Terms of Service

The Cellar Schematic™

Effective date: 31 October 2026

1. About these terms

These terms apply when you use The Cellar Schematic app on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and any device that runs it. By downloading or using the app, you agree to them.

The app is made by Millar-Young Holdings Pty Limited (ABN 13 077 550 871), of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ("we", "us"). You can reach us at support@thecellarschematic.com.

These terms sit alongside the terms of the store you bought the app from: Apple's App Store or Google Play. If the two conflict, the store's terms apply to the purchase itself. How we handle information is set out separately in our Privacy Policy.

2. Buying the app

The app is a one-time, paid upfront download. There are no app subscriptions, premium tiers, or hidden in-app purchases.

The store takes payment, sets the price shown in your country, and handles refunds under its own policies. To ask for a refund, use the store interface: Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, or Google Play through your order history. This does not limit any refund or remedy you are entitled to by mandatory law (section 9).

Updates are free while we offer them. A purchase on one platform does not cover the other: the App Store and Google Play sell the app licences separately.

3. Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, as the store's rules allow (for example, Apple's Family Sharing). We keep all rights in the app, its design, its custom drawings, and its name.

You may not:

  • copy, resell, rent or redistribute the app

  • reverse engineer or decompile it, except where mandatory law explicitly allows you to

  • remove our notices, or use the app to break any law

  • use the app's name, the Cellar Schematic marks, or its drawings to suggest a product or service is ours

The schematics, cards, and exports you create from your own cellar data are yours to keep, print, and share.

4. Your cellar and your data

Your cellar belongs to you, and we do not hold a copy of it. There is no account to create, and we run no servers that store your wines, notes, or photos.

  • On iPhone and iPad: your cellar is kept on the device and in your own iCloud account, which syncs it to your other devices signed in to the same Apple ID. If you share your cellar, Apple's iCloud sharing carries it to the people you invite.

  • On Android: your cellar is kept locally on the device itself. Android's own backup to your Google Drive may include it, but Google limits that backup's size, and a cellar with many label photos may exceed this limit.

Because we cannot see, access, or restore your data, please keep your own full backups using the app's "Back up" export feature, and store the file somewhere safe. We are not responsible for data lost through a device failure, its storage systems, iCloud, Google, or a backup you did not make, except where mandatory law provides otherwise. You are solely responsible for what you put in the app, including label photos you take and notes you write.

5. Optional AI features

The app provides comprehensive core functionality without AI. Some optional features—including the Virtual Sommelier, the Virtual Concierge, drinking-window estimates, completing missing wine details, and finding retail listings—require you to input your own third-party OpenAI API key.

  • Your key, your account: You obtain the API key directly from OpenAI and agree to OpenAI's terms and usage policies. OpenAI bills your account directly for what those features use; we receive no portion of those fees.

  • Direct routing: Requests go from your device straight to OpenAI over an encrypted connection, carrying only the details the specific feature needs. Your key is stored locally on your device.

  • Services can change: OpenAI may change, update, or withdraw the models these features rely on. We will attempt to maintain feature compatibility, but we cannot guarantee that any specific AI feature will remain permanently available.

Reading a label without an OpenAI key utilizes local text recognition on your device, or on supported Apple devices, Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure, as described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Information in the app is a guide

Much of what the app displays is estimated or generated via automation, and some of it can be inaccurate. Treat it as a helpful guide, not professional advice, and independently check any details that matter to you.

  • Drinking windows and readiness are non-binding estimates. How a wine ages depends heavily on the specific bottle and how it was historically stored.

  • Retail prices and availability come from public online listings located at the time of your request. Prices, inventory, and retailers fluctuate constantly; we do not sell wine, facilitate commercial transactions, or vouch for any retailer.

  • Sommelier suggestions, region notes, and completed details are generated by artificial intelligence based on your cellar data and the underlying model's parameters. Because AI output is inherently generative and variable, you acknowledge that these features are provided "as-is" and that inaccuracies or hallucinations do not constitute a defect or a failure of the app to conform to its description.

  • Label scans suggest a wine's details from its label. The physical label remains the ultimate authority; verify all details before saving.

