Privacy policy

Your profile (name, gender, year of birth, weight, activity level, waking hours and meal times), the drinks you log, your cup and drink choices, your reminder and display settings, and a short log of app errors.

All of it is stored only in the app’s storage on your phone. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else on its own: DrinkUp does not connect to any server of its own. Only two things ever leave the phone: the usage statistics described below, which contain none of this, and a crash report, only if you send it yourself.

Only if you allow it, DrinkUp uses Android Health Connect to:

• read hydration records, so water logged in other apps counts towards your daily goal;
• write the drinks you log in DrinkUp as hydration records, so other apps can see them;
• read today’s step count, to raise that day’s water goal.

DrinkUp reads and writes hydration and steps only, and only for the last 30 days. Data from Health Connect is used for these features alone, stays on your phone, is never sold or shared with anyone, and is never used for advertising. You can withdraw access at any time in Health Connect’s settings.

DrinkUp’s use of information received from Health Connect adheres to the Health Connect Permissions policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Reminders are scheduled on your phone by the app itself. No push service is involved and nothing leaves the device.

DrinkUp uses Google Analytics for Firebase, a service provided by Google, to see how the app is used so that we can improve it. It records which screens are opened and when a few things happen: setup is finished, a drink is logged (only where from — Home, Add Water, a reminder or a widget — never what or how much), the daily goal is reached, a widget is requested, and Health Connect is connected. Google also records sessions, when the app was installed or updated, the app version, the phone model, the Android version and the language.

These statistics are tied to a random identifier for this installation of the app, not to your name or to an account. Google works out an approximate location (country or city) from the IP address and does not keep the address itself. Everything is sent encrypted.

They never include your profile, the drinks you log, your goal or anything from Health Connect. DrinkUp does not collect the advertising ID; the statistics are not used for advertising or ad personalisation and are never sold. Google processes them on our behalf under the Google Analytics for Firebase terms and keeps them for two months. Google’s own privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

We use them on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and making it better. You can object to it, or ask for the statistics of your installation to be deleted, by writing to us. Uninstalling the app stops them.

DrinkUp Pro can be bought as a subscription or as a one-time purchase. The purchase is made and paid for through Google Play; we never see or store your payment details.

To tell whether Pro is on, the app uses RevenueCat, a service that acts on our behalf. It receives a random identifier for this installation, the record of your purchase (what you bought, when, and whether it is active) and, like any internet service, your IP address. It does not receive your name, email, profile, the drinks you log, your goal or anything from Health Connect, and it is never used for advertising.

Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in Google Play (Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions). On a new phone, Restore purchases brings Pro back through your Google account. Purchase records are kept as long as they are needed to provide Pro and to meet accounting rules; you can ask us to delete the ones tied to your installation by writing to us. RevenueCat’s privacy policy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy

If the app fails, its error screen offers “Send a report”. It opens your own mail app with a message addressed to us, holding the app version, the Android version and phone model, the time, and the technical details of the error and of up to three earlier ones. It carries nothing you logged — no profile, no drinks.

You can read and edit the message before sending it, and nothing is sent unless you press Send in your mail app. We receive it together with your email address, use it only to find and fix the problem, and delete it on request.

Settings → Backup writes your data to a file, in a place you choose with the system file picker. DrinkUp never uploads it anywhere.

If Android’s own device backup is turned on for your Google account, Android may include DrinkUp’s data in it. That backup is made and kept by Google under your account.

Settings → Delete profile and data erases everything DrinkUp keeps on this phone, and can also remove the records it wrote to Health Connect. Uninstalling the app erases its data too. Records in Health Connect can also be deleted in Health Connect itself.

Usage statistics already sent to Google are not stored on the phone, so deleting the profile does not reach them; they are deleted automatically after two months, or sooner if you ask us.

DrinkUp is not directed at children. Beyond the usage statistics and purchases described above, it collects no data from anyone; the only thing that ever reaches us directly is a crash report somebody chose to send.

If this policy changes, the new version is published here and in the app, with a new date at the top.

Questions about this policy or your data: contact@developer.living