Terms and Conditions

Last updated 24 September 2026

Draft. This page is still being written and reviewed, and may change without notice. It is not final, and no rights can be derived from it.

In short

The articles below are what applies. This is what they come down to.

Article 1. Who is who

Article 2. What these terms cover

These terms apply to every use of BackBeer. By using the app you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the app and delete your account.

You may be using the app through the App Store or Google Play. Whatever you agree with that store stands apart from this; we are not a party to that agreement and they are not a party to this one.

Article 3. Your account

To store and sync your collection you need an account. You give an email address you can actually use and a password you do not share. What happens with your password is your responsibility. If you suspect somebody else can reach it, change it at once and let us know.

One account is for one person. You may not resell or lend out your account.

Article 4. Age

BackBeer is about beer. Use the app only if you are old enough to buy alcohol in the country where you live. In the Netherlands that is eighteen; in other countries the line is somewhere else, and the line that applies there is the one that counts for you.

The app does not encourage anybody to drink. It is a cupboard in which you keep track of what you have.

Article 5. What you may expect from us

We do our best to keep BackBeer working and available. That is an obligation to make an effort, not a guarantee: we do not promise uninterrupted availability or faultless operation.

BackBeer is young and still changing. Features may change or disappear, there may be bugs, and there may be maintenance during which the app does not work. We try to announce maintenance in the app, and the app says so when the server is temporarily out of reach.

Your collection also lives on your own phone, so if the server is away for a moment your collection is not. We back up every night, but the copy that counts is yours: use the export button now and then.

Article 6. What we expect from you

You do not use BackBeer to:

If you do it anyway, we may undo your contributions and, if it is serious or keeps happening, suspend or end your account. We do not do that without reason, and where we can we tell you first.

You cannot change your username yourself. If we find it inappropriate, we hide it everywhere, tell you by email, and ask you for a new one the next time you open the app. Until you choose one, the app does nothing else, and your collection is kept as it is. If it happens a second time, we may close the account.

Article 7. Your collection and your data

Your collection is yours. We do not use it for anything other than running the app, we do not sell it and we do not build a profile with it.

Exactly what we process, why and for how long is set out in the privacy policy. How we secure it is on Security. Both form part of these terms.

What you make public is public. If you give a list a public code it gets an address of its own, it is listed in the public directory, and a search engine may index it. That is what a public code is for, and taking the code away in the app is how you undo it. A private invite is a different thing: those lists are not in the directory and not indexed. What a public page shows is described on Security.

Article 8. The catalog and what you contribute

The catalog is built by its users. When you add a beer or a brewery, or correct a detail, you grant us the right to include that data in the catalog, show it to other users, correct it and merge it with other entries. That right is non-exclusive and unpaid, and it is what makes the catalog usable for everyone.

You remain the owner of what you contribute, to the extent ownership applies at all: data about a beer are facts, and facts belong to nobody.

We record who contributed what. That is needed to undo corrections and to see who is carrying the catalog. If you switch on the Wall of Fame, your username is shown there with your Caps. If you delete your account your contributions stay, but the link to you is removed.

Part of the catalog comes from public sources with terms of their own. Where that is the case we credit the source and abide by those terms.

Do not put anything in the catalog that is not yours to share, and no photos, texts or logos whose rights belong to somebody else.

Article 9. What is ours

The app itself, the website, the BackBeer name, the logo and the design belong to Overnight Technology. You may use them as the app intends, and no further: not copying, not reproducing, not reselling and not renting out.

Article 10. What is free and what a subscription costs

Free, for good. This will never cost money:

If something is added, it goes on this list or into the subscription. Nothing on this list ever moves to the subscription. Part of this is still being built, such as the yearly summary and the top five. That is free too, the day it exists.

Not open yet. The subscription is not available yet: it comes later, in the app and on the website. Until the day it opens nothing is sold, and what this article, Article 12 and the model form for withdrawal say about a subscription does not apply. It applies from the day the subscription opens, which we announce beforehand.

What a subscription gives. Detailed insights into your collection, all your styles and breweries instead of the top five, what you spent over time, statistics over time for your public lists, the supporter badge if you want to show it, and submitting ideas and voting on the roadmap. In support you are helped first. A subscription gives no priority in the catalog, on the Wall of Fame or in moderation. What it gives may grow, and whatever of it does not exist yet is being built.

