deleting your data

solera for android

One bottle

Open the bottle and choose forget this bottle. The entry goes, and its photographs go with it. It does not move to somewhere else in the app, and it does not come back.

Taking a copy first

Scroll to the bottom of the shelf and choose write the file. That hands you two files through the usual share sheet: one that opens in a spreadsheet, and one that keeps every field — the region keys, the ISO codes, the grapes — so it can be read back whole one day.

Photographs are not inside those files. They are large, and they are already in the phone’s own storage; the file names them rather than carrying them. If a photograph matters to you, save it out of the app before you delete anything.

All of it

Uninstalling the app deletes its storage — the diary, the ratings, the notes, the label photographs, the lot:

1. Touch and hold Solera on the home screen or in the app drawer.
2. Choose Uninstall, and confirm.

Or from settings: Settings → Apps → Solera → Uninstall.

If you would rather empty the diary and keep the app, there is a way to do that without reinstalling anything: Settings → Apps → Solera → Storage & cache → Clear storage. That empties it to the state it was in the minute you installed it. Not Clear cache, which throws away nothing that matters and leaves your bottles where they are.

Backups

There are none of Solera’s to find. The app tells Android not to take part in backup, so your phone does not copy the diary, the notes or the photographs to your Google account, and it does not hand them to a new phone during a device-to-device transfer either. Uninstalling really is the end of it, with nothing left in a backup to come back later.

Which is also why the file matters. It is the only copy that exists, it is made because you asked for it, and it goes where you put it.

Copies that left the app

Anything you sent out of Solera is outside it, and outside this page:

• an exported file you saved to your downloads or to Drive, mailed to yourself, or put in a chat;
• a year card you sent through the share sheet — to your gallery, to a message, anywhere it offered.

Each is deleted wherever it went, using that app’s own controls. Once a copy is somewhere else it belongs to that somewhere else.

There is no account to delete

Solera asks for no email, sets up no login, and issues no identifier. We run no server that holds a database of anybody. So there is no account deletion request, no form, and nothing held about you for us to erase — which is why this page is a list of steps rather than a form to fill in. The privacy policy is the long version of the same fact.

The one thing that outlives a deletion is the purchase itself: Google remembers that your Google Account bought Solera, so you can install it again without paying twice. That record is Google’s, not ours, and it holds nothing about your wine.

If this does not match your phone

Android phones word their settings differently, and the words above are the plain ones. If yours reads otherwise, write to support@alps-project.online and say which phone you have and which version of Android it runs, and we will find the menu with you. Do not send us anything out of your diary — we do not want it, and this whole page is about it never having been ours.