The app is not a valuation, insurance, or financial investment service. Cellar totals are simple arithmetic sums based on the prices you or the app recorded, not a formal appraisal.

7. Alcohol

The app is a utility for recording a personal cellar of wine and is intended strictly for adults of legal drinking age in their respective jurisdictions. It does not sell, supply, or distribute alcohol. Please drink responsibly and comply with all local laws regarding the acquisition, storage, and service of alcohol.

8. Imports, photos and other services

  • Imports: You can bring in your own data exported from other cellar apps, such as Vivino or CellarTracker. Only import data you are legally entitled to use. We are not connected with, endorsed by, or affiliated with those third-party services, and their terms continue to apply to your accounts with them.

  • Photos: Label photos you take or add remain in your local cellar data. Only add images you have the legal right to use.

  • Other services: Apple, Google, and OpenAI provide infrastructure parts of the app experience under their own terms. We are not responsible for their service availability, though we will assist with integration troubleshooting where possible.

  • Trademarks: Wine names, producers, and labels belong to their respective owners. Vivino and CellarTracker are trademarks of their respective owners. The Cellar Schematic name, logos, and custom drawings belong exclusively to us.

9. Your consumer rights and our liability

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any guarantee, right, or remedy you have by law that cannot be contractually excluded.

Australia: Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For major failures with the service, you are entitled:

  • to cancel your service contract with us; and

  • to a refund for the unused portion, or to compensation for its reduced value.

You are also entitled to choose a refund or replacement for goods. If a failure with the goods or a service does not amount to a major failure, you are entitled to have the failure rectified in a reasonable time. If this is not done you are entitled to a refund for the goods and to cancel the contract for the service and obtain a refund of any unused portion. You are also entitled to be compensated for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage from a failure in the goods or service.

European Union and United Kingdom: We offer this app as a trader. If you reside in the EU or UK, you retain all mandatory statutory rights provided by local consumer law regarding digital content, including legal remedies if the app fails to conform to its description, is not fit for purpose, or lacks satisfactory quality. In the event of a non-conformity, you have the right to request that we bring the digital content into conformity (via an update or repair) within a reasonable time and free of charge. If this is impossible or disproportionate, you may be entitled to an appropriate price reduction or a refund.

Elsewhere: You retain the mandatory consumer protections and statutory remedies of the country you live in.

Limitation of Liability: So far as the law allows, and subject strictly to your non-excludable statutory consumer rights:

  • we provide the app "as is" and "as available", and we do not promise it will be completely error-free or uninterrupted;

  • we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential loss, or for loss caused by your reliance on automated or AI-generated information inside the app without independent verification (section 6); and

  • except for liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law (including liability for death, personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or intentional misrepresentation), our total collective liability to you for any claim arising under or in connection with these terms is limited strictly to the upfront price you paid to download the app.

Where a statutory guarantee can be limited but not excluded by law, our liability is strictly limited to supplying the service again or paying the cost of having the service supplied again.

10. Changes, ending and contact

  • Changes to the app: We improve the app over time, and features may evolve. We will not remove the core functional utility of the app you purchased, which is the ability to record, plan, and draw your cellar on your own device.

  • Changes to these terms: We may update these terms to reflect regulatory amendments or functional changes in the app. We will post the revised version at thecellarschematic.com with its updated effective date. If a change materially affects your rights, we will notify you via the app's release notes or a prominent notice on our website.

  • Ending: You can terminate this agreement at any time by deleting the app from all your devices (ensure you export a manual backup first if you wish to preserve your cellar data). If you seriously or repeatedly breach these terms, your licence terminates automatically.

  • Governing law: These terms are governed by the law of New South Wales, Australia. If you are a consumer, you also retain the protection of the mandatory laws and jurisdictional rights of the country you live in, and you may bring legal claims in your home courts.

Questions, problems or complaints: support@thecellarschematic.com.

Corporate Identity: Millar-Young Holdings Pty Limited, 5 Avenue Road, Mosman, Sydney, NSW 2088, Australia.

Postal Address: PO Box 761, Neutral Bay, Sydney, NSW 2089, Australia.