What it costs. You can choose a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription or a lifetime subscription. The prices are in the app, and you see them before you pay. For consumers they include VAT.

Lifetime. You pay for a lifetime subscription once. It does not renew and nothing is charged again. It gives everything a subscription gives, for as long as we offer BackBeer. Lifetime is therefore not for as long as you live. Its price may be an introductory price with an end date, and the app then says so. Whoever bought at the introductory price pays nothing more afterwards.

How you pay. In the app you pay through the App Store or Google Play. The terms of Apple or Google then also apply to the payment, the renewal, cancelling and refunds. On the website you pay through Mollie, with iDEAL, Bancontact or a credit card. What you buy in one place also works in the other.

Renewing. A monthly subscription through the website renews by itself every month, around the same day of the month. That is stated in the confirmation you get by email. A yearly subscription through the website does not renew by itself: we email you seven days and two days before the year ends, and you choose whether to pay for another year. A subscription through the App Store or Google Play renews under the rules of Apple or Google. If you have not opened the app for a month while a subscription renews by itself, we email you that it is still running and how to stop it.

Cancelling. You cancel a subscription through the website whenever you like: on the subscription page or with the link in our emails. Nothing is charged after that and what you already paid for keeps working until the end of that period. After the withdrawal period below we do not refund a period that is running.

If a payment fails. We email you the same day, with a way to pay yourself. Mollie tries again for a few days. What you paid for keeps working for fourteen days meanwhile. If it still fails after that, the subscription stops. Your collection and everything that is free are not affected.

If the price changes. We tell you by email at least thirty days ahead. The new price applies from the next period, never to a period you already paid. If you do not want that, you cancel before it takes effect. A lifetime subscription you already have does not change because of it.

Withdrawal. If you take out a subscription through the website as a consumer, a lifetime one included, you may withdraw within fourteen days of your first payment. You then get the whole amount of that payment back, within fourteen days and the same way you paid. You withdraw with the stop button on the subscription page, with an email to cheers@back.beer, or with the form at the end of these terms. For a subscription through the App Store or Google Play the rules of Apple or Google apply.

If we stop. If we stop running BackBeer, or close your account under Article 6, we refund the part of a yearly subscription that is not used.

If you do not agree with something we introduce, you can stop and take your collection with you using the export button.

Article 11. Liability

BackBeer is a tool for keeping track of what you have in the house. We are not liable for damage arising from using it, except where that damage results from intent or deliberate recklessness on our part. Liability for indirect damage (lost savings, consequential loss, wasted time) is excluded.

To the extent we are liable, that liability is limited to €250 per event, with a maximum of €500 per year.

Mandatory law always takes precedence here. If you are a consumer, these limitations take nothing away from the rights the law gives you regardless.

On data loss: we take backups and we do our best, but the app offers an export function and it remains sensible to use it.

Article 12. Stopping

You can stop at any time. You delete your account yourself in the app, under Settings, in two steps: your beers first, then your account. After that it is gone. See the privacy policy for exactly what that means. If you no longer have the app, use this page.

We may end an account if Article 6 is breached, or if we stop running BackBeer. If we stop the service, we say so at least thirty days beforehand and make sure you can export your collection before then.

If you delete your account while a subscription through the website is running, we stop that subscription at the same moment. If that is within the withdrawal period, you get back everything you paid. A subscription through the App Store or Google Play does not stop by itself when you delete your account: you cancel that with Apple or Google.

Article 13. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms. Small textual changes we simply make, with a new date at the top. If it is something substantial, we say so beforehand in the app or by email. If you disagree you can delete your account; if you keep using the app, the new terms apply.

Article 14. Complaints

If something is wrong, write to cheers@back.beer. We answer within fourteen days, and if a complaint needs longer we say so within that period with an indication of how long.

Article 15. Other provisions

If any provision of these terms is void or voidable, the others remain in force and we replace that one with something as close to it as possible.

Dutch law applies to these terms. Disputes go to the competent court in the Netherlands. If you are a consumer, you may also go to the court in the country where you live, where the law gives you that right.

Model form for withdrawal

Fill in and return this form only if you want to withdraw from your subscription.

To: Overnight Technology, Hoofdstraat 14, 4564 AP Sint Jansteen, cheers@back.beer

I hereby withdraw from my BackBeer subscription.

These terms were written in Dutch. This English version is a translation provided for information. If the two differ, the Dutch text is the binding one.