Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 4, 2025

Berkeley Brew ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our application and services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our application, including:

• Personal Information: Email address, name, and profile information when you register for an account.
• User Content: Information you provide when writing reviews, rating cafes, or interacting with the platform.
• Usage Information: How you interact with our application, including your browsing actions, search queries, and viewing preferences.
• Device Information: Information about your mobile device or computer, including device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, and IP address.
• Location Data: With your consent, we may collect and process information about your actual location to provide location-based services.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect about you for various purposes, including to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve our services
• Process and complete transactions
• Send you technical notices, updates, and support messages
• Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
• Personalize your experience and deliver content relevant to your interests
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities

3. Sharing Your Information

We may share information about you as follows:

• With vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf
• In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with any applicable law, regulation, or legal process
• If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Berkeley Brew or others
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company
• With your consent or at your direction

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

4. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no internet or electronic communications service is ever completely secure or error-free.

5. Your Choices

Account Information: You may update, correct, or delete your account information at any time by logging into your account. If you wish to delete your account, please email us at matthewlim@berkeley.edu.

Location Information: You can prevent us from collecting location information by changing the settings on your device, although this may limit your ability to use certain features of our services.

6. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.