privacy

last updated 3 september 2026

Who this is

Solera is published by HORIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, which appears on Google Play under the developer name Alps project. Under the UK and EU GDPR that company is the data controller for this app, and it is who you write to: support@alps-project.online. On Google Play the app itself is online.alpsproject.solera.

Being the controller of an app that collects nothing is a short job. No personal data reaches us, which is the whole of the rest of this page. The postal address is at the foot of it.

What Solera collects

Nothing. No personal data is collected, sent, sold or shared. There is no account, no sign-in, no email capture, no newsletter, no user identifier, and no server belonging to this app.

What is stored on your phone

All of it sits in the app’s own storage, where nothing else can read it:

• the wines you add, with the year, region, grape and producer;
• your rating of each one, and where and when you drank it, if you say;
• any note you write, and anyone you name in it;
• photographs of labels and of evenings, if you take them;
• one word about your purchase: whether the app has been bought. It is a yes or a no in the app’s own storage, written when Google Play answers that it has been, and it carries no order number, no date and nothing about you.

None of it is uploaded, and there is no exception. Solera is marked as not taking part in Android’s backup at all, so the phone does not copy the diary to your Google account either, and a new phone set up from a Google backup arrives without it. That is deliberate: a promise with a backup-shaped hole in it is not a promise. Write the file when you want a copy, and then the copy is yours rather than somebody’s.

The camera and your photographs

The only permission Solera asks you for is the camera. It reads a label to fill in the form for you, and it takes the photographs you keep with a bottle. It is optional: the app works entirely by typing if you never grant it.

It never opens your photo library. No screen in the app offers to, and no code in it reads one. The one thing it does with a picture it did not take is hand a year card to the system share sheet, and you choose there where it goes. Every photograph in Solera was taken inside Solera, and lives in the app’s own folder. Nothing asks for your location, your contacts or your address book.

Recognition runs on the device. The text and barcode readers are inside the download rather than fetched from Google’s servers when first used, so they work in aeroplane mode. The image is never uploaded. No image is stored except the photographs you choose to keep.

The network

There is no code in Solera that opens a network connection. The catalogue it searches is a database inside the download, so identification and the shop check work in aeroplane mode. Nothing is looked up online. No analytics, telemetry or crash report is sent anywhere.

Google Play prints an app’s permissions on its listing, so this is checkable rather than something to take on trust — and what you will find there is longer than the camera. Solera asks for the camera and for billing, the one purchase, which the Play Store app carries out on its behalf. The rest — full network access, the microphone and access to photos and media — arrive inside Google’s own libraries for running the camera and reading text on the device, which are bundled with the app so that a label can be read with no signal. Solera uses none of those three. It records no audio, opens no gallery, and sends nothing anywhere.

Buying the app happens on Google Play, and is Google’s business rather than the app’s.

Paying for it

Solera is free for the first five bottles on the shelf and then bought once, inside the app, through Google Play. That happens entirely between you and Google: we never see your name, your email or your card, and no server of ours is involved at any point — we do not have one. What Google does with the transaction is covered by Google’s privacy policy, not this one.

The app asks Google Play, at each start, whether this app has been bought, and writes the answer — yes or no, nothing more — into its own storage so it works offline afterwards. Nothing about your diary is sent in that question. Google Play does the asking on the app’s behalf: Solera speaks to the Play Store app on the same phone, and the Play Store app is what speaks to Google.

No subscription, and nothing else to buy inside. Nothing here runs on a server, so there is no monthly bill of ours for one to cover.

Sharing and exporting

Two things hand data to somewhere else, and only when you ask:

• Export writes your whole diary to a plain file. You save it or send it wherever you like. Once it leaves the app it is an ordinary file, and this page no longer covers it.
• Sharing your year passes an image to the system share sheet, so whatever app you pick receives it. What that app does with it is its own business.

What Solera does not do

• No analytics or attribution SDK of any kind.
• No advertising, no ad identifier, no tracking prompt. There is nothing to track you with.
• No crash reporting service.
• No push notifications. The app sends none, so it asks for no permission to and holds no token to send one with.
• No affiliate links, no shop links, no price comparison.
• No community feed, no ratings from other people, no profile.
• No cookies. This website sets none, and it loads no scripts, fonts or images from anywhere else.

Keeping it safe

The diary sits in the app’s own private storage, which Android keeps out of the reach of other apps and encrypts along with the rest of the phone while it is locked. Give the phone a screen lock and that is most of the work done: anybody holding it unlocked can read the app, and no software can help with that.

The stronger thing to say is that there is nothing here to breach. No server of ours holds your diary, so no server of ours can lose it.

Children

Solera is a wine diary, rated for adults, and listed on Google Play as an app for adults. It is not aimed at children, and it collects no data from anyone, of any age.

Deleting your data

Open a bottle and choose forget this bottle to remove one, with its photographs. Delete the app to remove all of it. There is no other copy and no request to send us, because we were never holding anything. Write the file first if you want to keep it.

Every step of that, including backups, on its own page.

Your rights

The GDPR, the UK GDPR and laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act give you the right to see your data, correct it, delete it, move it, and object to it being used. You hold those rights against whoever holds the data. Here that is you, on your own phone, with the export and the delete above. We hold nothing to show you, correct or erase, and nothing is sold or shared.

If you think otherwise, write to support@alps-project.online and we will answer. You can also complain to your national data protection authority, and if you are in the EU or the UK you may do so wherever you live or work.

Where any of this happens

On your phone, wherever your phone is. Nothing you add crosses a border, because nothing you add leaves the device — there is no transfer to us, to another country, or to anybody else, and so no transfer mechanism to describe.

The exceptions belong to Google rather than to Solera: buying the app, installing it again, and backing your phone up all reach Google’s systems, which are international, and are covered by Google’s privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

A later version of Solera may do something this page does not describe. Sending a corrected wine back to the shared catalogue may come later, for instance. It would send the text of a wine record and nothing else.

If that happens, this page changes first, the date at the top changes with it, and the app says so in plain words at the moment it happens. What is collected will not grow quietly.

Getting in touch

support@alps-project.online. One person reads it.