Terms of Use
The agreement.
Using this app means you accept these terms — including the arbitration clause and class-action waiver below. If you do not accept them, do not use the app. The app is free; these terms are the deal.Who you are dealing with.
The app is operated by By the Glass Stories LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, ("we", "us"). Send legal notices to hello@bytheglassapp.com. We may give you notice in the app, by email to your account address, or by updating this page.Who can use it.
You must be 21 or older and of legal drinking age where you live, including for zero-proof use. Access is by invitation. An invitation is personal and cannot be transferred. One person per account.Membership.
You become a member when your access request is approved or when you first sign in, whichever comes first, and you get a member number. Members who join while founding places are open are founding members. Founding membership is free, guaranteed for 12 months from the day you join. After that, it stays free for as long as our costs allow. If that changes, we will tell you at least 30 days before the change, and you can leave at any time. We may later offer paid memberships to new members. They will be sold only through the Apple App Store or Google Play, never on this website. Before you buy, the app will show the price, any free trial, how renewal works, and how to cancel. The store’s terms and refund rules apply to a purchase. Safety features — the Always avoid list, zero-proof settings, and the age check — are never paid features.Test program.
The app is in a test phase. Features, recipes, and data can change, reset, or stop. We make no promise that the app is available or error-free.What this is.
Editorial suggestions and education about drinks, food pairing, and venues. Everything here is opinion and general information — not professional, medical, legal, or nutritional advice.Allergies and restrictions stay your job.
The Always avoid list and any allergy you type are a convenience. The app removes drinks whose recipe, as we have it, names an ingredient you listed. It does not verify allergens, it does not screen food, and it cannot see how a bar makes a drink. Ingredient, recipe, menu, and venue information can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Check the label, the menu, or the person making your drink before you drink or eat anything. If you have an allergy, an intolerance, or a medical condition, that check is yours — every drink, every time.Alcohol.
The catalog is for adults 21 and older, and by browsing it you confirm that you are 21 or older and of legal drinking age where you live. Drink responsibly; never drink and drive. Zero-proof and "0.0%" products can still carry trace amounts of alcohol, and the strict setting is an information filter, not a guarantee. If you must avoid alcohol completely, verify the actual product label every time. Some recipes use raw egg, sharp tools, and very cold or hot ingredients — follow each step with care.Venues.
Bar listings mix editorial opinion and third-party information. Hours, menus, prices, and quality change. A listing is not an endorsement or a promise. If you own or represent a listed venue and want a correction or a removal, email hello@bytheglassapp.com and name the listing — we review those requests promptly.Your content.
Notes, journal entries, and bars you add remain yours, and today they stay on your device — nothing you write is uploaded unless a specific feature says so when you turn it on, such as turning on "Keep my data in my account." Where a feature you enable stores or displays your content, you give us permission to store and show it so that feature can work. You promise that anything you submit is accurate to the best of your knowledge, is lawful, does not reveal another person's private information, does not copy someone else's work, and does not misstate a real business. You are responsible for claims that arise from content you submit, and we can review or remove submitted content when someone objects to it.Copyright complaints.
If you believe content in this app copies your work, send a notice to hello@bytheglassapp.com that names the work, where it appears in the app, and how to reach you. We will review the report and remove material that infringes. If we remove something you submitted because of a complaint and you believe that was a mistake, email hello@bytheglassapp.com with the details, and we will review it. We may end the access of anyone who repeatedly infringes.Ads and partner links.
The app shows no paid placements today. If partner or affiliate links ever appear, they will be labeled as such — and they will never change what the app recommends, because ranking cannot be bought.Our content.
The app, its recipes, text, pairings, images we made, software, and this app's name and marks belong to By the Glass Stories LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, or its licensors. Photos credited to others stay with their authors under the licences shown. You get a personal, non-commercial, revocable licence to use the app for yourself.Fair use of the app.
Do not scrape, crawl, or bulk-download the app or its catalog. Do not use bots or automated tools to access it. Do not copy, republish, or sell its content. Do not reverse-engineer it, get around its access controls or limits, or share your account.Feedback.
If you send ideas or feedback, we may use them without payment or obligation to you.Ending access.
You can stop using the app at any time, and you can delete your account in the app. We can suspend or end your access at any time — for example, for misuse, for a breach of these terms, or if we close the app. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you first. When your access ends, your licence to use the app ends. The sections on allergies, alcohol, our content, feedback, no warranties, limit of liability, disputes, your side, and law still apply after your access ends.As is — no warranties
The app is provided free of charge, "as is" and "as available", with no warranties of any kind, express or implied — including accuracy, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — to the maximum extent the law permits.
Limit of liability
Read this paragraph — it limits what you can recover from us. To the maximum extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, nor for personal injury, illness, allergic reaction, intoxication, property damage, or data loss arising from your use of the app or from anything you drink, eat, buy, or visit because of it. Our total liability for all claims together is capped at the amount you paid us for the app — zero — or the smallest amount the law allows. Where a jurisdiction does not allow one of these limits, that limit applies to the fullest extent it does allow.
Disputes — arbitration and class waiver
We both agree to resolve any dispute arising from the app or these terms through binding individual arbitration under the American Arbitration Association's Consumer Arbitration Rules, instead of a trial in court. Either of us can still bring an individual claim in small-claims court. We both waive trial by jury, and we both waive class, collective, and representative actions — disputes are resolved one-on-one only. To the extent the law allows it, any claim must be started within one year after it arises or it is permanently barred. If this arbitration agreement is found unenforceable for a particular dispute, that dispute goes to the state or federal courts sitting in Illinois, and we both consent to those courts.
Your side.
You agree to cover costs and claims that arise from your breach of these terms or from your unlawful use of the app.Changes.
We can change the app at any time. A change to these terms binds you only after the app shows you a notice and you continue past it — never by silent posting alone. A change does not apply backward to a dispute that arose before it. The version stamp below records the current text.Law.
These terms follow the laws of the State of Illinois, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If one clause turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stay in force.General.
These terms are the whole agreement between you and us about the app. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours to a company that takes over the app. If we do not enforce a term right away, we can still enforce it later. We are not responsible for a delay or failure caused by events outside our reasonable control.Contact.
Notices, copyright reports, and venue corrections go to hello@bytheglassapp.com. For help using the app, email support@bytheglassapp.com. You can also reach us on @by_the_glass_stories.Terms version 2026-10-01 · Effective October 1, 2026. These terms cover this web app and any mobile app we release; an app store may add its own terms.
Drink with intention. This product is for people 21 and older.