Privacy Policy
The short version
DrinkTick does not collect your data. There is no account to create, no server to sync to, and no analytics, advertising or tracking software of any kind in the app. Everything you log — your drinks, your goal, your settings — is written to a database on your own phone and stays there. We have no way to see it, and no copy of it exists anywhere else.
The only company that learns anything about you is Google, and only because you downloaded the app from the Play Store or bought DrinkTick Pro through it. That's between you and Google, under their privacy policy — we never receive your payment details.
The rest of this page explains that in full, because "we don't collect anything" deserves to be backed up with specifics.
1. Who we are
DrinkTick ("DrinkTick", "we", "us") is an independently developed hydration tracking app for
Android, published on Google Play as
com.jaironlanda.drinktick. This policy explains how the app and the website at
drinktick.jaironlanda.com handle
information.
If you have any question about this policy, you can reach a human at jaironlanda@gmail.com.
2. What we collect
Nothing. To be specific, DrinkTick does not:
- ask you to create an account, sign in, or give us an email address;
- send your drinks, goals, statistics or settings to us or to anyone else;
- include any analytics or usage-measurement software;
- include any crash or error reporting software;
- include any advertising SDK, ad network, or ad identifier;
- include any social media SDK or third-party tracker;
- build a profile about you, or share, sell or rent information about you; and
- collect your location, contacts, photos, or device identifiers.
The app has no backend. There is no DrinkTick server for your information to be sent to, which is the simplest guarantee we can offer: we cannot lose, leak, subpoena or sell data we never receive.
3. What the app stores on your device
DrinkTick is useless without remembering what you drank, so it stores that locally — in a private SQLite database inside the app's own storage area, which other apps cannot read. This information never leaves your phone unless you deliberately export it (see Backups).
| What | Examples |
|---|---|
| Your drinks | The drink type, the amount, its caffeine and alcohol content, and the date and time you logged it. |
| Your presets | Custom drinks and cup sizes you create, and which drinks are on your Quick Add list. |
| Your settings | Daily water goal, preferred unit (ml or fl oz), theme, language, accent colour. |
| Your reminders | Whether reminders are on, and the times of day you chose. |
| App state | Small flags that make the app behave properly — for example whether you have logged your first drink, and the last day a goal celebration was shown, so it isn't shown twice. |
Hydration information can be considered health-related data. We treat it that way: it is kept on your device, it is not transmitted, and it is not used for any purpose other than showing you your own history inside the app.
4. Permissions the app asks for
Notifications (optional)
If you turn reminders on, Android asks your permission to post notifications. Reminders are scheduled entirely by your phone's operating system at the clock times you pick. They are not push notifications: there is no server sending them, and we have no token, no message queue and no knowledge of whether you received or opened one. You can decline the permission, or turn reminders off later, and the rest of the app works normally.
Files (only when you use them)
Exporting a backup writes a file where you choose; importing one asks you to pick a file. The app only touches the file you select for that action.
5. Third parties
We don't hand your information to anyone. However, two Google services are involved simply because DrinkTick is an Android app distributed on Google Play — and they have their own relationship with you, governed by the Google Privacy Policy.
Google Play (distribution)
Downloading, installing and updating the app happens through Google Play. Google therefore knows you installed it, and may show you aggregate statistics as the developer. We can see anonymous, aggregated Play Console figures — such as how many installs there were in a country, or a crash count — but never who you are.
Google Play Billing (only if you buy Pro)
DrinkTick Pro is sold through Google Play Billing. Your purchase, your payment method and your billing details are handled entirely by Google — we never see or receive your payment information. The app asks Google Play only one question: does this device's Google account currently own DrinkTick Pro? The yes-or-no answer unlocks Pro features locally on your phone. Nothing about that check is stored on a server of ours, because there isn't one.
In-app review (optional)
If you choose to rate the app, Android may show Google Play's own review dialog, or open the Play listing. Your review and rating are submitted to Google, not to us, and appear publicly on the Play listing under whatever name your Google account uses.
That's the whole list. There is no fourth party. If we ever add a service that changes this, we will update this policy and say so in the app's release notes before it ships.
6. Backups and exported files
DrinkTick Pro can export your history to a backup file. This is a manual action you trigger — there is no automatic or cloud backup.
Once that file exists, it's yours and it's your responsibility. If you save it to a cloud drive, email it to yourself, or send it to someone, it leaves your phone and is covered by whatever policy that service or person has — not this one. We never receive it.
Importing a backup permanently replaces the data currently on the device. The app warns you before it does this.
Note that Android's own system backup may include app data depending on your device and Google account settings. That mechanism belongs to Google and Android, and is controlled from your device's backup settings.
7. This website
This site is a set of static pages hosted on Cloudflare. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, embeds no third-party fonts, scripts, pixels or share buttons, and asks you for nothing.
Like any website, requests reach it over the internet, so Cloudflare — as the hosting and network provider — processes standard technical information such as your IP address in order to serve the page and protect against abuse. That processing is Cloudflare's, described in the Cloudflare Privacy Policy. We do not add tracking on top of it and we do not build any profile from it.
8. Your rights and choices
Privacy laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data a company holds about you — to access it, correct it, export it, or have it deleted.
These rights are effectively self-service here, because we hold no personal data about you. There is no account to look up and no record with your name on it. In practice:
- Access: your data is already in your hands — it's in the app.
- Portability: export it yourself at any time with Backup & Restore.
- Correction: edit or delete any drink directly in the app.
- Erasure: see Deleting your data.
- Objection / opt-out: there is no processing, profiling, targeted advertising or sale of personal information to object to. We do not sell or share personal information, and never have.
If you believe we somehow hold information about you, write to jaironlanda@gmail.com and we'll answer honestly. For data Google holds because of your install or purchase, you'll need to exercise those rights with Google.
9. Deleting your data
Because everything is local, you are always one step away from deleting all of it, with no request to file and no waiting period:
- Delete one drink: remove it in the app's history.
- Delete everything: uninstall DrinkTick, or go to Android Settings → Apps → DrinkTick → Storage → Clear storage. This permanently erases the database and all settings.
This is irreversible. Since your history exists only on your device, we cannot restore it for you — we don't have it. Export a backup first if you want to keep it.
Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Cancel that in Google Play (see the Terms of Service).
10. Children
DrinkTick is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included — there is nothing to collect. The app contains no ads, no chat, no social features and no links to user-generated content.
11. Security
Your data lives in your device's app-private storage, protected by Android's application sandbox and by your device's own lock screen and encryption. Because nothing is transmitted to us, there is no server-side breach that could expose your hydration history.
The practical risks are local ones, and they're in your control: someone with an unlocked phone can open the app, and a backup file you export is only as safe as wherever you put it.
12. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. If a change ever materially affects your privacy — for example if the app started collecting something — we will make that clear in the app before it takes effect, rather than quietly editing this page.
13. Contact
Questions, concerns, or a privacy request? Email jaironlanda@gmail.com and you'll get a reply from the person who makes the app.