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Tom Talent Management AG
Seestrasse 513
8038 Zurich, Switzerland
Email: info@tomtalent.ch
This policy describes which personal data is processed when you use Biovino (biovino.site). The Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) applies; where applicable, we also take the European GDPR into account.
We process this data to operate the platform and provide its features (account, ratings, community, scans), to send you service emails (e.g. registration confirmation, password reset, classification report on a wine you reported), to prevent abuse and to improve the platform. We do not sell data and do not use analytics or tracking services.
Producer newsletter (only with consent): if you activate it when registering or in your profile, we send you one email per week with new wines and fresh ratings from the producers you have favourited — and only if there is something new. For this we use your favourites and your email address. Order links in it lead to the website of the producer or a retailer; we do not see what you do there. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in every email or in your profile. We do no other advertising.
Referrals via shared wine lists: if someone without an account opens a shared wine list, explicitly agrees there that the person sharing it should receive points, and then registers, we store in the new account which list — and thus which person — brought them to Biovino. Without this consent no attribution takes place. We use this solely to credit the person who shared the list with points for the level and reward programme, and to see how many members join via shared lists. The referring person sees only their points balance, not who registered.
Biovino is an open community: your display name appears with your ratings and discoveries. In your profile you can set whether your profile page with your ratings overview is visible to other members. Wine and producer pages — including aggregated average ratings of wines and the number of times a producer has been favourited — can be accessed without an account. Nobody but you can see which producers you have favourited.
Wine lists are private at first. If you set a list to “With link”, anyone who knows the link can see it — even without an account — including the list’s name and description, the wines, your notes on them and your display name. A “public” list may additionally be found and shown by search engines such as Google. Other members can save a shared list as their own copy; this copy remains even if you later change your list, set it back to private or delete it. You can change the visibility at any time.
Public lists also appear on your profile page (if your profile is visible) and in the community area. If you follow another member’s list, they learn of it through a notification with your display name; otherwise, who follows a list is not visible anywhere. If you send a list to a member in the app, they receive a notification with your display name — this is only possible with members you follow or who follow you.
We use only technically necessary cookies for signing in (session cookies of our auth service Supabase) and for the chosen language. Only if you agree on a shared wine list that the person sharing it should receive points do we additionally set a cookie that contains nothing but the code of that list and expires after 30 days. It serves solely for the credit under section 3 and is deleted after registration or sign-in; if you untick the box again, we delete it immediately. Consent is voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time. In addition, the app stores individual settings locally in your browser (e.g. dismissed hints). There are no advertising or tracking cookies and no third-party cookies.
When you scan a label or a wine list, the photo is analysed automatically by an AI model (OpenAI GPT) to recognise the wine and producer. The platform researches additional information about wines and producers automatically from public sources; it reads news and events from the producers’ public websites and has them summarised by an AI model (Anthropic Claude). Descriptions of wines, producers and news are translated automatically into English and French by an AI model (OpenAI GPT). This processing concerns the photos and wine data, not your profile and not your ratings; please do not include people or private information in your photos.
We use the following service providers, who process data on our behalf:
Some service providers process data in the USA. The transfer is based on recognised safeguards, in particular the Swiss–U.S. Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.
We keep your data for as long as your account exists. You can delete your account yourself at any time in your profile (or send us a message to info@tomtalent.ch); we then delete your profile data, your wine lists and the record of who referred you to Biovino. Your contributions are deleted or continued without personal reference (e.g. stars continue to flow anonymously into averages). Server logs are deleted automatically after a short time.
You have the right to information about your data, to rectification, deletion and data portability, and the right to object to processing. Please contact info@tomtalent.ch. The competent supervisory authority in Switzerland is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).
All connections are encrypted (TLS), passwords are stored only as hashes, and access to the database is secured by permission rules. We adapt this policy when the platform or the services used change; the version published here at any given time is authoritative. In case of discrepancies between the language versions, the German version prevails.
Last updated: 14 October 2026 · See also the Legal notice and the Terms of use.