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, from your drinks to your goal to 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, and we never receive your payment details.
The one exception is one you turn on yourself: if you enable Health Connect, DrinkTick copies the drinks you log into Android's own health store, so your other health apps can see them. That is a transfer from one app to another on your phone, not to us. It is off until you switch it on, and it only ever writes — DrinkTick never reads anything back out.
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.app 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.
Health Connect (optional, Android)
If you turn the Health Connect export on, Android asks your permission to write hydration and nutrition records. DrinkTick asks for nothing else there, and in particular asks for no permission to read your health data. This one gets a section of its own, below: see Health Connect.
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. Health Connect (Android, optional, off by default)
Android has a system app called Health Connect: a shared store on your phone that lets health and fitness apps exchange data with each other, under your control. DrinkTick can write to it, so the water you log here shows up in the other apps you use. This is the only feature in DrinkTick that moves your information out of the app, and it is switched off until you turn it on in Profile → Health Connect.
It only writes. It never reads.
DrinkTick requests two permissions and both of them are write permissions:
WRITE_HYDRATION and WRITE_NUTRITION. It holds
no read permission of any kind, so it cannot see your steps, your sleep, your
weight, your heart rate, or anything else in Health Connect — including the hydration
entries other apps have written. The database on your phone stays the only thing DrinkTick
reads from.
Exactly what it writes
| Record | Permission | What it contains |
|---|---|---|
| Hydration | WRITE_HYDRATION |
The volume of the drink in millilitres, and the time you logged it for. |
| Nutrition | WRITE_NUTRITION |
The caffeine content of the drink, and the time you logged it for. Written only for drinks that actually contain caffeine. |
That is the whole list. Your drink names, notes, presets, goal, reminder times, statistics and settings are not written — only the volume, the caffeine and the timestamp. Alcohol is not written either, because Health Connect has no record type that can hold it; the app says so on the Health Connect screen rather than leaving you to work it out.
How much history
When you turn the feature on, DrinkTick writes drinks logged from that moment onwards. Sending your existing history as well is a separate, explicit choice on the same screen. After that, editing or deleting a drink in DrinkTick updates or removes the matching Health Connect record, so the two do not drift apart.
Who can see it once it is there
Health Connect is part of your phone, not a cloud service, and the data it holds is governed by Google's terms for it and by the permissions you grant. Once DrinkTick has written a record, any other app you have allowed to read hydration or nutrition can see it. You control that list in the Health Connect app, where you can also see everything DrinkTick has written and revoke its access at any time. Revoking access stops further writes immediately; it does not delete what is already there.
Turning it off, and taking it back out
These are two different things, on purpose:
- Turning the switch off stops DrinkTick writing anything further. It deliberately leaves the records already written alone — they are your data in your own health record, and a switch labelled "off" should not quietly delete your history.
- "Remove my data", on the same screen, deletes them. It removes only the records DrinkTick itself wrote, tracked individually, so entries from your other apps are never touched.
Uninstalling DrinkTick does not remove them. Records in Health Connect belong to Health Connect, not to the app that wrote them. If you want them gone, use Remove my data before you uninstall, or delete them afterwards from the Health Connect app itself.
What we get out of it
Nothing. The write happens on your device, between two apps on your device. We are not a party to it, we receive no copy, and the feature is free for everyone — it is not part of DrinkTick Pro. Getting your own data out of the app is not something we think should be sold back to you.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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, in the app.
- Portability: export it yourself at any time with Backup & Restore, or send it to your other health apps with Health Connect, which is free for everyone.
- 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.
10. 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. There is a page with the step-by-step version of this, including the Health Connect entries: Delete your DrinkTick data. In short:
- 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.
- Delete what went to Health Connect: use Remove my data on the app's Health Connect screen, or delete DrinkTick's entries from the Health Connect app. Those records live outside DrinkTick's storage, so clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it leaves them in place — see Health Connect.
This is irreversible. Since your history exists only on your device, we cannot restore it for you, because 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).
11. 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, because there is nothing to collect. The app contains no ads, no chat, no social features and no links to user-generated content.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Contact
Questions, concerns, or a privacy request? Email jaironlanda@gmail.com and you'll get a reply from the person who makes the app.