Terms, Conditions & Privacy

*** This is a site and product are under development please keep that in mind  ***

The purpose of The Information Brewery is to make it easy for you to look at, convert and share any data that you have.

We will try and ensure that:

• The site is available and reliable
• That any information you store is safe
• If you ask us to fix something quickly, we will try and do that

Please be aware that:

• We will never pass on your data or your details to a third party for their use
• We use cookies (but only for session identification), and note IP addresses (just to stop spam)
• We only support browsers with JavaScript enabled
• We don't achieve accessibility compliance yet (we will, but this is early stage work!). If you want to get going with our site and and specific requests please send them through
• We do cache data on our severs
• Currently we use Dropbox to store your files - which is backed up. However, please do not rely on us to have the only copy of your data
• We do have regular backups but, until we have a full production website, please do not rely on us

GDPR:

• This site is not about us finding out about you - we store the minimum amount to allow the applications to run
• We will never publish your data or details, unless you choose to do so
• Deleting your data - click here to raise a support ticket

What data do we process and why

• There are different types of data we hold:
  • Data you want us to convert or, if you choose, to share with people you know
  • Your login details
  • Security logs to help us secure this site
  • Analytics
• Data you want to convert
  • The purpose of this site is to help you move, manage and convert your data - we hold data you upload, simply to process it for you as you request 
  • You remain the data controller
  • We don't look at any of your data. If there is a problem with our converters and you want us to fix the converter. we might need to look at your data - if so we will always ask you before opening
  • If you choose to share your data with others, and you input email addresses - we keep those as distribution lists you can use again. Please always get permissions from your friends before using their email address
  • Data deletion - we will do this if you ask, click here to raise a support ticket
• Your login details
  • We hold the minimum possible data about you (email address), just enough to allow you to secure your login
  • If you use Facebook or Google logins, we don't even hold your password
  • As mentioned above, we will never pass on your details to any third parties
  • If you want your account removed / deleted - please click here to raise a support ticket
• Security logs
  • We do hold IP addresses, and dates and times you login. We only use this to spot malicious users
  • We might look at usage patterns of files and data connections made
• Analytics
  • We do use Google Analytics - we will offer options to disable that in the near future
  • We do look at general usage patterns on the site to help us improve it
  • We are looking to build a larger service, so we look at the types of data (e.g. file type) that are most common