest where appropriate, access controls, logging, and service-provider controls. No system is perfectly secure. If a security incident materially affects you, we will notify you in line with applicable law.
International users
Proof Hunter is operated from the United States. If you use the Service from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other locations where we or our service providers operate.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy as the Service evolves. We will change the “Last updated” date and, for material changes, provide notice in the app, on the website, or by another reasonable method.
Contact
Questions, privacy requests, appeals, or complaints: proofhunter@quickhop.com.